Not Quite White in the Head
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Not Quite White in the Head
By (Author) Melissa Lucashenko
University of Queensland Press
University of Queensland Press
4th November 2025
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social discrimination and social justice
Housing and homelessness
Poverty and precarity
Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 1mm, Height 1mm, Spine 1mm
1g
Description
Miles Franklin-award winner Melissa Lucashenko's searing essays and journalism published together for the first time. Melissa Lucashenko is one of Australia's most admired and awarded novelists. She is renowned for writing about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. In this special collection of essays and journalism - published together for the first time - Lucashenko reflects on being caught in a siege, on the marginalised lives of prisoners and the urban poor, on Blak identity, Australian literature and on meeting her writing idol. Her wisdom and her humour have never been more necessary. Not Quite White in the Head ranges over two turbulent decades of politics, activism, culture and social (in)justice in Australia.
Author Bio
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Her novel Too Much Lip won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance. Her most recent novel, Edenglassie, won eight major awards, including the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, the Indie Book Award for Fiction, the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside.
