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Not Quite White in the Head

Personal Essays

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Not Quite White in the Head

By: Melissa Lucashenko
Narrated by: Melissa Lucashenko
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About this listen

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.

This timely collection of essays and journalism - published together for the first time - spans two turbulent decades. With her trademark wit and wisdom, 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 non-fiction, like her novels, is deeply engaged with politics, activism, culture and social (in)justice.

Not Quite White in the Head offers unprecedented access to one of the nation's greatest writers as she invites us into the conversations that truly matter.

©2025 Melissa Lucashenko (P)2026 Audible Australia Pty Ltd
Essays Literary History & Criticism Poverty & Homelessness Racism & Discrimination Social Classes & Economic Disparity Social Sciences Sociology Words, Language & Grammar World Literature Writing & Publishing
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