
Beanie Festival, Refugee Week, The Dark Emu Debate
Greetings! Werte! As we have been diving into winter, the last few weeks has seen a decided change in our customers—a lot of you are wearing beanies! And so it should be as we approach the ...

World Environment Day, Peace Prize, My year of living Vulnerably review.
Greetings! Werte! Our hearts go out to our fellow Australians undergoing the Victorian Covid-19 lockdown. Hopefully it will not go on too long—and we are thinking here of friends and family who can...

Greetings! Werte! You don’t get centenary celebrations much bigger than this in the art world: the Archibald Prize for portraiture turns 100 this month. Last year Vincent Namatjira was the firs...

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo reviewed by Sophie Staughton
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo reviewed by Sophie Staughton Lisa Taddeo lays out the brutal truth of female desire in all its infinitely nuanced forms in Three Women. A compelli...

Let's Get botanical!, Sorry Day, Are We There Yet? and more ...
Greetings! Werte! It’s been heartening in recent weeks to be joined by so many local readers at Red Kangaroo Books—not to mention our many interstate visitors who are eager to learn about the count...

NT Writers Festival first announcement and more!
Greetings! Werte! In these cooler mornings we like to think you are sitting back with the Red Kangaroo Books weekly newsletter with a nice of cup of tea! But, as you will know, we are always rea...

Double great news for first time Territory author, Karen Rogers
Main Abija, My Grandad by Karen Rogers Double great news for first time Territory author, Karen Rogers As any number of anthropologists and sociologists will tell us,...

Women's History Month, Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu, Stella Prize, Into the Loneliness by Eleanor Hogan
Greetings/Werte! March is Women’s History Month There’s an old feminist joke that, where relevant, we should rename “history” with the term “herstory”. So that’s what we will be feat...

Love is still in the air, Truth Telling by Henry Reynolds, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Greetings/Werte! Love is (still!) in the air Well, as signalled last week, today is Valentine’s Day! But what we didn’t expect is the special love people have across the world for ...

Love is in the air, The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay, Aboriginal Languages....
Greetings/Werte! Love is in the Air Valentine’s Day is coming up so you might be thinking about giving your dearest something special next Sunday … and of course we would recommend a boo...

