Edenglassie

Two extraordinary stories set five generations apart are connected by a violent colonial history, in Melissa Lucashenko's stunning historical epic

'Lucashenko is a national treasure: there are no two ways around it.' Vogue Australia

* Already the winner of eight major literary awards, including Australia's richest literary prize *

TWO UNFORGETTABLE STORIES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY.

1854: When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Brisbane - or Edenglassie, as it was once briefly known - his community still outnumbers the British settlers. Tensions are simmering just beneath the surface of a fragile peace, but hopes for independence are running high. Yet when colonial unrest tears through the region, Mulanyin's passion for his new bride clashes with his loyalty to a homeland in danger.

Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny when her grandmother Eddie has a serious fall. Winona just wants the obstinate centenarian back on her feet, but a shrewd journalist has other ideas. Eddie becomes a local celebrity, dominating the headlines as 'Queensland's Oldest Aboriginal'.

Her time in the spotlight brings past and present crashing together, the legacy of Nita and Mulanyin's tragic past reaching into Winona and Eddie's lives with consequences they couldn't have predicted.

Author: Melissa Lucashenko
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9781836431060
ISBN10: 1836431066
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Indigenous | General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | War & Military

About the Author
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 critical acclaim and many literary awards. Her sixth novel, Too Much Lip, won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance.

Edenglassie, Melissa's seventh novel, has won eight literary awards, including the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance, and Australia's richest literary prize, the $100,000 ARA Historical Novel Award.

Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead.