Magabala Books

Educators, this one is for you! 🕷️🕸️ We’re excited to announce that we’ll be hosting a free online webinar featuring Dr Lilly Brown in conversation with award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, exploring their new upper middle grade book 'Ruby’s Web'.

🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3ZMemIM

How beautiful is 'Muttonfish Magic'? 😍 Join Aunty Ruth Simms, Lucy Robertson and Jasmine Seymour in celebrating this deadly kids book 📚

📅 Saturday 21 February
🕰️ 12pm
🏠 Better Read Than Dead, NSW
🎟️ FREE

Enjoy listening as Aunty Ruth read, followed by a language activity that speaks to the book!

Give your Valentine the gift of a Magabala book 💝 Whether your sweetheart is into poetry, literary fiction, or non-fiction, there’s a Blak book for everyone (and their love).

It's not too late to grab one before your Valentine's date! Available at any good bookshop 🌹

Come celebrate the book launch of 'Wurnan, Sharing on Ngarinyin Country' by the Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation 🖤

📅 Saturday 21 February
🕰️ 10am
🏠 Mowanjum Arts, Derby WA
🎟️ FREE

13 February marks the 18th Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples affected by policies of removal.

Pictured: 'Kunyi' (2021) by Kunyi June Anne McInerney.

Come celebrate the book launch of 'Muttonfish Magic' by Aunty Ruth Simms and Lucy Robertson, illustrated by Jasmine Seymour 🖤

📅 Saturday 21 February
🕰️ 12pm
🏠 Better Read Than Dead, NSW
🎟️ FREE

Introducing Magabala's first titles of 2026! We're so excited to start the year with these incredible books:

🖤 'Wurnan, Sharing on Ngarinyin Country' by Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation

🖤 'Muttonfish Magic' by Aunty Ruth Simms and Lucy Robertson, illustrated by Jasmine Seymour

Congrats to all 📚

Thank you to everyone who came together to celebrate the new edition of ‘Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari’, written by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation 🖤

Check out the book: bit.ly/49yH8T2

Come celebrate the book launch of 'Going Fishing With Nana' by Frances Haji-Ali & Lindsay Haji-Ali, illustrated by Karen Briggs!

📅 Sunday 15 February
🕰️ 9.30am
🏠 Paper Bird Children's Books and Arts
🎟️ FREE

🖤 📖 Cover reveal 📖🖤

'Ruby's Web' is a powerful upper middle-grade story from award-winning author Ellen van Neerven about finding your voice, seeking help, and addressing cyberbullying and victimisation.

📆 Out 24 February.

Cover design by Desirai Saunders.

"I’m dissociating, dissolving
in the birds-eye glamour: the earth is an abstract painting."

- Luke Patterson, 'A Savage Turn' (2025)

January 26 is a day of reflection for many people in Australia, and we invite you to reflect on the words and stories of First Nations people.

Check out our Invasion Day reading list: bit.ly/3NpDJgF

Every single book purchased directly supports Blak writers, so they can continue truth-telling.

It is important now more than ever to support Blak voices. If you’re looking for meaningful reads this Invasion Day, here are some deadly books by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers to start with.

See the full collection and support Blak books this January: bit.ly/3NpDJgF

#InvasionDay

Magabala stands with our mates at Clothing The Gaps and their #NotTheDateToCelebrate campaign.

In the wise words of Kirli Saunders: "Mate, you're standing on stolen land." ('Returning', 2023)

🖤 📖 Cover reveal 📖🖤

'Wurnan, Sharing on Ngarinyin Country' is a stunning hardcover book written by the Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation about the practice of 'Wurnan', the philosophy of sharing and sustainability that underpins their custodianship.

📆 Out 10 February.

Designed by Emilia Toia.

To celebrate the publication of The Library That Made Me: 200 Years of the State Library of NSW, an illustrious line-up of contributors reflect on the libraries that shaped them as readers and writers.

Get tickets: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/libra...

🖤 📖 Cover reveal 📖🖤

'Muttonfish Magic' is a vivid and immersive children's picture book written by Aunty Ruth Simms and Lucy Robertson, illustrated by Jasmine Seymour.

Check it out: bit.ly/4qa7yjH

📆 Out 10 February.

Cover designed by Jo Hunt.

We're thrilled to announce the acquisition of the experimental poetry collection 'Damn Good Television' by debut Jabirr Jabirr author and lead singer of rock band Selve, Loki Liddle.

Read more: bit.ly/3YDwG6o

We stand in solidarity with the festival staff, authors and organisations who have withdrawn from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week, as a response to the alarmingly censorial removal from the program of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah by the Adelaide Festival Board.

Read the statement: bit.ly/4sIHM7Y

The Daisy Utemorrah Award is open for entries! 🌼🏆

Read more here: bit.ly/4pcpKYM

This Award is generously supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the State Government of Western Australia.

Illustration by Pat Torres from 'Do Not Go Around the Edges' by Daisy Utemorrah.

Welcome our Programs and Impact Manager Alarna Maher and Project Officer Danielle Mills 🖤

These deadly women are in charge of Magabala’s cultural and creative development programs, special projects, and community partnerships.

Pop into our bookshop in Rubibi to say hello to Alarna and Danielle 👋📚

Happy New Year from Magabala Books 🌈

Poems 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART I)' and 'NEW YEARS WISH (PART II)' from poetry collection 'Kindred' (2019) by Kirli Saunders 🖤

Happy Holidays from all of us here at Magabala Books 📚 See ya next year!

Heads up! We'll be shut from next Thursday 18 December 2025 - 5 January 2026 because we have very improtant work to do these holidays (like sleep in and kick back in the pool 😉).

Any purchases made via our website after 17 December 2025 will be posted 6 January 2026 📚

10 December is #HumanRightsDay. Today we're reading 'Always Was, Always Will Be' (2024) by Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson.

Winner of the 2025 CBCA Eve Pownell Award, this book takes a closer look at some of the iconic First Peoples protest movements of the last 200 years

Check it out: bit.ly/3Yei8JU

Say hello to our final new release of 2025! 😍

In 'Dingo's Dream', Dingo keeps dreaming there is someone in distress, but who? With the help of the Bush Mob he mounts a search and rescue mission. What - or who - will they find?

Check it out: bit.ly/48rhSNJ

Feel like a winner? One lucky person will receive an EPIC Magabala Books x Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation package - just in time for Christmas!

Head over to our Instagram or Facebook accounts for the deets 👀

The Magabala team hosted our staff Secret Santa event today 🎅🏾 It's always a fun time when we all get together remotely to yarn and give thoughtful gifts... and maybe someone some prank ones too!

Tip for any fellow Secret Santas: a Magabala book is the perfect gift for even the hardest to buy for 🎁

ONLY 48 HOURS LEFT ⚡Get your Magabala books and merch on us: www.magabala.com

This weekend, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!

⚡ 24 November - 1 December ⚡

We’re running our first ever Black Friday promo… our own way! Blak Friday online now: www.magabala.com

This week, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!!