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Discuss art, life, culture and creativity at our monthly Book Club. This month's title connects to ideas and themes in ‘Archie Moore: kith and kin’.

Ticket includes light refreshments. Members receive 20% off current and past Book Club titles at the QAGOMA Stores.

Praiseworthy (2023) by Alexis Wright

Winner of the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2024 Stella Prize, and the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction.

Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and a fable for the end of days.

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June-August titles

• Enclave (2022) by Claire G. Coleman

• Praiseworthy (2023) by Alexis Wright

• Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025) by Arundhati Roy