Dancing Home by Paul Collis

Dancing Home by Paul CollisDancing Home by Paul Collis Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Samuel Wagan Watson, Dancing Home is part road movie, part 'Koori noir' from an original and darkly funny new voice. 'When he was in gaol, he'd begun to prepare himself for the fight of his life, a showdown with the policeman, McWilliams he'd face life with death, and see who blinked first.' Blackie and Rips are fresh out of prison when they set

told with dignity and grace

Fog is a fox cub raised by a dingo

A gentle story about embracing different traditions

even as the tension of the central mystery had me racing through the pages

"" - First Nations educators at Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe

Robin and his brother Little John are hounded out of Locksley and must learn to survive in the Sherwood forest

while others have ignited human creativity or enabled whole civilizations to flourish

Xishi's beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue - where the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family

picked up a lot of Lego

and this is growing up

including a little flower basket

The reverse never happens for a woman