Explore the decades-long, remarkable efforts of the Papunya community to record language and culture and keep it alive. 

Vivien Johnson, Charlotte Phillipus and Samantha Disbray
This landmark publication documents the full story behind the extraordinary literary movement at Papunya.

Canberra Writers Festival and author Natasha Brown presented a special In Conversation event focused on her bold, new novel Universality.

Author Mark Greenwood shares his process of writing NLA Publishing children’s title The Legend of Jessie Hickman.

Learn about 2025 National Library of Australia Fellow John Morrissey's research into poet and environmentalist Judith Wright. 

Susannah Fullerton discussed her newest book Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them.

Discover new stories held within our collection and build on conversations steeped in nostalgia, curiosity and transformation. 

Libby Hathorn and Jude Fell

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Henry Lawson is celebrated as one of Australia’s greatest poets. 

About 360 titles, particularly strong in first editions of English poetry and novels published in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

553 books from the 19th to mid-20th century with a particular strength in botany and gardening, among many other subjects.

Books on music and printed music published in Britain from the mid-17th century to the 20th century.