The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but

From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Award From Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition

Examines the politicisation of empathy across the British empire during the nineteenth century and traces its legacies into the present.

'Lyndall Ryan's new account of the extraordinary and dramatic story of the Tasmanian Aborigines is told with passion and eloquence.