What's Inside?
A signed book - 'Melaleuca' by Angie Faye Martin.
A candle - Taking inspiration from the title of the story, this Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) candle is an invigorating and refreshing scent.
An alcoholic beverage - Mt Yengo Sparkling NV - A refreshing and crisp beverage created by Mt Yengo Wines, an Australian Indigenous-owned wine brand that give back with every bottle to assist in "Closing the Gap" Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians.
or a non-alcoholic beverage - Yaala Sparkling Desert Lime & River Mint - Founded by Wiradjuri Yinaa ‘woman’, Tara Croker, this refreshing blend features the invigorating tang of desert limes balanced by the soothing cool of rivermint.
A bookmark - Embedded with Native Daisy seeds, sow 3mm deep in well drained soil, leave plenty of room to grow and enjoy white daisy flowers in Spring and Summer.
A surprise - Corroboree Infusion Tea - This unique blend of native ingredients on a Daintree black tea base is the perfect pairing for these cooler months. Indigiearth is an award winning, 100 percent Aboriginal owned and established business located in Mudgee, NSW.
About the book...
A country town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come... The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her unwilling return to the small outback town of her childhood plunges her into the investigation of a brutal murder.
Renee Taylor is planning to stay the minimum amount of time in her remote hometown - only as long as her mum needs her, then she is fleeing back to her real life in Brisbane.
Seconded to the town's sleepy police station, Renee is pretty sure work will hold nothing more exciting than delivering speeding tickets. Then a murdered woman is found down by the creek on the outskirts of town.
Leading the investigation, Renee uncovers a perplexing connection to the disappearance of two young women thirty years earlier. As she delves deeper and the mystery unfurls, intergenerational cruelties, endemic racism, and deep corruption show themselves, even as dark and bitter truths about the town and its inhabitants' past rise up and threaten to overwhelm the present...
About the author...
Angie Faye Martin is a writer and editor of Kooma, Kamilaroi and European heritage.
With a Bachelor of Public Health from the Queensland University of Technology and a Masters of Anthropology from the Australian National University, Angie spent many years working in policy roles in state and federal government before launching Versed Writings in 2019.
Her work has been published in Meanjin, Garland, The Saltbush Review and The Rocks Remain.
She is a member of the First Nations Australia Writers Network and accredited with the Institute of Professional Editors. Melaleuca is her debut novel.
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