Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place

"What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?"

Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her fame as a writer exploded when she published 'The Secret River' in 2005, a bestseller based on the story of her convict ancestor who was an early settler on the Hawkesbury River. More than two decades on, and following the defeat of the Voice referendum, Grenville is still grappling with what it means to descend from people who were, as she puts it, ‘on the sharp edge of the moving blade that was colonisation.' She decides to go back through the places where her family stories happened. to put these family and First Nations people back into the same frame and to try to think about those questions.

This gripping book is the result of that journey.

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Pages: 244, Paperback

Published: 2025