Taboo

Winner of the NSW Premier’s Award Book of the Year 2018
Winner of the NSW Premier’s Indigenous Writer’s Prize 2018
Winner of the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award 2018
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literacy Award for Indigenous Writing 2019

Praise for Taboo:

“If Benang was the great novel of the assimilation system, and That Deadman Dance redefined the frontier novel in Australian writing, Taboo makes a strong case to be the novel that will help clarify—in the way that only literature can—what reconciliation might mean" —Australian Book Review

"Scott's book is stunning—haunted and powerful. . . . Verdict: Must Read." —Herald Sun

"Remarkable." —Stephen Romei, Weekend Australian

"Stunning prose." —Saturday Paper

"This is a complex, thoughtful, and exceptionally generous offering by a master storyteller at the top of his game." —The Guardian

"Undaunted, and daring as ever Scott goes back to his ancestral Noongar country in Western Australia's Great Southern region; back in time as well to killings (or a massacre, the point is contested) of whites and Aborigines there in 1880 . . . Taboo never becomes a revenge story, whether for distant or recent wrongs . . . The politics of Taboo—not to presume or simplify too much—are quietist, rather than radical. Ambitious, unsentimental [and] morally challenging." —Sydney Morning Herald

"Scott is one of the most thoughtful, exciting and powerful storytellers of this continent today, with great courage and formidable narrative prowess—and Taboo is his most daring novel yet." —Sydney Review of Books