Indigenous peoples

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

April 3, 2025

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize

‘Reads like a legal thriller’ ESQUIRE

Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

August 7, 2023

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’

Until now.

Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific

August 17, 2022

Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier’s History Awards for general history

‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan

‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel, author of Longitude