Coleman's punchy prose is insistent throughout, its energy unflagging. Coleman's Terra Nulllius is an arresting and original novel that addresses the legacy of Australia's violent colonial history. a powerful myth comes to life before readers' eyes.' - Kirkus Reviews 'Coleman's timely debut is testimony to the power of an old story seen afresh through new eyes.' - Adelaide Advertiser 'Claire G. It's little wonder that Australian Aboriginal writer Coleman has been praised and nominated for awards in her own country for her thoughtfully woke debut novel about an invasion of Australia by punishing settlers and the subsequent resistance by a native people.

Artfully combining elements of literary, historical, and speculative fiction, this allegorical novel is surprising and unforgettable.'- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) 'Australian natives living under the oppressive brutality of forced colonization struggle to survive, let alone fight back.

Coleman universalizes the experiences of invaded indigenous populations in a way that has seldom been achieved. In our politically tumultuous time, the novel's themes of racism, inherent humanity and freedom are particularly poignant.' - Books + Publishing, 'Coleman stuns with this imaginative, astounding debut about colonization. Disturbing because it opens with a scenario of settler dispossession worrying because Coleman's stories serve as a critique of recent history and prophesy a 'second wave invasion and a post-colonial future.'' - Sydney Morning Herald'Set in an Australia that is simultaneously recognisable and bleakly foreign, Coleman's work of speculative fiction tells a story of colonisation and displacement that is both devastating and all too familiar.

Coleman's timely debut is testimony to the power of an old story seen afresh through new eyes.' - Adelaide Advertiser'Terra Nullius is a powerful, sobering piece of writing that makes us face an Australia we try to forget, but should always remember.' - Adelaide Review'A speculative sci-fi struggle meaningfully grounded in Coleman's own Indigenous culture, Terra Nullius offers something new- a skilfully constructed pastiche of colonisation, resistance and apocalyptic chaos with parallels that sit unsettlingly close to home.' - Big Issue Australia Longlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Awards Highly Commended for the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards 2018'Coleman makes a significant contribution to the emerging body of Aboriginal writers such as Ellen van Neerven and Alexis Wright who write spectral and speculative fiction to critique the vicious fiction of the colonial archive.' - Canberra Times'Noongar writer Claire Coleman's debut novel, Terra Nullius, envisions a continent disturbingly familiar and worryingly futuristic. 'Terra Nullius is witty, weird, moving and original.' -Weekend Australian'Claire G.

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