Books
I write fiction with strong Indigenous characters, themes, and settings.
Read more about them below.
A Good Kind of Trouble
(with Brooke Blurton)
HarperCollins Australia | February 2025
A brilliantly warm-hearted NEW series from Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward, full of high school longing, friendship, footy matches, and dreams to change the world!
It's funny how your life changes.
I used to be worried about playing footy and whether my first kiss would be with a boy or a girl. I used to worry about having enough time after school and putting my little cousins to bed to go for a run with my best friend Loz and whether she'd ever look at me the way she looks at my brother Poss.
But a new girl came to school and there's something about her ... I suddenly got the courage to stand up to our history teacher about teaching our true history with books written by blackfullas. And somehow she did too!
At first we were on top of the world - and we might even have a chance to change it just a little bit. But now I'm banned from footy and I wonder ... is it all going to be worth it?
Love Unleashed
Penguin Random House | August 6, 2024
Some passions just can't be tamed ... Brynn thought she'd be chasing her dreams, not chasing dogs, when she set off on the adventure of a lifetime.
When Bigambul woman Brynn Wallace leaves Brisbane to pursue her dreams in the Big Apple, she imagines herself landing a fabulous career at a New York City publishing house and acquiring shelves of Louboutin shoes, not working in a doggy daycare with a boss from hell and a wardrobe from her nightmares.
Yet good things are always possible in New York, especially when you believe in them hard enough. And Brynn has a collection of NYC Missions to set her on her way- challenges from her mother, whose death she is still getting over, to help Brynn rejoice in the city that never sleeps.
Brynn soon finds herself making meaningful friendships, engaging in flirty flings, and meeting the gorgeous Sienna, also known as dancer Scarlett Belle. And when she stumbles on a handsome, single dog-dad who just happens to be a literary editor, she decides that if she can convince him she's more than just a dog-sitter, her dreams will finally come true. But Sienna has other plans, and as Brynn's NY ride begins to stall, the city shows her just how full of surprises it is.
Burn
Affirm Press | August 29, 2023
After a tragic bushfire, an entire school comes under suspicion. But 17-year-old Andrew isn’t worried about getting caught. In fact, he wants to be discovered because after the last fire, his dad came back…
Andrew's family is falling apart. His dad, Pete, struggles to hold work in an economy where the Blakfulla is always the first to go. His mum, Linda, stays in bed all day, unable to function as she holds onto a family secret.
A book about the effects of intergenerational trauma that asks why good kids do bad things.