Henry Reynolds, Truth-telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement (Sydney: NewSouth, 2021), 288pp. Paperback. A$34.99. ISBN: 978-1-7422-3694-0

Henry Reynolds is one of Australia’s most significant historians and Truth-Telling is his most significant book in decades. When he published The Other Side of the Frontier in 1981, he was one of several pioneering scholars responding to W. E. H. Stanner’s famous call to end the ‘great Australian silence’ on the brutal impact of colonisation on First Nations. At the time, Reynolds’ book was revisionist, it is now canonical. Reynolds was a key player in Australia’s History Wars of the late 1990s and early 2000s and the bête noire of those who rejected the so-called ‘black armband’ school of history.