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  • The House of Fiction

    by Susan Swingler

    Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia’s most revered writers – Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this startling new memoir.

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    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • Mystery at Riddle Gully

    by Jen Banyard

    Pollo di Nozi, reporter-in-training, has a nose for news. Strange things are happening in Riddle Gully and Pollo smells a major scoop.

    With Shorn Connery, her sheepish sidekick, Pollo is determined to track down the Graffiti Kid. But is Will, the new boy in town, conspiring with the pushy mayor and a strange Transylvanian to send her sniffing up…Read more »

    Price $14.95 Add to cart

  • The Ballad of Moondyne Joe

    by Niall Lucy & John Kinsella

    Moondyne Joe was colonial Australia’s ultimate escape artist. His daring and repeated breakouts drove the Governor to build him a special cell. And when Moondyne Joe escaped again, he drove the Governor mad.

    Moondyne Joe himself died a pauper in Fremantle Lunatic Asylum but not before he gained notoriety as a lawbreaker, the husband of a brothel…Read more »

    Price $27.95 Add to cart

  • Waarda series for young readers: Emu and the Water Tree

    by Gladys Milroy with illustrations by Tracey Gibbs & Sally Morgan

    There was once a time when emus could fly higher than any other bird in Australia. This is the tale of a curious emu, who changed the lives of emus everywhere when he lost the power of flight to a crafty serpent, but discovered his ability to run.

    About the Waarda series
    Waarda, Nyungar for talking and sharing stories and information, is an exciting…Read more »

    Price $9.95 Add to cart

  • Waarda series for young readers: Yippee! Summer Holidays

    by Tjalaminu Mia & Jessica Lister with illustrations by Tracey Gibbs & Sally Morgan

    Debbie and Billy just love the summer holidays, especially when their grandfather comes to stay. They have lots of fun racing tyres and telling stories together. But best of all Debbie likes the special times she has with Dada Keen and the wonderful places he shows her.

    About the Waarda series
    Waarda, Nyungar for talking and sharing stories and…Read more »

    Price $9.95 Add to cart

  • Rainforest Country

    by Stanley & Kaisa Breeden

    Australian Photography Magazine said the Breeden’s first book pushed ‘the boundaries of digital imaging’ while Discover Australia called it a ‘radical new photographic approach’ that captured ‘images of unparalleled fidelity of colour, light and focal clarity’.

    In Rainforest Country Kaisa and Stanley Breeden bring their photographic innovation…Read more »

    Price $75.00 Add to cart

  • All Monkeys Love Bananas

    by Sean E Avery

    All monkeys love bananas! For breakfast for dinner for snacks and for lunch they all crave bananas, munch, munch, munch. Well, maybe not all monkeys …

    A very funny picture book about one poor monkey who can’t stand to see another banana.

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    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • Larrakitj

    by Anne Marie Brody

    In the proudly ancient Yolngu heartlands larrakitj were used to contain the bones of the deceased during mortuary ceremonies. Today, artists from Arnhem Land’s Buku-Larrnggay Mulka arts centre produce modern larrakitj for the education of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

    Collected for a decade, the larrakitj collection of 110 Yolngu memorial…Read more »

    Price $85.00 Add to cart

  • Not Drowning, Reading

    by Andrew Relph

    For the national year of reading, here is a book that, in Phillip Adams’s words, brings ‘a new perspective’ to the art of reading.

    As a child, Relph had a reading disability; now he is a psychoanalyst and professional conversationalist whose memoir explores why our relationships with authors and characters can be as vital as any we form in…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • Homemade: Simply delicious food

    by Anna Gare

    Home cooking is something that responds to what’s in the market, what’s in the fridge and who walks through the door. The tart you make on a hot summer night while your friend tells you about her new love affair will be very different from the one you cook in winter for your mother-in-law. That’s what Homemade is all about.

    The simple dishes…Read more »

    Price $49.95 Add to cart

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Timeslip

by Diana Chase

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House of Fiction @ Sydney Writers Festival

Who knew that Elizabeth Jolley’s life contained even more mystery and dark secrets than her fiction? Her stepdaughter Susan Swingler reconstructs the harrowing tale of a forbidden love affair and an abandoned child. She talks to Caroline Baum at the Sydney Writers Festival