Books »Adult Fiction
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Take Out
by Felicity Young
When DSS Stevie Hooper steps into the empty Pavel house and someone else’s jurisdiction, she upsets more than the ego of a struggling suburban cop.
She has breached the defences of a ruthless group that has at its rotten heart a disregard for human life.
‘… Take Out could be recommended to please any fan of Patricia Cornwall and Kathryn…Read more »
Price $22.95
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indigo volume 5
indigo journal, published by Tactile Books, is the only journal devoted solely to Western Australian writing.
Volume 5 is edited by Carmen Lawrence, Caroline Caddy and Ray Coffey.
This volume features an opening interview by Delys Bird with celebrated Western Australian author Tim Winton. In this in-depth interview, Winton discusses everything…Read more »
Price $25.00
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The Last Sky – Book Club Edition
by Alice Nelson
This special, book club edition of award-winning author Alice Nelson’s The Last Sky recounts the story of Maya Wise – a young wife alone in Hong Kong.
The Sydney Morning Herald described Nelson’s language as displaying ‘real lyrical beauty’. The Weekend Australian said the book was ‘partly a haunting and uneasy love story, partly a…Read more »
Price $24.95
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The Paperbark Shoe
by Goldie Goldbloom
‘Gin’s voice is truly memorable in its searing emotion and discomfiting honesty, even when we know she is not being honest with herself.’ — Lorien Kaye, The Age
‘… Goldie Goldbloom weaves an achingly sensuous story of forbidden love between characters at the margins. Quirky, haunting and deeply moving…I admired it enormously and couldn’t…Read more »
Price $32.95
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Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
by K.A. Bedford
‘Bedford is funny in a crazed, Rudy Rucker kind of way. While Rucker writes of gonzo theorists, Bedford writes of the gonzo mechanics who keep the machines running.’ — Fred Cleaver, Denver Post
‘… a fast-moving novel that will appeal to the reader who appreciates complicated plot lines, murder, and amusing dialogue. Highly Recommended.’ —…Read more »
Price $22.95
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indigo volume 4
indigo journal is devoted entirely to West Australian creative writing.
The short stories here were selected by award winning Tasmanian author Amanda Lohrey and tell of a pool game at the Hyde Park Hotel, the inheritance of a broken limestone house in Fremantle, and how the colour of our skin protects us, or not, from inequity, injury and death…Read more »
Price $25.00
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The Hills of Apollo Bay
by Peter Cowan
‘… a writer’s writer who has created a position at the leading edge of his craft.’ — Weekend Australian
‘The protest, a lament for that lost ferment of Australian art and ideas and succeeding cultural deadness, is subtle but sure.’ — Hal Colebatch, The West Australian
Richard is a young writer running from his hometown of Perth in…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Bookshop on Jacaranda Street, The
by Marlish Glorie
‘Glorie’s style is well paced in a good, interwoven story with a few surprises.’ — Adelaide Advertiser
‘Jacaranda Street has a touch of Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet in the way happiness grows out of the oddest, darkest places. A lovely read.’ — Herald Sun
‘Marlish Glorie has crafted this blackly funny, poignant and sharply telling story…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Boy on a Wire
by Jon Doust
‘From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer with a distinctive voice and uncanny ability to capture the bewilderment and burgeoning anger of a boy struggling to remain true to himself while navigating the hypocritical system he finds himself trapped in…what makes Boy on a Wire much more than a bleak coming-of-age…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Five Acre Virgin and other stories
by Elizabeth Jolley
Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories brings together two highly acclaimed collections of Elizabeth Jolley’s short fiction so a new generation of readers can enjoy her unique combination of unsentimental realism and original humour.
Five Acre Virgin and The Travelling Entertainer introduced Jolley as a major Australian talentRead more »
Price $24.95
From the Catalogue
Book Launch
Fremantle Press and All Saints Literature Festival invite you to the launch of Beach Sports Car by Darlene Oxenham and Lilli and her Shadow by Laura and Pat Dudgeon.
noon, Friday 19 March 2010 at the Ampitheatre, Entry car park gate 3, All Saints College, Ewing Avenue, Bull Creek, WA 6149
RSVP: admin@fremantlepress.com.au or 08 9430 6331
