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Jacob's Air
by Bruce Russell
‘Russell does a great job with the character of Deli. She is at once an individual voice and presence in the book, with her battle against booze, her search for love and meaning, and her compassion…there are worse things to do than curling up with Deli for a few hours.’ — The Weekend Australian
A young woman, a decaying house and two brothers…Read more »
Price $19.95
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Risks
by Brenda Walker
‘… This writing in rich in ideas.’ — Weekend Australian
New stories from fourteen of Australia’s most exciting fiction writers. Stories about seduction, dreams and death; photography and history; isolation, family and love. Authors include Brian Castro, Tom Flood, Joan London, Carmel Bird, Gail Jones, Kim Scott and Beverley Farmer. Read more »
Price $18.95
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River of Snake
by Chris McLeod
When the boy who will be Gabriel Goodchild arrives by train in the town of K. Mother is sure he is an angel. She has been promised. And angels and snakes and unstoneable crows are favoured by K.’s unusual air…
As slippery as the multitude of snakes which infests the dreams and streets of K., as darkly funny as the unstoneable crows which slow-flap…Read more »
Price $18.95
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City of Light
by Dave Warner
Snowy Lane, preoccupied with a ham sandwich and the odds of making the football team on Saturday, takes the terrible phone call that signals the beginning of a series of events which are to reverberate in his life and shake the city to its foundations…‘Gruesome’ has taken another victim and the whole population is riveted by the emergence of the…Read more »
Price $19.95
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Crying Room, The
by Chris McLeod
Concerned primarily with the shifting ground between men and women, The Crying Room opens out into an exploration of the rhythms, moments and stories that pattern lives begun in hope and lived in flux. Romantic and funny, at times blackly funny, McLeod’s stories are stylish, individual and inventive. Read more »
Price $16.95
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Milk and Honey
by Elizabeth Jolley
A self-absorbed young musician comes as a pupil-boarder to the house of an ‘old European’ family and gradually his life is taken over and consumed. Milk and Honey is a haunting novel of gothic proportions that shows the skill and range which made Elizabeth Jolley one of Australia’s foremost writers.
‘One of the best [Australian writers] ..Read more »
Price $18.95
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Hal Spacejock Series 1 & 2
by Simon Haynes
‘Better than Red Dwarf’ — Tom Holt.
The Hal Spacejock series is building a dedicated readership in Australia and internationally, as more and more readers discover these hilarious, action-packed adventures.
This bundle contains two of the four books in the Hal Spacejock series, including: Hal Spacejock and Hal Spacejock Second CourseRead more »
Price $37.90
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Hal Spacejock Series 1,2 & 3
by Simon Haynes
‘Better than Red Dwarf’ — Tom Holt.
The Hal Spacejock series is building a dedicated readership in Australia and internationally, as more and more readers discover these hilarious, action-packed adventures.
This bundle contains three of the four books in the Hal Spacejock series, including: Hal Spacejock, Hal Spacejock Second Course and…Read more »
Price $53.85
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Hal Spacejock Series 1,2,3 & 4
by Simon Haynes
‘Better than Red Dwarf’ — Tom Holt.
The Hal Spacejock series is building a dedicated readership in Australia, as more and more readers discover these hilarious, action-packed adventures.
This bundle contains all four books in the Hal Spacejock series, including: Hal Spacejock, Hal Spacejock Second Course, Hal Spacejock Just Desserts and…Read more »
Price $67.80
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Hal Spacejock Series 2 & 3
by Simon Haynes
‘Better than Red Dwarf’ — Tom Holt.
The Hal Spacejock series is building a dedicated readership in Australia and overseas, as more and more readers discover these hilarious, action-packed adventures.
This bundle contains all four books in the Hal Spacejock series, including: Hal Spacejock Second Course and Hal Spacejock Just DessertsRead more »
Price $37.90
From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things