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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 ebook
by Goldie Goldbloom
‘Goldie Goldbloom promises to be one of Australia’s most important and imaginative voices of the future … a masterpiece of characterisation.’ — Good Reading Magazine
‘… an assured debut written in beautifully precise language.’ — The Age
Gin, the albino, marries to escape the confines of an asylum. Toad, a small man who wears…Read more »
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indigo volume 4
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. Relationships between mothers and daughters, and fathers and daughters, are…Read more »
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The Hills of Apollo Bay ebook
by Peter Cowan
Richard is a young writer running from his hometown of Perth in search of a freer existence in Melbourne. His best friend is an ex-boxer turned black marketeer and his girlfriend is an old-fashioned “tart” with heart. Against the background of post-war censorship and isolation, Richard struggles to find cultural nourishmentRead more »
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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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Bookshop on Jacaranda Street, ebook
by Marlish Glorie
It’s never too late to run away from home! Helen burns her bed and her bridges when she leaves home to run a second hand bookshop. But can you ever really discard the past? For starters there are thousands of musty books to sort through. Then her sons return home with more baggage than a Qantas 747 and on top of all that the drunk who sold her the…Read more »
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Boy on a Wire
by Jon Doust
Dedicated to all those boys who carried their scars into manhood, Boy on a Wire is about an underdog who bites back. Sent to boarding school at a young age Jack Muir quickly has to decide who he is going to be. Will he roll over or bare his teeth at the bullies, the bullied and the boarding school system? Jack gets by with a quick wit and a macabre…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
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Someone Else's Country ebook
by Peter Docker
Written in hotel rooms while working as a professional actor in various indigenous film, television and theatre productions, Peter Docker’s Someone Else’s Country is a deeply sensitive and at times intensely visceral engagement with contemporary indigenous culture … it is also a powerful historical document, which has at its heart the struggle…Read more »
From the Catalogue
Ten Tiny Things on Wilderness Society shortlist
Ten Tiny Things author Meg McKinlay was pleasantly surprised to be shortlisted for the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature, just one day after winning a Crystal Kite award.
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