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Ocean Road
by Glyn Parry
My father grabbed my mother’s hand and then my own, and he ran us across the cool sand to the water’s edge. He whooped seagulls into the sky.
‘Happy new year!’ he yelled at the noise and the spray.
My mother yelled the same. ‘Happy new year!’
They were both very good actors.In the summer of 1976, Frank and Laura travel down south to a…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Summer Days
by B R Coffey
A collection of short stories and autobiographical pieces about children by Elizabeth Jolley, Sally Morgan, A B Facey, T A G Hungerford, Joan London, Simone Lazaroo, Kenneth Gasmier, Lee Conway, Justina Williams, Pippa Tandy, Faye Davis, Bill Marks, Connie Ellement, Ron Davidson and Julie Lewis.
‘The stories have a strength that derives from their…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Devotion
by Ffion Murphy
Who is Veronica? What is she so afraid of?
Following the birth of her second child, beautiful successful Veronica inexplicably stops speaking and refuses to see her baby. Her psychiatrist suggests writing as therapy. She pours out her ghosts and memories into her laptop, but she won’t divulge her secrets to him. So each night he hacks in through…Read more »
Price $27.95
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Dovetail Road
by Graham Kershaw
What does it take to make love work? Architect Peter Warner, dangerously adrift from his marriage, his son and his dreams, sweats over a riverside redevelopment. But then he meets Liz, a feisty single-mother fighting to save the river foreshoreRead more »
Price $24.95
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Hal Spacejock 2: Second Course
by Simon Haynes
A beautiful and mysterious female passenger, a loony inventor with a basement full of deadly weapons, and a dangerous run-down teleporter built by a long-lost alien civilisation. These are just some of the challenges facing Hal Spacejock as he fights for survival in the cut-throat interstellar cargo business. Join the incompetent Hal and his long-suffering…Read more »
Price $19.95
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Hal Spacejock 2: Second Course ebook
by Simon Haynes
A beautiful and mysterious female passenger, a loony inventor with a basement full of deadly weapons, and a dangerous run-down teleporter built by a long-lost alien civilisation. These are just some of the challenges facing Hal Spacejock as he fights for survival in the cut-throat interstellar cargo businessRead more »
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Music of Dunes, The
by Mike Williams
Frank Harmon is living in an isolated beach house on the south coast, writing jazz poems and scratching out a living taking backpackers bushwalking and kayaking. As he waits out the absence of his troubled lover, Laura, the power of the spare and brooding landscape begins to enter his writing, bringing new connections and throwing up unexpected images…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Hal Spacejock
by Simon Haynes
Bored with on-time deliveries? Want your valuable cargo strewn across the nearest planet? Call Hal Spacejock! Partial deliveries, non-arrivals and total write-offs a specialty.
An incompetent, accident-prone pilot is given one last chance to save his ship. An ageing robot is trusted with a midnight landing in a deserted field. And a desperate businessman…Read more »
Price $19.95
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Hal Spacejock ebook
by Simon Haynes
Bored with on-time deliveries? Want your valuable cargo strewn across the nearest planet? Call Hal Spacejock! Partial deliveries, non-arrivals and total write-offs a specialty.
An incompetent, accident-prone pilot is given one last chance to save his shipRead more » -
Man of Water
by Chris McLeod
Watt, a self absorbed writer in middle-aged decline, has settled into his friends’ house to work on a new novel. But days and weeks go by and he achieves little more than a self-serving relationship with a local woman. His talent for procrastination and passivity reaching a terrible climax as he stands by and watches, frozen, as an old man drowns in…Read more »
Price $24.95
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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