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Rhubarb
by Craig Silvey
‘… the novel has the charm of early work such as Gustave Flaubert’s Novembre and Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans.’ — The Weekend Australian.
‘ … both sad and hilarious…a daring and moving work.’ — The West Australian.
‘Written with wry humour and great depth of perception, this moving and often hilarious novel is a must-read.’…Read more »
Price $22.95
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Rhubarb ebook
by Craig Silvey
‘… the novel has the charm of early work such as Gustave Flaubert’s Novembre and Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans.’ — The Weekend Australian.
‘ … both sad and hilarious … a daring and moving work.’ — The West Australian.
‘Written with wry humour and great depth of perception, this moving and often hilarious novel is…Read more »
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Channelling Henry
by Bruce Russell
‘So this novel you want to write, what’s the plot?’
‘The plot is simple. A young artist moves to New York from somewhere else. The artist develops rapidly, stimulated by the charged atmosphere. The artist is too clever. The city and its denizens seem surreal…but it’s real. That’s what makes it so cruel. Even the fakes are real. She’s in deeper…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Old Jazz
by Mike Williams
Frank Harmon — poet, refugee from a failed marriage, loner — is approaching mid-life a little battered, opting for the quiet rhythms of a hermetic life on the south coast. One night a phone call from a woman claiming to be his unknown sister awakens the ghosts of his past and opens doors he thought he had abandoned with the years. A fault line is…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Breakfastinfur
by Michael Herrmann
Night falls here in the City that never wakes up, let alone sleeps. It’s 1991, and as bombs fall over Baghdad, the inhabitants of this Antipodean ‘Big Easy’ are about to learn that February, and not April, is indeed the cruellest month. Time to farewell Mark Throdeus — a suave politician with an uncomfortably dark secret — who’s set to take a dive…Read more »
Price $22.95
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Home Crowd, The
by Graham Kershaw
As a young man, George Fielden abandons England for Australia. Burning his bridges, he leaves without telling his mates or his girlfriend. When he returns, years later, he finds he left behind far more than he realised.
A stunningly acute novel about physical and psychological landscapes, the nature of love and ties that bind. Read more »
Price $19.95
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Jazz Tango
by Tracy Ryan
Jas hardly knows Todd. But seduced into escaping her struggling expatriate existence in London through marriage, she finds herself suddenly launched into a life of wealthy bohemians and intellectuals. In this strange country, locked into a world of intense longing and desire, Jas becomes uncertain of her own emotions and obligations. Jazz Tango is…Read more »
Price $22.95
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Speed Factory
by Bernard Cohen, John Kinsella, McKenzie Wark & Terri-ann White
Speed Factory is a many-genred collaborative work about war, AIDS, love, sex, untiring capital, cricket, dancing, toothache, border-crossings, books, writing and erasure. Manufactured speed, speed along wires and airways, speed cooked up in dank kitchens, ballistic speed, speed under gravity. Four of Australia’s most innovative and imaginative writers…Read more »
Price $19.95
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Remembering Malcolm Macquarrie
by Maggie Blick
On the first of November, 1997, Malcolm Macquarrie knew the answers to everything he’d ever wondered since he was born. He left his earthly body behind him as a memento to those he left behind. They buried it like a treasure.
Remembering Malcolm Macquarrie is a celebration of story, of meaning, of the human spirit. Played out by a dazzling cast…Read more »
Price $19.95
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City of Skies
by Chris McLeod
Dreams, love, death and memories populate a city of extraordinary blue skies and towering glass. In a quiet suburb, overlooking the city, a marriage disintegrates. Slowly, inexorably.
Exquisitely crafted, this lyrical novel transports the reader to a world between reality and imagination. A world inhabited by Cass and Robert, with their childhood…Read more »
Price $19.95
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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