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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
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liv
by Morgan Yasbincek
liv is a woman’s journey of self-discovery through the stories of her family — the cross-generational struggle for identity, the trauma of war, the dislocation of migration, the humour in the mundane. Olivia draws together fragmented layers of family and personal history that are her life, that are who she is. Her search for understanding becomes…Read more »
Price $21.95
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Rough with the Smooth
by B R Coffey
A collection of short stories, anecdotes and extracts from some of our best known writers. The selection includes a diverse range of stories about aspects of Australian men, from the rough to the smooth, the humorous to the profound. Among the writers included are Bruce Beresford, T A G Hungerford, A B Facey, Sally Morgan, Glyn Parry and Rampaging Roy…Read more »
Price $18.95
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Shore and Shelter
by Keith McLeod
‘This novel belongs to the Tim Winton school of Western Australian writing in its loving depiction of landscapes, the sea and all therein, and its emphasis on positive family values and the shoals and eddies of life.’ — Canberra Times.
‘ … a remarkable debut, an intelligent pageturner that cuts to the heart of love and loneliness.’ — The West…Read more »
Price $19.95
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World Waiting to be Made, The
by Simone Lazaroo
A young woman journeys back to her birthplace, Singapore, and to Malacca, her ancestral home, to discover rich, complex and mysterious aspects of her own identity. Aspects of herself that have only been half remembered, hinted at, or understood during a dislocated childhood and adolescence growing up in contemporary suburban Australia.
‘The experiences…Read more »Price $19.95
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Benang - From the Heart
by Kim Scott
‘Benang is brilliant. It is a mature, complex, sweeping historical novel which will remind people of Rushdie, Carey and Grenville at their best. This is an absolute page turner and in the end we are left with a sense of joy and gratitude that such stories are still possible — that the silence has been broken.’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘… Benang…Read more »
Price $26.95
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Benang - From the Heart ebook
by Kim Scott
Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, Benang is a novel of celebration and lament, of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing and of powerful utteranceRead more »
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Chelsea Manifesto, The
by Bruce Russell
To the respective muses of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Arthur Miller, Sid Vicious, Arthur Clarke, Brendan Behan, Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Madonna, Brett Whitely, Janis Joplin, Eugene O’Neill, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, Bill Clinton, Leonard Cohen and Francis Anstey: PISS OFF!
Ben Wallymacher has always struggled to keep up with Francis. Friends…Read more »Price $19.95
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Surfing Antarctica
by Liane Shavian
A hot and happening chick’s gotta be ready for action. And, boy, is Zan ready. First she’s busted in flagrante delicto with Darwin, the legendary Greenie filmmaker, sending Sheehan, her arrogant schmuck of an ex, wild with jealousy. Then she gets involved in some crazy save the whales ecotage, trashing a glitzy Japanese wedding. Zan’s life turns into…Read more »
Price $19.95
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Surfing Antarctica ebook
by Liane Shavian
A hot and happening chick’s gotta be ready for action. And, boy, is Zan ready. First she’s busted in flagrante delicto with Darwin, the legendary Greenie filmmaker, sending Sheehan, her arrogant schmuck of an ex, wild with jealousy. Then she gets involved in some crazy save the whales ecotage, trashing a glitzy Japanese weddingRead more »
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