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Choices
by Dianne Wolfer
‘Young adult fiction that manages to deal with a sensitive issue yet doesn’t thrust too much teenage anguish upon us…A story about change, agency and responsibility, with a pleasant mix of stylistic neatness and thematic uncertainty.’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘This novel is written in a manner that is both honest and touching, as it does not…Read more »
Price $17.95
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Anything but Ordinary
by Cécile Dorward & Ron Davidson
The extraordinary life of an extraordinary woman. Born into a flamboyant family in 1911, the young Cécile married a middle-aged Professor of Philosophy, mixing with intellectual superstars of the day such as Russell, Moore, Huxley and Haldane. At fifty-eight she began touring the world solo in a campervan; becoming known as the ‘World’s oldest hippy’,…Read more »
Price $22.95
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Away with the Birds
by Errol Broome
There’s only one thing worse than walking home from school with Mum. That’s when your mum’s the teacher. Nobody wants to talk to you.
When Sebastian moves to the city with his family, he finds it tough. But a chance encounter with the old man next door, and his pigeons, opens up a whole new and unexpected world. Read more »Price $11.95
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Barefoot Speech
by John Mateer
‘Although this is a poetry interested in, and capable of, the ecstatic, it is kept disciplined by toughness and a sense of the reality, and the challenge, of suffering. Too restless to look for totems, the process of experience remains its vital poetic concern. The poetry is often risky and experimental, yet its experiments never seem calculated or…Read more »
Price $18.95
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Broken Circles
by Anna Haebich
There was no single Stolen Generation, there were many and Broken Circles is their story. This major work reveals the dark heart of this history. It shows that, from the earliest times of European colonisation, Aboriginal Australians experienced the trauma of loss and separation, as their children were abducted, enslaved, institutionalised and culturally…Read more »
Price $35.00
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Children's House of Belsen, The
by Hetty Verolme
Hetty’s family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands. Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the Children’s House, within Belsen concentration camp. As one of the eldest, Hetty became the ‘Little Mother’, helping to care for not only her siblings, but the other children…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Hidden, The
by Ron Bunney
Thrown out of home by his penny-pinching step-mother, Matt flees Fremantle aboard a boat, only to be bullied and brutalised by the bosun. Called a ‘half-caste bastard’, Jess is part of neither the white world of her father, nor the black world of her dead mother’s people. Lost and alone, she is haunted and hunted. Both are on the run and in hiding…Read more »
Price $14.95
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Into the Wadi
by Michèle Drouart
Whatever happens to me here, my understanding of it will be incomplete. Jokes, stories, events, decisions — like so many things in this part of the world — remain open-ended, intertwined like the encircled and encircling chambers of the thousand and one tales…
Into the Wadi is the compelling and intensely personal story of an Australian…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Juice
by Katy Watson-Kell
‘Watson’s style is to reveal Juice’s selfishness to us, the readers, and to the other characters in her snappy novel, but to keep Juice blissfully in the dark – until the final race. And, if you’re not reading it to find out whether or not she beats the record time, you’ll be madly turning the pages to find out if she does, finally grow up.’…Read more »
Price $14.95
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Parochial
by Mark Reid
Parochial, Mark Reid’s second collection of poetry, takes as its backdrop a particular urban landscape — Fremantle — and the events of daily living. Whether riding a bike into town, working in the hospital, or encountering the visits of day-trippers to the port and city streets, these are poems of exploration and connection to place, language and…Read more »
Price $18.95
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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