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  • Margaret River

    by Frances Andrijich

    The unique region of Margaret River in Australia’s south-west is captured with charm and intimacy through the lens of Frances Andrijich.

    Frances is one of Australia’s finest photographers whose work features in national and international magazines such as Time Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Gourmet Traveller, Australian Geographic, Vogue…Read more »

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  • The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

    by Tracy Farr

    This is the story of Dame Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie.

    Lena is Music’s Most Modern Musician; the first theremin player of the twentieth century.

    From the obscurity of a Perth boarding school to a glittering career on the world stage, Lena Gaunt’s life will be made and torn apart by those she gives her heart to. Read more »

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  • And then like my dreams

    by Margaret Rose Stringer

    ‘An intimate and deeply moving insight into a close and loving relationship against a backdrop of the Australian film industry.’ David Stratton

    ‘This most moving, heart-warming story of two lovers, soul mates, will touch everyone who enjoys romance in all its aspects – the laughter, the tears, true love, and loss.’ Ian Crawford

    This is the…Read more »

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  • Hatched

    by Tim Winton with illustrations by Shaun Tan

    ‘It’s a great pleasure to see young people exercising their storytelling instincts. During the twenty years in which the award has been given in my name I’ve had the privilege of witnessing this stubborn, lovely impulse as it lives on in a new generation. Whether they’re writing feverish fantasy or gritty realism these young writers are coming…Read more »

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  • Unearthed

    by Tracy Ryan

    ‘Once again, Ryan reveals herself as poet with both a clear sense of tradition — and a contemporary understanding of Ezra Pound’s old injunction to “Make it new!”’ Geoff Page

    ‘An achievement of the highest order from one of Australia’s most gifted poets.’ Marion M Campbell

    ‘An astonishing work; nothing less than a poetry of life and…Read more »

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  • Fremantle Poets 3: Performance Poets

    by Scott-Patrick Mitchell

    ‘… a poetry collection that celebrates words as living forces, flowing communally between and through us.’ Rebecca Giggs

    In Fremantle Poets 3, editor Scott-Patrick Mitchell brings together the work of twelve performance poets from the west coast. These poems exist in the mediated tension between the page and their other, electric, life when…Read more »

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  • Internal Monologues

    by Danijela Kambaskovic

    In this book of poems, characters from old myths speak to the reader in modern voices and in internal monologue to themselves.

    Arranged in four cycles, the poems’ speakers are archetypal lovers who speak of great love gone wrong: Minerva addresses Jupiter; Iseult speaks to Tristan; Cupid longs for Psyche. Elsewhere Hamlet speaks to Ophelia; Venus…Read more »

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  • The Other Bears PB

    by Michael Thompson

    Mother and Father Koala are suspicious of the OTHER bears. They don’t like the pandas and they don’t trust the polars. The black bears are noisy and the brown bears have big teeth. But all their grumpiness melts away, watching the littlest bears at play.

    Praise for the book
    ‘A fun tale about tolerance and acceptance.’ Nurture Magazine

    ‘Thompson…Read more »

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  • Now Showing

    by Ron Elliott

    ‘With the whip-crack tenacity of a Raymond Chandler novel, we are pushed right into the heart of the action and emerge breathless and bloodied. Hop into the driver’s seat alongside a cast of drifters, psychotics and hapless losers.’
    Reg Cribb, playwright, screenwriter, actor

    For the price of two movie tickets, Ron Elliott’s criminally good…Read more »

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  • All Monkeys Love Bananas PB

    by & Sean E Avery

    All monkeys love bananas! For breakfast for dinner for snacks and for lunch they all crave bananas, munch, munch, munch. Well, maybe not all monkeys …

    A very funny picture book about one poor monkey who can’t stand to see another banana.

    Praise for the book
    ‘… Avery’s illustrations, with their subversive, Steadman-esque quality, are…Read more »

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My Superhero

by Chris Owen with illustrations by Moira Court

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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