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City Bushman
by Christopher Lee
Henry Lawson continues to be invoked as an authentic representative of the Australian spirit. In times and places both remote and present people have felt drawn to his writing while others railed against him. Prime Minister Billy Hughes said he was ‘part of the national life of the people’ and threw him a State funeral, but Jack Lang thought this fuss…Read more »
Price $29.95
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From Australia with Love
by Juliet Flesch
It is estimated that one romance novel is purchased every few seconds in the English-speaking world alone. From Australia with Love examines this cultural phenomenon from the point of view of those who read them and those who write them. Juliet Flesch takes on the journalists, literary critics and feminists who so freely denigrate Australian romance…Read more »
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Gates of Memory, The
by Tanja Luckins
Much has been written on the Anzac legend and the 60,000 Australians who lost their lives in the Great War. Little has been said about the hundreds of thousands who were left to grieve for their loved ones, denied bodies over which to mourn. The Gates of Memory is a beautifully written and provocative cultural history that explores the meanings, for…Read more »
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Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks
by Cathy Cole
An entertaining and fast-paced exploration of crime fiction, through the eyes of writer and academic, Cathy Cole. Cathy addresses the reasons why readers of crime fiction find it so addictive and satisfying, and why the conventions of crime fiction lend themselves so perfectly to depicting contemporary social, political and moral issues. Private Dicks…Read more »
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Semar's Cave
by John Mateer
In 1998, after President Suharto resigned and most expats had fled, John Mateer arrived in the Sumatran city of Medan with the intention of writing a handful of poems. But Mateer’s fascination with everyday life in Indonesia’s third largest city soon led to him chronicling his daily experience. The Indonesia of Semar’s Cave is not that of the television…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Sixties, The: An Irreverent Guide
by Eoin Cameron
Desert boots, micro minis and winklepickers; Dusty, Ringo and ‘The Purple People Eater’; Easy Rider, Blow Up and Beach Blanket Bingo; stomps, cabarets and Woodstock; Gilligan’s Island, Graeme Kennedy and Homicide; kegs, nashos, the pill and student demos. Eoin Cameron recalls the ’60s in gory detail and with no insight what-so-ever, because…Read more »
Price $22.95
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Steadfast Knight
by Hal G. P. Colebatch
Sir Hal Colebatch, the son of poor immigrants, left school at the age of eleven, survived typhoid epidemics in South Australia and New South Wales, and after the discovery of gold in Kalgoorlie, journeyed to the goldfields, walking the last 80 kilometres across the desert. There, although too poor to own a typewriter, he worked as a journalist. Within…Read more »
Price $32.95
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Zombies, Lilliputians and Sadists
by Boris Frankel
In this provocative and original interpretation of contemporary Australian society, the iconoclastic writer, Boris Frankel, subverts conventional notions of our society and offers a host of alternative policy suggestions. Frankel’s Zombies are Australia’s walking dead, politicians stuck in a bygone era. Lilliputians extol the knowledge economy with…Read more »
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Caravanserai
by Hanifa Deen
In 1993 Hanifa Deen set out on a journey of the heart and mind to show the human face of Australian Muslims. These are ordinary people from diverse backgrounds and cultures, people who mow their lawns, worry about their mortgages and love their children. Ten years later, in the wake of September 11 and the Bali bombing, she revisits those people and…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Messing About in Earnest
by Nick Burningham
Take a river journey in a small boat with Nick Burningham at the helm. Messing About in Earnest is a delightful blend of travel writing, history, geography and real-life adventure. Nick drifts down the Swan and Canning Rivers in his trusty boat called Earnest. His book takes the reader on the trip of a lifetime with whimsical and humorous stories…Read more »
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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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