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  • Not Drowning, Reading

    by Andrew Relph

    For the national year of reading, here is a book that, in Phillip Adams’s words, brings ‘a new perspective’ to the art of reading.

    As a child, Relph had a reading disability; now he is a psychoanalyst and professional conversationalist whose memoir explores why our relationships with authors and characters can be as vital as any we form in…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • Women of Note: The Rise of Australian Women Composers

    by Rosalind Appleby

    ‘This much-welcomed book profiles those women, largely unacknowledged, who stand as the major landmarks in the Australian musical landscape.’
    John Davis, CEO Australian Music Centre, President International Society for Contemporary Music

    In the early twentieth century being a female composer was a dangerous game; one composer was diagnosed…Read more »

    Price $35.00 Add to cart

  • Two-Hearted Numbat, The: PB

    by Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina

    Numbat has two hearts, one of stone and one of feather. His stone heart makes him strong and powerful while his feather heart makes him soft and gentle. When having more than one heart becomes troublesome, Numbat must choose which one to keep…

    Praise for The Two-Hearted Numbat
    It is so visually vibrant it will immediately appeal…while the…Read more »

    Price $16.95 Add to cart

  • River

    by Brian Simmonds

    Award-winning artist Brian Simmonds brings Australia’s waterways to life with his oils and mixed media colour paintings and sketches.

    Eighty-four beautiful illustrations accompany uniquely local poetry and prose from well-known writers such as John Kinsella, T A G Hungerford and Elizabeth Jolley.

    The perfect contemporary souvenir book that captures…Read more »

    Price $35.00 Add to cart

  • Soul of the Desert

    by Philippa Nikulinsky

    ‘The Soul is there in the dust, the red rocks and blue sky, the wind and rain, in the dunes and salt-lakes, in the people, and in the plant and animal life, waiting to be experienced, revealed, revered, by those who would look.’ — Stephen D Hopper, author of the foreword.

    The perfect book for anyone interested in botanical art, natural history or…Read more »

    Price $45.00 Add to cart

  • Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck

    by Michelle Gillespie with illustrations by Sonia Martinez

    Sixteen-year-old Grace Bussell was hailed a hero for her part in rescuing the passengers and crew of the Georgette from sure drowning. She was called Australia’s own Grace Darling. But the rescue would never have been possible without the guidance and leadership of Sam Isaacs, an Aboriginal stockman.

    This beautifully illustrated book is an evocative…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • Homemade: Simply delicious food

    by Anna Gare

    Home cooking is something that responds to what’s in the market, what’s in the fridge and who walks through the door. The tart you make on a hot summer night while your friend tells you about her new love affair will be very different from the one you cook in winter for your mother-in-law. That’s what Homemade is all about.

    The simple dishes…Read more »

    Price $49.95 Add to cart

  • Prime Cut

    by Alan Carter

    Shortlisted for a 2010 Debut Dagger Award, Prime Cut is what crime reviewer Graeme Blundell calls a classily written story with ‘mordant wit and a fine sense of place’.

    Meet Cato Kwong — disgraced cop and ex-poster boy for the police force. Banished to the stock squad after the fallout from a police frame-up, Cato is brought in from the cold…Read more »

    Price $22.95 Add to cart

  • Have you seen Ally Queen?

    by Deb Fitzpatrick

    Ally Queen, aged fifteen, is the new kid in a very small town. Uprooted from her comfortable city life and dumped in ‘hicksville’ she’s trying to find her place amongst the bogans, the surfies and the spinach-munching hippies.

    Life is tough when your closest friend is miles away and deep and meaningful conversations are restricted to the length…Read more »

    Price $19.95 Add to cart

  • The Waterboys

    by Peter Docker

    ‘The Waterboys is a fist-clenching and nail-biting re-imagining of Australian history; what is, what could have been, or what really was.’ — Howard Pedersen, author of
    Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance.

    Conway inhabits an apocalyptic future in a continent caught up in a violent struggle for control of water. He is a whitefulla whose heart…Read more »

    Price $27.95 Add to cart

From the Catalogue

Home Crowd, The

by Graham Kershaw

$19.95 Add to cart

Outdoor Reading in Freo

The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.

Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading

When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au