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Catch Fremantle Press authors at the following events:
Book Launch, 6.30pm Tuesday 23 February, Carmel School
Hetty Verolme, Hetty: A True Story
Rsvp: admin@fremantlepress.com.au or 08 9430 6331
Perth International Writers’ Festival, 27 February to 1 March 2010
K.A. Bedford, Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
Jon Doust, Boy on a Wire
Goldie Goldbloom, The Paperbark Shoe
Niall Lucy, Vagabond Holes and Beautiful Waste
Dianne Wolfer, Lighthouse Girl and Choices
Meet the Author, 6.45pm Tuesday 2 March, Christ Church Grammar School
Goldie Goldbloom, The Paperbark Shoe
Rsvp: admin@fremantlepress.com.au or 08 9430 6331
A Night with Our Stars, Westbooks, 4 March
Jen Banyard, Spider Lies
Jon Doust, Boy on a Wire
Ambelin Kwaymullina, Caterpillar & Butterfly
Jessica Lister & Tjalaminu Mia Bush Secrets
Gladys Milroy, The Great Cold
Sally Morgan, WAARDA series editor
Chris Nixon, Crocodile Cake
Ken Spillman, Jake’s Gigantic List
Dianne Wolfer, Lighthouse Girl
Book Launch, 6.30pm Wednesday 9 March, Planet Books
Niall Lucy, PoMo Oz: Fear and Loathing Downunder
Rsvp: admin@fremantlepress.com.au or 08 9430 6331
All Saints College, 11 March 2010
Emmanuel Mollois, Et voilà!
Book Launch, 12pm Friday 19 March, Ampitheatre, All Saints College
Darlene Oxenham, Beach Sports Car
Pat and Laura Dudgeon, Lilli and her Shadow
All Saints Children’s Literature Festival, 17-19 March 2010
Jen Banyard, Spider Lies
Ross Bolleter, Piano Hill
Jon Doust, Boy on a Wire
Ambelin Kwaymullina, Caterpillar & Butterfly
Joy Lefroy, Catalpa Escape
Sally Morgan, WAARDA series
Chris Nixon, Crocodile Cake
Craig Silvey, Rhubarb and The World According to Warren
Ken Spillman, Jake’s Gigantic List
Katy Watson-Kell, Juice and Mama’s Trippin’
Fremantle Poetry Month, July 2010
Caroline Caddy, Esperance
John Mateer, Loan Words
Scroll further for more information about their most recent titles.
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Et voilà! French pastries from Choux Café
by Emmanuel Mollois with photography by Karin Calvert-Borshoff
Chef Emmanuel Mollois’ irrepressible enthusiasm is baked into every page of this gorgeous cookbook. You’ll be tempted by Emmanuel’s delicious and easy-to-follow recipes and seduced by photographer Karin Calvert-Borshoff’s mouth-watering pictures.
Emmanuel has selected some of the most popular French pastriesRead more »
Price $45.00
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Jake's Gigantic List
by Ken Spillman with illustrations by Chris Nixon
‘Gentle jokes abound, and boys especially will enjoy the idea of creating their own adventure packed birthday lists. The black and white pencil sketch illustrations by Chris Nixon add a fun dimension. Dragons, piranhas and robots are all cutely rendered in cartoon form, enticing the young reader into the joys of literacy.’ — Bookseller+Publisher
Jake…Read more »
Price $10.95
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Crocodile Cake
by Palo Morgan with illustrations by Chris Nixon
‘The story is meant to be read aloud; the rhythm is fabulous and there is a chorus for joining in. The illustrations, and there are lots of them, enhance the text…This book will be read again and again.” — Magpies
Take a slice, a great big slice, of this quirky and colourful picture bookRead more »
Price $24.95
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Boy on a Wire
by Jon Doust
‘From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer with a distinctive voice and uncanny ability to capture the bewilderment and burgeoning anger of a boy struggling to remain true to himself while navigating the hypocritical system he finds himself trapped in…what makes Boy on a Wire much more than a bleak coming-of-age…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Spider Lies
by Jen Banyard with illustrations by Tracey Gibbs
Connor’s little white lies have spawned a monster! It’s big, it’s hairy and it’s lurking outside his bedroom window.
Connor is home alone with his pet spider. Tricking Mum and Dad was easy and now he’s got nobody to tell him to wash the dishes, nobody to make him go to school and nobody to turn to when his very existence is threatened by…Read more »
Price $14.95
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Lighthouse Girl
by Dianne Wolfer with illustrations by Brian Simmonds
‘Full of evocative illustrations, sepia photographs and news clippings, Wolfer’s book transports. A great one for early and older readers alike,’ — Frances Atkinson, The Sunday Age
‘This lovely book is based on the real Faye Howe and her life as a lighthouse keeper’s daughter…Fay’s reflections on her life and her relationship with the far-away…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Esperance
by Caroline Caddy
‘Caroline Caddy charts the geography of the imagination — her poems are of travellers crossing the unknown, exploring hidden images…’ — Overland.
‘… a master poet with a style and panache all her own’ — The West Australian.
Esperance is a collection of works from Caddy’s first seven books of poetry plus seventeen new poems. Read more »
Price $24.95
From the Catalogue
Book Launch
Fremantle Press and All Saints Literature Festival invite you to the launch of Beach Sports Car by Darlene Oxenham and Lilli and her Shadow by Laura and Pat Dudgeon.
noon, Friday 19 March 2010 at the Ampitheatre, Entry car park gate 3, All Saints College, Ewing Avenue, Bull Creek, WA 6149
RSVP: admin@fremantlepress.com.au or 08 9430 6331
