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  • 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

  • Women of Note: The Rise of Australian Women Composers eBook

    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 as…Read more »

  • 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

  • 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

  • Jive, Twist and Stomp

    by John Mills & Murray Gracie

    From Bon Scott to Johnny Young, from Western Australia to the national arena, Jive, Twist and Stomp is a backstage pass into the lives and music of Western Australia’s pioneers of popular music.

    John Mills and Murray Gracie are part of a generation of musicians who rocked Western Australia in the 50s and 60sRead more »

    Price $35.00 Add to cart

  • Bhutan Heartland

    by Robert van Koesveld & Libby Lloyd

    This stunning photographic journey goes straight to the heart of Bhutan – a Buddhist country on the cusp of opening its doors to the West. It explores the culture, history, beliefs and dazzling Himalayan landscapes of the world’s newest democracy taking us into the lives of its people as their country enters the modern world.

    Travel Talk called…Read more »

    Price $59.95 Add to cart

  • Wildflower Country: Discovering Biodiversity in Australia's Southwest

    by Stanley & Kaisa Breeden

    There are few other places on earth where flowers are so all pervasive, so varied and as sumptuous as in southwest Western Australia. It is one of 39 special places in the world, named International Biodiversity Hotspots, where there have been explosions of evolution—veritable cauldrons of species making.

    Award-winning photographers Stanley and…Read more »

    Price $75.00 Add to cart

  • Pirate Outrages: True Stories of Terror on the China Seas

    by Douglas R G Sellick

    You won’t be immune to a frisson of fear as you peruse these gripping stories of piracy on the China seas. After all, piracy is as prevalent today as it was in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuriesRead more »

    Price $26.95 Add to cart

  • Robbie: The Robinson Helicopter Experience

    by Jon Davison

    From the snow-clad mountains of Alaska to Australia’s desert heart, photographer Jon Davison explores the world’s most beautiful landscapes from the air.

    Robbie is a tale of passionate and driven individuals. It is the story of fifteen people who made the ‘wild fantasy’ of owning and operating their own helicopter a reality.

    Davison travelled…Read more »

    Price $55.00 Add to cart

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Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck

by Michelle Gillespie with illustrations by Sonia Martinez

$24.95 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