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Mother Land
$29.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
Mother land is a memoir by Melbourne writer Dmetri Kakmi, about his childhood in the late 1960s on the island of Bozcaada (also known as Bozca Island) in the Aegean Sea, at the entrance to the Dardanelle Straits, at a ti... More »
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The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )
This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell.
This is the story of that policeman, the tall, enig... More »
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Walking To The Moon
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
A woman wakes from a coma, its cause unknown.
She refuses to see her family; she does not say why.
Slowly, almost reluctantly, she becomes stronger.
Now she will walk.
Where?
Walking to the Moon, Kate Cole-Adams' enthral... More »
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One Foot Wrong
$24.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and they all speak to her. Her imagination is informed by ... More »
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Running The Show: Selected B.A. Santamaria Documents: 1939-1996
$59.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
B.A. (Bob) Santamaria was perhaps the most controversial figure in recent Australian politics. An anti-Communist and devout Catholic, he was also one of the most prolific writers in Australia’s history and a strong campa... More »
Maps And Legends
$32.95 (Hardcover book / Mcsweeney )
Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in sixteen parts — a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes t... More »
Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories
$49.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories traces Cattapan's art from his student days to the present. Beginning with the Dadaist grotesquerie and surrealist erotica of Melbourne's 1970s punk scene, it traces Cattapan's themes of ... More »
The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
This anthology collects the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the ... More »
John Winston Howard: The Biography
$34.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
The most incisive analysis of John Howard's life and political career yet published, and now fully updated.
Published into critical acclaim and controversy in 2007, and rated by The Wall Street Journal Asia as the best b... More »