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Varamo
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
One day in 1923, a middle-aged public servant is paid his salary in counterfeit notes; by the next morning, after a series of impossible complications which lead to a triumphant resolution, he has written a great poem. C... Buy or find out more →
The Recluse
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Evelyn Juers’ biographical essay focuses on Eliza Emily Donnithorne, long considered the model for Charles Dickens’s character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. For most of her life she lived in isolation in a large h... Buy or find out more →
Wildlife
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Eliot Weinberger’s essays are like encyclopaedias in miniature, crammed with curious details that make you wonder at the strangeness of creation, and the ability of humans to make it even stranger. Wildlife is a collecti... Buy or find out more →
Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale
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Anguli Ma is the central figure in a traditional Buddist folktale, a deranged killer who wears his victims’ fingers in a garland around his neck. In this novella, Chi Vu takes the character, and turns him into an menacin... Buy or find out more →
First Light
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First Light observes the details of the world with curious and restive attention. It explores the threshold between things and words, seeking out places where music and language are equal in charting human experience. So... Buy or find out more →
Here There And Elsewhere
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Vivian Smith is renowned for the clarity, simplicity and directness of his poems. Transparent in their openness, they point gently to what remains unspoken. The poems in Here, There and Elsewhere draw on memories of life... Buy or find out more →
Blue
$20.00 – Hardcover book / Giramondo Publishing
Part sci-fi part autobiography, this book is about localism and racism on the Australian beach. Lushly produced hardback printed in two Pantone inks on lovely thick cream coloured paper. Blue is 96 pages long with the fu... Buy or find out more →
The Dark Wet
$26.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
The Dark Wet is Jess Huon’s first collection of short stories. Its three sequences explore the intense relationships between childhood friends, and later their spiritual companions, through the experience of sex, drugs, ... Buy or find out more →
New And Selected Poems
$26.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Gig Ryan’s poems have exerted an influence over two generations of writers and readers since the publication of her award-winning collection Division of Anger in 1981. An important figure in Australian poetry, her work i... Buy or find out more →
Wild And Woolley: A Publishing Memoir
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Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir is Michael Wilding's rollicking account of those heady bohemian years in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the development of this innovative small press... Buy or find out more →
Not Dark Yet
$32.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
David Walker is a distinguished Australian social historian whose eyesight deteriorated suddenly at the end of 2004 as a result of macular degeneration. His blindness caused him to reconsider his own relation to the past... Buy or find out more →
Look Who's Morphing
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This is a collection of brilliant stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies of sexual a... Buy or find out more →
White Clay
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
A complex awareness of family life is at the heart of Lucy Dougan's new collection. Its narrative interweavings lead us from the world of books and romance into motherhood and its immersion in the world of children, then... Buy or find out more →
A Raider's Guide
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Michael Farrell's new collection is 'a raid on the inarticulate', but not as T.S. Eliot intended - it liberates energies which exist within language, though they may not easily be spoken, or spoken about. The poems are c... Buy or find out more →
Australian Popular Songbook
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Alan Wearne's new collection is made up of three parts, 'The Australian Popular Songbook', a suite of poems inspired by popular songs from the 1880s through to the 1980s; 'The Metropolitan Poems', a group of stories in v... Buy or find out more →
Sydney Journals: Reflections 1970-2000
$27.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Written from her home in the Sydney suburb of Annandale over a period of thirty years, but ranging widely, to Broken Hill and Wilcannia, Paris, Venice, Prague and Athens, Kefala's Sydney Journals portrays the intellectua... Buy or find out more →
Mother Land
$32.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Burning In
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In her late twenties, Martine Hartmann moves from Sydney to New York to pursue her career as a photographer, leaving behind her mother Lotte, a holocaust survivor. Nine years later, Martine's daughter Ruby goes missing i... Buy or find out more →
The Land I Came Through Last
$34.95 – Paperback book / Giramonndo
The most important literary biography of 2008! Robert Gray is widely acknowledged as one of our nation's finest poets. Here, he pens his autobiography - a unique and important Australian story. Buy or find out more →
Press Release
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Press Release, is a sequence set in the Mallee district of Victoria during the end of World War II. A meditation on ambition, patience and waste, it explores the history of settlement through elegy, dramatic monologue, t... Buy or find out more →
House Of Exile
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In 1933 the prominent author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger were forced to flee Germany, finding refuge in France and later, in great despair, Los Angeles. There Nelly committed suicid... Buy or find out more →
Stepping: Out A Novel
$27.99 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
This new novel by French-Australian writer Catherine Rey, begins in provincial France in the 1970s. Dressed in borrowed platform shoes and a cape, the seventeen-year-old Catherine is rejecting family and schooling to mov... Buy or find out more →
Young Rain
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'The poems in Young Rain have an ease and lucidity that makes them seem almost casual, so that it is with a feeling of surprise that you realise you have been drawn into a conversation of the utmost gravity concerning th... Buy or find out more →
The Other Way Out
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The Other Way Out opens with the white heat of the tropical north - with a sky so pressing it falls like glass to the ground - and closes with the carved hand of an ancient statue, proffering love and gladness and affirm... Buy or find out more →
Tamarisk Row
$27.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Gerald Murnane is widely recognised as one of our country’s most significant literary figures – but only one of his novels, The Plains, is available. Until now. For the first time in 20 years, his masterful first nov... Buy or find out more →