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Long Story Shorts (Box Set)
Affirm Press

$0.00 – Boxed set / Affirm

Box set of all six of Affirm Press's short story collections including Having Cried Wolf by Gretchen Shirm, Known Unknowns by Emmett Stinson, Two Steps Forward by Irma Gold, Bearings by Leah Swann, Nineteen Seventyso... Buy or find out more 


My Dog Gave Me The Clap
Adam Morris

$22.95 – Paperback book / Fremantle Arts Ct Pr

The author swears this isn't one of those semi-autobiographical first novels. Although we once heard him say it was, he's adamant that was a joke. Maybe it's just as well he clarified that point for us. Adam's dog has al... Buy or find out more 



The Dark Wet
Jess Huon

$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 


Darebin Parklands: Escaping The Claws Of The Machine
Sarah Mirams

$39.95 – Paperback book / Melbourne Books

Darebin parklands, an urban bushland on the Darebin Creek, is well loved by the surrounding community – but that was not always the case. Only 35 years ago, the parkland was dominated by a municipal tip, was weed-infeste... Buy or find out more 



Thirty Australian Poets
Felicity Plunkett (Ed)

$27.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr

‘The first strong poetic generation of twenty-first century Australia.’ – John Tranter

A NEW GENERATION, A LANDMARK ANTHOLOGY

Australian poetry has never looked so energetic and vital. Thirty Australian Poets celeb... Buy or find out more 


The Ballroom: The Melbourne Punk And Post-Punk Seaview Ballroom
Dolores San Miguel

$29.95 – Paperback book / Melbourne Books

The Ballroom is a brutally frank memoir of what has become known as one of the most pivotal, fascinating and influential periods of Australian musical and cultural history. The story is illustrated with original flyers a... Buy or find out more 



Slo-Mo Tsunami And Other Poems
Bruce Dawe

$24.95 – Paperback book / Puncher And Wattmann

Bruce Dawe has received wide recognition as Australia's most popular poet. SLO-MO TSUNAMI offers a typically wide range of poems covering personal, social, political and religious issues. Buy or find out more 


New Romantics: Darkness And Light In Australian Art
Simon Gregg

$59.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub

omething is happening in Australian art today. We are witnessing the resurgence of ideas that took root centuries ago – a return to passion in art, and a return to atmosphere and awe.Historians called it Romanticism; a d... Buy or find out more 



Wild And Woolley: A Publishing Memoir
Michael Wilding

$24.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing

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 


New And Selected Poems
Gig Ryan

$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 



Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis And What To Do About It
Andy Lamey

$34.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr

‘A wonderfully readable, lucid account of the treatment of refugees in modern western democracies. Lamey writes superbly. Taking Hannah Arendt’s philosophy as its gravitational centre, it draws the reader to the inescapa... Buy or find out more 


Hidden: A New Comic Book
Mirranda Burton

$20.00 – Paperback book / Black Pepper

Hidden is a graphic memoir in which an art teacher, who is also the author, Mirranda Burton, takes us into her art class where she is teaching art to physically or intellectually impaired students.

Four overlapping stori... Buy or find out more 



Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984-2007
Claire Isaac, David Nichols and Marc Andrews

$27.95 – Paperback book / Affirm

From 1984 to 2007, Smash Hits became the biggest selling pop magazine in Australia. It had more fizz than a bag of sherbet and millions of teenages were hooked on its mix of song words, interviews, posters, letters and B... Buy or find out more 


The Rattler And Other Stories
A.S. Patric

$19.99 – Paperback book /

In this wonderfully eclectic collection published by Spineless Wonders, A.S. Patric shows us a surreal side of Melbourne where anything can happen. A tram driver makes a mercy dash with a carriage full of show dogs, a bo... Buy or find out more 



Life Kills
Miles Vertigan

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing

“It was just one of those girly little fights we have my precious little sparkles my little fudgy wudgy bunnikins so drop the gun my little sparkles dear cos i know it isn’t loaded and i hate to break it to ya honey chil... Buy or find out more 


Blood
Tony Birch

$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr

Read our Q&A with Tony Birch on Blood

‘Many of us have known for a long time what a wonderful storyteller Tony Birch is. Blood confirms it – and how. The terrain is hard, unflinching but also imbued with a deeply re... Buy or find out more 



What The Family Needed
Steven Amsterdam

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing

Read our Q&A with Steven Amsterdam about What the Family Needed.

"Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?"

And so begins the tale of one particularly gifted family as it finds itself. ... Buy or find out more 


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