New small press releases
My Dog Gave Me the Clap
$22.95 – Paperback / Fremantle Press
My Dog Gave Me the Clap is a tight, funny novel about masculine identity and narrowly missed epiphanies - it is as discomforting as it is engaging.... Buy or find out more→
The Dark Wet
$26.95 – Paperback / Giramondo Publishing Co
The Dark Wet is the first collection of short stories by Jess Huon. Rich, lyrical and deeply felt, it explores the struggle towards a sense of self and belonging, expressed in three sequences of stories: that of Jed Harp, his... Buy or find out more→
Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine
$39.95 – Paperback / 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-infested, and... Buy or find out more→
Thirty Australian Poets
$27.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
‘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... Buy or find out more→
The Ballroom: the Melbourne Punk and Post-punk Scene - a Tell All Memoir
$29.95 – Paperback / 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 and... Buy or find out more→
New Romantics Darkess And Light In Australian Art
$59.95 – Paperback / Australian Scholarly Publishing
Through the work of 36 contemporary Australian artists who have reinvigorated this movement, New Romantics traces the influences that led them to this unlikely path. This is the first book that seeks to understand a paradigm shift... Buy or find out more→
Wild and Woolley: A Publishing Memoir
$24.95 – Paperback / Giramondo Publishing Co
Novelist and critic Michael Wilding's rollicking account of the heady bohemian days in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the decline of an innovative small press against a background of social upheaval... Buy or find out more→
New And Selected Poems
$26.95 – Paperback / Giramondo Publishing Co
The emotional and social power of Gig Ryans poems have exerted an influence over two generations of readers, since the publication of her award-winning collection Division of Anger in 1981. A canonical figure in Australian poetry,... Buy or find out more→
Frontier Justice The Global Refugee Crisis And What To Do About It
$34.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
‘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 inescapable... Buy or find out more→
Hidden: A New Comic Book
$22.00 – Paperback / 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 stories... Buy or find out more→
Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984 - 2007
$27.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
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... Buy or find out more→
The Rattler And Other Stories
$19.99 – Paperback / Spineless Wonders
This entertaining collection includes a romp of a novella called The Rattler, as well as short stories and micro fiction all set in and around contemporary Melbourne. Buy or find out more→
Life Kills
$11.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
“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 child but... Buy or find out more→
Blood
$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
From the much-loved author of Shadowboxing comes a stunning debut novel in the tradition of Honey Brown, Chris Wommersley, and Kenneth Cook's Wake in Fright . If there's one thing Jesse knows when he sees it, it's trouble. Buy or find out more→
What The Family Needed
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Read our Q&A with Steven Amsterdam about What the Family Needed. "Okay, tell me which do you... Buy or find out more→