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Queensland Premier's Literary Award Winners 2008

The Spare Room
Helen Garner

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )

An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers

Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no or... More »

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Typewriter Music
David Malouf

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Univ Queensland Pr )

I came to David Malouf ’s poetry though his novels. After reading An Imaginary Life as a very young man I jumped on my bike and headed for the local library determined to take home every book I could find, because that... More »


Muck
Craig Sherborne

$27.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )

Muck opens in NZ in late 1970s on a big dairy farm the narrator's parents have brought to be their estate and his legacy. They plan to build a big manor house, keep him away from the local gold-digger girls and live out ... More »

The Peasant Prince
Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )

'This is your one chance. You have your secret dreams. Follow them! Make them come true . . . '

In a poor village in northern China, a small boy is about to be taken away from everything he's ever known. He is so afraid,... More »


Requiem For A Beast
Matt Ottley

$39.99 (Hardcover book / Lothian )

Requiem for a Beast is a multi modal work, consisting of the formats of graphic novel, picture book, novella, and musical work.

There are two main narratives within the book; one, is the story of a young stockman as he p... More »

Why Is Uranus Upside Down And Other Questions About The Universe
Fred Watson

$24.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Have you ever wondered what dark matter is or why galaxies collide? Or why the Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth? Space is really, really big, as Douglas Adams once pointed out, and there is no better guide to i... More »


Drawing the Global Colour Line
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds

$36.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )

"[This] is a pioneering account of the transnational production of whiteness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A work remarkable both for its international breadth and for its sensitivity to local par... More »

Someone Else
John Hughes

$24.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )

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