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Year Of Writing Inspiration
$24.95 – Paperback book / Unknown
Get inspired every day of the year.
365 prompts and exercises for writers in search of creative spark. This book provides a creative writing exercise for each day of the year. The writer uses the exercise to prompt 20 mi... Buy or find out more →
The Two Kinds Of Decay
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Hunter Publishers
At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, vanishing and then returning... Buy or find out more →
Sold
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
Money. Lust. Real estate.
Sold takes a fly-on-the-wall look at Melbourne’s property industry. Set in the leafy, prosperous inner suburbs, it follows the fortunes and misfortunes of three agents as they jostle, thrive and... Buy or find out more →
Things We Didn't See Coming
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions.
The ensuing journey spans decades and off... 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 →
Making Modern Melbourne
$17.95 – Paperback book / Arcade
From illegal village to modern metropolis, Melbourne is a city of many layers. Jenny Lee observes them with a sharp eye, sampling the city's marvellous and not-so-marvellous moments and reintroducing some of the unconven... Buy or find out more →
Lines of Wisdom: Young Writers, Old Stories, Timeless Encounters
$39.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
A beautician smuggles her family out of communist Hungary; a man steps off a train and gets his life on track; a Pitjantjatjara woman guards the secrets of a sacred women’s Dreaming. These are the stories of ordinary and... Buy or find out more →
House Of Exile
$32.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
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 →
Sketch: Issue One 2008
$15.00 – Paperback book /
Sketch Media House, a boutique design, public relations and publishing company based in Melbourne, Australia, is the publisher of Sketch, a new bi annual journal committed to publishing creative, innovative and thought-p... Buy or find out more →
Personal Taxidermy
$24.00 – Paperback book /
Widmo, a young boy suffering from amnesia, stumbles upon the rape of Natalie. His presence frightens off her assailant and Natalie takes him back to her apartment to look after him. Buy or find out more →
Morris In Iceland
$27.00 – Paperback book / Puncher And Wattmann
The life of William Morris - poet, designer, socialist visionary - and the music of Bjork: are these the materials for a modern opera? The Inner West Creative Mime Atelier think so. As their project unfolds to the dream-... Buy or find out more →
Lip Magazine
$12.95 – Magazine /
lip is for girls who think, feel, create, speak out and live. Girls who aren’t afraid to be themselves. lip explores these themes through the writing, art, fashion, photography and vision of our contributors. lip brings ... Buy or find out more →
Sleepers Almanac: No 5
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
The annual Sleepers Almanac is a collection of short stories, poetry and cartoons, which specialises in bringing together authors of some repute alongside tyro writers.
When Sleepers was founded by Zoe Dattner and Louise... Buy or find out more →
Women Of The Minotaur Les Poemes Des Femmes De Picasso
$25.00 – Paperback book / Tactile Books
Inspired by Picasso’s collection of paintings The Vollard Suite, Dawes gives voice to the wives, lovers and models in Picasso’s life. The poems are both reflective of issues in contemporary relationships as well as darkl... Buy or find out more →
Going Down Swinging 27
$24.99 – Magazine / Going Down Swinging
Going Down Swinging (GDS) is an Australian-based international literary journal publishing short stories, flash fiction, poetry, comic art and spoken word, all in the one book/CD package.
Currently edited by Lisa Greenaw... Buy or find out more →
Harvest Magazine 3
$16.50 – Magazine /
harvest is Melbourne-born, Melbourne-bred and Melbourne-based. harvest is born out of a desire to produce a tactile and engaging publication for a well-read audience. An audience who believes that good writing can be bot... Buy or find out more →
To Light Attained
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hybrid
Highly innovative, personal and idiosyncratic; Lurie's poetic use of language tells the story of a man whose daughter commits suicide and how he deals with it. Lurie has been compared with acclaimed American writers such... Buy or find out more →
Oink, Oink, Oink: A Savage Modern Fable
$29.95 – Paperback book / Hunter Publishers
A young boy grows up in rural Japan, raised by his mother among the clamour of industrial machines at the local fish cannery. He has never met his father, an Australian genetic scientist —he pieces together his sense of ... Buy or find out more →
Listen To Ngarrindjeri Women Speaking
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Spinifex Press
Namawi rawul-inyeri thulun-ar: Our footprints [come] from the past. From our ancestors to us, we are the traditional owners, still guiding our young ones, connecting the Stolen Generations back to family and country, sta... Buy or find out more →