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$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin / ISBN:9781741149173)

Tales From Outer Suburbia

CBCA Older Readers Book of the Year 2009

Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?

Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?

Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?

Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and The Red Tree, reveals the quiet mysteries of everyday life: homemade pets, dangerous weddings, stranded sea mammals, tiny exchange students and secret rooms filled with darkness and delight.

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Tales From Outer Suburbia
Shaun Tan

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )

CBCA Older Readers Book of the Year 2009

Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?

Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?

Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?

Shaun Tan, cre... More »

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Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. It is a tale of journeys and transformations, penetrating the boundaries between male and female, reality and myth, con... More »

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Paper Cities: An Anthology Of Urban Fantasy
Ekaterina Sedia (Ed)

$25.95 (Paperback book / Senses Five Press )

The city has always been a place of mystery, of magic, and wonder. In cities past, present, and future, in metropoli real and imagined, meet mutilated warrior-women, dead boys, mechanical dogs, escape artists and more. F... More »

The Shadow Year
Jeffrey Ford

$29.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )

On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detaile... More »


The Drowned Life
Jeffrey Ford

$25.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )

There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry—and once a year a handful of citizens are selected to drink it. . . .

There is a life lived beneath the water—among rotted buildin... More »


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