$21.90 (Paperback book / Spinifex Press / ISBN:9781875559763)
Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals
To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls once burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain. To do all these in peace and war is the wish embodied in Merlinda Bobis’ poetry.
Merlinda Bobis
The Solemn Lantern Maker
$26.95 (Paperback book / Pier )
Ten-year-old Noland, a mute lantern maker, imagines that he sees an angel falling from the sky to the slums where he lives. But it’s only an American tourist who is caught in a drive-by shooting of a political journalist... More »
Banana Heart Summer
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
The myth of the banana heart inspires 12-year-old Nenita, growing up in a small, impoverished Filippino town. She will appease her family’s hunger and win her violent mother’s affection. Touching, funny, elegaic, this is... More »
Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals
$21.90 (Paperback book / Spinifex Press )
To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls once burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain. To do all these in peace and war is the wish embo... More »
White Turtle
$21.95 (Paperback book / Spinifex Press )
An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A working siesta in a five-star hotel. A woman’s twelve-metre hair trawling corpses from a river. Or a queue of longings in Darlinghurst. These enigmatic... More »