Book picks for Apollo Bay Word Fest 2020
The White Girl
In The White Girl, Tony Birch has created memorable characters whose capacity for love and courage are a timely reminder of the endurance of the human spirit.
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The Mother Fault
Mim's husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him - especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip...
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Skylarking
'A brave, beautiful and richly textured book that delicately explores the fault lines in love and friendship.' --Lucy Treloar A spellbinding tale of friendship and desire, memory and truth, which questions what it is to remember...
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Wolfe Island
The stunning new novel from the award-winning author of Salt Creek is Barkskins or The Son meets The Road...
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Salt Creek
A stunning debut novel from the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region) and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award.
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Common People
From the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winning author of Ghost River.
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Ghost River
The river is a place of history and secrets. For Ren and Sonny, two unlikely friends, it's a place of freedom and adventure. For a group of storytelling vagrants, it's a refuge. And for the isolated daughter of a cult reverend,...
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Shadowboxing
Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rendered time capsule, it captures a period of decay, turmoil and change...
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Hell Ship
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants -...
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Heroes of the Skies
Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of.
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Fly
During World War II, thousands of young men left offices, farms and classrooms to learn to fly and fight in the greatest conflict the world has ever seen. How do they feel about their dramatic days in the air? What is it they...
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The Forgotten Islands
Bass Strait has over fifty cold, dark islands that are regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited. These islands are rich in atypical Australian history: sealers, lighthouse keepers, aboriginal 'resettlements', and...
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