Book picks for Apollo Bay Word Fest 2020

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The White Girl

Tony Birch

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.      

$24.99

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Shadowboxing

Tony Birch

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…

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The Forgotten Islands

Michael Veitch

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…

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Fly

Michael Veitch

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…

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Heroes of the Skies

Michael Veitch

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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Wolfe Island

Lucy Treloar

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

Lucy Treloar

A stunning debut novel from the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region) and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award.    

$22.99

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Ghost River

Tony Birch

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…

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Skylarking

Kate Mildenhall

‘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…

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Hell Ship

Michael Veitch

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…

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