Clunes Booktown 2022

Bedtime Story
From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker.
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The Watermill
Arnold Zable applies his lyrical sensitivity and respect to this collection highlighting human compassion and resilience
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Seeking Asylum: Our Stories
The voices Australia should hear
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Watsonia: A Writing Life
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale...
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QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults
In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century's most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult.
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This Working Life: How to Navigate Your Career in Uncertain Times
This book will change your working life. Get out of your rut, get real about what you love, and find more meaning and connection in your work and life.
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The Writer Laid Bare
The Writer Laid Bare is a book for everyone who loves the craft of good writing. Be they a voracious reader wanting to know more or an emerging writer themselves
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The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)
A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century.
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Dropbear
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury.
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We’ve Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents
The first major anthology by parents with disabilities
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The Way of Dog
A powerful, inventive, sweet and deeply moving novel from the bestselling author of The Bone Sparrow
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The Song of Lewis Carmichael
A beautiful, illustrated adventure story with a classic feel, about a quiet boy and a talking crow on an extraordinary hot-air balloon ride to the Arctic.
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Writing The Story Of Your Life
In Writing the Story of Your Life, Carmel Bird, author of the classic writing guide Dear Writer, brings you down-to-earth advice, inspirational quotations and suggestions and practical exercises. Clear and easy-to-use, it is an...
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Good Indian Daughter
Good Indian Daughter is a brutally honest yet brilliantly funny memoir for anyone who's ever felt like a let-down.
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The Last Guests
Ever have the feeling you're being watched? A smart, unsettling, unputdownable literary thriller from the award-winning, critically acclaimed writer
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Dark as Last Night
A masterful new story collection from award-winning Indigenous writer Tony Birch
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Only a Monster
Joan Chang-Hunt has no idea she's part monster until she's thrust into a battle between the boy she has a crush on and one of the most ruthless monster families of London. A brilliantly compelling YA fantasy from a dazzling new...
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Aurora’s End (The Aurora Cycle 3)
The squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, best-selling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be the galaxy's last hope for survival.
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The Wanting Monster
A gentle and humorous fable about a tiny monster who causes enormous trouble in one village.
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Full Circle; Power, Hope and the Return of Nature
A visionary book for our wild times
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Owl Who Got Left Behind
A quiet love story about almost overlooking what we do have by longing for what we can’t have.
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Beyond the End of the World: The Other Side of the Sky 2
Compelling and magnetic, this much-anticipated sequel to New York Times bestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner's The Other Side of the Sky has something for every reader: a star-crossed love full of tantalising...
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Rivertime
A gentle and beautiful book about slowing down and growing up, set on Australia's Glenelg River and featuring a ten-year-old boy and his uncle. Ages 8-12.
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Landing with Wings
Miri's been on the move and now she's finding her feet, her freedom, her community and her home, treading lightly all the way.
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When You’re Older
Beautiful, warm and evocative, this stunning picture book reveals an older brother's hopes for the amazing experiences he will share with his new baby brother - when he's older. A triumph of illustration and storytelling.
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How to Tackle Your Dreams
From the award-winning author behind How to Make a Movie in 12 Days and How to Write the Soundtrack to Your Life comes a warm and funny celebration of following your dreams, wherever they lead.
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The Curiosities
With the Curiosities, a whole world of wonders and possibles awaits...
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My Life as a Hashtag
I'd been warned - in French, no less. By a tram-riding, mermaid-swaying, wolf-eaten, peace-sign flipping friend. I knew she wouldn't be happy if I stayed out here by the......
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It’s Not You, It’s Me
A literally life-changing novel about time travel, soulmates and serial killers that asks a very big question: Can you ever change your fate? This is award-winning YA author Gabrielle Williams' most surprising, ambitious and...
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How to Make a Movie in Twelve Days
Twelve days. Five kids. Many special effects. One giant mystery.
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Whisper Songs
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most
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Long Half-life: The Nuclear Industry in Australia
A timely and riveting account of the political, social and scientific complexities of the nuclear industry
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Meet Me at the Intersection
Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability. The focus of the anthology is on Australian life as seen...
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Tiger Daughter
Wen Zhou is determined to create a future for herself that is more satisfying than the life her parents expect her to lead. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter is a wonderfully compelling and authentic Own Voices...
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Courage and Compassion
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On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers
A brilliant essay by one of Australia's most exciting literary talents, which offers new insights into Garner's entire body of work and her life as a writer.
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Smokehouse
A man watches a boy in a playground and pictures him in the grey wooden shed he's turned into a home. A woman's adopted mother dies, reawakening childhood memories and grief. A couple's decision to move to an isolated location may...
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Cafe Scheherazade: Text Classics
A moving tribute to the spirit of survival, Arnold Zable's beloved novel Cafe Scheherazade is now a Text Classic.
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A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories
This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of old and new Australia - and into a very frightening...
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Shirl
A lonely yowie emerges from the bush to attend the Desperate and Dateless Ball. Mysterious creatures descend from the sky to place a ban on footy. A shark named Bruce turns up in the local swimming pool. A fisherman enjoying a...
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Unseen
Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell - the kind of unwell that didn't go away. Doctors couldn't explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. But she could barely function, was...
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This Chicken Life
A heart-warming celebration of chickens and the Australians who love them, featuring striking photography and stories that will move, delight and inspire you.
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The Ethical Investor: How to Quit Toxic Companies and Grow Your Wealth
The essential, practical guide to growing your wealth while making a difference
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The Burning Island
A historic seafaring adventure with a father-daughter twist, from beloved Australian storyteller Jock Serong, in an appealing new format
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The Cane
Nail-biting, atmospheric, and unputdownable, the brilliant new thriller for fans of Wimmera and The Dry.
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The Shifting Landscape
Art dealer Alex Clayton travels to Victoria's Western District to value the McMillan family's collection. At their historic sheep station, she finds an important and previously unknown colonial painting - and a family fraught with...
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In the Clearing
How far would you go to protect your family?
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Smashed Avocado: How I Cracked the Property Market and You Can Too
At thirty, journalist Nicole Haddow had unstable income, no financial plan and only credit-card debt to her name. But less than two years' later she was a home-owner.
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Living on Hope Street
We all love someone. We all fear something. Sometimes they live right next door - or even closer.
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The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
A powerful real-life thriller written with Hooper's trademark lyric detail and nuance, The Arsonist is a reminder that in an age of fire, all of us are gatekeepers.
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A Room Called Earth
A brilliant debut from a neurodivergent author that shows the magical, sensitive world of a woman on the autism spectrum.
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Wedderburn: A True Tale of Blood and Dust
The story of a grisly triple murder in Central Victoria in October 2014 - contemporary Australian true crime at its best.
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Just Murdered: Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
Introducing the fabulous Ms Peregrine Fisher, niece of the famous Phryne Fisher, as seen on 7plus and Acorn tv
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