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Voyagers
IP (Interactive Publications) 2009; US$ 12.99Prose writers have had it their own way for too long. At last, here is an anthology of poetry from New Zealand that captures the essence of science fiction: aliens, space travel, time travel, the end of the world - as well as concepts you may not previously have thought of as science fiction. more...
Brown Skin Blue
University of Queensland Press 2011; US$ 12.99Barry Mundy has brown skin and a blue birthmark and, at seventeen, those two colours define his life. When he gets a job at the Croc-Jumping cruises on the Adelaide River in the Northern Territory, he carries a list of names of the men who could be his father. They're all dark for different reasons and Barry hungers to know whose blood flows inside... more...
Maisie and the Black Cat Band
IP (Interactive Publications) 2012; US$ 13.00E. A. Gleeson has that rare talent of lifting a moment of intimacy into the realm of universal truth, of capturing instances of recollection and infusing them with emotion and thoughtful language where every word gleams. Maisie and the Black Cat Band is her second award winning book with IP. The first, In Between the Dancing, won the IP Best Poetry... more...
Disturbing Element
Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 11.81Often comic, often tragic, Disturbing Element is the story of an Australian literary legend written in his own classic style. more...
Hammers Over the Anvil
Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 11.81A string of vignettes and short stories of life in a Victorian country township, told in the voice of the author as a boy. more...
Wild Weeds and Windflowers
Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 11.81Katharine Susannah Prichard was a writer of novels internationally acclaimed for their realism and power, a foundation member of the Australian Communist Party, a feminist. Her son, Ric Throssell, has drawn on the memories of a lifetime and a deep and intimate knowledge of his subject in this full and moving account of his mother's life. more...
Blicke auf Auschwitz:
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 21.73Hauptbeschreibung Historische Phänomene altern ebenso wie Zeitzeugen sterben. Und doch: Der Holocaust gibt in nicht nachlassender Intensität noch immer zu denken, zu erzählen, zu schreiben auf. Als Gegenstand der Reflexion mutet er auf merkwürdige Weise zeitlos an, insofern er mehr Fragen als Antworten zu produzieren scheint. Dies vermag jedoch nicht... more...
Hey Diddle-Diddle
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2008; US$ 9.99This charming compilation of 40 of the best-loved traditional nursery rhymes offers clues as to their true meanings and often surprising origins.Many of the catchy songs we grew up with were not nonsense verses for the playground but served as satirical commentaries on political events of the day. These seemingly innocent vehicles were once used to... more...
Holocaust Island
University of Queensland Press 2012; US$ 12.99This dynamic collection of poetry is the inaugural winner of the David Uniapon Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers. Graeme Dixon's ballards speak out on comtemporary and controversial issues, from Black deaths in custody to the struggles of single mothers. Contrasted with these are poems of spirited humour and sharp satire. In ... more...
Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight
University of Queensland Press 2012; US$ 12.99This is a striking debut volume by the winner of the Unaipon prize for unpublished Aboriginal writers. In a voice youthful, passionate and questioning, these poems reflect on growing up and on letting go; on urban dwellers in love and lust; and on the artist and his Murri community. The politics are unguarded and often amusing; and the language is... more...









