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The Midnight Dress
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99When a teenage girl disappears, a small town is awash with rumors: everyone is talking about the dress she wore, a midnight-blue dress made from the remnants of other dresses: a dress of stories. For her whole life, Rose Lovell has moved from town to town with her alcoholic father. When they wash up in a coastal sugarcane town, Rose wonders if this... more...
Three Crooked Kings
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99Journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive account?a searing story of greed, crime, and corruption?of an era that changed Queensland society; an impact that reverberates across the country to this day. In 1949, a young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, ready to start his career in law enforcement. Over... more...
Kitchen Table Economics & Investing
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99The global economy is likely to get worse before it gets better. We can no longer sit back and expect that our superannuation or pension programs will see us comfortably through retirement. Unless we take an interest in how much we are putting aside and how our money is being invested ? and the earlier in our working lives the better ? there is a good... more...
Letters to the End of Love
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99With the readability of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the literary grace of Colm Tóibin, this brilliant debut novel satisfies on all levels. Three stories, three secrets, three marriages. In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist wife write letters to one another as they try to come... more...
Cry Blue Murder
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 8.99Celia and Alice share everything ? their secrets, their hopes and now their increasing horror that a killer is on the loose, abducting schoolgirls just like them. Three bodies have been found, each shrouded in hand-woven fabric. From within the depths of a police investigation, clues start to emerge. As Alice and Celia discover the truth, danger is... more...
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99This is an extraordinary story of courage and faith. It is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy deemed these girls were taken from their kin and their land in order to be made white. Never... more...
The Chiefs' Country
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 17.99In this autobiographical account of life in Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa?ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town, managing marriage exchanges, and sustaining ties with a distant rural homeland in Malaita island. He also participates in a long tradition of political activism by community leaders or chiefs, whose... more...
Heartless
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99It can take just minutes to lose love, but a whole lifetime to find it again. At 7, she discovers that love isn?t necessarily forever. At 21, she finds love but it escapes her. At 35, she learns that love can be dangerous. By 49, she realises that the greatest love of all comes from the heart. As her life?s milestones come and go, you will... more...
Destroying The Joint
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99Early in September 2012, commentator Alan Jones, responding to a comment by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, said: ?She [Gillard] said that we know societies only reach their full potential if women are politically participating. Women are destroying the joint ? Christine Nixon in Melbourne, Clover Moore here. Honestly.? The twitterverse exploded with... more...
God's Gentlemen
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 17.99David Hilliard?s God?s Gentlemen, originally published in 1978, remains the only detached and detailed historical analysis of the work of the Melanesian Mission. Starting with its New Zealand beginnings and its Norfolk Island years (1867?1920), the work follows the Mission?s shift of headquarters to the Solomon Islands and on until the beginning of... more...









