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The Dark Wet
Giramondo Publishing 2011; US$ 21.95The Dark Wet is the first collection of short stories by Jess Huon. Rich, lyrical and deeply felt, it explores the struggle towards a sense of self and belonging, expressed in three sequences of stories: that of Jed Harp, his lover Danny Hess, and his poet sister Alexandra; of Bell and Oliver, a couple moving between Melbourne and San Francisco; and... more...
Barley Patch
Giramondo Publishing 2009; US$ 22.95Often mentioned as an author in contention for the Nobel Prize, Gerald Murnane is regarded by many as Australias most innovative and important writer of fiction. Barley Patch, Murnanes first new work of fiction in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. Appropriately, the book begins... more...
House of Exile
Giramondo Publishing 2008; US$ 25.95In 1933 the prominent author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger were forced to flee Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in France and later, in great despair, in Los Angeles, where Nelly committed suicide in 1944 and Heinrich died in 1950. Using extensive archival research, interviews with descendants, and published sources,... more...
Look Who's Morphing
Giramondo Publishing 2009; US$ 19.95Tom Chos collection of fictions and fantasies is all about morphing and transformation. Through the shape-shifting, we follow the narrator on his surreal adventures, which include dirty dancing with Johnny Castle, a rambunctious encounter with TVs Dr Phil, a job as Whitney Houstons bodyguard and another as a Muppet, a period in service... more...
The Orphan Gunner
Giramondo Publishing 2007; US$ 23.95The Orphan Gunner is an unconventional romance set in bomber command in Lincolnshire during the Second World War. more...
Carpentaria
Giramondo Publishing 2006; US$ 21.95Alexis Wright is one of Australias finest Aboriginal writers. Carpentaria is her second novel, a soaring epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where her people come. Carpentarias portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, whose members are the... more...
Burning In
Giramondo Publishing 2007; US$ 22.95This is a novel about mothers and daughters, about the way the hidden past plays itself out in the present, and the conflicts between professional commitment and the responsibilities of family life. The story is told by a young woman, Martine, who translates the emotional distance she senses in her mother, Lotte, a holocaust survivor, into a passion... more...
The Garden Book
Giramondo Publishing 2005; US$ 22.95Brian Castros new novel is set in the Dandenong Ranges in the years between the Depression and the Second World War. more...
Original Face
Giramondo Publishing 2005; US$ 22.95The drama begins with a body dumped in south-western Sydney skinned, with no face. Lewis Lin, taxi driver, photographer, recent arrival from Beijing, happens to be at the scene. With detectives Ginger Rogers and Shelley Swert in pursuit, Lin finds himself drawn into a deadly immigration racket, with a cast which includes a film-maker just in... more...
The Idea of Home
Giramondo Publishing 2004; US$ 19.99The Idea of Home is a collection of five autobiographical essays, in which John Hughes reflects on growing up in the Hunter Valley coal-mining town of Cessnock, in a household ruled by memories of the Ukraine, from which his mothers family fled during the Second World War. more...









