The Burnished Sun by Mirandi Riwoe
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
This stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories, all written by characters who yearn to belong and find acceptance.From the award-winning author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain come these superbly crafted stories that ex ...Show more
Firelight: stories by John Morrissey
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
An imprisoned man with strange visions writes letters to his sister. A controversial business tycoon leaves his daughter a mysterious inheritance. A child is haunted by a green man with a message about the origins of their planet. In this striking collection of stories, the award-winning John Morriss ...Show more
Disposessed - Short Stories by Lansdown, Andrew
27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
With settings ranging from wartime to a women's prison to feral pig territory, coupled with solid, memorable characters of true depth and desire, these stories read out to a wide audience with the grace, wit and wisdom of an introspective storyteller.
All Windows Open: And Other Stories by Hariklia Heristanidis
22.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
All windows open...Chrissie Triantafillou is your average Greek girl growing up in Melbourne in the 1980s. Dark hair, art student, bit of a princess. Other distinguishing features: she has no sense of smell, has been cursed by her mother, and is passionately in love with her cousin George. Hariklia Heri ...Show more
Tom Morison's Golden Christmas - And Other Lost Australian Goldmining Stories by Tanya Dalziell (Editor, Introduction by)
25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Tom Morison is a reluctant freeholder in South Australia and unsuited to farming. But Tom is redeemed when his education in geology and chemistry finally gives the family their best Christmas ever - a 'golden' one. In this and eight other 'lost' stories of goldmining in colonial-era Australia, a colourf ...Show more
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore | Series: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined
For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad-comedian John Clark-and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser o ...Show more
Grief and beauty by Franklin, Annie; Patel, Anita
45.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Grief and Beauty by south coast artist, Annie Franklin, and Canberra-based writer, Anita Patel, arose from the personal experience of the 2019 -20 bushfires. This beautiful limited edition book tells a story (in paintings and poems) of the impact of those fires. It portrays the changes in the forever a ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries by Michael Sims
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly ...Show more
Feldspar by Brendan Ryan
19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Feldspar, the new collection of poetry from Brendan Ryan, is unflinching in its focus on rural landscapes, the treatment of farm animals and the humble lives of people often missing from poetry. There are odes to invigilators, truck drivers, a family member who took to walking, laments for dogs and the ...Show more
Apostles of Anarchy by Sandra Renew
19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
It's the 1970s and 1980s, and Sandra Renew, a young lesbian activist in Far North Queensland, is involved in some of the most politically charged moments in Australian history. From Pine Gap to civil rights marches in Queensland to the first Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and beyond, Apostles of Anarchy ju ...Show more
Reciprocity - A Celebration on the Life of Jean-Paul Delamotte by Ramsland, Marie
39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Jean-Paul Delamotte A.M. (1931-2019) was a French writer and film producer who visited Australia in 1974, and promptly engaged with translating and promoting Australian culture through its films and books. This book celebrating his life, is a mosaic of memories that cover his zeal for a reciprocity betw ...Show more
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
As foot and mouth disease spreads across the hills of Cumbria, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke, Steve Elliman and William Herne, two neighbouring farmers, join forces to reverse their fortunes by rustling livestock from the south. With the struggles of the land never far a ...Show more