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Tracy Ryan
The unknowable is Tracy Ryan’s terrain; these are poems of keen appraisal and survival demonstrating an extraordinary range and held tight by a cohesive vision. Each poem makes clear the…
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Cate Kennedy
Disarming, warm and always accessible, Cate Kennedy’s poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here: compassion, insight, lyrical precision, and the clear, minimalist eye that…
Anh Do,Suzanne Do
The Little Refugee tells of one family’s survival against the odds, and the transforming power of hope.
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John Flanagan
John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger’s Apprentice, creates a world of seafaring adventures, treacherous pirates and epic battles in Brotherband.
John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger’s…
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Luke Davies
The new book of poetry from award-winning poet and novelist, Luke Davies.
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Eileen Harrison,Carolyn Landon
A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years on the Lake Tyers mission to discovery of her talent as a painter.
Jaya Savige
Focuses on such themes as: the archaeological exposure of history, both personal and cultural; the struggle for literal inspiration, in contemporary life, with issues ranging from consumerism to personal grievance…
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Barry Hill,John Wolseley
An explosion of lush images, a collaboration between two distinguished artists - painter John Wolseley and poet Barry Hill - both long fascinated by nature’s beauty and power. This collection…
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Penni Russon
Does the world shape us, or do we shape the world? A suspenseful story of parallel realities - two girls in two worlds with two different ways to survive. ‘Fascinating…
Scot Gardner
Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep. He has dreams he can’t explain, and memories he can’t recover. Death doesn’t scare him - his new job with a funeral director may…
David Milroy
Charlie, Elsa and Fay take you on a musical journey back to 1940s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, White and Black…
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Wayne Macauley
The Cook feeds our hunger to know what goes on in the kitchen, while skewering our culture of food worship.
Geraldine Brooks
Growing up in a small settlement, Bethia Mayfield meets a Wampanoag chieftain’s son, Caleb. The two forge a friendship, and when Bethia’s father decides to educate Caleb, Caleb soon finds…
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Fiona Skyring
From its beginnings in the early 1970s, the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia has been influential in national campaigns to address the legacies of dispossession and human rights abuses…
Kate Constable
A gripping time-slip adventure, in the tradition of Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow.
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Ellen Fontana,Tim Winton
Tim Winton has worked with Ellen Fontana to translate the funny, sprawling saga of Cloudstreet into a brilliantly written TV miniseries.
Twenty years after its publication, Australia’s favourite novel has…
Anna Funder,Anna Funder
An award-winning author delivers an affecting and beautifully evocative debut novel, set in 1930’s Europe and based on a true story, about a group of young German exiles who risk…
