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Walk Like a Cow: A Memoir by Brendan Ryan
$25.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Australian poet Brendan Ryan speaks about his life in this memoir of "the child, the youth and the young man finding his footing amidst the mysteries of cows and the ruthless cycles of the farm, the dry-eyed melancholy of the milking-shed and the mercy of the weather. Here also are the puzzles of existe ...Show more
Windcatcher: Migration of the Short-Tailed Shearwater (HB) by Diane Jackson Hill; Craig Smith (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Age range 3 to 9 A short-tailed shearwater flies from the edge of the Southern Ocean to the rim of the Arctic Circle – and back – every year. This remarkable 30,000 kilometre journey is driven by seabird law. Instinct and community will guide her. A wingspan the size of a child’s outstretched arms will ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out. Not far from ...Show more
Night-Night, Sleep Tight by Paul Burman
$25.00 AUD
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Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Meg Dapsy's family home has been destroyed in an arson attack. Her mother is dead and her father is missing, but Stella, the younger sister she's always taken care of, has one secret too many... and it involves an old boyfriend. With suspicion falling on a group of militant Animal Rights activists, Meg ...Show more
The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she k ...Show more
The Grease Monkey's Tale by Paul Burman
$25.00 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
For Nic the mechanic 'grease monkey extraordinaire' life is becoming a journey of stories: good, bad, happy and sad. When Siobhan McConnell beautiful, dynamic, but shadowed by secrets - hurtles into his world, Nic's life bounces between tragedy, romance and thriller. Framed for armed robbery, it seems h ...Show more
Do Mutton Birds Have Maps And Other Poems by Ganga Powell
$19.99 AUD
Category: CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Whimsical poems and quirky illustrations make this a charming childrens' book. Simple rhymes make it easy to read them aloud to toddlers. Likewise, young readers can read them on their own and enjoy the funny poems and illustrations that accompany them.
A Wedding Beneath a Banyan Tree - A Rich Tapestry of Family History by Ganga Kumar Powell
$29.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A rich tapestry of family history woven into the history of preindependence India. Ganga Kumar Powell navigates the by-ways and highways of her unconventional family story and the turbulent times, deftly joining the dots. Theosophy, with its subversive message of universal brotherhood, is a part of this ...Show more
Odd Fellows by Richard Walter (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
A collection of poems reflecting the authors response to the natural and cultural history of South Western Victoria, including some social comment and memories of growing up in 1940s and 1950s in country Victoria. The book contains seven black and white linocuts and pen and ink sketches by the author. ...Show more