That Summer at Boomerang by Phil Jarratt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The narrative begins in Hawaii, tracing the renaissance of surfing after decades of missionary prohibition, and the rise of the Waikiki beach boys, as tourism begins to transform the pineapple port of Honolulu. That Summer at Boomerang recreates pre-World War I Australia and tells a tale of its loss of ...Show more
Mothers Grimm by Danielle Wood
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
You make deals with God. You make deals with the Devil. You're not fussy. But as a wise man once said: It's the saying you don't care what you get what gets you jiggered. So you say it, and you're jiggered, but what you give birth to is a hedgehog. It's prickly and its cry is a noise so terrible that yo ...Show more
Death Fugue by Sheng Keyi
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Published for the first time in English by Giramondo, Death Fugue is the bold attempt by a prominent Chinese novelist to confront the legacy of protest and suppression which haunts her generation. Sheng Keyi was born in Hunan province in 1973 and lives in Beijing. Death Fugue is her sixth novel, and the ...Show more
Bapo by Nicholas Jose
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Nicholas Jose was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1987 to 1990, at a vital moment in China's history, and has played an important role in artistic relations between the two countries since then. The title of his new collection of stories refers to an unusual kind of Chinese ...Show more
A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
"The house of fiction," wrote Henry James, "has . . . not one window, but a million." In this, his latest work, Gerald Murnane, one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary authors, takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from t ...Show more
Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Internationally published author: the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark. Award winning author. The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres an ...Show more
Thursday's Child by Sonya Hartnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A stunningly original voice in young adult fictionHarper Flute believes that her younger brother Tin, with his uncanny ability to dig, was born to burrow. While their family struggles to survive in a desolate landscape during the Great Depression, the silent and elusive little Tin - "born on a Thursday ...Show more
Evergreen Falls by Kimberley Freeman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
1926: Violet Armstrong is one of the few remaining members of staff working at the grand Evergreen Spa Hotel as it closes down over winter. Only a handful of guests are left, including the heir to a rich grazing family, his sister and her suave suitor. When a snowstorm moves in, the hotel is cut off and ...Show more
Almost Invincible: A Biographical Novel of Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein by Suzanne Burdon
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"She is singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything else she undertakes, almost invincible." Mary Shelley began Frankenstein in 1814, when she was eighteen. By then, she had been living for two years in a scandalous relati ...Show more
Can You Keep a Secret? by Caroline Overington
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"How well do you really know the one you love? With her customary page-turning style and potent themes, this is Caroline Overington at her thought-provoking best. Why do some people decide to get married when everyone around them would seem to agree that marriage, at least for the two people in questio ...Show more
Over the Water by William Lane
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Hauntingly beautiful and told with remarkable clarity, Over the Water is the story of an Australian outsider who finds teaching work in Bandung, a city in Java. Seduced by the sights, sounds, and magic of Indonesia, Joe finds himself unwittingly drawn into the lives of three women. Firstly he rents a ro ...Show more
Stories of Sydney by Alice Grundy
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian
These are stories from lives you dona t often get to see, from authors as varied as the city itself. In collaboration with SWEATSHOP: Western Sydney Literacy Movement, Seizure has been working with emerging writers from these western suburbs we hear so much about a and a few from Seizurea s regular sta ...Show more