Offshore : Behind the Wire on Nauru and Manus by Madeline Gleeson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012? This essential book provides a comprehensive and uncompromising overview of the first three years of offshore processing since it recommenced in 2012. It explains why offshore processing was re ...Show more
My Dead Bunny: A Zombie Rabbit Tale by Sigi Cohen
$20.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
My dead bunny's name is Brad; his odour is extremely bad. He visits me when I'm in bed, but Bradley wasn't always dead ..." A hilarious rhyming tale about a zombie bunny who comes back to visit his owner.
Ollie and the Wind by Ronojoy Ghosh
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
"Sometimes the best things appear out of thin air The wind blows all day on Ollie's island. There aren't many people around, but there's lots of space to play. One day the wind steals Ollie's hat. Then it darts away with his scarf. But is the wind just naughty, or is it trying to tell Ollie something? A ...Show more
Meep by Andy Geppert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
When Meep the little peacock gives away all his beautiful feathers to help his friends feel better he learns the real meaning of friendship, generosity and inner beauty.
Puddles are for Jumping by Kylie Dunstan
$25.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
***ON 2016 CBCA Noteable list*** Trees are for climbin' ...Swings are for flying ...And puddles are definitely for jumping! Two little girls skip, swing, jump, climb, hop, bounce, twirl, wriggle and laugh through their day in this delightful celebration of children's play. Kylie Dunstan's lively, vibran ...Show more
Small and Big (HB) by Karen Collum
$25.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
***ON 2016 CBCA Noteable list*** Inspired by Karen's small son's attention to detail, 'Small and Big' celebrates the wonder of the world through the eyes of a child. Small and Big are the best of friends but they have very different personalities. Big is loud and confident and certain that it's the big ...Show more
Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane by Elspeth Muir
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In 2009 Elspeth Muir's youngest brother finished his last university exam and went out with some mates to get drunk. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He put his phone, wallet, T-shirt and thongs on the walkway, climbed over the railing, and jumped thirty metres into the Brisbane River b ...Show more
Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Cory Taylor is one of Australia's celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booker (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Pacific region), and My Beautiful Enemy (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award). At the age of sixty, she is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her ill ...Show more
The Media and the Massacre : Port Arthur 1996-2016 by Sonya Voumard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'Insightful, sensitively written and compelling.' Libby Lester, Head of Journalism, Media and Communications, University of Tasmania 'An unflinching dissection of the relationships between journalists and their subjects - a compelling expos of journalistic culture.' John Dale, author of Huckstepp Sonya ...Show more
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbit, that whined and creaked like a wire pulled too tight.'It is the winter of 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls ...Show more
A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A stunning collection of short stories from the author if In Certain Circles. This collection of short fiction from Elizabeth Harrower features a number of previously unpublished works, and Alice which was published for the first time in The New Yorker in 2015. Internationally acclaimed for her five bri ...Show more
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home - Deborah Levy explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor. It was tucked under my arm and slid out of its black rubber sheath, landing scree ...Show more