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Now available for order, exciting new titles by some of Australia's most talented authors, including Libby Hathorn, Hazel Edwards, Edel Wignell, Chris Mansell, Anne Morgan and David P Reiter. IP print titles are available internationally through our partners Lightning Source (Ingrams), CreateSpace (Amazon) and Small Press Distribution. Our eBooks can be ordered from Booku, Overdrive, Amazon (Kindle), iBookstore (Apple) and Kobo (more details below). Or you can order directly from IP: sales@ipoz.biz. |
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Non-fiction: Quakers |
The 2011 James Backhouse lecture is concerned with developing a theological response to the need to adopt more sustainable practices such as permaculture to ensure that all people have a reliable supply of food. |
Paper (76pp): ISBN 9780980325874; AU$15.95 ePub: ISBN 9780980325898 |
Non-fiction: Travel |
Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best Creative Non-Fiction. This inspiring travel memoir is about a man learning to open up to the new culture around him, letting in freedom and happiness. With an honest and natural voice Chris skillfully balances keen observations on Ireland, and historical and cultural details, with a good dose of humour.
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Paper (208pp): ISBN 9781876819729; AU$30 |
Non-fiction: Health |
A former nurse tells it as she saw it: the dedication of medical professionals doing their best for their patients but also the limitations of people who are after all only human. |
Paper (240pp): ISBN 9781921479069; AU$30 |
Non-fiction: Quakers |
Given contemporary attacks on religious faith, the 2008 Backhouse Lecture from the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia asks what are the intellectual resources and sources of spirituality that can sustain us in these times of uncertainty? |
Paper (64pp): ISBN |
Non-fiction: Quakers |
The Young Friends (Quakers) give their views on the key issues facing youth today in an effort to encourage spiritual discovery and deep bonding within and outside the Quaker community. |
Paper (72pp): ISBN |
Non-fiction: Psychology |
Harry Potter Power uses motifs and situations from the popular Harry Potter series and links them to theories and strategies designed to help young people overcome anxiety, anger, depression and grief. |
Paper (259pp): ISBN 9781921479311; AU$33 |
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Highly Commended in the IP Picks Awards for Best Creative Non-fiction, this is an intimate portrait of an individual and a family that recreates the experience of so many people who grapple with a new culture and language, never quite escaping their urge to return to “where they belong.” |
Paper (224pp): ISBN 9781876819750; AU$30 |
Non-fiction: Art |
Artist Dale Kentwell headed for the Outback with two young children and a desire to paint what she saw. Her quirky paintings are set against witty nuggets of text , commenting on themes of motherhood, and the beauty of the Outback. The DVD film has an extended interview with Dale, narrated by her son Jarrah, plus a complete slideshow of the paintings.
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Cloth (32pp): ISBN 9781921479274; AU$25 Film version: ISBN 9781921479403, AU$20 |
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My Planets is in fact a suite of works – a physical book; an enhanced eBook incorporating images, music, sound and video with spoken word and text, a film. Like most of David P Reiter's work, it challenges the boundaries, changing shape with the message, inviting the reader to time-travel on a Tardis of the mind. |
Paper (224pp): ISBN 9781921869556; AU$30 Enhanced CD (eBook + images + music): ISBN 9781921869570; AU$25 |
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Winner IP Picks 2005 Best Non-Fiction. ‘ A wonderful story of ordinary people made extraordinary through events not of their own making, coping with a much loved but always difficult child, and with an unheeding and incredibly unhelpful bureaucratic system.’ – Sharyn Pearce, QUT. Endorsed by SANE, Australia. |
Paper (168pp): ISBN 1876819901; AU$27 |
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Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Fiction Award. Marked by the events of the Great Flood of 1893 and the formation of the first miners’ unions, Over My Dead Body is an Australian epic. |
Paper (228pp): ISBN 9781921479113; AU$30 |
Non-fiction: Business |
This book presents the 20 critical leadership disciplines contemporary leaders must consistently demonstrate to be outstanding and to influence the direction and success of those willing to follow.
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Paper (96pp): ISBN 9781921869624; AU$30 ePub / pdf: ISBN 9781921869631; AU$16 |
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Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-fiction Award |
Paper (210pp): ISBN 9781921479083; AU$30 Enhanced CD (eBook + reading): ISBN 9781921479281; AU$25 |
Non-Fiction |
Gets at the truth still hidden away in Government archives about what happened after the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, from the perspective of those who were forced to work on the Burma Railway and other prisoner of war camps. |
Paper (128pp): ISBN 9781921869198; AU$27 |
Non-fiction: Environment |
The story of a seminal conflict between the forest industry and the conservation movement. Strikes a brilliant balance between artful story telling and objectively woven historical fact. |
Paper (200pp): ISBN 9781876819354; AU$28 |
Non-fiction: History |
An in-depth exposé of the Ultra Right in Australia during World War II, and how their nationalism degenerated into support for German fascism and Japan as well as rabid anti-Semitism. “A valuable reference to anyone working on the Australian Right in the 1930s and 1940s and on issues relating to detention and internment today.” — Dr Andrew Bonnell |
Paper (304pp), with index & bibliography: ISBN 187681991X; AU$27 |
Non-fiction: Memoir |
In this book, self-made multi-millionaire Huang shares his personal and business coaching, property marketing, management, investment and development advice to show you how to potentially create an extra $2-$10 million net equity for yourself and your family. |
Paper (374pp) |
Non-fiction: History |
A history of intrigue and corruption in the 1880s at the highest levels in the celebrated Taranganba Gold Mine and the Sydney Company. An essential text for students of the history of resource development in Australia, exhaustively researched. |
Cloth (600pp) |
World famous actor Sam Neil and rap legend Chuck D rub shoulders with writers like JP Donleavy and Carmel Bird. Physicists, business leaders, publishers, political activists, soldiers, poets, athletes and comic book creators are brought together by their common experience of hitching a ride sometime in the past. |
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Non-fiction: Memoir |
Winner, IP Picks Best Creative Non-Fiction, 2010. Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear… Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searing account of survival in the urban Melbourne scene. |
Paper (248pp): ISBN 9781876819670; |
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An intriguing true story of the role Australia and its intelligence agencies played during the Pacific campaign of World War II. With endnotes, bibliography and index. |
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Non-fiction: History |
During WWII and the years immediately following, several men were seen by the Australian Security Service as the most dangerous men in the Commonwealth. This history book uncovers the facts to invite its readers to make up their own mind. |
Paper (184pp), with index and bibliography: ISBN 9781876819847; |
Non-fiction: Quakers |
Once Quakers quaked; some still do. This book discusses the individual and communal practices of Waiting Worship, using mystical elements to transform our lives, bringing us closer to holy obedience to the Divine. |
Paper (82pp): ISBN |
Available: 15 Feb 2012 |
Winner: IP Picks 2011 Best Creative Non-Fiction. A sweeping account of Irish and Scottish families, The Rag Boiler’s Daughter portrays one woman’s resolve to provide her children with a brighter future. This story follows Maggie Gilliland from her birth in Denny, Scotland in 1865 and spans the factories of 19th Century Scotland, the Irish War of Independence, two world wars and a family’s migration to Australia. |
Paper (156pp): ISBN 9781921869389; AU$30 ePub: ISBN 9781921869396; AU$15 |
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Incisive, punchy, emotional and humorous, this is a story of obsession. An absolute must-read for those people who spend four years of their lives waiting for each World Cup, not to mention those who have to live with them! |
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Non-fiction: Quakers |
Prepared over nearly 10 years, this is the distillation of the thoughts of 1000 Quakers with an interest in spiritual subjects. Includes inspirational writings and personal stories about challenge and opportunity, which reflect on the geography and social history of Australia. |
Cloth (360pp): ISBN 0975157906; Paper: ISBN 0975157914; |
Non-fiction: Speech & Drama |
A guide/workbook to assist speech and drama practitioners and individuals wanting to improve their speech habits and public presentations. It places vocal enrichment back in its rightful balanced position as a path to confident communication, well being and self-realisation in all its aspects. |
Paper (wire binding): ISBN 9781921479052; |
When Nadine Neumann decides that she wants to be an Olympic swimmer at age eight, she trades a normal life of school friends and parties for the rigours of elite sports training. Sweeping from Perth to Germany, India to Sydney, Brisbane to Hong Kong, the reader is invited along this journey of a remarkable young woman who stops at nothing to achieve her goals. |
Paper (292pp): ISBN 9781921479298;
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Poetry |
Phil Brown brings a sharp journalistic eye to subjects ranging from his childhood in Hong Kong to Brisbane. Streetwise and accessible, these are poems confronting everyday experience with insight and enticing wit. “An idiosyncratic and engaging collection of poems that is fresh and wonderfully liberating.” — Ross Fitzgerald |
Paper (84pp): ISBN 187681909X; AU$22 |
Poetry |
Jane Williams, winner of the Anne Elder Award and the D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship, continues to test the boundaries of what poetry can be rather than what many people assume it is. |
Paper (84pp): ISBN 9781921869105; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869112; AU$12 |
Verse Novel
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Coda for Shirley is the sardonic yet poignant sequel to Geoff Page's successful 2006 verse novel, Lawrie & Shirley: The Final Cadenza.
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Paper (96pp): ISBN 9781921869303; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869310; AU$13 |
Poetry |
“A wild ride of angels, monsters, slapstick and pop. In this not so divine comedy actress Isabella Rosselini becomes Leggett’s post-modern Beatrice. A book that begins and ends with angels and recalls the spirit of Yeats’ Crazy Jane.” – Craig Powell. |
Paper (72pp): ISBN 9781921869385; AU$25 |
Poetry
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A long-awaited collection from the much-admired editor of the FourW anthologies, Death and the Motorway traverses intimate and intellectual ground here and abroad with surety and insight. David Gilbey's poetry mines a rich seam of wit—something increasingly rare in Australian verse. – Peter Kirkpatrick |
Paper (104pp): ISBN 9781921869781; AU$25 |
Poetry |
Winner, IP Picks Best Poetry, 2010 designs on the body recalls the rich sensuality merging with spirit of Rumi but with a contemporary take on intimacy. Reeves' poetry has a depth of insight and resonating meaning that rewards reflection. |
Paper (104pp): ISBN 9781921479717; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921479724; AU$12 |
Poetry |
Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes – be they geographical or historical.
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Paper (104pp): ISBN 9781921869426; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869433; AU$13 |
Poetry |
Winner, Anne Elder Award; and Somerset Poetry Prize; Highly Commended, IP Picks Best Poetry, 2006. Resonant and delicate, this is a collection that investigates the human experience, parting the veil of the mundane to reveal passion, beauty, myth and mystery. |
Paper (64pp): ISBN 9781876819361; AU$25 |
Poetry |
Harmonic brings together the strengths of Oliver’s poetic; clarity of thought, compressed, highly original imagery, and rhythmic expression. In this book, Oliver displays a depth of thought, and a range of perception, rarely found in contemporary Australasian poetry. |
Paper (120pp): ISBN 9781876819743; AU$24 |
Poetry |
Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Literary Awards. “The poems stitch you into a tapestry...with loose threads left hanging just to trip you up if you become complacent.” — Bev Braune, Australian Book Review. |
Paper (124pp): ISBN 9781876819828; AU$25 |
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Winner, IP Picks 2006, Best Poetry. Whether addressing issues such as racism, homophobia and terrorism, or turning a wickedly scathing eye on the failings of writers and other misfits, Paul Dawson’s poems are angry and unforgettable. |
Paper (88pp): ISBN 9781876819361; AU$25 |
Poetry |
Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best First Book Award. An impressive first poetry collection traverses time and place with ease. Acute in her ability to juxtapose cultures in a breath, Gleeson is as much at ease adopting a perspective on Tongan women as the wife of the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel. |
Paper (80pp): ISBN 9781921479106; AU$25 |
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With a witty conversational tone and accessible verse, B N Oakman takes on topics ranging from Socio-economic to the personal – the ekphrastic to football – the political to the historical. |
Paper (96pp): ISBN 9781921479410; AU$25 |
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Highly Commended, 2008 IP Picks Best Poetry Award. Accomplished poetry from a veteran poet. Takes us to such diverse destinations as the Abrolhos Islands off WA, a coal mining region, the Hunter, NSW, and a remote New Zealand tidal river valley. This poetry looks at paths of human endeavour and its traps. |
Paper (98pp): ISBN 9781921479090; AU$25 |
Poetry |
Much awaited Selected and New from one of Australia’s most exciting and innovative authors. His imagination resists cultural razor wire by composing without a passport, accepting no subject as off-limits. And this multi-award winning author more often sets the trends these days rather than following them. |
Paper (320pp): ISBN 1876819103; AU$25 |
Poetry |
Reiter extends his experiments with "fusion poetry" to focus on Paul Gauguin, who spent years in Tahiti musing on the fate of artists, especially Vincent Van Gogh, with whom he'd had a stormy relationship at Arles, France. |
Paper (156pp): ISBN 1876819049; AU$22 |
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Landscapes are created and figures emerge from those landscapes to inhabit them. They are meant to grow from inside and surface gradually. The life-force of the poems – the images, impressions, the archetypal moments – are left to sink even deeper into the unconsciousness. |
Paper (86pp): ISBN 9781921479175; AU$25 |
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This collaboration combines the creative talent of an accessible poet and an engaging visual artist. The words evoke pure emotion and the sensitive images are diverse visions of the human form drawn from life. |
Cloth: (40pp): ISBN 9781921479618; AU$33 ePub: ISBN 9781921479625; AU$17 |
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Men Briefly Explained explores all aspects of contemporary manhood, the humourous and not so humourous, where men are in relation to women and to society in general.
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Paper (72pp): ISBN 9781921869327; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869334; AU$13 |
Poetry |
Winner, IP Picks 2003, Best Poetry. “If poems were nails I would want Paul Mitchell to build my house. His poems are straight, simple in design, gleaming with insight – and they’re sharp.” – Kevin Brophy |
Paper (80pp): ISBN 1876819162; AU$23 |
Poetry / Art |
The interplay between the poet's accessible words and the artist's erotic images is tantalising, even titillating, giving rise to a fusion between what is real and what can be imagined. |
Cloth: (40pp): ISBN 9781921479595; AU$30 ePub: ISBN 9781921479601; AU$16 |
Poetry |
“Alive with wisecracks, broad jokes, puns, (‘making his bed out of procrustination’) as it moves through rhetorical high and low styles to portray mood swings between ‘negative optimism’ and cheerful melancholic openness to life.” – Michael Sharkey |
Paper (88pp): ISBN 1876819278; AU$23 |
Poetry |
Rowbotham has continued to write 60 years on, in a confident and lucid voice that transcends single continents and cultures. “Should be nominated for a Patrick White Prize.” – David Gilbey |
Paper (88pp): ISBN 1876819111; AU$22 |
Poetry |
One of the first poetry collections in the world to explore the epic tragedy of the Iraq War. Told from the perspectives of Iraquis and Americans alike, it's a collection that expresses the anxieties and aspirations of all those who resist the dark forces shaking our world. |
Paper (120pp): ISBN 9781921479434; AU$25 |
Poetry |
Commended, IP Picks 2007, Best Poetry. Judge takes the reader through a whirlwind of contradictions and chaos, and then suddenly slows to embrace life’s quieter moments. The effect is powerful, chilling and unforgettable. |
Paper (120pp): ISBN 9781876819712; AU$24 |
Poetry |
Artfully depicts the finer details of life, encapsulating change within people and places as the seasons unfurl. In ‘Overlook’, Capes argues that it’s much easier for great poets to romanticise the world’s most classic cities by poetically and playfully ridiculing his own not-so-romantic Australian hometown. |
Paper (62pp): ISBN 9781921479328; AU$25 |
Poetry |
This collection travels well, from the author's engagement with science as a medical practitioner to her appreciation and penetration of social issues facing contemporary Jews and migrants to Australia. |
Paper (64pp): ISBN 9781921479694; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921479700; AU$12 |
Poetry |
Highly Commended, IP Picks 2007, Best Poetry. Kathy Kituai’s tanka journal steers the reader through joyful and sorrowful meditations on her life between two winters.The journal that emerges is drenched in a deep love of nature, and imbued with a searching, insightful sense of the human condition. |
Paper (88pp): ISBN 9781876819699; AU$24 |
Poetry |
Winner, IP Picks 2006, Best First Book. “Elegant meditations on freedom and entrapment, desire and restriction. They canvass a broad geographical, intellectual and emotional range, and are memorable for their resonant combinations of words.”– Michael Sharkey |
Paper (72pp): ISBN 9781876819385; AU$24 |
Poetry |
Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best Poetry Award. The poems journey from 'artesian memories' of the Australian desert to the 'shifting territory of the gods' in rural Pakistan, as they glide with a wing shift between love, language and faith. |
Paper (72pp): ISBN 9781921479076; AU$25 |
Poetry |
Commended, IP Picks 2006, Best Poetry. “This is a world wonderfully changed by Huisman’s fine observation, playful intelligence and true feeling. Her poetry gives us what we need: it helps us recognise ourselves even as it constantly surprises us. A pleasure to read—and read again.” – Noel Rowe |
Paper (72pp): ISBN 9781876819330; AU$24 |
Poetry |
“These are poems that go beyond the limits of words. By wrestling with the poems in 3rd i, by engaging with them, the world is more intensely lived. This guy is offering us everything. This is heroic poetry.” – John Marsden |
Paper (80pp): ISBN 9781876819323; AU$24 Audio + Text CD: ISBN 9781876819644; AU$25 |
Poetry |
Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2011. Keith Westwater's poetry arises from his appreciation and love of the New Zealand landscape. Well-travelled throughout the land, the poet evokes memories as he revisits places invested with emotion, history and spirituality. |
Paper (92pp): ISBN 9781921869266; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869273; AU$13 |
Poetry |
With heartbreaking clarity, and using grammar as her springboard, Waugh leaps between/into buildings, stops for the death of a bee then soars over a fence and off the page before returning to a Lithgow childhood. Amidst the destruction, dignity and despair of our culpable world this book is a bell. – Les Wicks |
Paper (64pp): ISBN 9781921479243; AU$25 |
Available: 15 Feb 2012 |
A speaker softens the terror of his son observing a sabre-toothed tiger in a museum. Another hears a Siren urging him to jump from Victoria Falls. Join in Duncan Richardson's discovery of ghosts in everyday highrises. |
Paper (120pp): ISBN 9781921869341; AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921869358; AU$13 |
Available: 15 Feb 2012 |
E. A. Gleeson has that rare talent of lifting a moment of intimacy into the realm of universal truth, of capturing |
Paper (70pp): ISBN 9781921869440; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869457; AU$13 |
Available: 15 Feb 2012 |
Johnson’s poetry captures the immediacy of a crisp Rocky Mountains landscape and the moments of intimacy we wish we could freeze-frame. This is a celebration of clean air, snow and sunflowers, and a home divided between two continents, but it’s mostly about the vibrancy and transforming power of love. |
Paper (78pp): ISBN 9781921869662; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869679; AU$13 |
Available: 15 Feb 2012 |
Inspired by the Ern Malley affair, Sound and Bundy takes a new approach to the verse novel format. Presenting the works of four fictional poets in anthology form, it invites readers to draw together disparate accounts and to create their own conclusions as to what “really” happened. |
Paper (106pp): ISBN 9781921869365; AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921869372; AU$13
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Poetry / Sci-Fi |
Prose writers have had it their own way for too long. At last, here is an anthology of poetry from New Zealand that captures the essence of science fiction: aliens, space travel, time travel, the end of the world – as well as concepts you may not previously have thought of as science fiction. |
Paper (184pp): ISBN 9781921479212; AU$26 |
Poetry
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Winner, IP Picks 2011, Best Poetry. Like water spilling over stones, these poems seem to bubble up from the depths. These are luminous reflections on the complex and sometimes fraught relationships between society and the natural world. |
Paper (92pp): ISBN 9781921869280; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869297; AU$13 |
Poetry |
Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best Poetry. O’Flynn’s poems wander between the urban and the rural, childhood and adulthood, the mundane and the bizarre, holding up shards of memory to the light for inspection. Intelligent, searching, poignant, and frank, these poems make for compelling reading. |
Paper (72pp): ISBN 9781876819668; AU$24 |
Poetry / Art |
Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best First Book. The act of painting takes on metaphorical significance as Dean navigates themes of creation and documentation of life through art. What emerges is a sensuously layered and intriguing meditation on the past that offers a sense of connectedness and hope for the future. |
Paper (72pp): ISBN 9781876819675; AU$24 |
Poetry |
Winner, IP Picks 2009, Best Poetry Award. Wings of the Same Bird is an impressive collection grown from the mythological idea linking birds and the human world with divine realms just beyond ordinary experience. |
Paper (76pp): ISBN 9781876819359; AU$25 |
Poetry |
Two of Australia's most accomplished tanka artists collaborate in this bi-lingual (English / Japanese) collection. The poems are sensitive, delicate and varied.
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Paper (132pp): ISBN 9781921869587; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869594; AU$12 |
Poetry |
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is an innovative project continuing and developing the collaborative relationship between two fine poets, juxtaposing tanka in diary form. |
Paper (144pp): ISBN 9781921869082; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921869099; AU$12 |
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Fiction |
Winner, IP Picks 09 Best Fiction Award. Part comedy, part tragedy, part henna-drawn thriller peppered with romance and intrigue, A Beginner’s Guide to Dying in India is a spiritual journey across the continents of the soul. |
Paper (256pp): ISBN 9781921479304; AU$33 |
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Pumping life, the teenagers in this novel jump off the page. From the intelligent but physically abused Gray Morrow, to his heroic but temperamental older brother, Gordon, and his tragic relationship with the city-wise but sexually abused Dusty Jones, this is a world many of us fail to recognise as very much our own. |
Paper (252pp): ISBN 1876819804; |
Winner, IP Picks 2005, Best Fiction. When an author unleashes an imaginative concept into reality trans-global adventures conspire, best friends turn detective, and lovers’ trails unfurl. Will dazzle the adventure-minded and armchair travellers alike. |
Paper (224pp): ISBN 1876819286; |
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Fiction |
Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best Fiction. Sylvia Petter’s collection flings the reader across the globe in its bold exploration of love, death, passion, relationship, and family. Petter’s award-winning stories explore universal themes through lenses of distance and separation. |
Paper (144pp): ISBN 9781876819422; AU$30 |
Fiction |
Christianity and war collide in an Australian context. An enticing work peppered with a glistening sense of magic realism, O’Sullivan’s novel paints lush, dimensional scenes with literary brushstrokes. |
Paper (208pp): ISBN 9781876819408; AU$28 |
Fiction (fantasy) |
Elvene, a solo Space Corps agent, is on a reconnaissance mission when she is ambushed by space marauders: militaristic robotic drones, designed to hunt and kill. She escapes by taking refuge on an uncharted planet, where she discovers the Kiri, an unknown tribe living a subsistence life on an ocean archipelago. |
Paper (256pp): ISBN 9781876819632; AU$33 ePub: ISBN 9781921479649; AU$17 |
Fiction (erotica) |
An extraordinary journey into the psyche of a self-titled Queen, as she moves from immersion in the physical world towards redemption. Not recommended for a young audience due to its graphic sexual content. |
Paper (176pp): ISBN 9781876819380; AU$33 |
Fiction (Romance) |
Simone and Lee Boothby present a façade of normalcy to the world with their fine home and well-paid professions. But beneath it all their marriage is sterile. They drift along until Simone's wild affair with a younger male client, and Lee's steamy liaison with his sexy young assistant. This threatens to tear down their façades and put everything they value at risk. |
Paper (208pp): ISBN 978192149922; AU$30 ePub: ISBN 9781921479939; AU$16 |
Fiction |
A satiric novel from multi-award winner David P Reiter. “We have women afraid to be women, and men afraid to be men. In the midst of all this, children happen, and the noose tightens. The only way to stay sane is to learn to laugh at the absurdity of trying to make sense of it all.” |
Paper (280pp): ISBN 1876819189; AU$25 |
Short Fiction |
Award-winning short story author King provides thought-provoking fantasy cycling through the shadowy landscapes of death, gnarled relationships and the slippery side of human nature. |
Paper (156pp): ISBN 9781921479427; AU$30 ePub: ISBN 9781921479915; AU$16 |
Short Fiction |
Italian translation Filosoficamente acuti e dotati di un gusto per il surreale, i personaggi di questi racconti combattono con l'esistenza e con l'un l'altro mentre profonde domande li fanno volare qua e là. |
Paper (158pp): ISBN 9781921869204; AU$30 ePub: ISBN 9781921869211; AU$16 |
Fiction
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In his second novel, satirist David Reiter does for the Australian education system what the BBC series Teachers did for the British system. A humourous exposé of the school system, with a serious undercurrent. |
Paper (280pp): ISBN 978192149021; AU$30 ePub: ISBN 9781921479540; AU$16 |
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Schadenvale Road is a place that exists in all the secret hearts. In these stories, old women rebel, God is chained but breaks free, lovers accidentally kill each other, friends are saviours and the world is seriously never quite serious. |
Paper (228pp): ISBN 9781921479946; AU$30 ePub: ISBN 9781921479953; AU$16 |
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'Secret Writing, Michael O'Sullivan's third novel, achieves something quite rare in Australian fiction. It ventures into Patrick White's territory, into that strange, visionary 'country of the mind' that White made his own – and survives.' — John Clanchy |
Paper (267pp): ISBN 1876819294; AU$27 |
Fiction |
Shades of Exodus revolves around the true story of a South African family who flee the violence of South Africa only to fall victim to a vicious and bloody crime in Australia. Is paradise always what it seems? And is there ever a way back? |
Paper (296pp): ISBN 9781921869013; AU$33 ePub: ISBN 9781921869020; AU$17 |
Verse Novel + Enhanced Music /Spoken Word CD |
Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2010 Pedro Jones is lost. Abandoned by his father and forced into commission housing with his Filipino immigrant mother, the future seems bleak. But when Pedro meets the 'mad' street busker, Johnny Lazzaro, and gets involved with the East Timor freedom movement, life takes an unexpected detour. James Laidler deftly crafts a cast of vivid characters in this gritty story of self discovery, justice and belonging.
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Paper (332pp): ISBN 9781921479816; AU$30 Enhanced CD (eBook + music): ISBN 9781921479823; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921479830; AU$16 |
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Highly Commended, IP Picks 2007, Best Fiction. Buggerum is the sort of country town everyone drives past without seeing, and that’s exactly how the locals like it. This is a subtle and compelling satiric novel that looks closely into the heart of all Australian towns. |
Paper (160pp): ISBN 9781876819682; AU$30 |
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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 reach out to a wide audience with the grace, wit and wisdom of an introspective storyteller. |
Paper (267pp): ISBN 1876819308; AU$27 |
Fiction |
A contemporary novel about chasing dreams, confronting loss and discovering what's important in life. A must-read for every parent and parent-to-be. |
Paper (160pp): ISBN 9781876819798; AU$30 |
Fiction
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Sailing from Queensland to Melanesia in 1903, 17 year-old Hilda Kofke accompanies her beloved father, Gustave, a government officer on his final ‘labour recruiting’ voyage through the South Seas. Far from the pacifist and champion of Pacific islanders’ rights she believed him to be, Hilda learns that her father was once ‘the butcher of New Guinea’ who believed in the ‘perfect logic’ of the pre-emptive strike. |
Paper (448pp): ISBN 9781921479045; AU$33 |
Short Fiction |
Short-listed for the Steele Rudd Award, Queensland Premier's Awards. Award-winning fiction from the author of Liars and Lovers and Primary Instinct.
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Paper (216pp): ISBN 1876819030; AU$22 |
Science Fiction |
Winner, IP Picks Best Fiction, 2011 Welcome to Yellowcake Springs; a pristine, friendly, secure community of citizens involved in the maintenance of one of Western Australia's CIQ Sinocorp nuclear reactor facilities.
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Paper (184pp): ISBN 9781876819174; |
| YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN | ||
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Picture Book |
About Face is a humorous illustrated children's book about a dream in which ears, eyes, nose and mouth become detached from the narrator's face, taking on lives of their own. |
Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921869129; AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921869136; AU$13 |
Junior Fiction |
Yared stumbles upon a box of old coins in his nanna's bedroom and things begin to change. Worlds open up before him and lives are linked across the decades as Yared discovers truths he never knew about history, love and belonging. |
Paper (208pp): ISBN 9781921479489; AU$17 ePub: ISBN 9781921479731; AU$10 |
Junior Fiction |
Winner, IP Picks Best Junior Prose, 2010. When Arlo and Kate go rock-climbing, the last thing they expect is to be caught up in a vortex and transported through to another universe. The absence of television and junk food is the least of their problems. |
Paper (208pp): ISBN 9781921479656; AU$17 ePub: ISBN 9781921479663; AU$10 |
Junior Non-Fiction |
This book, in Guinness Book of Records style, tells the remarkable true stories of some of Australia’s youngest heroes. At different times and in different ways, these brave, clever, adventurous, creative, athletic, caring or enterprising young Australians have done something amazing. |
Paper (128pp): ISBN 9781921479144; ePub: ISBN 9781921479779; AU$13 |
Picture Book |
'Banjo' Paterson became famous for 'Waltzing Matilda'. But Christina Macpherson's part in the song's creation was forgotten and she disappeared from history until the 1970s. Come a-waltzing with Christina now and discover her story. |
Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479878; AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921479885; AU$13 |
Junior Fiction |
In the first two back-to-back stories in the two book DuckStar Series, a Duck with attitude joins Goat, Sheep and Pig to do a TV commercial to raise funds to save the Children's Farm, in spite of threats from the Cyberfarm and ferals. |
Paper (96pp): ISBN 9781921479267; AU$18 ePub: ISBN 9781921479588; AU$9 |
Picture Book |
German translation |
Paper (32pp) ISBN 9781921479458 AU$18 ePub: ISBN 9781921479762; AU$9 |
Junior Fiction |
Project Earth-mend Series, Book 2. In the sequel to The Greenhouse Effect, Tiger the Cat heads off to the coast with his friend Wanda the Blue-tongue and the frog Tark (who is really an extraterrestrial from the Planet Griffon) to spread the word about how to save the Earth. |
Paper (208pp): ISBN 9781876819767; AU$16 ePub: ISBN 9781921479472; AU$10 |
Junior FictionHedgeburners: an A~Z Mystery |
Who is setting fire to the old cypress hedges? A team of young detectives sets about to solve the crime. Just about everyone these young detectives come across has a motive and as time goes on there are more and more fires and more serious confrontations... |
Paper (184pp) ISBN 9781876819267, AU$17 |
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Jason Chen learns of a strange and powerful machine lurking in his neighbour’s backyard. Mrs Bryant is supposed to be weird, but she buys fish and chips from his parents’ café so he thinks she can’t be too bad. But Mrs B has a secret. And when she says she can’t succeed in her dangerous mission without him, Jason agrees to join her for a ride in her Time Banana. |
Paper (192pp) ISBN 9781921479038 |
Picture Book |
This reminds us of all the books we love, and why we like to see and to feel, to touch and to smell and even to taste the books and the stories that light up our lives. |
Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479892; AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921479908; AU$13 |
Picture Book |
When Hanna and her younger sister Zoe find a duckling with a broken leg in a nearby park, they are determined to nurse it back to health. But after doing so, they realise that an even greater threat to the duckling has appeared: someone wants to develop the park into a shopping centre!
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Cloth (32pp) ISBN 9781921479137 AU$25
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Spanish translation Una noche, Juan escucha un argumento entre su padres acerca de una arma de fuego escondida en su casa. Al día siguiente se propone encontrarla. Efectivamente, Juan descubre una caja bajo la cama de sus padres y ahí encuentra – ¡una arma de fuego! El siente con sus manos el peso y lo fría de ésta… |
Paper (32pp) ISBN 9781921479441 AU$18 ePub: ISBN 9781921479762; AU$9 |
Picture Book |
Clever traps, lucky escapes and unwelcome surprises combine in this fascinating fractured fairytale as a hungry troll is outwitted by fairy tale characters like Goldlilocks, the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs. |
Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479465; AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921869075; AU$13 |
Picture Book |
When Lyli sets out on her expedition, she finds a lot more than she bargained for. Were the legends true all along? And what's really over the mountains? A lively story of friendship, adventure and extending your horizons. |
Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479991; AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921869006; AU$13 |
Picture Book |
Full of rhymes, riddles and objects to search for; these provide the clues for what to search for on each page. So the book becomes a language learning experience as well as an enjoyable read. The book has detailed and humorous full-page colour illustrations that children will revisit time and time again.
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Cloth (32pp) ISBN 9781921479335 |
Junior Fiction |
In the second DuckStar book, the crew perform a version of Aida to save a community church from a apartment development. They tour to the Outback and everything's going well until it starts to rain... |
Paper (84pp): ISBN 9781921479809; AU$18 ePub: ISBN 9781921479861; AU$9 |
Picture Book |
Plato, an eco-warrior, and part-time plumber fixes watery problems like leaking taps, but he also fixes grumpy people with jokes or a smile spray. His tool kit is legendary. Despite ferals along the creek bank, Plato is on call to help Zanzibar and his family who are renovating their old creekside house. |
Cloth (32pp) ISBN 9781921479373 AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921479502; AU$13 |
Picture Book |
Spanish translation Ocasionalmente la familia de Zanzíbar necesita ayuda. Platón siempre los ayuda a pesar de enfrentarse con gatos callejeros los cuales moran en su camino por la orilla del riachuelo. |
Paper (32pp) ISBN 9781921869051 AU$18 ePub: ISBN 9781921869068; AU$9 |
Picture Book |
Jon, like many young boys, is fascinated by guns. He finds a loaded pistol hidden under his parents’ bed, with nearly tragic consequences. The close call prompts his father to explain to Jon why he needs to keep the gun, forging a much closer bond between father and son.
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Cloth (32pp) ISBN 9781876819835 AU$26 Paper (32pp) ISBN 9781876819842 AU$18 ePub: ISBN 9781876819835e; AU$11 |
Picture Book |
German translation Und wenn Sansibars Familie Hilfe benötigt, ist Ted sofort zur Stelle. Trotz der Wildkatzen entlang des Bachufers. |
Paper (32pp) ISBN 9781921869037 AU$18 ePub: ISBN 9781921869044; AU$9 |
Picture Book |
Lily and Amanda Smart are lucky girls. They live in a tall house made of purple bricks, and every day they get to walk to school through a park filled with beautiful trees. Their favourite tree is the Giggle Gum, and they look forward to playing in it.
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Cloth (32pp) ISBN 9781921479182 AU$25 |
Available: 15 Feb 2012 |
When Amber discovers a dusty red bottle in her elderly neighbour’s shed, she knows at once that it’s meant to be hers. Then she meets the strange djinn that lives in the bottle, and is catapulted into an adventure she never imagined. |
Paper (224pp): ISBN 9781921869402; AU$17 ePub: ISBN 9781921869419; AU$8
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Picture Book |
The Sky Dreamer is an achingly beautiful and ultimately comforting picture book about a young child learning to take control of his life after the death of a loved one. This title was supported by the Australia Council in its 2010 Grants round. |
Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479977; AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921479984; AU$13 |
Junior Fiction |
Project Earth-mend Series, Book 1. When Tiger the cat moves to Canberra with his owner, he befriends a local, Wanda the blue-tongued lizard, who is suspicious of introduced species. A delightful children's novel with an environmental conscience! |
Paper (208pp): ISBN 0734406428; ePub: ISBN 9781921479496; AU$10 |
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Winner, IP Picks 09 Best First Book. A creative and well-crafted fantasy story for young adults, and takes the reader on an entertaining ride as it looks at magic curses, good and evil, and the challenges of dealing with the adult world. |
Paper (232pp): ISBN 9781921479397; AU$25 ePub: ISBN 9781921479564; AU$13 |
Junior Fiction |
Project Earth-mend Series, Book 3. Our hero Tiger heads for the Australian Outback with his friends Wanda the Blue-tongue, the magical extraterrestrial Tark and the spaced out crow Syd to spread the word about how to save the Earth. Their guide in search of the mysterious Min Min lights is the retired racing camel, Number 12. | Paper (208pp): ISBN 9781921479748; AU$17 ePub: ISBN 9781921479755; AU$10 |
Non-fiction (YA) |
When Willow Farrington first meets Isaac Silberstein she doesn’t know what to expect. He’s a gnome-like old man who survived a World War II concentration camp, and she’s an almost-14-year-old who’s just back at school after a four-month stay in hospital with an eating disorder. He’s written a recipe and gardening book, and she has to do a talk on it for school. |
Paper (100pp): ISBN 9781921479366 ePub: ISBN 9781921479526; AU$13 |
Picture Book |
What will happen when Zahara reaches the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and tries to see the Queen? Much acclaimed author, Libby Hathorn has told a gentle, celebratory tale, illuminated by the evocative illustrations of Doris Unger. |
Cloth (32pp) ISBN 9781921479236 AU$26 ePub: ISBN 9781921479519; AU$11 |
| CROSSMEDIA (Music, Text + Audio, Interactive Media, Film) | ||
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Music |
Jack performs the classic bush poems of greats like Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson, Will Ogilvie, and C J Dennis. An excellent reference work for schools and to be enjoyed by lovers of bush poetry everywhere. |
Audio CD: ISBN 9780957847767; AU$25 |
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This highly illustrated DVD examines the philosophy and practices behind 'terratecture' and provides key information the reader needs to design, build and live or work in an earth-integrated building, including architectural aspects, site selection and council regulations. Also see The Healthy House.
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DVD, ISBN 9780975680711 AU$49.50
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Bush Poetry / Music
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The third CD from the star of the Tamworth Music Festival’s annual Sex, Lies and Bush Poetry event. “Whoever it was who coined the term ‘A Knockabout Bloke’ may well have had Jack Drake in mind.” – Bruce Simpson |
Audio CD: ISBN 0957847750, AU$25 |
Music |
A skillful blend of Celtic harp, guitar, bass, mandolin, tenor harp, banjo and vocals by Alan S. Ferguson, who breathed Celtic air and music from his youth in Scotland, who now plays in bands in Western Australia, where the meeting of cultural traditions continues. |
Audio CD: ISBN 9781876819880, AU$25 |
Music |
A second volume of Celtic music by Alan S. Ferguson, who breathed Celtic air and music from his youth in Scotland, who now plays in bands in Western Australia, where the meeting of cultural traditions continues. |
Audio CD: ISBN 9781876819897, AU$25 |
Bush Poetry / Music |
Dinkum performance verse from a country Queensland legend. “Whoever it was who coined the term ‘A Knockabout Bloke’ may well have had Jack Drake in mind.” – Bruce Simpson |
Audio CD: ISBN 0957847726, AU$25 |
Film
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In his first film, multi-award winning author David P Reiter makes a time traveller of the legend. Hemingway’s on a quest for his arch-enemy Franco, during the Spanish Civil War, but he also meets up with famous people from the past and future who have shocking things to say about war, love and art. |
DVD-R: ISBN 9781876819866, AU$30 |
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Stephen Oliver’s voice resonates with strength and passion. With the highly original music of Matt Ottley this CD transports us across soundscapes of harmony and disharmony, life and death, peace and violence. |
Enhanced CD: ISBN 9781876819705, AU$25 |
Music |
The latest music CD from Alan Ferguson and Co, based on an impromptu concert at the WA Irish Club, featuring the best of traditional and more recent Celtic music.
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Audio CD: ISBN 9781921479007, AU$25
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Film |
David Reiter's latest film celebrates the beauty and spirituality of one of Australia's iconic landscapes through voices present and past. Based on a poetic song cycle published in The Age Monthly. |
DVD-R (28 min); ISBN 9781921869167; AU$20 |
Crossmedia: Gardening |
The essential reference and research guide for professional and amateur growers of orchids. Over 100 pages of interactive text and 750 colour images about orchid genera worldwide. |
CD-R (168pp): ISBN 0957788606; AU$88 |
Crossmedia Drama |
Gauguin and van Gogh reflect on their stormy relationship at Arles, which may have contributed to Vincent's suicide. A multimedia production based on the sell-out Brisbane live performance and ABC PoeticA production. |
CD-R: ISBN 1876819588; AU$20 |
Crossmedia |
The Best of IP 10th Anniversary Celebration CD, with nearly 400 pages of fiction, poetry, multimedia, podcasts, even a movie trailer from some of the finest authors working in Australia today. |
CD-R: ISBN 1876819651; AU$20 |
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A murder mystery in multimedia! David P Reiter’s second work of literary multimedia begins as a short novel set in Far North Queensland, but your imagination takes you far beyond the immediate page, with links to other works and surprising places. |
CD-R: ISBN 1876819553; AU$25 |
Bush Poetry / Music |
Performance poetry with a bite from the Bush Poet of the Year 2001! His love of words and verse started when his father gave him a copy of Banjo Patterson’s verses when he was 10 years old. |
Audio CD: ISBN 0957847734, AU$25 |
Crossmedia |
Reiter completed this work while in residence at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts. An adaptation of his poetry collection, Letters We Never Sent, it's a ground-breaking work of interactive, literary multimedia that will shed new light on the possibilities for poetry. |
CD-R: ISBN 187681943X, AU$25 |
Architecture |
The definitive guide to creating a safe, healthy and environmentally friendly home. The Healthy House shows that you can put a stop to pollution in your own surroundings, whether you are building a new house, renovating an existing building, or renting. Also see Australian Earth-Covered and Green Building.
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DVD, ISBN 9781876819811 AU$49.50
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Text + Audio |
A brilliant collaboration of words and music between tanka artist Kathy Kituai and composer/musician Nitya Bernard Parker, based on Kathy's book Straggling into Winter. |
CD-R: ISBN 9781921479120, AU$25 |
Digital Publishing
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A hands-on guide into the essentials of composing and publishing for eBooks. The Kit provides advice and instructions on how to set up a file for conversion into ePub, xhtml and pdf formats and then how to upload it to distributors such as Amazon, Apple and Kobo. |
eBook: ISBN 9781921479960; AU$10 |
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