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A Place to Read: Life and Books
$16.00 (GST-inc)Cohen’s subjects in A Place to Read can be as commonplace as golfing with close friends, amateur astronomy, birding, or learning to fly at the age of sixty.
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Adventures at Humminghive: Here We Are!
$13.00 (GST-inc)This fun-filled musical story has been developed for children aged 2-6 years to follow the adventures of the community who live and thrive in Humminghive. Young and old have a “voice” that rejoices in the peacefulness, courtesy and equality that bring tranquillity and harmony. Differences between the various animal and human inhabitants are resolved with confidence, and high self-esteem is fostered between all those who live in Humminghive as one successful society.
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And Other Essays
$16.00 (GST-inc)In this essay collection, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in south Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism.
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Australian Bush Poetry Classics
$25.00 (GST-inc)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.
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Australian Earth Covered & Green Building
$49.50 (GST-inc)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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Black Books Publishing
$17.00 (GST-inc)PhD student Dylan Cashew abandons his thesis on D. H. Lawrence for the uncertain world of top secret aerospace editing, college teaching and then independent publishing.
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Bronco Harry’s Last Ride
$25.00 (GST-inc)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
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Celtic Catalyst
$25.00 (GST-inc)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.
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Celtic Crosswinds
$25.00 (GST-inc)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.
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Dinkum Poetry
$25.00 (GST-inc)Jack Drake presents his brand of humourous Australian bush poems. 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
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Global Cooling
$9.00 (GST-inc)The second in the Project Earth-mend Series of environmentally conscious but enjoyable novels for kids who want to learn about how to save the Earth. After their early success with Project Earth-Mend in Canberra in The Greenhouse Effect, Tiger the Cat bids farewell to his owner, Alexander, and 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.
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Hemingway in Spain Film
$30.00 (GST-inc)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.
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King Hit Audio
$25.00 (GST-inc)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.
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My Planets: a fictive memoir
$15.00 (GST-inc)Winner, 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Digital Narrative.
Imagine this. You’re 50 years old. An only child, from a Jewish family. The people you thought of as your mother and father are dead.
Then, in the middle of the night you get a phone call from the other side of the planet telling you they’ve found your mother. Alive. Your real mother. Suddenly, you become the oldest of seven across two families. All your assumptions about yourself are swept away.
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Nullarbor Song Cycle Film
$20.00 (GST-inc)David P Reiter’s latest film celebrates the beauty of the Nullarbor Plain, a vast semi-arid landscape from South into Western Australia that most people try to cross as quickly as possible, if they bother to drive it at all.
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Paul and Vincent
$6.00 (GST-inc)Based on Gauguin’s reflections of his stormy relationship with Vincent at Arles, France, this audio production brings the personalities of the two artists alive. Based on the extracts from the book Letters We Never Sent by David P. Reiter and the source for the ABC PoeticA production.
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Seen and unseen: a century of stories from Asia and the Pacific
$16.00 (GST-inc)Central to this work is the idea that interactions with people from outside our culture challenge our expectations. Meanings and understandings must often be negotiated in intangible, non-rational and unseen ways. Foucault’s notion of the third space has influenced this work, as has the Balinese belief that reality is an interaction of Sekala (the Seen) and Niskala (the Unseen).
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The Cattledog’s Revenge
$25.00 (GST-inc)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.
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The Greenhouse Effect (2nd ed)
$9.00 (GST-inc)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!
