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Arlo and the Vortex Voyage
$8.00 (GST-inc)Winner, IP Picks Best Junior Prose, 2010, Arlo and the Vortex Voyage is a fascinating fantasy. 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.
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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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Blood
$15.00 (GST-inc)It’s 1991. Rob Ross, an ad executive, is suffering a moral crisis in his high rise office when his dead father slips through the window to ask Rob to help film an exposé of the Darwin bombing. Rob finds himself catapulted back to 1942…
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Dark Sky Dreamings: an Inland Skywriters Anthology
$16.01 (GST-inc)When you look up at a midnight sky, what do you see—mottled stars and a full Moon trying hard to compete with the street lamps for your attention? You might be situated in a city, or its sprawling suburbs, where the ever-present urban glow tends to keep your gaze horizontal, missing out on the beckoning mysteries of the Universe.
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DuckStar / Cyberfarm
$8.00 (GST-inc)A two book series of back-to-back stories with delightful illustrations certain to captivate younger readers.
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Earthrunner and The War of Water
$13.00 (GST-inc)Patish and Leeta enjoy an idyllic life in their ancient Indian village — until a battle over diminishing water supply threatens their world. While Patish trains as the warrior he’d never planned to be, duty falls on Leeta to make a perilous journey for the wisdom of the mysterious Purple Sage.
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From Ashes to Ashes
$15.00 (GST-inc)From Ashes to Ashes tells the story of Peter Morrison, son of a school teacher in rural New South Wales. When Peter’s beloved teacher is pushed to enlist in World War II by his father, his boyhood is fractured by trauma and doubt.
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Just Off Message: a 20th Anniversary Anthology
$16.00 (GST-inc)From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices sought an independent publishing house with a global vision and an innovative approach. They found IP.
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More Lies
$13.00 (GST-inc)More Lies is a highly referential comedy thriller about a writer being held hostage in their own apartment and forced to type to hide the manoeuvres of a femme fatale, holding a pearl handled gun, and her brother, a small-time thug with big time ambitions.
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Operatic Duck / Duck on Tour
$17.00 (GST-inc)A two book series of back-to-back stories with delightful illustrations certain to captivate younger readers.
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Over My Dead Body
$30.00 (GST-inc)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; a literary feat exemplifying a writer’s craftsmanship and dedication to bringing history alive. It puts Australia’s current resource-driven prosperity into context by showing the day to day struggles of ordinary workers just trying to get by for themselves and their families at a time when the individual was virtually power-less against the arrogance of his employer, and expendable if work-related illness overtook him.
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Pangea and almost back
$13.00 (GST-inc)In this time-traveling adventure, Freddie O’Toole’s is in search for his real father who has disappeared in a plane crash several years earlier. His guardian sends Freddie on a secret expedition to Timor where Freddie and his crusty manservant, Gruntenguile, are chased by Snapahuti headhunters.
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Past Perfect
$15.00 (GST-inc)Prompted by a brush with mortality, her children approaching adulthood and the relationship with her husband being tested, Sue Spencer embarks on a search for meaning in her life–for a better sense of who she might be.
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Real Guns
$9.00 (GST-inc)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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Secret Writing
$27.00 (GST-inc)Secret Writing takes the reader on a journey through two lives, brought together by the “secret writing” in Albert Namatjira’s paintings. Luis and Pearl are very different, and yet a chance meeting at a hospital on the Costa del Sol ignites a quest for both of them.
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Serpent’s Wake: a Tale for the Bitten
$16.00 (GST-inc)After twelve years trapped in the throat of a serpent, a girl escapes. She returns to her village naked with a monstrous snakeskin trailing behind her. One decision at a time, she reclaims her life. Each character she encounters by land and sea—brute, healer, orphan, mystic, lover—reflects an unhealed aspect of herself and plots her recovery through symbolic milestones. Serpent’s Wake is intended for adults and young adults exploring how, once fractured, we may mend.
It snarls and hisses at categorization, but will etch itself onto the minds and souls of anyone discerning enough to lose themselves
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Shades of Exodus
$15.00 (GST-inc)Shades of Exodus, a novel by Barry Levy, Interactive Press, an imprint of IP (Interactive Publications)
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Speaking in Tongues
$15.00 (GST-inc)Basil Eliades may have travelled this world, but he has seen other worlds within it. In his travel fiction, we see worlds of profound love, of incredible cities, inhabited by shamans, gods, where physics becomes elastic, where time travels uphill and humans are re-formed.
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The Buggerum Intrigue
$25.00 (GST-inc)Set in a fictitious town in regional Victoria, Australia, the novel and the quirky characters it portrays will be familiar to anyone who’s dared to live outside a major city and experience life in the medium to slow lane.
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The Copyart Murders
$17.00 (GST-inc)Blake Knox, a young Australian working on his novel in France, finds himself in a police cell, caught up in a crime that echoes scenes from his own manuscript. As Inspecteur Sauveur pores over the details of the case, the facts ceaselessly point to the author.
