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Alice the Kangaroo
$13.00 (GST-inc)What do you get if you cross a hop-challenged kangaroo, a know-it-all galah, a rusty Holden ute and a fearsome bushfire?
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Animal Doctor, Animal Doctor
$13.00 (GST-inc)Heard of a hippo with a sore hip? Or a giraffe with a crick in the neck? Or a monkey with nose-pinching halitosis? Who can come to their rescue? The Animal Doctor, of course!
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Into the World’s Light
$12.00 (GST-inc)This collection explores a wide range of human experiences with understanding and insight. A poem like “Photon” injects the world of particle physics with a human sensibility, while a classically referenced poem such as “Penelope At Dinner” casts a contemporary, if satirical eye, on marriage. Sometimes, in poems such as “No One Told Me I Had A Twin”, a wry humor is present.
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Primary Instinct
$15.00 (GST-inc)In his second novel, satirist David P. Reiter does for the Australian education system what the BBC series Teachers did for the British system.
Like every primary teacher, Cherry Kaufman had her ideals – once. You put in the hours, get the degree and hope your first job isn’t a five hour drive west of Blackbutt. -
Saint Peter V Nero 666
$13.00 (GST-inc)pagan priests proclaimed that Nero was a living god, whilst
hundreds of years after his death the Christian Church branded him as the
Antichrist who would one day return to wreak havoc and destruction upon
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Stepping Over Seasons
$12.00 (GST-inc)Stepping over Seasons 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.
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The Dispossessed
$25.00 (GST-inc)The Dispossessed is a short story collection that shows the many different individuals and groups that make up multicultural Australia. It is full of lively and thought-provoking characters that range from a chatty elderly Aboriginal, to a grandfather who recollects his experiences with an Italian POW, to a Writer in Residence who incites a riot in the small town he is working in.
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The Less Said On Ducks, the Better
$2.00 (GST-inc)This is the tale of the critters who reside behind the locked gates of a Botanical Gardens at night. It’s the first formal offering from author/illustrator War Of The Real.
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The World Cup Baby (2nd ed)
$33.00 (GST-inc)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!
