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This We Can Say
$25.00 (GST-inc)Prepared over a period of nearly 10 years, this is the distillation of the thoughts of around a thousand Quakers with an interest in spiritual subjects.
The book includes inspirational writings and personal stories about challenge and opportunity, which reflect on the geography and social history of Australia.
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Tiger Takes the Big Apple
$9.00 (GST-inc)Project Earth-mend Series, Book 4. Now in North America to sign up the polar bears, wolves, beavers, bats, eagles and raccoons to the Project, the Crew team up with President Obama and Madonna at the United Nations to head off an almost certain attack by the Abell 2218 starships bent on destroying the Earth before its pollution can spread throughout the solar system and beyond.
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Tiger Tames the Min Min
$9.00 (GST-inc)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.
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Time Lords Remixed: a Dr Who Poetical
$13.00 (GST-inc)Arguably the most literary of science fiction shows, Dr Who has adapted its time lords and cast of companions and alien threats to audiences across the globe for more than 50 years.
In Time Lords Remixed unapologetic Whovian and digital artist David P. Reiter reimagines the voices of time lords, especially Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker, through a poetic and image remix that spans 50 episodes and includes associative internet links that build on his Western Australian Premier’s Award-winning title Timelord Dreaming.
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Timelord Dreaming: tweetems from ward 8b
$13.00 (GST-inc)Winner: 2016 Western Australia Premier’s Award
Timelord Dreaming uses “tweetems”, microtexts with Internet call-outs, to recreate one man’s journey through the parallel universes of patient and personal identity. If you’ve ever been hospitalised, you’ll find much that is familiar — and not always comfortable — here.
Dr David P Reiter won the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Award for My Planets Reunion Memoir. Timelord Dreaming continues his innovative work in the frontier between text and digital media.
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To Hang Out The Washing
$17.00 (GST-inc)To Hang Out the Washing is a remarkable account about World War II by a man whose memories are as vivid today as they were authentically lived more than seventy-five years ago.
The young soldier’s journey begins in Birmingham UK in 1940 during the Battle of Britain and concludes in Germany in 1945.
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Tongues of Ash
$12.00 (GST-inc)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.
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Tools for Hard Conversations in the Helping Professions
$16.01 (GST-inc)Tools For Hard Conversations will help professionals who routinely have hard conversations in the course of their work. It is a guide for how to have these types of conversations, while avoiding the compassion-fatigue and burnout that often comes with these roles. It goes into depth about the philosophies, approaches and practical tools that enable workers to help people more effectively without sacrificing their own well-being.
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Towards a Grammar of Being
$25.00 (GST-inc)“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
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Triangles
$13.00 (GST-inc)An opera singer returns from Europe to find his music teacher’s wife who taught him the meaning of true passion… A teenage girl competing in an Eisteddfod at Port Arthur finds that the brutal historic site and her hostess have more than a few secrets – and ghosts – in common… Migrating north to Queensland, a man finds his lover immersed in more than a change of scene…
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Tripping with Nathan: A Different Love Story
$16.00 (GST-inc)Born with cerebral palsy, Nathan spent his life in a wheelchair, requiring 24/7 care. He and his parents were up against government inertia and entrenched community attitudes that stigmatise the disabled rather than seeing their potential to live life to its fullest. Nevertheless, Nathan and his parents saw the Rolling Stones, visited orangutans in Borneo, travelled to Costa Rica, the USA and Fiji, and went skiing in Falls Creek. He was even given a starring role in the Commonwealth Games as one of the opening ceremony dancers.
This is a story of resilience and determination, with lessons that will help us all understand that people with disabilities have an inalienable right to contribute in the community in which they live.
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Tuning Wordsworth’s Piano
$12.00 (GST-inc)On an unlikely pilgrimage, a cycling tour to find a poet’s unmarked crib, Jane Simpson discovers a landscape at once less Romantic, and more lyrical than the ‘unspoilt Nature’ seen by tourists at scenic spots. Unexpected turns draw the reader into the worlds of goddess religions, pre-contact Māori society and western Christianity; and into the intimate world of family relationships. In the final section, where the sun and stars sing at the marriage of gay people in the Church, Wordsworth’s piano is tuned to the harmony of the spheres.
Tuning Wordsworth’s Piano is Jane Simpson second title from Interactive Press.
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Ultra Soundings
$25.00 (GST-inc)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.
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Unbounded Air: A Collection About Birds and their world
$13.00 (GST-inc)The poems are presented in a loose semblance of order beginning with the signifier poem, Unbounded Air, followed by the shorebird poems noting the urgent need to address their threatened habitat. This environmental theme continues in many of the poems.
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Understanding Molly
$13.00 (GST-inc)‘Imagine being trapped on a swing during a windstorm. Your anger and frustration propels you back and forth. Faster and faster. You want to get off, but you’re not strong enough, big enough or quick enough. Holding on becomes impossible, draining you of any energy you have left.’
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Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand
$13.00 (GST-inc)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.
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Waiting for the Night
$13.00 (GST-inc)Possums high in blossoms…
Dingoes dancing on tiptoes…
Sugar Gliders munching on spiders…
Blue-tongue lizards showering in the flowers…
These are just some of the things
our native creatures do to get
ready for their night time.
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Washing Up in Malta
$18.00 (GST-inc)Washing up in Malta is an intimate story of two women and their relationship with the tiny island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea.
Grace leaves Malta prior to WW2 and marries her Scottish sailor. Her daughter, Jessica, returns after a lifetime of travel. Two different lives reflect a century of turmoil and social change yet mother and daughter share resilience and love in finding their own paths.
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Watching Through the Day
$13.00 (GST-inc)This is the sequel to Julie Thorndyke’s very popular picture book Waiting for the Night
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Water Over Stone
$12.00 (GST-inc)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.
