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Bringing Down the Wall
$13.00 (GST-inc)Joshua misses his grandpa, but his mother has told him he’s not allowed to see him. She won’t explain why, but Joshua suspects it has something to do with his grandpa’s new wife, Riva.
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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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Brothers and Sisters: Coping with Loss and Grief
$16.00 (GST-inc)When a family member dies, often the response of children is overlooked or underestimated. This very important book makes tangible the range of emotions felt but not completely understood by children for the loss of a parent or sibling. It offers welcome channels of response that can help survivors to not only understand their feelings but also come to grips with the loss and get on positively with their lives.
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Cards on the Table
$13.00 (GST-inc)Ranging from quick-fire questions for us to ponder to provocative longer works drawing on classical themes, this highly entertaining collection will surprise and inspire with its wit and honesty.
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Cassowary Hill
$17.00 (GST-inc)After three months of wandering on the other side of the globe, I arrived home one October morning to find that my front door had been kicked in by a large bird. This was my neighbour, who was standing in shattered glass on my doorstep, looking at me in a troubled way with his head on one side…
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Cassowary Hill, NA edition
$17.00 (GST-inc)After three months of wandering on the other side of the globe, I arrived home one October morning to find that my front door had been kicked in by a large bird. This was my neighbour, who was standing in shattered glass on my doorstep, looking at me in a troubled way with his head on one side…
This is the North American edition of the original novel by David de Vaux.
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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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Christina’s Matilda
$13.00 (GST-inc)“Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
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City of Possibilities
$12.00 (GST-inc)In her latest volume, 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.
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Coda for Shirley
$26.00 (GST-inc)Highly Commended in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards! Coda for Shirley is the sardonic yet poignant sequel to Geoff Page’s successful 2006 verse novel, Lawrie & Shirley: The Final Cadenza. The earlier work presented an autumnal romance between an 82 year-old former ‘ladies’ man’ and a 70 year-old widow who attracts his undivided, and unprecedented, loyalty.
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Convent Mermaid
$12.00 (GST-inc)Rod Usher’s third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss.
Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe.
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Creating hope: Working for justice in catastrophic times
$8.00 (GST-inc)In the 2022 Backhouse Lecture, Yarrow Goodley looks at the critical issue of climate justice—at how our responses to the climate emergency have the potential for great suffering, as well as great redemption. In a world where the rich pollute, and the poor suffer, we do not just need to address our rapidly-warming planet, but also the injustices which drive this environmental catastrophe.
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Dandelions for Bhabha
$13.00 (GST-inc)Ranging from satire to meditation to philosophy to the comic, Clara Joseph’s second book of poetry, Dandelions for Bhabha, is an intense engagement with philosophers and literary/cultural theorists and their controversial positions. Her poems reflect on the postmodern condition when “The screaming begins at the wall / when one chick is taken” and “Universal Justice is dragged / to Auschwitz.”
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Dark Husk of Beauty
$25.00 (GST-inc)Andrew Leggett’s second collection is stark, bare and unforgettable. In these interconnecting poems, by equal measure serious and darkly comic, the ugly is united with the beautiful to produce a unique aesthetic.
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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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Das Boot der Träume
$8.00 (GST-inc)The Boat of Dreams is a poignantly beautiful and ultimately comforting picture book about a young child learning to take charge of life after the death of a loved one.
This book received support in the form of a grant from the Australia Council.
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Days Like These
$12.00 (GST-inc)From early poems re-imagining Bible stories to new work influenced by her travels through Asia, award-winning poet Jane Williams’ keen interest in the connections between people pervades.
Days Like These offers readers familiar with her work a treasured collation and to those coming to it for the first time a tantalising introduction.
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Death and the Motorway
$12.00 (GST-inc)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.
Several poems deal with David’s experiences of life in Japan and the tensions between a busy academic life and the urge to create poetry.
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Deep in the Valley of Tea Bowls
$13.00 (GST-inc)What do a poet and a potter have in common?
Isn’t the daily task of working with clay, be it plugging, glazing or trimming pots ready to be fired in the kiln much the same as writing zero drafts in a journal and moulding these entries into poetry for publication?
