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Desert Anzacs: the Under-Told Story
$17.00 (GST-inc)For 100 years, the astounding story of Anzac horsemen, cameleers, aviators, rough riders, medics, vets, light and armoured cars hasn’t been told. Until now.
Championed by Australia’s Lieutenant General Sir Harry Chauvel they overcame early feeble British political and military incompetence. Fast, open conflict, rather than septic trenches, suited their outback upbringing.
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Designs on the Body
$12.00 (GST-inc)Winner, IP Picks Best Poetry, 2010
designs on the body recalls the rich sensuality merging with spirit of Rumi but with a contemporary take on intimacy.
Reeves’ poetry has a depth of insight and resonating meaning that rewards reflection.
Sip it like fine brandy!
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Diamonds and Stones in an Era of Gold
$17.00 (GST-inc)The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and Bendigo in mid-Victoria.
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Die Mauer zu Fall Bringen
$8.00 (GST-inc)Ausgewählt fär die Liste der besten Bächer fär Kinder und Jugendliche, Kanada Kinder Buch Zentrum! Joshua vermisst seinen Opa, aber seine Mutter verbietet ihm, ihn zu besuchen. Sie erklärt nicht warum, aber Joshua vermutet, dass es etwas mit der neuen Frau seines Grossvaters, Riva, zu tun hat.
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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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DISinformation
$13.00 (GST-inc)In this epic birdlife tale, the first of the Woody & Sir Humphrey Series, word is out that Woody the Canary is going to lose his feathers.
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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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Easter at Tobruk
$30.00 (GST-inc)The narrative focuses on two Easters, that of 1941 when Australian troops entered Tobruk in North Africa, and another fifty years later. The main character, Rob, finds himself caught in an improbable time-warp, breathing colour into events and characters too often rendered with historical dispassion.
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Echte Waffen
$8.00 (GST-inc)Eines Nachts hört er zufällig, wie sein Vater und seine Mutter über eine Waffe reden, die im Haus versteckt ist. Am nächsten Tag beginnt er sie zu suchen. Tatsächlich findet er eine schwere Kiste unter dem Bett seiner Eltern, und darin ist sie – eine echte Waffe! Er fühlt das kalte schwere Metall in seinen Händen…
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Edge Music
$12.00 (GST-inc)Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes – be they geographical or historical.
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Eleanor, the Firebrand Queen
$17.00 (GST-inc)Eleanor of Aquitaine is intelligent and beautiful, her immense wealth desired by kings. Her father’s dying wish places the young heiress under the guardianship of King Louis VI of France, who marries her to his monkish son. The pious French Court considers her education and intellect shameful. She is accused of emulating men, regarded as her betters. It is emphasised she is there to breed, look decorative, and keep her eloquent mouth shut.
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Elvene: The Kiri Myth of Ocean Woman
$30.00 (GST-inc)Elvene, a solo Space Corps agent, is on a reconnaissance mission when she is ambushed by space marauders: militaristic robotic drones, designed to hunt and kill.
She escapes by taking refuge on an uncharted planet, where she discovers the Kiri, an unknown tribe living a subsistence life on an ocean archipelago. They have no knowledge of her world nor her of theirs; but they readily adopt her and give her the title of Ocean Woman.
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Even Grimmer Tales: Not for the faint-hearted
$12.00 (GST-inc)Adult fairy tales — not for the faint-hearted, indeed! Valerie Volk has transported and adapted many of the classic Brothers Grimm tales into a modern context, demonstrating that the “real” can sometimes be more bizarre and horrific than the imaginary. With witty prose pieces to set the scene and Leszek Hermanowicz’s clever drawings to enhance the mood, each poem becomes a tour de force, demonstrating how these tales still have relevance today. The Brothers would certainly approve!
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Everyday Prophets
$15.00 (GST-inc)In the 2016 Backhouse Lecture, Margery Post Abbott explores the interplay between faith and action, drawing on her wide range of experiences as a scholar, activist, sailor and Quaker.
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Faith, Hope & Doubt in Times of Uncertainty: Backhouse Lecture 2008
$8.00 (GST-inc)Given contemporary attacks on religious faith, this lecture asks what are the intellectual resources and sources of spirituality that can sustain us in these times of uncertainty?
It suggests that human moral life is a search to understand and implement that true nature of morality. It is centred in love, with the idea of kenosis playing a key role because of its transformational qualities.
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Feeling Blue
$13.00 (GST-inc)Mr. Wren is feeling very blue, so Mrs. Wren decides to find out why.
With Mark Eatwell’s spectacular nature photographs and Trevor Todd’s simple, uncomplicated text, we find out Mr. Wren thinks he doesn’t measure up to other birds. But once his secret is revealed, Mrs. Wren knows just how to cheer him up.
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Finding Our Voice: Backhouse Lecture 2010
$8.00 (GST-inc)The Young Friends (Quakers) give their views on the key issues facing youth today in an effort to encourage spiritual discovery and deep bonding within and outside the Quaker community.
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Flaubert’s Drum
$11.99 (GST-inc)Sugu Pillay’s thought provoking work shifts effortlessly between New Zealand – with a seamless integration of Maori themes – and Asian locales, especially India, but is also informed by classical thinkers and artists. A challenging read, with its allusiveness, but one with rewards for those open to its startling juxtapositions and time warps.
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Frenchmans Cap: Story of a Mountain
$14.99 (GST-inc)Frenchmans Cap tells the story of Australia’s most majestic mountain and ‘one of the world’s great wilderness walks’ – a must for any modern day adventurer in Tasmania.
Named by convicts in Macquarie Harbour’s infamous prison in the 1820s, Frenchmans Cap has captured the public imagination as an icon of freedom, adventure, and terrifying danger.
