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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. '.an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My Mother is both a political and personal collection, angry and tender, propelled by the need to remember, yet brimming with energy and vitality qualities that distinguished her previous, prize-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight. Tributes to country, to her elders, and to the animals and spirits that inhabit the landscape, coupled with the rhythms of mourning and celebration that pulse through the poems, make this a moving and personal collection. Grief is deeply felt and vividly portrayed in poems such as 'Inside My Mother' and 'Lament'. There is defiance and protest in 'Clapsticks' and 'I Tell You True'. In the final section there is a marked generational shift as the elders begin to pass away and the poet as grandmother comes to accept her rightful place as matriarch. Ali Cobby Eckermann awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell writing prize. Read the full article in the The New York Times. '.an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. **Winner, Victorian Premiers Literary Award 2023, Fiction****Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2023****Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award 2023****Shortlisted, ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year****Shortlisted, 2023 BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year****Shortlisted, Prime Minsters Literary Awards, Fiction 2023**The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA). Cold Enough for Snow was unanimously chosen from over 1500 entries.A novel about the relationship between life and art, and between language and the inner world how difficult it is to speak truly, to know and be known by another, and how much power and friction lies in the unsaid, especially between a mother and daughter.A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafes and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while, they talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes and objects; about the mothers family in Hong Kong, and the daughters own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken?Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them.'So calm and clear and deep, I wished it would flow on forever.' Helen Garner'Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how, within its calm simplicity, Jessica Au camouflages incredible power.' Edouard Louis'The quiet intimacy of Jessica Aus novella is beautifully affecting, the unnamed narrators precise travelogue triggering reflections on home, childhood and relationships.It is melancholic and wistful, but Au finds grace and succour in the small act of observing people, places and art.' The Guardian'Aus prose is elegant and measured. In descriptions of bracing clarity she evokes shaking delicate impressions of worlds within worlds that are symbolic of the parts of ourselves we keep hidden and those we choose to lay bare. Put simply, this novel is an intricate and multi-layered work of art a complex and profound meditation on identity, familial bonds and our inability to fully understand ourselves, those we love and the world around us.' Jacqui Davies, Books+Publishing'Cold Enough for Snow is a sensory contemplation of knowledge, performativity, and the integral role of the present in shaping ones past. This book will resonate with solitary bonsai, daughters of mothers, and humans floating backwards through the stories of their lives.' ArtsHub Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Paperback. Minor rubbing and shelfwear to cover, slight sun fade around edge of book pages without obstructing text but otherwise sharp, presentable copy with clean, unmarked pages throughout. Binding is solid.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lostand then what happens? The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgotten even her name, but she remembers with unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known where she loved and was loved. She heads west and into mind-boggling adventures, carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest.The joint winner of The Novel Prize, It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over is a sharp and funny tale for our dispossessed times. Astounding, inventive, and utterly original, Anne de Marcken has written a freakish classic with wisdom to spare about life, death, and the eerily vast space between. I was absolute putty in this books hands. Alexandra KleemanAnne de Marcken must write in a charmed ink that first erases the line between the living and the dead, and then with prose as elegant as it is spooked tells the story of what lies underneath. I have never read anything like this brilliant debut. Sabrina Orah Mark Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Literary Journal. Authors include: Mandy Sayer, James Bradley, Peter Craven, Robert Nelson, John Scott, Bernard Cohen, Elizabeth Allen, Dorothy Porter, Simon West, Sarah Holland-Batt, Ronny Someck.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane's first novel, and in many respects his masterpiece, an unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a Victorian country town in the late 1940s.Clement Killeaton transforms his father's obsession with gambling, his mother's piety, the cruelty of his fellow pupils and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex, into an imagined world centred on horse-racing, played in the dusty backyard of his home, across the landscapes of the district, and the continent of Australia.Out of the child's boredom and fear and fascination, Murnane's lyrical prose opens perspectives charged with yearning and illumination, offering in the process a truly original view of mid-twentieth-century Australia. Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane's first novel, and in many respects his masterpiece, an unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a Victorian country town in the late 1940s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Originally published in 2014, Alexis Wrights classic novel The Swan Book is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy, Wrights first work of fiction since 2014.The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginal people still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute young woman called Oblivia, the victim of gang rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. The Swan Book offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the energy and humour in her writing, which draws freely on myth and legend, finds hope in the bleakest situations.The Swan Book was the winner of the ALS Gold Medal and the Kate Challis RAKA Award, and shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award, Stella Prize, NSW Premiers and Victorian Premiers Literary Awards. This is not myth as Western culture understands it: not an imagined dimension, but a literal if incorporeal one that bisects and animates the physical world; it makes for marvellous theatre. Elizabeth Lowry, London Review of BooksThis is a novel written out of the very thing it describes: sovereignty, the sheer taken-for-granted fact of itThe Swan Book is about the ethics of hope in our post-apocalyptic world. Sydney Morning Herald Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The 2022 recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the late Antigone Kefala was one of the first writers to open Australian fiction to a diversity of voices. She is known for her nuanced and evocative prose style, which portrays the full gamut of the immigrant experience, the fleeing from war, the resettlement in foreign countries, the difficult negotiation of personal relationships, the hauntings of memory and dream. This collection brings together Kefalas three early novellas The First Journey, The Boarding House and The Island, which have long been out of print, and her three later novellas, published together as Summer Visit by Giramondo in 2022. It also includes her childhood fable Alexia: A Tale of Two Cultures and ten short stories, previously only published in literary magazines, dating back to the beginnings of her career at the end of the 1950s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wrights Miles Franklin award-winning novel is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy, Wrights first work of fiction since 2014.Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnights renegade Eastend mob 2007 on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wrights storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce.Carpentaria was the 2007 winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, ALS Gold Medal, Queensland Premiers Literary Award and Victorian Premiers Literary Award. It has been published in the US, UK, France, Italy and China.a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel: stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humour, sweetened by spiralling lyricism and swaggering with the confident promise of a tale dominated by risk, roguery and revelation. The AustralianWright breaks all the rules of grammar and syntax to sweep us along on a great torrent of language that thrills and amazes with its inventiveness and humour and with the sheer power of its storytelling. Its brutal and confronting and its sad and funny at the same time. Sydney Morning Herald Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux's editions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, an event which is likely to get international media attention.This volume brings together Gerald Murnane's shorter works of fiction, most of which have been out of print for the past twenty five years. They include such masterpieces as 'When the Mice Failed to Arrive', 'Stream System', 'First Love', 'Emerald Blue', and 'The Interior of Gaaldine', a story which holds the key to the long break in Murnane's career, and points the way towards his later works, from Barley Patch to Border Districts. Much is made of Murnane's distinctive and elaborate style as a writer, but there is no one to match him in his sensitive portraits of family members parents, uncles and aunts, and particularly children and in his probing of situations which contain anxiety and embarrassment, shame or delight.Gerald Murnane is the author of eleven books of fiction, including Tamarisk Row, Inland, Barley Patch, A History of Books, A Million Windows and Border Districts, and a collection of essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, which have been published by Giramondo. He is a recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Adelaide Festival Literature Award for Innovation and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award.Read The New York Times Magazine profile of Gerald Murnane here'He is without question both the most original and most significant Australian author of the last 50 years, and one of the best writers Australia has produced. This claim will be hotly contested by many and perhaps most Australian critics and readers, but I suspect it will become a commonplace sentiment internationally.' Emmett Stinson, the Guardian Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. **Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026, Poetry****Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2026, Poetry****Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2026, Judith Wright Calanthe Award**KONTRA enacts a poetics of clashing decadences, testing the tightrope between feminine goodness and deviance, desire and refusal, reverence and repulsion. It casts a female gaze on the kontrabida a Filipina soap opera villain stuck in a rise-and-fall cycle. The poet reimagines the kontrabida as a figure driven not by revenge, but by wild desire. Oscillating in and out of character, Andrada navigates the tension between poet and persona. Alongside the shapeshifting, spectral force of the kontrabida, the poet invokes a chorus of voices to trace a lineage of opposition and the alternate futures it holds.The collection is in the form of a narrative triptych. The opening section KONTRA explores the power and fate of the oppositional figure. In OPERA, two characters speak alongside each other to excise painful histories of domination and sexual assault; which moves us forward to the final section BIDA, to a more genuine, queer persona that is free from domination.Praise for Eunice Andrada:Brilliant and devastating, TAKE CARE is no doubt one of the most important poetry releases in years, weaving complex themes with intelligence and innovation of formA poet whose courage is necessary and whose words we all need. Ellen van NeervenTAKE CARE is the live wire of poetry that does not spare useach poem both a surrender and a severing, each page an urgent demand we do not look away from violence, from its banal to its most grotesque, and each word filled with as much purpose and energy as it is with tenderness and care. Sara Saleh New collection by multiple award-winning Filipina-Australian poet Eunice Andrada. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Following his acclaimed exploration of disability in Human Looking, the poems in Andy Jackson's new collection Askew widen the lens, to feel their way into the impairments of our ecologies and our dialogues. How might our world itself be disabled? How can we live together within this reality?These poems use an array of established and invented forms sonnet, pantoum, erasure, prose poem, ghazal, cento and more turning them to unusual effect under the pressure of our collective grief and bewilderment. They face the extinction and climate crises, the distortions of social-media division, the fracturing of solidarity in the wake of the Covid pandemic, and the problems of masculinity, with undaunted tenderness. They express, with an extraordinary intensity, the sense of vulnerability, both as human, and as poetic value.Engaging in aslant conversation with musicians and composers, poets and artists, while reckoning with historical and contemporary thinkers, this is poetry that affirms the value of collaboration and interdependence, with all of its promise and difficulty. Following his acclaimed exploration of disability in Human Looking, the poems in Andy Jackson's new collection Askew widen the lens, to feel their way into the impairments of our ecologies and our dialogues. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

8vo, 359pp, colour illustrations. A near fine paperback copy.

8vo, 105pp. A very good paperback copy.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Hafni says: I dont want to be me.I want to change who I am.I dont know how to change who I am.Hafni says shes getting divorced. To celebrate, she sets out across southern Denmark on a smorrebrod tour, to sample Danish classics, open-faced sandwiches and afternoon teas. A month later, she makes a phone call from a rest stop to the novels narrator a main character from Helle Helles previous novel they to explain how she went wrong, and why a trip that was meant to take a week has ended up consuming an entire month. Her storytelling seems to incarnate how Hafni herself digresses how her past unfolds as one long series of accidents and mishaps, the accumulation of which somehow became the life she is living. Infused with Helle Helles subtlety and dark humour, and brought into English in Martin Aitkens virtuosic translation, Hafni Says explores the desire to be anyone but yourself and what it means to try to make yourself anew.Praise for they by Helle Helle:Helle Helle will enchant readersthe luminous presence she brings to the present tense, the terse transfiguration of the ordinary into poetic strangeness. Sydney Morning Herald Book of the WeekPrecise, controlled and unforgettablea book that begs the reader to slow down and take notice. The GuardianStrangely, wonderfully absorbingSlow your heart, slow your attention span youll be mesmerised. The TelegraphSweetly oriented to a disciplined, detached way of telling, Helle balances glassy brilliance with radiant feeling. The Saturday PaperWhimsical, charming and tremendously movingThe patience of the narrative and steadiness of observation becomes a way of holding onto things, of staying with events that have already happened or are yet to come. ABC Arts Infused with Helle Helles subtlety and dark humour, and brought into English in Martin Aitkens virtuosic translation, Hafni Says explores the desire to be anyone but yourself and what it means to try to make yourself anew. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

paperback. Condizione: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Paperback. Nicholas Jose, Giramondo Publishing Co. NEW WORK BY CELEBRATED NOVELIST AND ESSAYIST NICHOLAS JOSE, SET AGAINST THE TURMOIL OF THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN EAST TIMOR Set in Australia, East Timor and Washington in the lead up to the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999, The Idealist is a novel which explores the entanglement of private and public life. It is a political mystery, the portrait of a marriage, a reflection on friendship, and a study of a personality as it breaks down under pressure. Jake, an Australian defence analyst, is torn between his support for the people of East Timor, whose commitment to independence in the face of mounting violence, he has experienced personally, and his sense of responsibility for, and complicity in, the actions of his government. When he is found dead in the garage of his Washington home, after passing secret intelligence to his American counterpart, his wife Anne wants justice. The narrative is told from changing perspectives, moving through time and memory, in search of what really happened. It is a story, above all, about the formation, necessity and human cost of idealism. Paperback.…

Paperback. Sean Rabin, Giramondo Publishing Co. Michael, an aspiring writer who has recentlyfinished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, LucianClarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past, who lives ina cottage in a village on a mountain outside Hobart which gives the book itstitle, Wood Green . Peopled by anensemble cast, the local publican the single mother who manages the pub'skitchen, the unhappily married couple that runs the corner store, a newcomerfrom Johannesburg with a murky past, a snivelling B&B proprietor and adetermined ex-girlfriend, Wood Green artfully evokes the claustrophobia of small-town life. While Michael believeshe is making a new life for himself, Lucian has other plans. Rabin writes withwit and intelligence and deftly executes an unsuspected plot twist in hisexploration of the perils of literary ambition and the elusive prospect of artisticlegacy. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Sean Rabin has worked asa dishwasher, cook, script reader, copy-editor and journalist. He has lived inIreland, Italy, London and New York, and now resides in Sydney, Australia. Whennot writing, he is reading and listening to music. His short stories have beenpublished in Australia and the United States. Reading Group notes for Wood Green here. Paperback.…

Secondhand, Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: John Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 206 In Someone Else award-winning essayist John Hughes pays homage to twenty one artists, writers and musicians who have had a formative influence on his imagination. From Chekhov and Borges and Beckett, to Proust, Rothko and Cage - each essay brings its subject to life in unexpected ways. Kafka rewrites the parable of Abraham and Isaac, with no one to stay Abraham's knife. Wittgenstein considers the relationship between turtles and time. Bob Dylan stars in a fantasy of travellers and deserts and women with knives and silver earrings. Just around the corner from where Hughes works, Dostoyevsky fries kidneys in the kitchen of his Stanley Street terrace. Like The Idea of Home, Someone Else uses the essay as a form of autobiography. Here, however, the essays are fictions. Or are they? Hughes tells the stories of the figures who live in his mind by making them tell his stories - and in doing so engages in an art of literary ventriloquism. Secondhand, Paperback.…

Paperback. Ali Alizadeh, Giramondo Publishing Co. Jeanne is a young woman from rural France. She's a knight who wears men's clothing. The English call her Joan of Arc. Jeanne has led France to victory in epic battles. She hears ghostly voices and has unspeakable desires. The English want to burn her. Her king has abandoned her. Her heart has been broken. Her heart cannot be burnt. This is her story, and the story of her beloved. Ali Alizadeh's novel The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc is a provocative new portrait of the life of one of history's most fascinating figures. Countless books have been written about the young Frenchwoman who claimed to hear the voices of saints, led the armies of France in the war against England in the Middle Ages, and was captured and burnt for heresy by her enemies. Based on a rigorous study of the historical material, The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc provides the first serious dramatisation of Jeanne's sexuality. Alizadeh uses an innovative storytelling technique that weaves together multiple narrative perspectives to tell the story of a courageous young woman who, driven by a passion for justice and forbidden desire, changes the course of Western history. Reviewed in the The Age here. Read the review in The Australian. Paperback.…