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Not just a ripping yarn, The Drowning Dream, is powerful and intelligent, an engaging novel about fathers, unfulfilled lives and culpability, memory and history. Shortlisted for the Australia Bogel Literary Award

On the surface, Prowler is a story about the anguish of growing up but out of this Marion Campbell creates a profound and at times savagely funny and satirical exploration of the personal hazards of exile and belonging. This is a deeply affecting novel about the erotics of memory, desire and obsession. Prowler confirms Marion Campbell as an inventive, linguistically impressive and politically important writer.

In this powerfully achieved collection, Caddy is in transit: Darwin, China, Japan, Africa, Finland, Sydney and her home territory of Albany, Western Australia. Each location is a starting and staging point in a dynamic exploration of travel, place, relationships and the practice of writing. The author was born in Australia but spent significant periods of her childhood in the USA and Japan. Caddy has published six previous books of poems - inc...

Blue is a collection of interrelated stories, following the lives of a group of young adults over four years of relationships, jobs and big life decisions. Each story focuses on a point of transition for one character, but, cumulatively, the work gains power as a multiview exploration of the thresholds to adulthood.

Being Australian is a stunning collection of photos and anecdotes capturing the Aussie attitude. The reader will travel from the roustabout larrikin humor of a rodeo to the banter of the beach. People from bush and city, coast and desert will all be encountered. This work reflects the human landscape of a harsh, romantic and unique continent.

Seven strange and disturbing stories -- computer-generated collaborations based on pieces by different writers (such as Ginsberg's Howl and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women), are shaken, stirred and transformed by the poet John Tranter. Tranter is a leading modern poet as well as the editor of Jacket, an Internet literary magazine.

Blokes: Stories From Australian Lives is a strong and lively collection of autobiographical stories looking at a variety of blokes' lives in remarkably differing circumstances. The collection draws together some extraordinary pieces which are often moving, sometimes funny and provide a wonderful glimpse into ordinary Australian lives.

Serventy is a naturalist and conservationist extraordinaire. Over the last forty years he has campaigned, lobbied, filmed, written and spoke to preserve some of Australia's wildlife and environments, including Sydney Harbour, Great Barrier Reef, Lake Eyre, Centennial Park, Fraser Island and Lake Peddler. His work has resulted in more than sixty books and more than fifty television documentaries. Serventy has dined on peacock and entertained ro...

Surfing Antarctica is more than a fun action-filled romp through popular culture-it goes deep to the heart of our struggle for love and our eternal thrust to reinvent our own future. Released at a most timely moment - when the environmental movement is pitted against the government in a battle to save the old-growth forests, Surfing Antarctica is bound to attract the attention of all who are environmentally passionate. Underneath all the sexy ...

Sage's Ark is an exquisitely illustrated tale of a young girl's quest to save endangered species. Orphaned and unable to speak, Sage lives with her aunt on a small island, caring for the local wildlife. A gift of magical paint brushes opens up an exciting new world for her, but adventure leads to danger when strangers stumble onto the island.

A rich and lively selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction capturing a variety of childhood experiences in remarkable differing circumstances. Sometimes funny, often moving, yet always entertaining, these stories provide a wonderful glimps into the early life of a range of fascinating Australians. The 15 contributors to this book recount various childhood events that involve parents, siblings, and their cultural environments.

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Author of the highly acclaimed Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia and An All Consuming Passion: Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy, Bill Lines turns his critical gaze to the twentieth-century history of Australia in this forthright and highly committed study. That history, he believes, has been marked by a total disregard for limits, and an arrogant belief in the desirabil...

From the time Brodie meets Jana he can't seem to escape her. Everything in his life changes. Some things for the better, and some things for the worse, the very worst. Manslaughter charges, the psychiatric ward -- it's like a different world. Watersky is an intriguing novel for young adult readers.