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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Scott is in shock when his family his father Leo, sister Natalie, the twins and their stepmother Sally move to a rundown old house on the outskirts of town.The garden is a menacing jungle that refuses to be tamed. An ancient gnome in its midst supposedly stands guard against lurking secrets, much to Scott's disgust and Sally's delight.When strange and scary things start occurring and the creatures from the trees begin to invade the house, Scott must face the peril of an unknown force that threatens to turn their world upside down.'Gripping, suspenseful, genuinely scary with an unexpected seam of humour running all the way through.' Susan Green, author of the Verity Sparks series'.a great read for horror fans, especially boys aged 11 and up, and readers who enjoyed Skulduggery Pleasant or Kenneth Oppels The Nest.' Dani Solomon, Books+Publishing'An eery yet at times funny story, this book kept me on the edge of my seat and even had me a little scared. The story of 13 year old Scott, who has recently lost his mum, and is dealing with relocating to a new home with his family. The house has a haunted element about it and Scott tries to grapple with what is happening around him. I loved Soon by Lois Murphy and was curious how she would transfer writing for a younger audience. This book suits a lower secondary readership and is very well written.' Suzie Bull, Farrells Bookshop, Victoria Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Michele Lee describes herself as the 'fence-sitting' middle child in a large Hmong-Australian family. Banana Girl is the explosive and poignant memoir of her rites of passage. Sexy, irreverent and nuanced, Lee isn't afraid to lay herself and her relationships bare. Intimacy in an on-line world, sexual adventures and Gen Y yearnings, turning thirty as an Asian-Australian woman in inner city Melbourne, and the travails of becoming an artist, all capture Lee's riveting gaze. The result is a book that is erotic, witty and revealing, a gutsy true story of self-acceptance that takes hold and won't let go. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When Mark Heyward first went to Indonesia, to teach at asmall school in East Kalimantan, little did he realise how life changing hisdecision would prove to be. Within three years his Australian life would bebehind him and he would be travelling, with fellow adventurers, across remoteIndonesian Borneo. The story of that remarkable expedition a true traveladventure coalesces with the author's longer journey into the complex heartof Indonesia. It is a journey that spans two decades, that takes the readerfrom a treasured childhood in Tasmania to a new life in the world's mostpopulous Muslim nation. Along the way the author travels from one end of thearchipelago to the other, from the jungles of Kalimantan to the riots andpolitical turmoil of Jakarta. When he meets and falls in love with Sopan, hemust make another life changing decision. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A snarling, glittering creation, a funny, yet disturbing story of transformation set in Oatlands, Tasmania. The irrepressible Sally Hunter is turning into a werewolf. As a string of killings takes place we are drawn into her sensual, visceral and highly charged world. The way she embraces her change into a powerful beast challenges us to confront our own lusts and capacities for violence, while the small town setting and the people in Sally's world ring with a disarming truth. Dusk's bone-deep understanding of her characters, and the chilling narrative set in motion a complex fugue of memory and confrontation that builds to a shattering climax. Described as a cross between Catcher in the Rye and Buffy, this is a heady mix of horror and reality. Catcher in the Rye and Buffy , this is a heady mix of horror and reality. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Literary Awards 2022: UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing*Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original and absorbing approach to revisiting Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner as artists and people, as well as a realigning our ideas around the cultural legacy of Whitlam's purchase of Blue Poles in 1973.It is also the story of Alyssa, and a contemporary relationship, in which Angela O'Keeffe immerses us in the essential power of art to change our personal lives and, by turns, a nation.Moving between New York and Australia with fluid ease, Night Blue is intimate and tender, yet surprisingly dramatic. It is a glorious exploration of how art must never be undervalued.'Intimate, sublime, this work shines.' Favel Parrett, author of Past the Shallows and There Was Still Love'Intelligent and poignant, Night Blue traverses the boundaries between language and art in a delicious tour de force. I found it impossible to put down.' Mette Jakobsen, author of What the Light Hides and The Vanishing Act'Miraculous O'Keeffe gets under the skin of a painting we all thought we knew, giving it agency and voice, releasing a spirit that is by turns dreamlike, tender and ruthlessly true.' Michael Fitzgerald, author of The Pacific Room and Pieta Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A unique experience. A novel in spindle sonnets. A drama. An impassioned cry for a beautiful and stolen world under threat. A protester who has been living in a shallow cave in the limestone cliff in front of Bathers Beach under the colonial Round House prison in Fremantle is arrested for demonstrating against the late 80s visit of the nuclear-armed 7th Fleet. In the cells the protester witnesses police violence and threatens to tell what they have seen. An act of declaration becomes entangled with what is happening outside the cells. This haunting incantation looks back before and after these events, to the present day. The sea, the coast around Fremantle, the 'Scarp', all come into play in a work that attempts to decolonise the space, to contest nuclear, military and colonial power without claiming any rights over country.In this verse-paced novel Kinsella never quite uses Audens phrase in The Fall of Rome altogether elsewhere but we sense the priorities and judgement of the natural environment, and of an older world. Coastal birds and dolphins are among his observers, and we too feel the wind and ocean currents fall and rise so that, despite surveillance and silencing, we may also remember and join in bearing witness. Kim ScottA book against laughter and forgetting if ever there was one. Moving, incandescent, quietly devastatingCellnight is contemplative, fiercely elegiac, and a panoramic ode to Whadjuk Noongar country and anti-ode to its settler colonial overlay. As Kendrick Lamar said: the judge make time. So does Kinsella. Declan FryTo open Cellnight is to encounter John Kinsellas cats cradle of a verse novel intersecting threads pulled tight and tense between prison bars, protest signs, booze bottles and warships. Feathered visitors also flit among the narrative fibres, bearing witness to the fists raised over prone and vulnerable bodies in the carceral corners of a swelling port city. Cass Lynch Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. shortlisted for the age book of the year, and long listed for the 2011 Miles Franklin award this is the author's 2nd novel, and there is dark, gorgeously written and emotionally resonant, a tale of family tragedy. First softcover edition. Size: Trade Paperback. 256 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Australia; ISBN: 1921924136. ISBN/EAN: 9781921924132. Inventory No: 0260488.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Pines, an outer Melbourne suburb down on its luck. A country in the grip of recession.Experienced collector Ron senses new possibilities: swift evictions provide hard-rubbish to scour and garage-sales have doubled. There's only one problem: since losing his wife, Ron has struggled to navigate the suburbs alone. Plus, his deteriorating health slows him down.This all changes through a chance meeting with Joseph, a troubled, withdrawn and unemployed 19-year old who knows nothing about antiques. As Joseph comes to understand and appreciate Ron's world of eccentric bargain hunters, and hopefulness, his ability to navigate a history of family violence and to see a future for himself grows. Both come to share the wild dream of finding a rare bargain such as an original Frederick McCubbin painting and making their fortune. So begins an exhilarating adventure and an unlikely and beautiful friendship.Set against the background of the early 1990s, Chasing the McCubbin is funny and sad in equal measure. A story of loneliness and the ageless desire for belonging, it will be the most heartbreaking yet feel-good novel you will read this year.'Truly fine writing with a great sense of characters and place, sympathetic and heartfelt without being sentimental, Scaunich pulls us into a fascinating world of low stakes and petty rivalries.' Graeme Simsion 'Authentic, subtle, evocative and alive.' Kate Ryan Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the Unpublished Manuscript Prize, Tasmanian Premiers Literary Awards Brothers Geo and Wes are testing their relationship now that their parents have passed away. Geo and Wes rarely agree on anything, especially not the sale of the Hobart family home. Geo needs the money to finance his musical career in Italy. For Wes the house represents the memory of their father, and what it means to live an honest, working life. But then a ghost train appears in Hobart, often on the tram tracks that once existed, along with the Swedish man who has been pursuing it for 40 years. Everyone it seems is chasing their dreams. Or are they running from the truth? The Signal Line is a warm-hearted, unforgettable novel about what we are all searching for, even when our personal dreams and aspirations have collapsed: love and acceptance. My favourite kind of book one that lets you see the world differently. It relocates the line between reality and fantasy, letting through an exhilarating strangeness. I felt the unbelievable become entirely natural. I loved every minute of it. Rohan Wilson, author of To Name Those Lost and Daughter of Bad Times Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the TAG Hungerford Manuscript Award 2018**Shortlisted for the International Chaffinch Press Manuscript Award (Ireland)*Chilling to read, cut with powerful energy and strong feeling.T or Timothy lives on the economic margins, both using and selling methamphetamine in Mandurah. When a friend, Gulp, tragically dies and T grows close to Lori-Bird his life promises to become more centred. But he moves between loving and leaving her.This is a lyrical and arresting portrait of characters who crave love but struggle with addiction and the tenuous yet intimate community connections it gives them. The spirit of the Peel landscape informs both Ts identity and the lives of the people he encounters and offers a way out.Intimate with suffering and beauty, T is also at times transcendent. A contemporary novel with the urgency of what Davies Candy, Kerouacs On the Road, and Garners Monkey Grip were to their own times.Confronting and discomfiting, with small moments of redemption T is very much a story for our times. Kate Noske and Richard Rossiter (Hungerford Award Judges).There is nothing else currently being written that is quite as exciting. Its blend of realism, grittiness, pared back lyricism and magical realism is unique and hasnt been seen since the work of a powerful novelist of regional life like Tom Flood. T works the margins, both in terms of place and subject of the culture around meth use, in utterly compelling ways. This story needs to be told. Lucy Dougan, Premiers Award winner and Westerly editor. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Climate change has arrived, and it's not going away. In the absence of effective world action, global warming is certain to continue. The Handbook is not another book about climate change science or politics. Rather it is an intelligent guide, and a potential ground breaker, for all of us who feel helpless in the face of government disagreement, and want to know in a practical way what we can do now.Not only will The Handbook help you prepare for increased droughts, floods, fires and heatwaves, it will provide you with stories and advice from individuals who are already quietly doing amazing things. Jane Rawson and James Whitmore, previously Environment editors for The Conversation, look at how to establish your risk and face your fears; where to live and with whom; and how to survive heat, fire and flood. They investigate ways to provide your own food, power and water, make sure you can still get around, and get rid of your waste and sewage. They talk about new ways to think about home and possessions, the sadness of living through climate change, and how, for both individual and common good, we might positively change the way we live.The Handbook is both practical and philosophical. It can be read cover-to-cover, or dipped into when you need specific advice. It can help you plan and execute a strategy to deal with the effects of climate change. It might change your life. But it should also make you ask, does it really have to be this way? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the spirit of Patti Smith's M Train, Road Series is both love story and elegy. Renowned musician Hugo Race's evocations of Melbourne, Sydney, the USA, Europe and Mali, and the life of a rock musician on the road are revealing, incisive and exquisitely written.'A cerebral "road-poem" of the musician-as-outlier, crossing decades and continents, from the Melbourne punk scene of the early 1980s to quite literally Timbuktu.' Luke Davies, author of Candy and God of Speed'Hugo writes with a unique voice and the insights of one in the middle of the maelstrom.' Mick Harvey Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'Oneof the most exciting narrative historiesto come out of India.' William DalrympleIt was a scandal thatrocked the highest echelons of the British Raj. In 1891, a notorious jewellerand curio dealer from Simla offered to sell the world's largest brilliant-cutdiamond to the fabulously wealthy Nizam of Hyderabad. If the audacious dealsucceeded it would set the merchant up for life. But the transaction wenthorribly wrong. The Nizam accused him of fraud, triggering a sensational trialin the Calcutta High Court that made headlines around the world.The dealer was AlexanderMalcolm Jacob, a man of mysterious origins. After arriving penniless in Bombayin 1865, he became the most famous purveyor of precious stones in princelyIndia, and a confidante of Viceroys and Maharajas. Jacob also excelled in themagical arts. He inspired all those who met him, including Rudyard Kipling whoimmortalised him as Lurgan Sahib, the 'healer of sick pearls', in his novel Kim.Now for the first time,John Zubrzycki, author of The Last Nizam, conveys the page-turningcolour, romance and adventure of Jacob's astonishing life. Starting on thebanks of the Tigris in modern-day Turkey where Jacob was born, Zubrzycki stripsaway the myths and legends. He follows Jacob's journey from the slums ofBombay, to the fabulous court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, from thehedonistic heights of Simla, the summer capital of the Raj, to the CalcuttaHigh Court. This is a story of India, of strange twists and unexpectedoutcomes. Most importantly Zubrzycki enters into and truly captures the spiritof the mysterious Mr Jacob, one of the most enigmatic and charismatic figuresof his time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the authorof Travels with My Angst andAny Guru Will Do, a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing upin Hong Kong in the 1960s.Phil Brown's lifebegins in small town Australia Maitland, NSW to be precise but in 1963 hisfather Ted hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to cash inon a construction boom in the burgeoning colony.Then under Britishrule, the world of Hong Kong is a truly fascinating place for gweilos or foreigners, both a colonialoutpost and a region redolent with all the exoticism and contradictions of theFar East. The Brown's home, in the garden suburb of Kowloon Tong, buzzes withcharacters: the family's amah, Ah Moy, frequent visitors such as theinscrutable Mr Lai, the spy-like Tony Parr, and family members such as UncleCyril. Not to mention the kid from across the road, Michael Hutchence.Combining recentvisits to Hong Kong, where the author explores his childhood touchstones of theKowloon Cricket Club, the beach at Shek O, the Peninsula Hong Kong and the bustlinglanes of Kowloon, with an affectionate yet truly honest portrait of family,self and the 1960s The Kowloon Kid isan intimate and tender gem.'An exquisite loveletter to Hong Kong.' RossFitzgerald Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'It starts to rain as I stepout of my hotel .' So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection ofessays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. Theworks of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, HiromiIto, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and others ignite in him the urge totravel (both physically and in spirit), almost like a pilgrim, to the placeswhere such writers were born or died or wrote. In each essay a new emotionalplane is reached revealing enticing connections. As a novelist, poet, essayistand translator born into a multilingual environment, Jaireth trulyunderstands the power of words across languages and their integral connectionsto life of the body and the spirit. Drawing on years of research, translationand travel Spinoza's Overcoat and its illuminations of loss,mortality and the reverie of writing will linger with readers. 'Eloquent and original, Jaireth's meditationson the lives-of-poets are full of astonishing details, tender connections andthe magnificent melancholy of devotion to words. Encompassing matters oftranslation, love, mortality and homage, this is a rare model of what might becalled "literary philosophy" and an utter joy and surprise for anyoneinterested in the reading and writing life ' GAIL JONES, author of The Death of Noah GlassSubhash Jaireth was born in India. Between 1969 and 1978 he spent nineyears in Russia studying geology and Russian literature. In 1986 he migrated toAustralia. He has published writing in Hindi, English and Russian and his novelAfter Love (Transit Lounge 2012) waspublished in Spain in 2018. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. John Kinsella'smemoir of his rural life takes us deep into the heart of what it means tobelong and unbelong. The joys and travails of childhood, adult addictions,missteps and changing directions are acutely captured in poignant and poeticdetail. While centred on Jam Tree Gully in rural Western Australia, the memoiralso moves between Ohio, Schull and Cambridge, mixing regionalism with an internationalsense of responsibility. What will strike the reader are the detailedobservations of daily life, the engagement with topography and flora and faunathat embody the author's conviction that 'all is in everything and that everyleaf of grass is vital'.In his mostintimate prose work to date, Kinsella never shies from writing about theviolence and intolerance of those scared of difference, and the ways in whichhis ethics have sometimes been met with disdain or outright hostility. But withnuance and humour he also celebrates rural community and its willingness tolend a hand.At once tender, urgent and intelligent, Displaced is ultimately a call to personal action. 'We all have choices to make.' It argues through it vivid accounts of small acts of living for the values of pacifism, veganism, environmentalism and justice for First Nations peoples the principles we just might need to heal our world.'Kinsella's work is magnificent, raw; the words comingtogether in form and shape to evoke the essence of the moment in time he iscreating.' Blue Wolf Reviews 'Kinsella can seeinto the heart of the country, and the evidence of these taut, complex storiesis that what he sees there is both ferocious and unresolved.' The Australian Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the Small Press Network 2021 Book of the Year Award**Shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize*Like fireflies to the light, Mona, Benny and Jimmy are drawn into the elegantly wasted orbit of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk scene of 80s Melbourne, a world that includes Nick Cave and Dodge, a photographer pushing his art to the edge.With precision and richness Kirsten Krauth hauntingly evokes the power of music to infuse our lives, while diving deep into loss, beauty, innocence and agency. Filled with unforgettable characters, the novel is above all about the shapes that love can take and the many ways we express tenderness throughout a lifetime.As it moves between the Blue Mountains and Melbourne, Sydney and Castlemaine, Almost a Mirror reflects on the healing power of creativity and the everyday sacredness of family and friendship in the face of unexpected tragedy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Literary Awards 2022: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction*'The tall trees nearby called them up and red-tailed black cockatoos carried messages to them that they told no one else about.'Pushing Back is John Kinsella's most haunting and timely fiction to date. It is populated with eccentric, compelling characters, drifters, unlikely friendships, the silences of dissolving relationships, haunted dwellings and lonely highways, the ghosts of cleared bushland and the threats of right-wing nationalists and senseless destruction.A couple make love in an abandoned asbestos house, a desperate carpet cleaner beholden to the gig economy begs a financially distressed client not to cancel his booking, an addict cannot bear to see his partner without the watch he once gave her, a mother casts her shearer son's ashes on the property on which he worked, fascists pile into a little red car with the intent of terrorising tourists on the Nullarbor, a man more at home with machinery than people rescues a drowning kitten.Yet throughout this assured distillation of contemporary Australian life, empathy rises like the red- tailed black cockatoos that appear and reappear, nature coalescing with the human spirit, the animals, the trees, the land, the people pushing back. These stories are at once disturbing, tender and hopeful. 'One of the nation's most significant living writers.' Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Australian Book Review Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa, they celebrate the authors own hybridity with breathtaking sensuousness and lyricism.Simbiyu wins a scholarship to study in Australia, but cannot leave behind a world of walking barefoot, orange sun and his longing for a once pillow-soft mother. In his past, a darkness rose from the river, and something nameless and mystical continues to envelop his life. In A Taste of Unguja sweet taarab music, full of want, seeps into a mothers life on the streets of Melbourne as she evokes the powers of her ancestors to seek vengeance on her cursed ex. In the cyberfunk of Unlimited Data Natukunda, a village woman, gives her all for her family in Old Kampala. Other stories explore with power what happens when the water runs dry and who pays, capture the devastating effects on women and children of societies in which men hold all the power, and themes of being, belonging, otherness.Speculative, realistic and even mythological, but always imbued with truth, empathy and Blackness, Danged Black Thing is a literary knockout.Eugen Bacon gives us a cornucopia of dark fruitfulness. Her writing is equal parts fecund earth and fine-cut jewels; her stories juxtapose the scarred and abused with the powerfully magical, the numinous and the deceptively mundane. They travel the known world, remaking all its parts as they go, and they pull new worlds, fully formed, from Bacons unfettered imagination. Margo Lanagan'Lyrical, rich, oftentimes dark and sometimes hopeful, Danged Black Thing is a speculative fiction collection that takes the reader on a journey from Africa to Australia. The cities and villages the stories are set in are sometimes familiar, while others are plucked fully formed from author Eugen Bacons imagination, providing a vast backdrop to her exploration of the emotional costs of being a woman.Where men rule, there will be women who suffer. With the lyricism of Toni Morrison and the worldbuilding of Ken Liu, Bacon secures herself as an important voice in Australian genre fiction. Danged Black Thing is the feminist science fiction debut that brings women and Blackness to the forefront.' Jing Xuan Teo, Books+Publishing Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Set in the near future during a time of plummeting fish stocks, toxic algae blooms and jellyfish swarms The Good Captain follows a group of radical environmentalists committed to a mission of extreme civil disobedience against the powers threatening to destroy the last of the worlds marine life.Led by the wild Rena born and raised by the ocean the characterful crew engages in a high seas drama that contains all the thrill of a cat-and-mouse seafaring classic, while at the same time offering a timely warning for the political classes that their negligence will not go unpunished.Evoking a disturbing vision of what the world that might soon become random, dangerous, surprising and sometimes even miraculous The Good Captain is a gripping, confronting and truly unique novel.If you care about the ocean, about extinction, about deforestation youll find yourself immersed in this novel. With originality and wit, Sean Rabin asks how far is too far? when youre fighting to save the planet. Jane Rawson, author of The History of Dreams and From the Wreck Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Anja is a young, ambitious antiquarian, passionate for the clean and balanced lines of mid-century furniture. She is intent on classifying objects based on emotional response and when her career goes awry, Anja finds herself adrift. Like a close friend, she confesses her intimacies and rage to us with candour, tenderness, and humour.Cast out from the world of antiques, she stumbles upon a beachside cottage that the neighbouring naval base is offering for a 100-year lease. The property is derelict, isolated, and surrounded by scrub. Despite of, or because of, its wildness and solitude, Anja uses the last of the inheritance from her mother to lease the property. Yet a presence human, ghost, other seemingly inhabits the grounds. Hydra is a novel of dark suspense and mental disquiet, struck through with black humour., Adriane Howell beguilingly explores notions of moral culpability, revenge, memory, and narrative all through the female lens of freedom and constraint. She holds us captive to the last page. From the treacherous auction houses of Melbourne to the sun-struck islands of Greece, Hydra took me places I never expected to go. Adriane Howell writes with the dreamy precision of Marguerite Duras, the humour-laced disquiet of Patricia Highsmith. A fever dream of a debut elegant, savage, and delightfully unhinged. Laura Elizabeth Woollett, author of Beautiful Revolutionary and The Newcomer A puzzle box of creeping dread, Hydra had me questioning my own grasp on reality. This is sophisticated, genre-defying literary fiction of the first order. Bram Presser, author of The Book of Dirt Hydra crosses planes; it is superb, distinct, and breathtaking. It surprises, disturbs and enthrals at every turn. Angela Meyer, author of A Superior Spectre and Moon Sugar Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. *Winner of the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award*Black Rock White City is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love. During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan's cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence becoming increasingly malevolent. For Jovan the mysterious words that must be cleaned away dislodge the poetry of the past. He and his wife Suzana were forced to flee Sarajevo and the death of their children.Intensely human, yet majestic in its moral vision, Black Rock White City is an essential story of Australia's suburbs now, of displacement and immediate threat, and the unexpected responses of two refugees as they try to reclaim their dreams. It is a breathtaking roar of energy that explores the immigrant experience with ferocity, beauty and humour.'What impresses first about A.S. Patric's novel is the assuredness of the writing, his accomplished and confident language. But what is most moving is the humanity of his story, the vividness and truth of his characters' emotional worlds. Black Rock White City is a bold, mature and compassionate novel, and I couldn't put it down.' - Christos TsiolkasView Reading Group notes here Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Two women from different worlds in Renaissance France cross paths in a way that changes both their lives.One is Marguerite de Navarre, a Kings sister. Powerful, privileged and widely admired, Marguerite must nonetheless marry where she is told to, regardless of her feelings, and despite the thrilling new ideas of religious reform causing upheaval in France must toe the line for the good of her brothers kingdom. Ever a risk-taker, she does what she can to protect her reformist friends. But she has always loved to write, and when disaster strikes in her personal life, she picks up her pen but some of what she writes will get her into trouble.The other is a cast out, itinerant child who longs to be a printer like her late father. Jehane goes dressed as a male by the name of Josse, at first for safetys sake and then by choice, fending off the risks of being alone, unprotected and born female, poor but trying to live in freedom. Eventually Josse joins a group of printers and publishers in Paris. Despite her suspicion of men, she comes to idolise one among them. But can they be true friends, and can she share her whole self with him?Long before #MeToo, women were telling their unspeakable stories, and these two, both rich and poor, are no exception. They come together in the most unexpected of ways. In The Queens Apprenticeship one of our very best writers brings to fully realised and magnificent life a world of drama and intrigue.An enthralling novel of passion, literature and power, bringing to vivid life the story of Marguerite de Navarre an ardent defender of the arts and in doing so also giving voice to those who were often disregarded in the dramas of the time. Dominique Wilson, author of Orphan Rock and The Yellow Papers Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.