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People Of Earth People Of Earth
Author: Christopher Edwards

At a time when bricolage, cut-ups & the general bullying of other people’s words about the page is flourishing in poetry, Edwards’ work stands out as an example of what such agencies can still achieve. Exacting works of (mis)quotaton, ...
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All That I Am All That I Am
Author: Anna Funder
Category:Fiction - General

Two years after Hitler came to power in Germany, the bodies of Dora and her friend Mathilde, prominent anti-Hitler activists in exile, lie poisoned in a flat in Bloomsbury. The room is locked from the inside; the place appears undisturbed.
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All That I am All That I am
Author: Anna Funder
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

"When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was Monday afternoon..." Ruth Becker, defiant and ...
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Five Bells Five Bells
Author: Gail Jones

On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Each of the four is haunted by memories of the past: Ellie is preoccupied by her experiences as a girl, James by a ...
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Foal's Bread Foal's Bread
Author: Gillian Mears

"The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to the part of his heart that understands such things, then he should go for a gallop.
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The Street Sweeper The Street Sweeper
Author: Elliot Perlman

How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away. From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on the ...
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New and Selected Poems New and Selected Poems
Author: Gig Ryan
Category:Language, Literature & ELT - Literature, Criticism & Literary Studies Works - Poetry
Category:Poetry - General

Gig Ryan's poetry is studied widely in secondary schools and universities, and has been anthologised in major collections of Australian poetry. She is considered an important canonical figure in Australian poetry, and in feminist poetry.
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That Deadman Dance That Deadman Dance
Author: Kim Scott
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

In playful, musical prose, this book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. The novel's hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy. Clever, resourceful and eager to please, Bobby ...
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Ransom Ransom
Author: David Malouf
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by grief at the death of his friend Patroclus. From the walls of Troy, King Priam watches the body of his son, Hector, being dragged behind Achilles' chariot. There must be a way, he thinks, ...
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2008  WINNER
The Lost Dog The Lost Dog
Author: Michelle de Kretser
Category:Fiction - General

Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his beloved dog goes missing. What follows is a triumph of storytelling, as The Lost Dog loops back and forth in time to take the reader on a spellbinding ...
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2007  WINNER
Carpentaria Carpentaria
Author: Alexis Wright
Category:Fiction - General

Alexis Wright is one of Australia's finest Aboriginal writers. Carpentaria is her second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where her people come. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled ...
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The Patron Saint of Eels The Patron Saint of Eels
Author: Greg Day
Category:Fiction - General

A contemporary fable, this book shows that when life seems dull and cruel, it is the power of the natural world, and our ability to imagine it, that can bring the wonder back into living. In the village of Stellanuova in southern Italy in the ...
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2005  WINNER
Sixty Lights Sixty Lights
Author: Gail Jones
Category:Fiction - General

Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light ...
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2004  WINNER
Mangroves Mangroves
Author: Laurie Duggan
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Poetry - Anthologies
Category:Poetry - Works by Indvidual Poets

In this new volume, Dugan focuses his camera-like gaze on inner-city Brisbane where the encroaching mangroves line the river suburbs.
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