sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Secrets Beyond the Screen How well does anyone know their family?Anita Jacoby AM is one of Australia’s most distinguished television producers. Now she uncovers one of the most extraordinary stories of all, long hidden within her own family.The father Anita knew had fled... RRP: $32.99 $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Cherry Picker's Daughter This second edition of The Cherry Picker's Daughter is an exquisite portrait of growing up Aboriginal on the fringes of outback towns in NSW in the mid-twentieth century. Its an important book for school libraries and classrooms, with profound insights... RRP: $24.95 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Long Way from No Go This is a memoir of an Aboriginal woman, Tjanara Goreng Goreng, who began life without any of the advantages of her fellow non-Indigenous Australians except for grit, humour and diverse talent in spades. Through one woman's story, this book... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Stellar Atmospheres 'The poems in Sometimes's collection deftly transcend both spatial scales and time scales. From one line to another we careen across the universe. We fast-forward from the first picosecond of stuff forming in the universe to a Christmas card,... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth 'Alex Creece's Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth is a reckless, glorious, grotty revolution. It's an insubordinate 'kissyface of cobwebs' that sticks it to capitalism, heteronormativity and the patriarchy.Quotably horny and delightfully vulgar, Potty... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Entries For Varatharajan, all communication is an art defined by authenticity rather than decadence. These poems do not drink and dial, hey do not hit 'send' too soon. In this manner they are a balm to current hyperactive expectations of social responsiveness... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Stone Grown Cold Gibson's fragmentary style favours standalone single lines or short sentences to exemplify episodic thinking and the discontinuities of broken narrative. He engages cultures in scraps and shards in this savvy and unique collection.Where does it take... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added These Wild Houses Omar Sakr's poetry consists of rich and convincing detail charged with presence and particularity; his poetic voice is so firmly planted and immersed in the world around him that the urgency of his images and rhythms is completely convincing. His complex... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Your Scratch Entourage 'Hemensley reads his poetry in a warm accent of old Hampshire and more recent Dorset overlaid with Melbourne, unconsciously abstracting his past. This book is not a harvest of words but a mapping of fields, and paths, from impressions distilled through... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Broken Teeth They are not just words whistling on the wind. They come laden with other gifts. With a whole place: Melbourne. It makes you wonder what elements must thus congeal to sustain the songs, the poems, across all these pages without once faltering, without... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Hunger and Predation Eh? You want bodies, blood, sex, gore, damning gods, raw uppercuts?Why, yes. Pooja Mittal Biswas welcomes you into the ring of identity and the hunt for an honest and rapier self.Glove up.'Confessional poetry can deteriorate into fetishism, in Biswas's... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Where We Are A collection, written in English and Scots, that explores immigration, home and place.'When I first left my home, the gnawing ache for all I'd left behind family, friends, my land, my whole life made me numb and thrawn. Weeping and sobbing bubblin an... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Singer and Other Poems **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**In this new collection by a seasoned master, Kim Cheng Boey moves between Singapore and Australia, youth and middle age places and times rendered in vivid,... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Secret Third Thing Dan Hogan's Secret Third Thing is a hyper-real comment on this hyper-real moment: it is suffused with internet culture and reections on the lives we live, now, largely online. What characterises Hogan's poetry is the way that, each time we come close to... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Bush Mary 'The only Sundays I looked forward to were spent with my beloved Australian nanna Kathleen Mary McCarthy. I would sit with Nanna McC - listening to her stories unwind - and watch her pickle onions and brew ginger beer for Sister Kate's fte. She... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Slowlier Says O'Keefe about her collection: 'Held under an incorrect adverb, the slowness of this book is expressed as intransigent buffering and refusal of optimisation. The book is shaped by a stubborn commitment to inclusive imprecision which seeks... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Breathing Plural Knig's queer decomposing shows us that our self-composition is more than simply identity. Who we are is part of 'we' as well as 'I'. This is a book you can do things along with: read it in self-isolation, on the bus, during sex, or on a walk, say, by the... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Labour and Other Poems The labour never finishes. Astrid Lorange speaks of building a poetics - intensive and intentional - as a way of perceiving the world of relations in their shadow, every poem here requests an attentiveness to the relations of our lives, to the entwining... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added After the Demolition Philosophical questions of reality and duality underpin many of the poems in Zenobia Frost's After the Demolition, leading to a sense of rebuilding and remembrance in the aftermath of abodes. Frost's poetic is a kind of antipodean neo-Gothic,... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Yuiquimbiang Australians hear the call of Country, but without knowledge of the history and the lives of its animals and plants, that call is confused and loses itself in opal fields and vainglorious stockman's museums. Follow Crisp: not for her the umbrella on the... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Nganajungu Yagu *Shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award 2020*Nganajungu Yagu is dedicated to Papertalk Green's mother, and is built around selected correspondence between Yagu and Daughter. It gently reminds us of the sacrifices made by our matriarchs over time... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Walk Back Over In Walk Back Over, Wiradjuri woman - read: poet, academic, historian, teacher - Jeanine Leane takes off our wallpaper to reveal the personal and political layers of a nuanced history. With Leane, we walk back over history pages, walk back over the night... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added AXIS Z Book 3 In A J Carruthers's new poetry collection, collisions between disparate languages, histories and ideas - each with their own distinct voices - are staged through a visually arresting and innovative approach to form. Drawing on media such as musical... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Madjem Bambandila Madjem Bambandila is a stunning celebration of the artistic and cultural practice of acclaimed Wergaia and Wemba Wemba artist Kelly Koumalatsos.Co-written by Kelly Koumalatsos and Dr Paola Balla and featuring the voices of a broad range of artists,... RRP: $89.99 $87.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Power and the Passion The Power and the Passion highlights the urgent need for the repatriation of ancestral remains, and for the return of all precious cultural material to its rightful owners. Taking the 1985 landmark reburial of ancestral remains in Melbourne's Kings... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Horridus: Journey of a Triceratops Horridus: Journey of a Triceratopschronicles the 67-million-year voyage across deep time of one of the most remarkable fossils ever discovered. From Montana to Melbourne, photography and artwork have been gathered together with meditations from a... RRP: $64.99 $63.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Triceratops: A Natural History Age range: 12+What wasTriceratopsand its world really like?Uncover the story of this iconic dinosaur revealed by the latest scientific discoveries.A comprehensive guide toTriceratopsfrom a renowned expert in the field of palaeontology. Brimming with... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Saving Seal *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Eve Pownall Award*Age range 6 to 9Seal has made his home in the waters of a coastal village, but he often finds himself trapped and ensnared in the plastic rubbish filling the Bay. Fortunately, he is rescued by Lizzie and Grandpa... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Treasures of the Natural World Treasures of the Natural World catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. A collection of some of the most fascinating and rare treasures from the Natural History Museum, London and enriched by the addition of First Peoples' narratives,... RRP: $59.95 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Dragon Lizards of Australia The only title available on Australian Dragon Lizards including the most recent understanding of their origins and life history.Australia's mostly hot dry continent is home to nearly 800 described species and the seven Australian families represent four... RRP: $49.95 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Visions of Colonial Grandeur Visions of Colonial Grandeur explores Melbourne'sinternational exhibitions through the art collection of 19th-century businessmanJohn Twycross. John Twycross, also known as Top Hat, was a merchant and artcollector who lived and worked in 'Marvellous... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia's Inland Sea Step back to a time when Australia's red centre was flooded by a vast shallow ocean, the Eromanga Sea. While dinosaurs stalked the scattered islands that made up the Australian continent, giant marine reptiles ruled the waves. Plesiosaurs and... RRP: $24.95 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Flying Life The flying career of John Robertson Duigan spanned just a decade from 1908 to 1918. 100 years ago he built and successfully flew the first aeroplane made in Australia using only photographs, journal articles and an unreliable textbook as his guides. He... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sponges We might think of sponges as bathroom objects but the real living animals are far more interesting.They come in all shapes and sizes, occur in all oceans of the world, and have amazing lives.Sponges have lived in our oceans for 600 million years. Ancient... RRP: $24.95 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added An Introduction to Marine Life For many people, the first experience of marine environments is amazement at the bewildering variety of life in the oceans. Sea anemones and corals, sea stars and sea urchins, octopuses and squids are just a few marine creatures that we never encounter... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Excellencies of Musick Enter the musical world of Stuart and Georgian Britain, of concert-going, music makers and thinkers, printers and publishers. Written to accompany the upcoming collections-in-focus exhibition at the National Library of Australia, this book invites you... RRP: $17.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
