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The Norseman's Song
The Norseman’s Song
Joel Deane
RRP: 32.95 (inc. GST)
Pub. Date: 2010

The Norseman’s Song is a stylish blend of gothic mystery and modern crime noir. Evoking the spirit of Joseph Conrad and Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Deane creates a violent and lyrical vision of contemporary Australia with the pace and energy of a road movie and the haunting atmosphere of a nightmare.







Recent Releases

Splints to Silk
Splints to Silk
Author: Frank Walsh
RRP: 39.95 (inc. GST)
Pub. Date: 2010

Splints to Silk is Frank Walsh’s lively and exuberant account of his remarkable life, marked by compassion, generosity of spirit, good humour, and a deep engagement with all those who have shared his journey.


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Torpedo: Greatest Hits
Editor: Chris Flynn
RRP: 27.95 (inc. GST)
Pub. Date: 2010

Torpedo Greatest Hits showcases the best writing from the first three years of Torpedo, Australia’s most innovative fiction quarterly. Featuring the best of a new generation of writers from Australia and around the world, including Steven Amstredam, Toby Litt, Krissy Kneen, Clancy Martin, Josephine Rowe, and Jon Bauer, plus graphics from Oslo Davis, Mandy Ord, and Paul O’Connell.


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The Convalescent
Author: Jessica Anthony
RRP: 29.95 (inc. GST)
Pub. Date: Sep 2010

The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia, USA . . . and also, somehow, the story of 10,000 years of Hungarian history.


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Big Girl Now
Author: Anjum Hasan
RRP: 29.95 (inc. GST)
Pub. Date: Aug 2010

Set in contemporary India, Big Girl Now follows the story of a young woman who moves from a small hill town to Bangalore. This is one of the first Indian novels to explore the situation of a young girl in a big city and to do so in a way that balances cynicism with wit, warmth with uncertainty, existential doubts with the pulls of the everyday world.


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Lunatic In My Head
Author: Anjum Hasan
RRP: 29.95 (inc. GST)
Pub. Date: 2010

Set against the backdrop of a small Indian hill town called Shillong, this title is a beautiful lyrical novel about three lives in limbo. A compelling debut by a major new talent, will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy.


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How a Moth Becomes a Boat
Author: Josephine Rowe
RRP: 16.95 (inc. GST)
Pub. Date: 2010

A father teaches his daughter how to break whiskey bottles. A woman looks for an old lover in a satellite photograph. A man finds the voice of his dead wife on an unlabelled cassette tape. A blind girl dreams about the taste of the moon.