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Editor: Sharon Rundle & Meenakshi Bharat
RRP: 24.95 (inc. GST)
Pub. Date: 2012-05

Tales Of Refugees And Asylum Seekers From Australia And The Indian Subcontinent
Contibutors: Deepa Agarwal, Jamil Ahmad, Ali Alizadeh, Meenakshi Bharat, Michelle Cahill, Susanne Gervay, Amitav Ghosh, Adbul Karim Hekmat, Linda Jaivin, Tabish Khair, Anu Kumar, Andrew Y M Kwong, Julia Mackay-Koelen, Sophie Masson, Joginder Paul, Sharon Rundle, Sujata Sankranti, Bijoya Sawian and Arnold Zable


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Author: Mridula Koshy
RRP: 24.95 (inc. GST)
Pub. Date: 2011-09

‘In brooding, other-worldly prose, Mridula Koshy tells us the stories other writers overlook, or do not wish to tell … If It Is Sweet is a book of savage, beautiful writing, whose empathy and curiosity flood over the usual barricades of the imagination’. — Rana Dasgupta, Winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize


The Norseman's Song

Author: 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.


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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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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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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    • Alien Shoresalien-shores-cover

      Tales Of Refugees And Asylum Seekers From Australia And The Indian Subcontinent
      Contibutors: Deepa Agarwal, Jamil Ahmad, Ali Alizadeh, Meenakshi Bharat, Michelle Cahill, Susanne Gervay, Amitav Ghosh, Adbul Karim Hekmat, Linda Jaivin, Tabish Khair, Anu Kumar, Andrew Y M Kwong, Julia Mackay-Koelen, Sophie Masson, Joginder Paul, Sharon Rundle, Sujata Sankranti, Bijoya Sawian and Arnold Zable

    • Beneath Our ArmourBOA

      Beneath Our Armour is unique. This sequence of portrait poems covers vast tracts of history, geography, and personae in a way that is at once intimate and epic.

    • Big Girl NowBGN

      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.

    • Father’s DayFather's Day

      Tony Birch’s first collection of stories, Shadowboxing, was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards in 2006 and was voted top five in a State Library of Victoria poll of readers’ all-time favorite books set in Victoria.

    • Good On PaperGood on Paper

      ‘A flawless evocation of the literature machine, a witty remodelling of a crime caper, a perfectly formed entertainment.’ WINNER — MELBOURNE LORD MAYOR’S CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS