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Novels and other Prose
For Emma and Elvis ● Charles Hall
The death of Elvis Presley in the seventies triggers a relationship meltdown for an Australian couple…
A riotous, nostalgic novel of an era that has gone forever: Australia in the sixties and seventies. A 20-pack of king-size filters was forty cents, as was a 26 oz bottle of beer, or a gallon of petrol. Men too young to vote were conscripted to fight and die in Vietnam, and violence against women was deemed a domestic of no consequence. A Golden Era, perhaps – but only for some.

Charles Hall is the author of the acclaimed novel, Summer's Gone.

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Todd in Venice ● Sofia Chapman
Todd in Venice is a sparklingly playful script, full of linguistic acrobatics and sexual intrigue, where gender is as fluid as the reality of the city in which it is set. Inspired by Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice), Sofia Chapman takes her readers on a guided tour of Venice and humanity, by turns poignant, funny, provocative, and joyful.

Todd in Venice premiered in a shortened form at Gasworks Arts Park ‘Playtime’ development program on St Agnes’ night, Midsumma Festival 2016. It opened in its full version in February 2017 for the Midsumma Festival of that year.

Warmly received by audiences at its opening, Todd in Venice is a richly rewarding play to read, allowing a full appreciation of the skilful layering of meaning and language. Truly a delight!

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Macaulay Station ● Graeme Sparkes
Macaulay Station is a lament and a celebration. Frank Munro has lost his close friend Charlie, dead just one year, his career is a mundane casualty of the technological revolution, his youth is a memory, another casualty of the tyranny of time.

Frank Munro has had change thrust upon him. He’s trying to adapt. Once an award winning journalist, Frank has been put out to pasture, but he is fighting to renew his purpose, renew his life, and save the woman he loves from her disastrous infatuation.

Can a conversation with a dead man on Macaulay Station point the way? A novel for anyone who has glimpsed the future and didn't like what they saw.

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Male Pattern Behaviour
Howard Firkin's hilarious novel explores the journals of Thomas Furphy as he attempts to chart his extraordinary journey to discover meaning in the male role, reform the Australian political system, and regain sexual function.

And keep a couple of troublesome bodies from discovery...

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The Dog Cops ● Brian Barnard
Brian Barnard served with the Victoria Police Force in Australia for 24 years, 18 of which he spent as a member of the elite Victoria Police Dog Squad. Twenty years after leaving the force, Brian finally sat down to write the first of a series of novels about “the greatest job in the world”: being a police dog handler.

The Dog Cops is an exciting and authentic look at life in an elite crime fighting unit. Police units the world over are equipped with ever more advanced technology, but nothing matches the skill and tenacity of a well-trained police dog team.

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Blue Justice ● Phil Copsey
Blue Justice is an Australian crime novel with a difference: this is cops on the beat. This is a book about real policing. There are no tortured detectives puzzling over motive or building a case on fragments of lucky finds of evidence. Forget the bizarre clues, the mastermind criminals. This is blood-on-the-floor police work.

Phil Copsey served with Victoria State Police Force, Australia, for forty years. His experience fighting crime on the streets of multicultural Melbourne inspired him to write his debut novel, Blue Justice. His depictions of characters and crimes are infused with authentic operational details. The second book in the series, Calibre of Justice, is due for publication in the first half of 2021.

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One Surviving Story ● Twenty-eight writers
The question was simple: if you knew only one of your stories would survive you, which would you choose?
Twenty-eight writers select their best-loved stories for this remarkable anthology.



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Footprints in the Hills ● Mudgee Valley Writers
A collection of the life stories of some of Mudgee’s most prominent residents, edited by Jill Baggett and Pamela Meredith, this anthology presents the life stories of a fascinating and enterprising group of individuals.
"Such stories, such variety in the histories of these
people now collected and held for coming generations
to read and wonder. Lives so different from today..."

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Animalcule ● Anthony Riddelll
Anthony Riddelll's remarkable novella, Animalcule, poses the question, "Should humans have tails?"

Join Dr Bingbang, Ichabod Snell, Strawberrie, Pablo Tater and a host of others as they avoid answering this and many, many other questions.

You will learn, however, the singular of BANANA.

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At Daytrap

Reginald Wells' explosive tales of life in rural Australia.

Previously only circulated in ragged samizdat manuscript, this bizarre collection of short stories, at once hilarious, profane, bawdy, tawdry, and unlikely, is now available in an authoritative version. Destined to become an Australian classic.

Not everyone is happy at the rural, Australian way of life depicted in these stories, of course. The eminent Sir Pelham Corrie has written: "One final word. It is not inconceivable that one day some ignorant, jumped-up, crypto-intellectual johnny-come-lately, academic bounder will come along and try to claim that the central character in these stories, the so-called ‘Uncle Vern’, was some kind of modern Sisyphus pushing rocks downhill, a modern Prometheus giving matches to children, some kind of symbol of our times. Well, he certainly is not that. He is nothing but a mountebank, and a living slur on the good name of decent rural folk who are and always have been and always will be the backbone of this great nation of ours."

So don't say you weren't warned. Not recommended for anyone under the age of eighteen. Not recommended for those of delicate or sophisticated taste.

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Poetry
Decorating Pain ● Rosie Bogumil
A scarifying collection of poems from one of our most exciting young poets. A five time winner of the prestigious Randolph Stowe Poetry Prize, this is Rosie Bogumil's first collection.
We are proud to add this extraordinary chapbook to our list.

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Unearthly Pleasures ● Steve Evans
Unearthly Pleasures is the sparkling new collection from one of Australia's leading poets, Steve Evans. The poems are precise, poignant, funny, and exhibit an expertise of technique that is only acquired after years of honing the craft.
An unmissable collection.

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One Surviving Poem ● Forty-two poets
The question was simple: if you knew only one of your poems would survive you, which would you choose?
The forty-two poets selected for this anthology responded with some surprising choices.

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Jeremiad Johnson ● Tim Hawkins
Tim Hawkins’ Jeremiad Johnson balances on the razor wire between natural beauty and disgust with the world as it has devolved to us. ...what Hawkins reveals in his poems is a fortifying or merciless vision. Sometimes both.
Elizabeth Kerlikowske

In Jeremiad Johnson, Hawkins takes on the poetic voice of a common man surviving somehow in this world we all share together. This is deft observational poetry that escorts readers into the familiar and recognizable scenes that Hawkins paints for us with vivid imagery, touches of irony and subtle humility.
Barry Harris

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Palmistry ● Christopher Ringrose
Christopher Ringrose's elegant and sophisticated verse explores mysteries, joys, experiences as they unfurl over decades. These are gentle, explorative, contemplative, but always surprising poems which repay reading and re-reading. Palmistry is the record of life which no one ever predicts.

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The eye as it inhales onions ● Lika Posamari
Presenting these intensely personal but always outward-looking poems, Lika Posamari explores the pain, strength, and wisdom that women draw from the complexity of their relationships across generations. These poems invite the reader to share Lika's startling, uncompromising, but ultimately triumphant conclusions.

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The Geometry of a Thought ● Gavin Mndawe
The poems in this collection are playful, energetic, and electrically intellectual. Influenced by the rhythms of rap and its inventive exploration and stretching of language to uncover new and unexpected connections, Gavin presents a collection which is simultaneously joyful and provocative.

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Lightly, on the Skin ● Em König
Em König has assembled a collection which experiments with forms and structures to present his ideas in poems which display themselves like carefully constructed scenes of a single work of theatre. His poetry is unmistakably personal, but never solemn, never self-important or self-obsessed. He shows how the most important touches may only initially touch us lightly, on the skin, but which may reverberate forever.

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real and unreal ● Stephen House
Stephen House's poetry is startling, direct, and fiercely honest. His poems hold your gaze while challenging you to look away. Stephen's poems are a masterful assertion of the existence and persistence of beauty, uncompromised, unblemished, unconquered. Stephen won the 2018 Goolwa Poetry Cup with a performance of two of the poems included in this collection.

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