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Fiction titles
For Jayne Buchanan, a train ride to the city heralds the beginning of a trip into a sinister and callous world of violence, exploitation and murder. She finds herself stalked, kidnapped and running hard for her life; harder than she ever thought possible. And all the time knowing it might not be enough...
ISBN: 978 1 921509 42 1 | RRP: $19.95
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A moving love story that is also a deeply absorbing poetic meditation on the moral journey of a solitary man. A brilliant achievement.
Alex Miller
An Australian soldier in British service parachutes into the roaring embattled skies of the night before D-Day, and lands in a vast lake of flooded fields. His encounter with a mysterious woman who seems to rule that water world deflects him from the war and from all the promise his life had seemed to hold. This is a strange and compelling novel.
Les Murray
ISBN: 978 1 921509 34 6 | RRP: $29.95
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Henry Pawley and Dr Bee of Academia Nuts have taken early retirement. But what awaits them? Does anything? Pawley buys a dacha high in the Valley of the Weed. Dr Bee cruises the shopping malls. Henry is lured by the Director of the Writers’ Centre to be her Chair. Vistas of arts bureaucracies lie before them. A black comedy for a sunburned country.
ISBN: 978 1 921509 47 6 | RRP: $29.95
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In My Father’s Tools, Tom Petsinis turns his attention to a collection of tools – most common, others long obsolete, a few imaginary. In considering each object, he taps into a field of energy formed from contact with the human hand at work. This takes the author on a journey through the turbulence of Balkan history, migration to Australia, life in working-class Fitzroy in the 1960s, and beyond this to confrontations with death and celebrations of life.
ISBN: 978 1 921509 48 3 | RRP: $24.95
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Félix Calvino’s short stories are subtle and soulful, of life growing up in the villages of northern Spain under Franco, and in Australia, where the ghosts and habits of the old country have not vanished.
ISBN: 9781740971676 | RRP: $24.95
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Amanda Johnson’s novel traces the watery journeys of colonial artist Eugene von Guerard from Vienna to the Swiss Alps, Rome to Naples, and from Dusseldorf to Australia.
ISBN: 9781740971690 | RRP: $24.95
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Dinny Hucking, one of the wild men of Sydney journalism, runs a Helping Hand page which tackles readers’ problems – while doing his best to destroy himself.
ISBN: 9781740971461 | RRP: $24.95
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Redfin
by Anthony Lynch
Stylish, cool and perfectly rendered short stories of being in regional Australia, with tales of travel in Europe and America. You take the dislocation with you...
ISBN: 9781740971683 | RRP: $24.95
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In the early 70s, a teenage boy flees a disturbing religious community in Melbourne to cross the Nullarbor and find the old mining town of Ora Banda. A dream comes unstuck.
ISBN: 9781740971706 | RRP: $24.95
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MUSCLE
by Matthew Schreuder
Buckle up. Prepare to fly down night’s highways. You’re taking off in a V8 Holden Torana. Windows down. Wind in your hair. You hang with petrol heads …
There are no laws worth knowing.
‘Sam’: she’s eighteen and beautiful and has never taken the world too seriously.
Days are about sweating it out in a bakery. Nights are spent hooning with Nick. Sitting in the passenger seat of his muscle car, looking hotter than the next bloke’s chick, and forgetting the jobs they hate, the parents who fight, the suburbs where life passes them by.
But the tribe is growing older and Sydney is getting tougher. Street violence, rumours of riots, communities divided.
And Sam’s not as immune as she’d like to think …
ISBN:978 1 74097 180 5 | RRP: $24.95
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Four Quarters
by Tom Petsinis illustrations by Jim Pavlidis
By a leading poet and novelist, poems mirroring the triumphs, despondencies, agony and joy of the great game of Australian Rules Football.
Lord, if we should be down by a point / And dying with your crimson sun, / Have mercy, raise the faithful from defeat, / Show us the redemptive cup. Supporter’s Prayer
ISBN: 1740971175 | RRP: $17.95
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Marshall Browne, winner of the My Brother Jack Short Story Award for ‘Point of Departure, Point of Return’ and winner of the Ned Kelly award, 2000, has been described by The Examiner as ‘… a joy to read!’.
In this collection of short stories Browne tells of Australians in transit on life’s highways and back roads. These tales are upfront and entertaining, by turns exciting, humorous, nostalgic, sometimes bizarre, and occasionally, deadly serious.
ISBN: 1740970209 | RRP: $19.95
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Lennie and Dan have been together five years - five years of love and trouble. But they split up and Lennie begins to trawl the parks, the streets, the night. He enters a dangerous world of isolation, desire, connection, and surveillance.
ISBN: 1740970942 | RRP: $21.95
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An acquitted cop-killer is executed in a St Kilda back-street. Suspicion falls on Rubens McCauley, a maverick detective with a lot of motive and plenty of enemies.
With his marriage in tatters and a team of elite investigators on his heels, McCauley needs answers — and fast. His hunt for the killer draws him deep into an underworld of gangsters, hitmen and dance parties — and a past he’ll do anything to forget.
ISBN: 1740970950 | RRP: $21.95
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