Australian & Oceanian

Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the...

OVER FOUR MILLION COPIES SOLDThe New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller - a heart-rending story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who face a life-changing moral dilemma'Unforgettable' GUARDIAN____________________A boat washes up on the shore of a...

Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word.' - ObserverThe Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how...

In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a...

'Quietly transformational'The Times 'A tour de force... I can't recommend this too highly'Patrick Gale'Innovative... an original, at-a-sitting read'Daily Mail'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives'Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend'A...

'I know it's a daring suggestion, but I'll make it anyway.' Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly the personal and the political. In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to...

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In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an...

He mea hoomanao no na hana oia au i hala, a he mea hoi e poina ole ai i na mamo o keia la a mau aku." A memorial for the events of the past, and something to ensure that the children of today and forever more will never forget...

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This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books,...

For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been brought together to form a resounding-and distinctly Micronesian-voice. With over two thousand islands...

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This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books,...

The 44 essays and other pieces collected in his new book range from Adam Lindsay Gordon to Peter Corris, and include Eleanor Dark, Hal Porter, Christina Stead, Dal Stivens and A. B. Facey among many other creators of the unique body of literature...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648580669Author Ruth SkilbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Borderstream BooksPublisher Borderstream BooksWeight(grams) 195g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648765202Author Ruth SkilbeckFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint Borderstream BooksPublisher Borderstream BooksWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648398356Author Ruth SkilbeckFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Borderstream BooksPublisher Borderstream BooksWeight(grams) 152g

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