The Concerto Inn
Jo Gardiner 2006
978 1 920684 145 $24.95 Pb
Add to cart The Concerto Inn weaves together the story of two sisters, two betrayals and two acts of violence – years apart – that lead both women back to the mythical place of their childhood in Ravello, Italy.
‘
The Concerto Inn is a poet’s novel, in which words and their associations are lovingly presented.’ -
The Canberra Times‘…great lyrical beauty and psychological intensity…’ -
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cusp
Josephine Wilson
2005
978 1 920694 560 $24.95 Pb Add to cart
Mavis
Hawkins feels she has spent her whole life waiting. But with her only
daughter about to arrive from New York, life is about to change
forever… A poignant and funny novel rich in mother-daughter insights.
‘Wilson does dialogue brilliantly… and almost every page of Cusp offers a phrase or image to savor.’ - Australian Book Review
A History of the Beanbag and Other Stories
Susan Midalia
2007
978 0 9802965 0 1 $24.95 Pb Add to cart
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With photographic precision, author Susan Midalia captures the
fleeting beauty, light and darkness to be found in the ephemera of
everyday life. From the silences between people and the ordinariness of
places, objects and events, she conjures narrative jewels of
intelligence and grace.
A History of the Beanbag is a short story collection with a difference – a scenic tour of the surprises, secrets and fears beneath the cracked veneer of domesticity and suburban complacency.
The Last Book You Read and Other Stories
Ewan Morrison
2007
978 0 980296 4 7 1 $24.95 
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Morrison’s no-holds-barred collection of short stories tells of
people caught between places and lovers as well as between desire,
addiction and regret. Whether male or female; gay or straight; young or
old; married, single or divorced – the urban battlefield of modern
relationships is here charted with such a streetwise precision and
heart-wrenching tenderness that this collection is destined to be an
instant classic.
‘…the most compelling Scottish literary debut since Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting.’ – The Sunday Times (London)
The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady:
A Writer Looks at Creativity and Neuroscience
Sue Woolfe
2007
978 1920694 968 $24.95 Pb Add to cart
Bestselling author Sue Woolfe takes readers on a very personal search, exploring the connections between neuroscience and the ‘felt experiences’ which inform the art of storytelling.
Using Eva - the cleaning lady protagonist from her acclaimed 2003 novel
The Secret Cure - as both catalyst and metaphor, Woolfe explores Western science, psychology and epistemology for clues as to how these influence a writer’s very being and, by extension, the creative process.
The Poet Who Forgot
Catherine Cole
2008
978 1920401 04 6 $24.95 Pb Add to cart
For anyone who has ever written a fan letter and dreamt of a reply...
As a young, undergraduate student of Australian literature, Catherine Cole sent a letter to AD Hope. This sparked a
correspondence that became a deep and lasting friendship.
In
her book, Cole uncovers their unique exchanges and explores the ways in
which we move towards maturity, remembering and forgetting as we travel.
The Poet Who Forgot offers new perspectives on Hope's literary legacy while revealing how his influence generously shaped an emerging writer.
A New Map of the Universe
Annabel Smith
2005
978 1 920694 552 $24.95 Pb Add to cart
A
story of grief and passion, architecture and astronomy spanning two
generations and both hemispheres in which characters navigate a new map
of their universe. A lyrical and engaging novel about the paths to
finding yourself.
‘Impressive in scope and beautifully written…’ -
The Weekend Australian
Paydirt
Kathleen Mary Fallon
2007
978 1920694 975 $24.95 Pb Add to cart
When Kate, a white Australian foster mother, takes her 18-year-old Torres Straight Islander foster son back to Brisbane to meet his sick birth mother, Kate’s own mother has a homecoming of a very different kind planned for her daughter.
A companion piece to author Kathleen Mary Fallon’s AWGIE-nominated script for the acclaimed Australian film
Call Me Mum, Paydirt provides ample proof that our nation’s past – and future - is anything but black versus white.
Jo narrates the story
of her strong, passionate mother, Willa, whose gradual slide into
dementia shifts them into a new and difficult relationship. Willa’s
life since arriving in Australia from Scotland as a young woman is
re-created in vignettes: her spectacularly wrong choice in husband, the
eccentricities of her family, the community of friends that sustain
her, and her enduring capacity for joy. And in the telling, Jo also
confronts her own life choices as a woman addicted to ‘being
perpetually worried about something or other. And certainly addicted to
love.’
The Seamstress is a memorable tale of friendship and love between women, infused with abundant warmth and wry humour.
Martin
Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting
place between the immensity of Australian environment and the hi-tech
urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection Harrison
has gathered together some of his best works and included some alluring
and lyrical new works.
“Harrison is concerned with the ‘magic’
of poetic sight and sound; with our everyday perception being stretched
almost to the point of non-perception.” - David McCooey, Australian Book Review
“Harrison re-creates ‘livable’ locales in his poems, utterly convincing places where ordinary happiness might reside.” - Nigel Wheale, London Review of Books
