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A Kind of Vanishing
Lesley Thomson
When a child disappears, who takes the blame?
A child disappears. A woman grows up harbouring a terrible secret. Her daughter wants to know the truth. It's the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two 9-year-old girls, Eleanor Ramsay and Alice Howland, are playing hide and seek in the ruins of The Mills, a deserted village on the Sussex coast. When it is Eleanor's turn to...
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All That False Instruction
Kerryn Higgs
A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC Winner of the Angus and Robertson manuscript prize Growing up in a rural working-class home, Maureen Craig rebels against her angry mother, the privileges of her favoured brother, and the relentless conformity of 1950s Australia. University promises a new world both terrifying and exhilarating in its challenges. She explores her sexuality and sets out to make a...
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Anger of Aubergines, The
Bulbul Sharma
Food as a passion, a gift, a means of revenge, even a source of power - these are the themes Bulbul Sharma explores in her collection of stories.
Women weigh up the loss of a lover or the loss of weight; they consider whether hunger and the thought of higher things are inextricably linked; they feast and crave and die for their insatiable appetites.
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Another Year in Africa
Rose Zwi
Winner of the Olive Schreiner Award, The Australian, Best Books of the Year, 1995.
They came from the stetl to a new land, to a new life. Another year in Africa, they said, another year in exile. Old bonds break as they adjust from the old world of pogroms to their new life in Africa. Six-year-old Ruth is haunted by memories of tragedy and persecution that are not even hers. Award-winning...
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Ao Toa
Cathie Dunsford
A modern fictional equivalent of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
What happens when a group of scientists take creation into their own hands?
Ao Toa is that rare novel - an eco-thriller combining action and suspense with deep emotions and the sensual power of the natural world. It is peopled with believable women and men, teenagers and elders, suits and activists, farmers and gardeners. As...
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