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Far and Beyon'
Unity Dow
For Mara, mother of four, and sole provider for her family, life has never been easy. In her community women carry a heavy burden as the world changes around them. In Botswana, the tensions are growing as young people attempt to resolve the magicks of tradition with the technologies of now.
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Fedora Walks
Merrilee Moss
In the nineteenth century Charles Dickens wrote his novels as serials; in the late twentieth century Merilee Moss conjures up a new kind of serial fiction: of ghosts, of crime, of satire and of lesbian desire.
When the ghostly Fedora interrupts Julie Barnard's morning coffee in Brunswick Street, Julie's life is set to change. An out-of-work PI, Julie is seduced by Fedora's French accent and...
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Feminist Fables
Suniti Namjoshi
There was once a man who thought he could do anything, even be a woman. So he acquired a baby, changed its diapers and fed the damn thing three times a night. He did all the housework, was deferential to men, and got worn out. But he had a brother, Jack Cleverfellow, who hired a wife and got it all done. Suniti Namjoshi is elegant and subversive in creating new patterns of meaning through...
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Figments of a Murder
Gillian Hanscombe
The Australian, Best Books of the Year, 1995
First there was the detective novel with its stubble-chinned PI. Then came the feminist super-sleuths. Feisty, fierce and real. Now there’s Figments of a Murder. And Babes. Babes is about lust. Babes is about power. But what else is she up to? In her world women are torn asunder by love and lust, by murder and menace. Babes says she calls the...
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Frictions: An Anthology of Fiction by Women
Anna Gibbs & Alison Tilson (ed.)
Frictions is a classic. Frictions is writing that is risky and exhilarating. Now in its third edition, Frictions shows where the writing of now started. With work by Elizabeth Jolley and Finola Moorhead, Andrea Goldsmith and Ania Walwicz, this anthology brought a fresh generation of writers to the world. A passionate and witty anthology that is an adventure for any reader. Edited by Anna...
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Unspeakable will be available exclusively as an eBook through the Spinifex eBook website.
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