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I Started Crying Monday
Laurene Kelly
Laurene Kelly’s first young adult novel introduces us to fourteen-year-old Julie, who is struggling with a terrible home life, but could never imagine the horror that is about to destroy her family forever. She dreams of a new life, away from her abusive father, but when her mother doesn’t arrive to meet Julie and her brother Toby after school as planned, her hopes are shattered. She is...
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Imago
Francesca Rendle-Short
ACT Book of the Year Award, 1997
imago
1. the final and fully developed stage of an insect after all metamorphoses e.g. a butterfly or beetle.
2. Psychoanal. an idealised concept of a loved one formed in childhood and retained uncorrected in adult life.
Molly Rose Moon dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec.
Milky sticky wet worms wriggled and fed...
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Journey Home, The / Te Haerenga Kainga
Cathie Dunsford
Cathie Dunsford's much-loved Cowrie returns. The Journey Home follows her through her passions for life, love, food and challenge. Peopled by a diverse array of characters: Benny, the outrageous film-maker; Peta, who Cowrie falls in love with; and the student DK, who has a few things to learn. Torn between her newly-made friendships in California and her roots in her homeland, Cowrie discovers...
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Juggling Truths
Unity Dow
Unity Dow’s third novel Juggling Truths portrays the childhood of Monei Ntuka in the Botswanan village of Mochudi in Africa. Go to the past with me, so you can take the past to the future, asks her Nkoko. Nei takes us on an extraordinary journey through the many truths that shape her life; the truths of the colonisers and their churches and of her own people. We travel with her through dreams...
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Language in Common, A
Marion Molteno
‘Marion Molteno’s stories concern one community and her relationship with it that has been sustained and practical over the years… Their chief and overwhelming characteristic is her compassion and her talent for sensitive perception.’ —Anita Desai
A vivid collection of stories based on the author’s nine years as an adult education worker, mainly among women from India and...
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 FORTHCOMING
Unspeakable will be available exclusively as an eBook through the Spinifex eBook website.
This is a book...  Forthcoming September 2010
You will not elude me. I will measure your every dimension, I will trace your smallest lines....  Forthcoming August 2010
Fethiye Çetin will be a guest of the Melbourne Writers Festival 2010
An urgent, passionate memoir...  Available now!
Winner of the Rachel Carson Prize, an explosive expose of the disturbing practices of one of the world's... |
