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Quilt
Finola Moorhead
Award-winning author Finola Moorhead stitches together essays, reviews and short stories that make an incisive comment of the process of writing. She writes of sentences and mathematics, of rubbish bins and nightmares, of nuns and abortions. Through it all are is the invisible stitching of an author for whom five finger exercises are for more than musical training. Her writing encompasses...
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Silicon Tongue, The
Beryl Fletcher
The Silicon Tongue follows the award-winning The Word Burner and critically acclaimed The Iron Mouth. These novels explore the relationship between language and identity and tell stories of women’s lives in a time of radical social change.
The Silicon Tongue is centred on the life and times of London-born Alice who was brought to New Zealand as a servant in the 1930s. Tricked by the...
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Skeleton Woman, The
Renée
There doesn’t seem much point in drawing attention to blackbirds or high tides when five thousand people are said to have died in the towers, when people in wheelchairs had to be left by the able-bodied because the lifts weren’t working and there was no time to step a wheelchair down the flights and flights of stairs … The images play on, over and over, as though if they are repeated...
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Song of the Selkies
Cathie Dunsford
The Edinburgh Festival brings together artists from all over the world, and Cowrie is among them, telling stories and giving readings. But even Cowrie can’t anticipate the chemistry that will begin when a group of traditional storytellers sets off to the Orkney Islands with Ellen, to stay at her coastal family cottages. For Ellen turns out to be Morrigan, and Morrigan is a selkie, living in...
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Sybil: The Glide Of Her Tongue
Gillian Hanscombe (ed.)
Lesbians are often told that we have no culture, that we have no history, and yet lesbians are always rediscovering hidden histories, literary traditions, codes and behaviours that have been obscured, obliterated or proclaimed irrelevant. Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue challenges that version of history. Gillian Hanscombe has written an exhilarating and richly textured collection of poems.
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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... |
