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By Sonya Hartnett, Penni Russon, Mandy Sayer, Favel Parrett, Kate Grenville, Alice Pung, Joan London, Rebekah Clarkson, Anna Krien, Brenda Walker, Black Inc. Staff, Karen Hitchcock, Gillian Essex, Delia Falconer. 2015
Something Special, Something Rare presents outstanding short fiction by Australia’s finest female writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt…
and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary. A sleepy town is gripped by delusory grief after the movie being filmed there wraps and leaves. A lingering heartbreak is replayed on Facebook. An ordinary family walks a shaky line between hopelessness and redemption. Brilliant, shocking and profound, these tales will leave you reeling in ways that only a great short story can. Includes stories by Kate Grenville, Mandy Sayer, Penni Russon, Favel Parrett, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Sonya Hartnett, Isabelle Li, Gillian Essex, Brenda Walker, Gillian Mears, Fiona MacFarlane, Joan London, Karen Hitchcock, Charlotte Wood, Tara June Winch, Cate Kennedy, Alice Pung, Anna Krien, Delia Falconer, Rebekah Clarkson.By Alice Pung, Ali Lemerm, Catherine Rey, Diane Armstrong, Danny Katz, Arnold Zable, Chris Flynn, Meg Mundell, Mark Dapin, Kent MacCarter, Maria Tumarkin, Paola Totaro, Alison Lemer, Amy Espeseth. 2013
Joyful Strains collects twenty-seven memoirs from writers describing their expatriation to Australia. These are stories about what they found, who…
they became and what they now think of Australia - stories that provide entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians. Contributors include: Alice Pung, Danny Katz, Mark Dapin and Diane Armstrong, with an introduction from Arnold Zable.By Samantha Verant. 2014
Samantha's life is falling apart - she's lost her job, her marriage is on the rocks and she's walking dogs…
to keep the wolf from the door. When she stumbles across seven love letters from the handsome Frenchman she fell head over heels for in Paris when she was 19, she can't help but wonder, what if? One carefully worded, very belated email apology, it's clear that sometimes love does give you a second chance. Jetting off to France to reconnect with a man you knew for just one day is crazy - but it's the kind of crazy Samantha's been waiting for her whole life. Truth may be stranger than fiction but sometimes it's better than your wildest dreams.By Peter Lloyd. 2010
The much-anticipated and extraordinarily compelling account of Peter Lloyd's very public fall from grace - and the harrowing true stories…
behind the events that he witnessed as a foreign correspondent for the ABC.By Collins, Michael J. S. 2011
"Nearly 700 Mornington Peninsula 'boys' served overseas in The Great War. Letters, diaries and reminiscences they sent from the war…
zones were published in the local newspaper, The Peninsula Post. They provide first-hand accounts from virtually every campaign in which the Australians were engaged. They are full of humour, drama and sometimes tragedy."By Delia C Falconer. 2008
Australia is a nation of drivers. We spend more time behind the wheel than almost anyone else, on fast highways,…
lonely bush tracks, jammed city lanes and suburban streets. The road is the place where the great dramas of our lives unfold, the route to our greatest pleasures as well as our worst nightmares. It is sexy, dangerous and unnerving. In this landmark collection, acclaimed novelist and essayist Delia Falconer brings together some of our very best writing on every aspect of the road. Lovers, lost children, bushrangers, killers. From the classic to the modern, from the outback to the beach, The Penguin Book of the Road is a ride into the heart of Australia.By Delia C Falconer. 2008
In The Best Australian Stories 2008, Delia Falconer brings together the year's most exciting short fiction.' As a reader,' Delia…
Falconer writes, 'I crave what the short story is most suited to deliver: a glimpse into the unpredictability of life, a quick burst of tone and voice, a bittersweet balance of surprising layers.' By turns global and domestic, subversively funny and wrenchingly sad, this year's Best Australian Stories delivers this, and more. Contributors include Nam Le, Robert Drewe, Emily Ballou, Nicholas Shakespeare, Bernard Cohen, Deborah Robertson, Frank Moorhouse, Tony Birch, Marion Halligan, Will Elliott and more.By David Edwards, David Cromwell. 2006
Can a corporate media system be expected to tell the truth about a world dominated by corporations? Why did the…
media ignore the claims of UN weapons inspectors that Iraq had been 90-95% 'fundamentally disarmed' as early as 1998? This book answers these questions, and more.By John Galsworthy. 2001
This volume carries on with the tale of Soames' daughter Fleur. Married to Michael Mont, in line for a Barony,…
the story focuses on Michael's start in Parliament and Fleur's inherent dissatisfaction with her marriage, not unlike her father's own experience only in this case it is Fleur who loves another. The American Frances Wilmont enters the scene bringing news that Fleur's real love, Jon, forbidden to her as the son of her father's ex-wife, has married Wilmont's sister. Fleur struggles to be happy and fulfilled, just as her father Soames did.By Frank Moorhouse. 2004
Acclaimed author Frank Moorhouse has collected Australia's finest short fiction from the last twelve months. Inventive, adventurous, seductive and entertaining,…
the stories range in setting from war-torn Sarajevo to the streets of Che Guevara's Havana; from the electronic buzz of Tokyo to the waterways of ancient Rome. The contributors to this collection display the best fiction writers at the top of their form. This anthology of new work demonstrates once again the enduring quality of contemporary Australian fiction and showcases the art of the well-crafted story. Contributors to this year's collection include: J.M. Coetzee, Graeme Kinross-Smith, Delia Falconer, Nathan Besser, Tiffany Barton, Rae Luckie, Creed O'Hanlon, Carla Sari and Jena Woodhouse as well as many more.By H. E Bates. 1991
A wonderful collection of five stories featuring the Larkin family, with genial, generous Pop, devoted to his family - Ma…
and their six children, with a seventh on the way. In "The Darling buds of May" Pop meets a daggy inspector who is to become his future son-in-law. Contents: The Darling buds of May -- A Breath of French air -- When the green woods laugh -- Oh!To be in England -- A little of what you fancy.By Michel Faber. 2006
This collection of short stories revisits the world and characters of the novel The Crimson Petal and the White. Canny…
prostitute Sugar feels her deliberately hard heart crumble a little when confronted with childish misery... Clara, a former lady's maid now plying her trade on the streets, is surprised by her reaction to a particularly odd customer, 'The Rat Man'... William Rackham finds his endless regrets cold company indeed, as he self-administers his own medicinal cures...And find out what became of young Sophie, in what is perhaps the most intriguing story of all...By Anne Summers. 2018
The inspiring autobiography of one of Australia's most influential women, from journalist to policy maker to change agent at large.…
'I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade into invisibility as we aged. I defied all of these expectations and so have millions of women like me.' This is the compelling story of Anne Summers' extraordinary life. Her story has her travelling around the world as she moves from job to job, in newspapers and magazines, advising prime ministers, leading feminist debates, writing memorable and influential books. Anne has not been afraid to walk away from success and to satisfy her constant restlessness by charging down new and risky paths. Whatever position she has held, she has expanded what's possible and helped us see things differently-often at high personal cost. Anne shares revealing stories about the famous and powerful people she has worked with or reported on and is refreshingly frank about her own anxieties and mistakes. She shares a heart-breaking story of family violence and tells of her ultimate reconciliation with the father who had rejected her. Unfettered and Alive is a provocative and inspiring memoir from someone who broke through so many boundaries to show what women can do.By Henry Handel Richardson. 1992
The second volume of the story of Richard Mahony, a medical graduate of Edinburgh University who emigrates to Ballarat during…
the gold rush. The three parts of this novel trace his turbulent life in Australia including his marriage to Mary, the making of his fortune, its subsequent loss and his final decline into madness. An epic work filled with pathos.Stories, journalism and criticism by: Kate Grenville, Barbara Hanrahan, Beverley Farmer, Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley, Jessica Anderson, Olga Masters and…
Helen Garner - eight voices representing a decade in Australian literature dominated by women.By Helen Garner. 1995
When two female university students went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party by…
the head of their co-ed residential college, the shock of the accusations split the community. Helen Garner examines the issues of sex and power which surround this incident in a blend of reportage and personal experience.By Jan Bowen. 1998
This book considers the lives of 17 influential and successful women. Amongst others, Geraldine Doogue, Helen Garner and Poppy King…
all share their personal stories while examining the implications for our society of women's changing roles.By Hannah Lewis, Jodie Kewley. 1993
Sixteen Australian men, one who is vision impaired, talk about fatherhood: the rewards and pressures, the decision to have children…
and the birth itself, sexuality and changing relationships, traditional expectations, and juggling work and family life. Contains coarse language.By Michael Leunig. 2008
There are few aspects of existence to which Michael Leunig has not turned his renaissance mind, as a bemused and…
committed member of the human plight. From his cartoonist's sensibilities comes a peculiar journalism made of parable, memoir and soliloquy, on subjects ranging from the sublime to the subhuman. From the fragile ecosystem of the spirit to the brutalisation of the modern world. From the joy of primal epiphanies to the wretchedness of the violence we unwittingly commit against each other and our deeper selves each day. To hypocrisy and despair in the political order. Military madness and the media. To violins, artists and newborn foals. The value of the mundane. Emotional mysteries and the night sky. Light and darkness in the national character. The wisdom of the innocent. The sadness of the brain-ridden. Humanity's redeeming pathos and our exquisite inseparability from the natural world... The lot. Even in the smallest, simplest things, Leunig finds the eternal key. And no matter how confronting the topic, he awakens and upholds the funny side. The uplifting side. The side you'd forgotten about - or didn't realise was there.By Jamelle Wells. 2018
As a seasoned court reporter, the ABC's Jamelle Wells has filed thousands of stories on murderers, sex offenders, thieves, bad…
drivers, family feuds and business deals gone wrong. In more than 10 years, Jamelle has witnessed many of Australia's most notorious and high-profile court cases. In the line of duty, she has sat next to criminals and their families, been chased, spat on, stalked and carted off by ambulance for emergency surgery after an accident outside ICAC. Every day in courts across Australia the evidence, facts and theories are played out in a kind of theatre, with their own characters, costumes and traditions. But ever-present is the human tragedy of ordinary people's lives disrupted, destroyed and forever altered. The judges, the lawyers and barristers, the witnesses and the victims - all striving to play their part in the quest for fairness, justice and always, the truth of what really happened. From the calculated and cruel, to the unfair and unlucky, from pure evil to plain stupid - Jamelle Wells, the court reporter, has seen it all.