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Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport

by Anna Krien

Published: 2013-06-05

Paperback: 280 pages

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‘One of the most anticipated books of the year’ Books Publishing ‘The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface. By morning, the head of the sexual crimes ...

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Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family

by Gabrielle Carey

Published: 2014-04-01

Hardcover: 236 pages

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As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan’s childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter sets in motion a literary pilgrimage that reveals long-buried family secrets. Like her mother, Stow had grown up in Western Australia. After early ...

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Mullumbimby

by Melissa Lucashenko

Published: 2013-04-01

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John

by Helen Trinca

Published: 2013-07-16

Paperback: 304 pages

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Madeleine St John had a brilliant, creative mind and wrote four remarkable novels, including the irrepressibly optimistic and lovely Australian classic The Women in Black. But her personal life was anything but happy. Helen Trinca has captured the troubled life of Madeleine St John in this...

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The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka

by Clare Wright

Published: 2013-10-23

Kindle Edition: 359 pages

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The Eureka Stockade. The story is one of Australia's foundation legends, but until now it has been told as though only half the participants were there. What if the hot-tempered, free-wheeling gold miners we learnt about in school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? And...

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All the Birds, Singing

by Evie Wyld

Published: 2013-06-20

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The Misogyny Factor

by Anne Summers

Published: 2013-07-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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This provocative examination by a media-savvy writer who remains at the forefront of the political debate surrounding gender equality explores why equality between men and women has failed to be achieved in Australia. In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Austral...

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A History of Silence

by Lloyd Jones

Published: 2014-04-15

Paperback: 288 pages

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"A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today."—The Guardian"Jones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrace of so much that the world has to offer make him a literar...

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Prayers for the Stolen

by Jennifer Clement

Published: 2014-02-11

Hardcover: 224 pages

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A haunting story of love and survival that introduces an unforgettable literary heroine Ladydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny and smart. She was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, women must fend for themselves, as their men...

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Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

Published: 2006-12-26

Paperback: 192 pages

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This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Thirte...