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The Carnal Fugues

Catherine McNamara
9781923099050
2023-11-01
A$9.99
Puncher & Wattmann

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A wayward, wanton selection of stories grounded in displacement, desire, and the wish coursing through us to accede to the state of love. There is torment and illness, crude reality and distant fragrant places, peopled by characters that reside close to our bones, our psyches, our flesh. A Japanese soprano has lost her voice and seeks repose on a sailing boat in Corsica. A South African advertising executive learns the ropes at his Accra office. Destructive lovers interview a renowned musician in dusty Bamako. Lovers meet, fade, delude. We are weak and defiant beings, ever-learning, ever-lustful.
 
Fine stories, rank with exotic air, bursting like old fruit. - Bruce Pascoe
 
McNamara's work has a fierce, vital beat, her stories robust yet finely worked, her voice striking in its confidence and originality. She writes with sensuous precision and a craft that is equally precise. This is fiction that can stand up in any company. - Hilary Mantel


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The Case of the Misplaced Models

Tessa Barding
9780648523659
2019-08-01
A$4.99
Improbable Press

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Dr Watson arrives at his surgery one morning to find a stranger about to stable his own leg injury together. Days later, John Watson coincidentally accepts a flat-share with the same man; and before long is laughing, running, and falling in love with the endlessly-fascinating Sherlock Holmes.
 
While the 'consulting detective' barely seems to notice John, he does agree to help when they learn of the sudden and curious death of Karim Halabi.
 
John's friend Karim was accidentally shot during a game of laser tag. Case closed, say the police. But as John and Sherlock dig deeper it seems that Karim's death was no accident. It also becomes clear to John that Sherlock's feelings for him are much deeper too.


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The Cavalier Club

Stanley Goldyn
9780994414236
2015-09-01
A$9.99
Woodslane Press

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The year is 1618 and the beginning of the brutal Thirty Years' War. Lieutenant Jack Channing's life is about to be immutably altered by two events. He falls in love with a beautiful countess and witnesses an attempt on the Polish King Sigismund's life. News reaches the court that assassination attempts on Catholic monarchs have occurred elsewhere in Europe and Jack is charged with the responsibility of finding and crushing the perpetrators - murderers that became known as the Green-Scarf Fraternity.
Mixing real historical events with fictional retelling, The Cavalier Club, is a richly detailed, impeccably researched story of adventure, bravery and love set during one of Europe's longest and most destructive conflicts.


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The Collected Stories of Pinchas Goldhar
A Pioneer Yiddish Writer in Australia
Pinchas Goldhar
9781925281446
2016-10-01
A$9.99
Hybrid Publishers

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A collection of stories by Australia's most significant Yiddish writer translated into English, some never before published. Goldhar was the literary voice of his generation, as well as a leading cultural and social commentator. This new collection will ensure that this wonderful writer is not forgotten.
Pinchas Goldhar (1901-1947) arrived in Australia in 1926, escaping growing anti-Semitism in Poland. Here he laid the foundations of the now substantial literature on Jews in this country. He wrote short stories about Polish Jewish immigrants and, despite the fact that he wrote in Yiddish, his work made a deep impression on Australian writers and critics through English translations. He wrote of the tensions, trials and mental agony of lonely migrants uprooted from their former homes trying to adjust themselves to life in a new world.


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The Colour of the Night

Robert Hollingworth
9781742983332
2014-10-01
A$9.99
Hybrid Publishers

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An expose of contemporary life seen from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy.
Shaun, a country boy, is orphaned after a bushfire and must now live in the city where he meets many lonely, mixed-up residents. Can his world of benign nature and theirs of dispirited culture, be reconciled?
It is a story of polarities: the country and the city; nature and culture; the material and the digital; the spirit and the flesh; lost faith and renewed hope.


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The Convict and the Soldier

John P F Lynch
9781925282009
2016-10-26
A$9.99
SHP - John P F Lynch

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Michael, convicted of a minor crime, is sent to Van Diemen's Land to serve his sentence; John (the soldier) is involved in a minor scandal that means he must resign his commission. He decides to pursue a new military career in the Colonies.
Paths cross, families join and hardships are overcome. This is a story of courage, seized opportunities and new beginnings.
This novel is an insight into the life and times of an Irish convict and English soldier during the 1850s. The reader journeys with them from Ireland's County Clare and Cumberland in England, to the Australian Colonies of Van Diemen's Land with its penal system and finally to the Victorian bushlands.
Generally historically and geographically accurate, John Lynch has lived up to his previous local history publications, by weaving true tales within these pages.


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The Curse

Vasilios Bouzas
9780646589633
2012-11-22
A$4.99
Vasilios Bouzas

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A young boy, Luke Whelan, lies dying in hospital from terminal cancer, an old woman and Luke's young father by his side. Luke is about to be saved but to do so the woman will give him a precious gift - or is it a curse?
 
As Luke grows into a young man he finds out about the deadly curse that saved his life. He can save people's lives by touching them, but in turn he ages. He must now embark on a perilous journey to save his own life again and those of everyone around him.
 
Facing an immortal being from the bowels of hell and pitted against the forces of a tyrannical US government, the Mafia, God and Satan, never has one man had to overcome so much and reach a point where the ultimate decision of good versus evil must be made.


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The Dead Aviatrix
Eight Short Stories
Carmel Bird
9781925052343
2017-11-01
A$4.99
Spineless Wonders

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In prose that sparkles with wit, shocks with insight, and beguiles with the air of legend, these eight stories take the reader from post-apocalyptic Tasmania to the tragedy of surrogate pregnancy in the 1950s. Loss of species, the whims of publishers, the question of Islam in regional Australia - these are among the subjects Carmel Bird addresses in her characteristic probing style.


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The Devil's Steps

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384546
2020-06-01
A$7.99
ETT Imprint

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On special assignment with Military Intelligence, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte leaves his familiar Australian outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort. Although out of his element with city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues in the search for a wily killer…
 
The complex half-caste Bony is, I think, my favourite fictional detective of the past twenty years. - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times


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The Diemen Alexander

Marie Heitz
9781922904423
2023-11-01
A$11.99
Clan Destine Press

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'The Diemen Alexander is Jurassic Park meets ET in the best possible way. It's fast paced, thrilling, funny, and fantastical. I loved it.' - Alison Goodman
When tender-hearted geeky teenage Luke rescues a lizard in a thunderstorm on kunanyi, he has no idea it will have a mind of its own.
Or eat quite so much. Or grow so fast.
Or resemble Tasmania's lost dinosaur.
Suddenly Alexander the lizard becomes an immensely valuable object, sought by cold-blooded and violent people.
Luke's brains and compassion won't be enough to protect Alexander - something his anarchic sister Gatta could have told him - not even with help from the fearsome Shona, paleogeologist and AFLW Goddess.
Meanwhile Alexander - teeth, claws and appetite - is growing, changing and learning to communicate.
Can Luke find his own ferocity and ruthlessness to counter the odds stacked against them?
A sci-fi romp through present-day Hobart - featuring zoology, comparative anatomy and venture capitalism - that asks deeper questions about human responsibility towards animals, the earth and each other, and the truth that power goes to the person most prepared to wield it.
The Diemen Alexander is an adventure full of narrow escapes and fail-to-escapes, an XH Holden ute, shameful misuse of really excellent whisky, and a distressing amount of fast food.


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The Dizzying Heights

Ross Fitzgerald; Ian McFadyen
9781925736311
2019-10-30
A$9.99
Hybrid Publishers

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In this 7th book of the highly acclaimed Grafton Everest Series, our indolent hero, Professor Dr Everest (former lecturer in Lifestyles and Wellbeing at the University of Mangoland) is surprised to find himself President of the newly minted Republic of Australia. Luckily he manages to avoid any actual work or duties, save heading the newly created Department of Wellbeing, and leaves on a goodwill tour of the US.
 
Here, he is courted by both Democrats and Republicans as a possible US Presidential candidate. After further discoveries, including a secret society of retired spies and bionic clones, he returns to Australia to find that the Department of Wellbeing has become a ruthless dictatorship that has brought the nation to a stop. It is now up to Professor Dr Everest to save the country …
 
This is slapstick that tickles the funny bone while the satirical barbs penetrate the shifty shibboleths of today’s progressive orthodoxies!


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The Essential Ingredient - Love

Tracy Madden
9781922036612
2016-05-01
A$9.99
Brolga Publishing

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With her passion for love and food, Chilli Montgomery is at a stage in her life when it seems life itself could not get much better: a happy marriage to her childhood sweetheart, and a successful business with her son in their restaurant. However, all is not as it seems and Chilli is unprepared for what this next chapter of her life brings. In minutes, the world she once knew is shattered and nothing will ever be the same again. Not even her infatuation and adoration of food.
Set against the backdrop of many phenomenal Queensland locations, with Paris weaving its magic in and out, on this gastronomic journey of indulgence you will enjoy every meal with the Montgomerys and be touched by their tears and laughter as they become a part of your life.


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The Fifth Identity

Ray CW Scott
9781925281514
2015-12-01
A$9.99
Ray Scott

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A man is discovered murdered in a hotel in London and police investigations have difficulty in establishing who committed the crime and are also unable to find a motive.
The investigation is further complicated when it is discovered that the victim is a millionaire businessman and that he has died intestate, has never made a will and apparently has no close family. His lawyers are appointed as administrators of his estate and have the task of trying to trace beneficiaries, but soon discover that the deceased is not who he claimed to be, he has been living and transacting business under a false name for years.
A firm of private investigators is appointed to establish his true identity and to find beneficiaries to his estate, and to find out why he has been living a double life for all those years. Their investigations have to track back to the years prior to the Great War of 1914-18 and to the subsequent conflict of 1939-45 to ascertain who he was, a search that takes them through government departments, through M.I.5 and to country towns in England, to New York and to Australia before they are able to resolve the mystery.

First published in 2011 as 'The Man Who Had Five Lives'


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The Fifth Season

Kerry B Collison
9781877006074
2011-03-01
A$9.99
Sid Harta Publishers

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In the aftermath of Indonesia's economic collapse, Chinese women are targeted by the President's son-in-law's reckless and brutal Special Forces.
In an evolving Islamic climate, anti-Chinese sentiment drives the country to the brink of collapse as international interest is heightened by factual, photojournalist accounts, of true stories of survival.


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The Fighting Man
AD 1066
Adrian Deans
9780987612939
2017-12-01
A$6.99
Adrian Deans

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A Tale of Love and Revenge
Set Against History's Bloody Backdrop...
 
In the year 1060, young Brand Holgarsson's family are wiped out in a Viking raid arranged by Brand's treacherous uncle Malgard. Malgard is named thegn of the town of Stybbor in East Anglia while Brand is made outlaw and hunted through the woods by Malgard's men, determined to extinguish the last possible claim to Malgard's thegnship.
 
Aided by a strange young woman, Valla, who claims to be 242 years old, Brand escapes and is befriended by Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex and the choice of the Saxon nobles to be king after the childless Edward (the Confessor). Brand nurses his dream of vengeance over Malgard while sharing Harold's perils and waiting for Valla who will only return from The Place of Dreams if Brand has remained true to his promise to lie with no other woman.
 
All stories come together at the Battle of Hastings, where Harold's great banner, The Fighting Man, flew above the field at Senlac Ridge in opposition to the papal cross carried by William the Bastard.
 
"Not since reading Sharpe have I felt such a sense of being in the story. Outstanding." - Stuart Quin, Full Circle Films
 
"I read it on the train, walking down the street, well after my usual bed time and when I was supposed to be working. Even though I knew exactly where the story was headed, I was compelled to know what happened next." - Jane B Rawson, From The Wreck

 

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