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Murder You Wrote
An Interactive Mystery
L.J.M. Owen
9781922904539
2023-11-01
A$11.99
Clan Destine Press

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One story. Twenty writers. Your choice.
 
Murder You Wrote: An Interactive Mystery is a choose-your-own-investigation murder mystery set in remote Tasmania, a world of stunning beauty, dark history and deadly creatures.
You are a retired police detective invited to speak at a crime fiction writers festival. You are looking forward to a weekend with some of Australia's bestselling authors.
You're staying in a convict-built country manor house along with five other guests of the festival. The other guests don't exactly get along.
You awake to discover the homestead is cut off. Overnight, storms flooded the only road out, the internet is down... and a world-famous writer is missing.
You discover his body in the library.
Certain that one of the four remaining guests was responsible for his death, you decide to investigate.
Which suspect will you interrogate first?
Which clues will you follow?
Can you solve the case?
 
Contributors: Alison Alexander, Sarah Barrie, Karen Brooks, Jack Cainery, R.B. Cole, Alan Carter, Natalie Conyer, Craig Cormick, E.K. Cutting, Livia Day, Jo Dixon, Jacq Ellem, Jason Franks, Narrelle M. Harris, Carys King, Angela Meyer, Allison Mitchell, David Owen, L.J.M. Owen, Matthew D. Ruffin, E.V. Scott, Marion Stoneman, Maggie Veness, Sarah White, and Z.E. Davidson
 
Appealing to mystery lovers everywhere, purchasing this criminally good book supports the mentoring of new writers and literacy for adults.


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Murder, Mayhem & Men On Pause

Sandy Curtis
9781922904485
2023-07-01
A$11.99
Clan Destine Press

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A bankrupt husband, a dead body, and a copy more sexy than the legal limit.
Just when Ellie Cummins is free to shed her corporate wife image, she finds the body of a young woman in an apartment she’s been hired to re-design. Her fledgling business depends on this contract, so she tries to ignore the long-buried grief the trauma exposes.
When Ellie learns her daughter has a personal connection to the victim, and the police have no leads, she and friends Cass and Kandy decide to investigate the murder. But Brisbane’s alleyways are dark and their detective skills dubious, so how far will they go for justice?
Kandy once lived a hard life on the streets, but will uncovering her husband's secret life destroy all she’s achieved since then?
Is solid, dependable Cass as content with her life as she seems?
And is the cop who responded to their call more interested in Ellie than the investigation?
For the three friends, it's a time of change and self-discovery. And the realisation that life, like love, doesn’t play fair.


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Newt, Lutes and Bandicoots
Rhymes and Riddles to Make You Giggle
Mark Carthew; Mike Spoor
9780648446897
2023-11-01
A$4.99
Leaping Lizards Press

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Newts playing lutes and striped bandicoots
Floating around under bright parachutes...
 
Dive into any page of this action-packed book of rhymes, riddles and pictures and be lost for hours. Can you find a flute, a suit or a boot? What about a bed, a thread or a newlywed?
Each rhyme and riddle is a clue to the different creatures, people, places, actions, or things to be found on each page.
Hours of fun for everyone!


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Only Sound Remains

Hossein Asgari
9781922571960
2023-07-01
A$9.99
Puncher & Wattmann

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Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is surprised when Ismael, his father who has never left Iran, announces that he is travelling to Adelaide to visit him. During his short stay, Ismael tells Saeed the story of his unrequited love for Forugh Farrokhzad - the most controversial poet of modern Iran. The story makes Saeed see his father in a new light, and leaves him with the burning question: had his father, unwittingly, played a role in Forugh's death?


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Orlando's Garden

Stephanie Paulsen; Valery Vell
9781922678126
2023-07-01
A$3.99
Little Steps Publishing

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Orlando lives in an apartment in the city, but that doesn’t stop him and his family from having an amazing garden.
Orlando grows all sorts of colourful fruits and vegetables with the help of his mummy and daddy.
What could you grow in your garden?
There are lots of playful cats to spot in this book.
Can you find them?


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Pandemonium

Ross Fitzgerald; Ian McFadyen
9781922768148
2023-09-01
A$9.99
Hybrid Publishers

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The bumbling and eternally famished Grafton Everest appointed as the first Australian Secretary-General of the United Nations? A secret game of Australian Rules football skilfully played by Tutsis and Dinkas in a tiny African state?
In this novel our hapless hero reaches the culmination of his haphazard career. Despite Grafton’s fervent hope that it will be a purely honorary position, he finds himself forced to actively head an organisation not only made ineffective by its Byzantine organisation, but threatened by a deadly conspiracy within its own ranks.
Our woebegone world leader not only endures attempted kidnappings and assassination but finds that a mysterious young woman who has been assigned to write his biography is possibly not who or what she seems. On top of this unwanted intrigue, Grafton discovers that, despite having no desire to save the world, or anything else, he is an essential part of a plan, implemented by a rough-edged Australian diplomat, to avert a looming global disaster – a plan which, strangely, seems to involve Australian Rules football.
‘Pandemonium is a work of comic brilliance, a perfect consummation of the uproarious Grafton Everest series’ – Nigel Marsh, Smart, Stupid Sixty
‘Grafton Everest is a wonderful creation whom I would place without question in the ranks of Phillip Roth’s Portnoy and Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim.’ – Barry Humphries


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Reciprocity
A Celebration on the Life of Jean-Paul Delamotte
Marie Ramsland
9781923024274
2023-10-01
A$9.99
ETT Imprint

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Jean-Paul Delamotte A.M. (1931-2019) was a French writer and film producer who visited Australia in 1974, and promptly engaged with translating and promoting Australian culture through its films and books. This book celebrating his life, is a mosaic of memories that cover his zeal for a reciprocity between France and Australia, the creation of the Association Culturelle Franco-Australienne with his wife Monique in Paris, and their total immersion and engagement in aiding visiting Australian writers, filmmakers, artists, musicians, academics and students.
He claimed: 'Love of one's country coupled with love of one's chosen and adopted culture is a seductive and rewarding course to follow' (Reciprocity, 20).
From his early days as a lecturer in the French Department the University of Newcastle he tapped into the strength of Australia's new film-makers, translating Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock and utilising his links in France to get the film to French audiences. An early friendship with Frank Moorhouse enabled Frank to live and work in France to complete his Grand Days trilogy and find French publishers through Jean-Paul's translation. When Gough Whitlam was appointed Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, the Whitlams found a firm friendship with the Delamottes, and backed the evolution of A.C.F.A. As Gough exclaimed:
"Comrade, let us ... create a "little window" in Paris for Australia ... as you both have.."


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Remains To Be Told
Dark Tales of Aotearoa
Lee Murray
9781922904515
2023-10-01
A$11.99
Clan Destine Press

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Uncanny disturbances, death, and the dank breath of the native bush.
 
Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa is mired in the shifting landscape of the long white cloud, and deeply imbued with the myth, culture and character of Aotearoa-New Zealand.
Laced with intrigue, suspense, horror, and even a touch of humour, this anthology brings together stories and poems by some of the best homegrown and Kiwi-at-heart voices working in dark fiction today.
Curated by multi-award-winning editor Lee Murray with a foreword by six-time Bram Stoker Award®-winner Lisa Morton and stories and poems by:
Kathryn Burnett, Helena Claudia, Gina Cole, William Cook, Debbie Cowens, Neil Gaiman, Del Gibson, Jacqui Greaves, Denver Grenell, Tim Jones, Nikky Lee, Paul Mannering, Owen Marshall, Tracie McBride, Kirsten McKenzie, Celine Murray, Lee Murray, Dan Rabarts, Bryce Stevens, and Marty Young.
 
'New Zealand's darkest minds and brightest talents take you on a journey through the fierce mythology, stoic character, and unforgiving - yet fascinating - landscape of Aotearoa.' - Geneve Flynn, double Bram Stoker Award®-winner and editor of Black Cranes


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Shoulda Been Higher
A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100
Tom W Clarke
9781922779168
2023-10-01
A$11.99
Melbourne Books

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The Hottest 100 is a national institution.
For 30 years, triple j has held an annual countdown of its listeners' 100 favourite songs of the year, as voted by the public. It has evolved into the single most anticipated musical event of every year for millions of Australians.
The Hottest 100 is so much more than music. It's beaches, barbeques, and bonfires. It's joy and despair, drama and debate, friendship and community. This book is a celebration of everything that makes the world's greatest musical democracy so damn iconic.
Shoulda Been Higher is the definitive account of the Hottest 100 - a comedic chronicle and love letter. It's the complete picture from Augie March to Ziggy Alberts, 'Amazing' to 'Zombie'.


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Silks

Hugh McGinlay
9781922904447
2023-10-01
A$6.99
Clan Destine Press

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In the frosty Melbourne winter, milliner sleuth Catherine Kint looks for distraction in a night at the circus.
When tragedy strikes, she and her barman Boris are drawn into a new mystery.
As they draw back the metaphorical curtain, they're confronted with a troupe in chaos, a culture of secrecy, and a family in crisis.
Add in hula hooping thugs, a desperate suspect, and a nihilistic bully and you have a recipe for carnage even Catherine can't control.
Oh, and then there's Boris' love life - send in the clowns…


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Skilful Parent, Happy Child
Raising Kids Aged Six to Twelve
Anna Cohen
9781922768186
2023-07-25
A$9.99
Hybrid Publishers

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All children will be ‘hard work’, ‘difficult’ or ‘challenging’ at times. This book is intended to give you the tools you need to navigate your way through your child’s middle years (ages six to twelve) and beyond with assertiveness, decisiveness, confidence, empathy and compassion.
You will learn how to be a skilful parent and be provided with strategies that have been proven to work. They are not the magic solution to all your difficulties, but rather, a solid set of tools to help you create structure, peace and stronger outcomes for your child over time.


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Spark
How Fanfiction and Fandom Can Set Your Creativity on Fire
Atlan Merrick
9781922904027
2023-11-15
A$11.99
Improbable Press

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Spark is all about encouragement, permission, it's about firing you up.
Spark: How Fanfiction and Fandom Can Set Your Creativity on Fire hopes to help you believe that your fandom writing, drawing, podficcing - whatever you're creating right now - is, was, and ever shall be legitimate, important, and a fantastic way to expand your community, develop your skills, and above all help you find your voice in the world.
Spark's more than forty essays and interviews from best-selling writers Anne Jamison, Claire O'Dell, Diane Duane, Henry Jenkins, KJ Charles, Lyndsay Faye, Sara Dobie Bauer, and many others discuss, encourage, and shout about how fic and fandom in all their glories can absolutely inspire you, set your creativity on fire - and change your world.


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Started Out Just Drinking Beer
The Mental As Anything Story
Stuart Lloyd
9781923099036
2023-11-01
A$11.99
Puncher & Wattmann

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The Mentals went from the top of a pool table to the top of the charts. Enjoy the untold stories behind Aussie classics like: Live it Up, Too Many Times, If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?, Berserk Warriors, Egypt, The Nips are Getting Bigger, and a whole lot more. Plus tales from the road as told by Greedy, Martin, Bird, Pete & Reg - and a star-studded cast including Colin Hay, Richard Gottehrer, Mark Opitz, and Wreckless Eric - in this access-all-areas official biography.


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Successful Seniors
How to Look and Feel Ageless, Create Wealth, and Be Unforgettable
Mae-Rose O'Connell
9781925370355
2023-10-01
A$9.99
Global Publishing Group

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Reclaim your purpose and passion.
Congratulations on becoming a Senior!
You've made it over all those hurdles and you're reaching that wonderful time of life where you get to do whatever you want. No more morning commute, no more bosses, no more stressful deadlines! You have the world at your feet! While it may seem easy to just settle back and do nothing, why not mix it up a bit, break the mould and reclaim your purpose and passion. You still have lots of life to live and give. Instead of your senior years being a time of fear and stress, why not thrive in retirement where each day brings new joy and adventure? What have you got to lose?
International author, educator, therapist and successful senior, Mae-Rose O'Connell shares her 40+ years of knowledge and secrets to living a fulfilled life as a senior that's full of wealth, health and success.
By reading this practical book, you can look and feel ageless while reclaiming your purpose and passion.
You'll learn:
- How to hit the reset button on money and aging myths
- How to still contribute, belong and profit from your dreams and passions
- How to manage your dollars and avoid the traps
- Quick and simple ways to stay happy, healthy, fit and have loads of energy
- How to gain vital high-end financial guidance and advice from experts
- What other successful seniors did to enjoy life to the fullest
- How to be a benchmark in spectacular, and sizzle your way to success.
Thrive in retirement! Start your new adventure today!


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Sunshine in the Dark
Memoir of an Exceptional Cat
Vivian Bi
9781922768209
2023-08-01
A$9.99
Hybrid Publishers

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‘All my knowledge, thoughts and memories are crystal clear, and I know that, in seven days, I’ll have left this sunlit, moonlit world, together with all my earthly senses, and be truly dead – whatever that should mean.’ (P.1)
So begins the fascinating history of a remarkable cat, Toby, and his family, both two-legged and four-legged, told during the transitional period between life and death.
He has had a such rich life, a blessed one full of love, that he decides use the time he has left to tell his story, from his first days in a pet shop to his dignified death.
It is a story of love, connection between the species, adventure and escapades, wisdom and insight, sorrow and triumphs. It brings its audience into a tightly knit community, offering quirky but perceptive insights on wisdom, trust and vulnerability, and posing questions about the concepts of humanity and brutishness.
Sunshine in the Dark will intrigue, delight and amuse, and bring tears to the eyes of readers. Like Toby’s life, it’s an exceptional read and a lasting memory of a special cat.
‘For anyone who has ever felt the profoundly painful loss of a beloved pet, Vivian Bi’s beautifully moving Sunshine in the Dark offers solace, shared grief and indeed, ‘sunshine’. – Kristina Vesk OAM, Chief Executive Officer, The Cat Protection Society of NSW Limited

 

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