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  • The Age of Fibs

    stories, memoir, microlit - new & selected

    by Beth Spencer ...
    An award-winning collection that crosses boundaries of genre, time, history and desire, exploring how we create ourselves through culture and stories, and why this matters.An Angel is suspended beneath a forest-green canopy; a girl watches Bewitched and dreams of being part of a coven; a man struggles to wrest back control of his story; and the cast of Fatal Attraction is let loose on the streets ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Vagabondage

    my year living in a campervan

    by Beth Spencer ...
    In this playful verse memoir about a year spent living in a camper van, Australian author Beth Spencer takes us on a journey into the pleasures and challenges of being in service to freedom.A poignant, sharp and funny meditation on belonging -- circling back and forth between family, relationships, memory and desire – her story tracks the often fine line between solitude and loneliness, the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Engagement Party

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    It's 1925 and change is everywhere, even in rural Australia - but is Flora ready? Includes bonus material from Kimberley Freeman's captivating new Jazz age novel, Evergreen Falls. Flora Honeychurch-Black awakens on the day of her engagement party excited yet somehow unsettled. Throughout the day, despite the well-meaning attention of her friend Liberty and the distraction of the household's many ... Read more

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  • The Queen of Bloody Everything

    by Joanna Nadin ...
    Joanna Nadin's first novel for adults, The Queen of Bloody Everything, is about mothers, daughters and how we can make many choices in life but can't choose where we come from.As Edie Jones lies in a bed on the fourteenth floor of a Cambridge hospital, her adult daughter Dido tells their story, starting with the day that changed everything.That was the day Dido – aged exactly six years and twenty ... Read more

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  • Close to Midnight

    Edited by Mark Morris ...
    Series series The Flame Tree Book of Horror
    An exceptional third book in the horror anthology series which Publishers Weekly highlighted as “Beautifully written pieces that lean into the intuitive and fantastic.”Close to Midnight is the third volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 ... Read more

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  • The Best Australian Stories

    A Ten-Year Collection

    Edited by Black Inc. ...
    The best of the best …This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian fiction ... Read more

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  • Things I Learned at Art School

    by Megan Dunn ...
    Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at Art School tells the story of her early life and coming-of-age in New Zealand in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. From her parents’ divorce to her Smurf collection, from the mean girls at school to the mermaid movie Splash!, from her work in strip clubs and massage parlours (and one steak ... Read more

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  • Untwisted: The Story of My Life

    by Paul Jennings ...
    Honest, insightful, funny - a brilliant memoir about writing and teaching and life from one of Australia's most loved children's authors.In the telling of his own tale, children's author and screenwriter Paul Jennings demonstrates how seemingly small events can combine into a compelling drama. As if assembling the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle he puts together fragments, memories and anecdotes to ... Read more

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  • The Wig My Father Wore

    by Anne Enright ...
    From the winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering. "Clever, unsettling, and thoroughly modern . . . We can hear echoes of the Joyce of Dubliners." — The New York Times Book ReviewThe second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all.Grace is ... Read more

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  • Elegance

    A Novel

    by Kathleen Tessaro ...
    An enchanting, bittersweet novel for every woman who has ever longed for a fairy godmother.Louise Canova should be happy and in love. But her actor-husband seems to be growing distant and she doesn’t know why. Is it her fault? Riddled with uncertainty, the insecurity she thought she’d left behind in adolescence comes back to haunt her. But when she discovers a faded volume entitled ELEGANCE in a ... Read more

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  • Curious Men

    He-time Tales

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    Something different! Short stories that surprise, pique and intrigue.This companion volume to Me-Time Tales: tea breaks for mature women and curious men-- now allows the men to have their say...only not completely without interruption from mature women.A collection of unusual short stories that delve into the minds of a variety of curious men: hooked on meteorites, tractor parts, foreign parts, ... Read more

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