A New Tense by Jo Day
$20.00 AUD
Category: Queer Fiction
After a traumatic event in Melbourne, Laurie escapes to Berlin, only to have to come back six months later to bury her estranged mother. She tries to reconnect with her best friend, Jones, who’s ignoring her. But she’s doing fine. More or less. Set in a boozy and drug-fuelled summer in Melbourne, A New ...Show more
A Nice Normal Family
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category
Jackson “Jacko” Smith is dyslexic, but like many people affected by the learning disability, he is highly intelligent. His best friend Sammy Collins helps him get through school and unlocks his potential. Jacko progresses through the ranks of local government until Mother Nature intervenes and the strai ...Show more
A Private Life: Fragments, memories, friends by Michael Kirby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Michael Kirby is one of Australia's most admired public figures. At a time of spin and obfuscation, he speaks out passionately and straightforwardly on the issues that are important to him. Even those who disagree with him have been moved by the courage required of him to come out as a high-profile gay ...Show more
A Question of Age: Women, Ageing and the Forever Self by Jacinta Parsons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies
A beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging. Warning: this is not a self-help book. Or, a helpful book, necessarily. No one really needs 'help' with ageing. It will happen no matter what we do. Ne ...Show more
A Real Piece of Work: A Memoir in Essays by Erin Riley
$24.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
'Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.' Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most- family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard g ...Show more
A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia's All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls meets Amelia Earhart. It's the real-life story of a daring Australian woman who did something extraordinary - then met an early, mysterious end. From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasur ...Show more
A Travelling Lark by Diana Reynolds
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category
n Paris, Lark tells her fiancE Martin she is pregnant, news he takes badly. Weeks before, they arrive in Paris to stay with their friends Jordy and Guil. On holiday their sex life escalates. Lark's periods are irregular and a taken pregnancy test proves positive. Lark and Martin argue about the baby i ...Show more
A Trillion Tiny Awakenings by Candy Royalle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Listen to this non-prophet, This high priestess of poetry: No more hatred, just love, We are pure love, we are pure love. And this gathering, every gathering Is sacred. Listen. Candy Royalle was a spoken word poet par excellence, presenting her words and ideas with dynamism and passion. In a short 37 ye ...Show more
A War of Loves - The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus by David Bennett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
David Bennett came out to his parents as gay when he was fourteen and entered Sydney's active gay community a few years later. In A War of Loves, he shares his growing desire as a gay rights activist to see justice for LGBTQI people, his journey through new age religions and French existentialism, and h ...Show more
ABC Dreaming by Warren Brim (Illustrator)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Political, cultural or just plain great
Dingoes, bats, red-eyed green tree frogs ...an ABC of amazing Australian creatures At last ...a unique Australian ABC book. Featuring the artwork of celebrated Queensland artist Warren Brim, ABC Dreaming introduces young children to their alphabet and the beauty of Indigenous art in a bright and fun way ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Aboriginal Country by Lisa Bellear; Jen Jewel Brown (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Much of Lisa Bellear's poetry is politics made eloquent. In Aboriginal Country many poems seem to spark with frustrated energy over Australia's political crossed circuits regarding a treaty with our First Nations peoples - as promised by Prime Minister Hawke in 1988. Reading the title poem for the first ...Show more