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TITLES JANUARY TO JUNE
2014
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FEBRUARY 2014
‘You should do a show about us,’ said Donk the safety guy. ‘I’d laugh at that.’ Mining My Own Business XAVIER TOBY
Stand-up comedian Xavier Toby is onsite somewhere in Australia working in admin to pay off his credit card debt. Damo, Pando, Jonno, Robbo, Donk, Jokka and Dale are just some of the other blokes earning a crust, attending endless safety briefings, swapping tall tales and ‘missing’ the missus out there in the middle of nowhere. With Xavier, FIFO is not life on hold — it’s life in hilarious overdrive.
MEMOIR ISBN 9781742585529 280 PP, PAPERBACK $24.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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FEBRUARY 2014
A Boy’s Short Life captures the dark heart of racism in modern Australia, through the tragic story of one teenage boy. A Boy’s Short Life The Story of Warren Braedon/Louis Johnson ANNA HAEBICH & STEVE MICKLER
Louis St John Johnson, born Warren Braedon into a Luritja and Arrernte family, was taken from his mother in Alice Springs at just three months old. Despite growing up with the love and care of his adoptive family, Louis was increasingly targeted by school bullies and police for his Aboriginality, and his attempts to find his natural family in Alice Springs was thwarted by bureaucracy. Walking home on his nineteenth birthday, Louis was brutally murdered by a group of white youths whose admitted motive was ‘because he was black’. Originally published in the multi-award winning book Broken Circles, a seminal history of the Stolen Generation. BIOGRAPHY/AUSTRALIAN HISTORY ISBN 9781742585079 130 PP, PAPERBACK $17.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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FEBRUARY 2014
Brimming with dualities, Personal Effects deals with the ambiguity of life, and the decisions we make in the hope that they will change our lives for the better. Personal Effects CARMEL MACDONALD GRAHAME
Lilith and Ross have always been moving; from Cervantes to Calgary and places in between. Now, middle-aged, the work at home has dried up and they’re back in Calgary, Canada, where decades later they have returned for yet another new start. As Lilith unpacks their apartment her mind wanders: to the beaches of the Turquoise Coast, her strained relationship with her family, the love between her and Ross, the ache of missing her daughters, and the disillusionment of her many selves – wife, mother, friend, lover, sister, daughter, artist, expat.
LITERARY FICTION ISBN 9781742585345 208 PP, PAPERBACK $24.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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MARCH 2014
The way up and the way down are the same, said Heraclitus. Ecstacies and Elegies PAUL CARTER
In this moving collection of poems the ecstasy of love coexists with the grief of death; the pain of loss is in proportion to the longing for union. The poet is lifted up, flying over the earth’s surface like a bird; he climbs and descends the stairs of foreign cities; in the breakup of a relationship he looks up from the city pavement. States of illness are translated into lucid dreams. Tours in other countries discover an inner music. A fissure in reality opens up. The poems of this debut collection are as engaging and virtuosic in their range of styles as they are generous in their imagery, continuing Paul Carter’s distinguished work in culture and the arts. POETRY ISBN 9781742585611 180 PP, PAPERBACK $24.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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MARCH 2014
‘With wisdom, courage and humour, poet and psychologist Doris Brett tackles a harrowing series of medical emergencies and puzzles…This is a literary memoir like no other.’ evelyn juers
The Twelfth Raven A memoir of stroke, love and recovery DORIS BRETT
When Doris Brett’s fit, healthy, 59-year-old husband had a massive stroke, losing the ability to speak, they were thrown into a journey of discovery. A golfball-sized blood clot in Martin’s brain was followed by a life-threatening heart condition. Later Brett learned that she carried the potentially deadly BRCA1 genetic mutation. As a psychologist, Brett was able to access and apply all the latest research on brain plasticity and neurotherapy and her husband confounded his doctors by making an exceptional recovery. In The Twelfth Raven, Brett calls on her poetic gifts to find meaning in illness and turn pain into art. MEMOIR ISBN 9781742585635 320 PP, PAPERBACK $29.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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MARCH 2014
Peter Kennedy’s insider account includes the jailing of two Premiers and the Deputy, the ruthless removal of a Premier mid-term, the election of the nation’s first female Premier, and the sensational ‘WA Inc.’ Royal Commission. Tales from Boomtown Western Australian Premiers from Brand to Barnett PETER KENNEDY
Veteran political journalist Peter Kennedy spent more than forty years observing eleven Western Australian Premiers across an extraordinary period, from 1970 to 2013. With the insightful commentary he is known for, Kennedy reflects on the state’s development and the personal manoeuvring of the eleven Premiers over a number of key decisions of the period. Speaking to former Premiers, Prime Ministers and other national figures, the result is a series of revelations that shed new light of the politics and politicians of the most dynamic period of Western Australia’s colourful history.
POLITICS/BIOGRAPHY ISBN 9781742585338 320 PP, PAPERBACK $29.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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APRIL 2014
‘This is an act of pilgrimage in writing: Annamaria Weldon seeks, and finds; she advances with tact and attention, she gives her readers the gift of seeing landscape with new eyes.’ nicolas rothwell
The Lake’s Apprentice ANNAMARIA WELDON
How do we describe a place? Annamaria Weldon offers an intimate portrait of the chain of lakes that includes Lake Clifton, between Mandurah and Bunbury on Australia’s southwest coast. The Lake’s Apprentice contains a suite of poems, with celebrated essays, and photographs and nature notes cognisant of current environmental research. This elegant testimony collapses time, evoking the long past of Bindjareb Noongar land use, and thinks through to a resilient future.
NATURE WRITING / POETRY ISBN 9781742585574 260 PP, ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK $29.99
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APRIL 2014
From the author of Breakfast with Beaverbrook, comes a second memoir of the richness to be found later in life. A Woman of Influence Science, Men & History ANN MOYAL
Written from the late years of an extraordinary life, Anne Moyal’s autobiography is a spirited narrative of her career, her relationships, her travels and the joys and challenges of ageing. Responding to a lack of biographies of older women, Moyal – eminent historian of Australian science and technology, three-times divorcée, globetrotter and now in her late eighties – continues where her earlier memoir left off, revealing the passions and people that continue to inspire her. As one of Australia’s significant intellectuals, this is both an account of her intellectual journey, and an intimate telling of a rich and remarkable life.
MEMOIR ISBN 9781742585970 240 PP, HARDBACK $34.99
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MAY 2014
Whether writing about her foiled attempt to seduce her husband, the homesick Irishman she found on the beach, or why dog-people and cat-people can never be friends, Ros Thomas does so with the humour and clarity that keep her readers coming back week after week. Was It Something I Said? Misadventures in Suburbia ROS THOMAS
A journalist for twenty-five years, Ros Thomas writes a weekly column in The Weekend West on the plights of middle-age memory, the pitfalls and blessings of being a working mum, wry observations of the everyday life, and her years reporting in the entertainment and news industry. Her stories are for anyone who has grown up, fallen in love, persevered and who is still looking for the meaning in modern life. Startlingly funny, and profoundly genuine, Ros Thomas will have you laughing, reminiscing and nodding in recognition.
NON-FICTION ISBN 9781742585567 208 PP, PAPERBACK $26.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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MAY 2014
‘It is the fashion of some people to say, “Can any good thing come out of Australia?”…However the colonies can supply the people with all the luxuries as well as the necessaries of life which they require.’ the australian monthly magazine, 1865
The Colonial Journals And the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture KEN GELDER & RACHAEL WEAVER
Colonial Australia produced a vast number of journals and magazines that helped to create an exuberant literary landscape. They were filled with lively contributions by many of the key writers and provocateurs of the day – and of the future. Writers such as Marcus Clarke, Rolf Boldrewood, Ethel Turner and Katharine Susannah Prichard published for the first time in these journals. Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver present a fascinating selection of material: a miscellany of content matched with wry visual design, revealing the attractive artifacts that demonstrate the role this period played in the growth of an Australian literary culture. AUSTRALIAN HISTORY ISBN 9781742584973 420 PP, ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK $45.00
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JUNE 2014
From the three-times winner of the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Fiction. Lost River Four Albums SIMONE LAZAROO
Ruth Joiner’s short life has not run smoothly: opportunities have fallen through the cracks at every turn. The exception is creating her daughter, Dewi, and when we meet these two at the end of Ruth’s life it is Ruth’s calm demeanour and care that makes us confident that Dewi’s future will be happier and carry more opportunity and joy. Set in South-west Australia, Lost River is a novella of dislocation and loss, and continues Simone Lazaroo’s interest in connections between Australian and South-east Asian lives.
FICTION ISBN 9781742585390 200 PP, PAPERBACK $24.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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JUNE 2014
Places that bear the boomand-bust economies and the movements of people that form part of these economies, invariably provide evidence of the consequences of living remotely. Out of Place Gwalia EDITED BY PHILIP GOLDSWAIN, NICOLE SULLY & WILLIAM TAYLOR
The final products of a large-scale research project spanning the continent, this collection of essays explores historical, geographical and cultural factors that contribute to our understanding of places and settings of Australian transient communities. From Gwalia and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, Charters Towers in Queensland, Broken Hill in New South Wales and Queenstown in Tasmania, the places provide opportunity to revisit sites of history from the different angles of architecture, landscape theory, social history and visual arts. They also provide a springboard for thinking through the pressing issues for contemporary Australians and counterparts in other ‘post-settler’ societies. AUSTRALIAN HISTORY ISBN 9781742585543 304 PP, ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK $39.99
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SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPHS
One of the most significant thinkers in literary theory and cultural studies today. The Practice of Value Essays on Literature in Cultural Studies JOHN FROW
In recent years the disciplines of literary studies and cultural studies have engaged in occasional hostilities but very rarely in productive engagement with each other’s methodologies. Yet literary and cultural studies each offer a rich set of resources for the other in a period of disciplinary crisis across the humanities, in general and within these two fields in particular. This collection of essays looks to the possibility of cross-disciplinary studies, between literate and culture. Some meditate on this intersection of disciplines, some put it into practice, some work primarily with one or the other; all seek to understand the social life of texts within the general theory of the organisation of social and cultural value. LITERARY STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES ISBN 9781742583464 352 PP, PAPERBACK $39.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPHS
‘Maybe there is something about forty years, which marks the coming to adulthood of a third generation…’ dennis altman
After Homosexual The Legacies of Gay Liberation EDITED BY CAROLYN D’CRUZ & MARK PENDLETON
On the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Dennis Altman’s crucial text Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, Carolyn D’Cruz and Mark Pendleton have complied an impressive band of writers, historians and founders of the gay liberation movement. This anthology includes chapters from founding activists of the Gay Liberation Front, from prominent historians, people reflecting on personal connections within the social movements, contemporary literary figures and academics, like Christos Tsiolkas, Anne Summers and Richard Walsh, and reproduces some the key speeches, manifestos and ephemera of the early movements. QUEER THEORY/ SOCIAL HISTORY ISBN 9781742583457 280 PP, PAPERBACK $39.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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CUSTOM BOOKS
‘Republication of this volume is welcome, both for scholars of environment and culture and for Aboriginal communities.’ john mulvaney ao cmg
Fire and Hearth A study of Aboriginal usage and European usurpation in south-western Australia SYLVIA J. HALLAM
Revised edition with a preface by John Mulvaney. Sylvia Hallam’s classic 1975 work of deep scholarship is re-released for a new audience in light of considerable interest in this subject. ‘The land the English settled was not as God made it. It was as the Aborigines made it.’ SYLVIA L . HALLAM
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY/INDIGENOUS STUDIES ISBN 9781742585994 220 PP, PAPERBACK $29.99
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CUSTOM BOOKS
Celebrating the centenary of Wesfarmers Limited, this is the incredible story of how a humble farmers’ co-operative with a paid-up capital of only £2,052 evolved into one of Australia’s top ten companies. Wesfarmers 100 The People’s Story 1914–2014 PETER THOMPSON
Wesfarmers is today a $60 billion business embracing the Coles Group, Bunnings, Target, Kmart, the Curragh and Bengalla coalmines, and other national retailers and services. Based on interviews with past and present staff and the families of the company’s founding fathers, Wesfarmers 100: The People’s Story 1914–2014 highlights the many surprising, sometimes controversial and always colourful events that accompanied the co-operative on its extraordinary journey. Rich in fascinating personalities and marked by memorable events, this book is not only a fitting tribute to the company’s founders, its bold leadership and its dedicated workforce, but holds up a mirror to Australia’s industrial development. HISTORY ISBN 9781742584997 269 PP, HARDBACK $49.99
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