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2013
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Shortlisted for Small Publisher of the Year 2012
JULY 2013
‘…[Lucas’] control of line patterns, the vigour and clarity of her perceptions, her poise and light-footed music pervade the book in moving ways.There is a questing, vulnerable sensuousness here, yet the overall spirit of her poetry is reverence and joy.’ judith beveridge
Even in the Dark ROSE LUCAS
Even in the Dark contains delicate poems of the lives of women and the exquisite beauty contained in the act of observation. In a collection evoking luminescent images, Lucas explores nature and beauty, love and travel, in poems set at home and further afield. The entire lifespan is present here: in vitro to last hours; developing and then ageing bodies captured in wisps of lovely images. Images that also contain danger and risk. In this, her first volume of poetry, Rose Lucas has distilled years of writing into an impressive selection. POETRY ISBN 9781742585321 128 PP, PAPERBACK $24.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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JULY 2013
‘Everything…is immaculately constructed…We find an Australia rendered by experience and exposure worthy of excavation, of an attention that gives rise to an elegant, sure-footed, home-grown art.’ katharine coles, utah state poet laureate 2006–12
Six Different Windows PAUL HETHERINGTON
Ranging across art and poetry, the past and the present, homelands and far-off lands, Six Different Windows meditates on childhood, riffs on mythology, and draws on the familiar. Paul Hetherington’s new collection chronicles life in all its beauty and strangeness. Exquisitely poised and richly engaging, it further cements his national and international reputation.
POETRY ISBN 9781742585086 112 PP, PAPERBACK $24.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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AUGUST 2013
A riveting story of personal loss, woven with intellectual and historical investigations of fire in the Australian landscape, mythologies of fire, and ideas of loss, home and community.This is stimulating writing, edged with beauty, grief and hope. Gardens of Fire An investigative memoir ROBERT KENNY
In 2009, as the Black Saturday fires swept Victoria, writer and historian Robert Kenny defended his home in Redesdale. His fire plan was sound and he was prepared. But the reality of the fire was more ferocious and more unpredictable than he could have imagined. By the end of the day, his house and everything within it was gone. The years that followed were marked by grieving, recovering and eventually rebuilding – a process starkly framed by the choice between remembering and forgetting. Gardens of Fire is both an intimate memoir and a meditative analysis, historical and cultural, of living with the reality that, as humans, we are children of fire. NON-FICTION/MEMOIR ISBN 9781742585109 272 PP, PAPERBACK $29.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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AUGUST 2013
‘Macris reveals himself as a writer of fascinating originality…Nothing escapes the camera eye of [his] haunting, impersonal and precise prose…[as] its attention passes, with icy unconcern.’ andrew riemer, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Capital Volume One ANTHONY MACRIS
Anthony Macris’ highly acclaimed debut novel takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the overcrowded Tube tunnels of London. In a London Underground station during the build-up to peak hour: a penniless tourist, hefting an enormous backpack, is almost pushed off the crowded platform; an elderly woman craves a cigarette while staring at a government health warning; a pregnant mouse struggles to escape an oncoming train. New edition to accompany Macris’ new novel, Great Western Highway: A Love Story (Capital, Volume One, Part Two). FICTION ISBN 9781742585666 224 PP, PAPERBACK $19.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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SEPTEMBER 2013
‘For as long as I can remember, everything in France seems to be related to food and sweets.We are always eating, cooking and talking about it… merci Louis XIV!’ Pâtissier EMMANUAL MOLLOIS
Pâtissier is the definitive guide for lovers of French pastries and desserts. Under Emmanuel’s lively tutelage, anyone — from the curious home cook to the passionate pastry chef — can apply the techniques of the masters to create classic and delicious cakes, biscuits, pastries, desserts, macarons, tarts, and even the infamous croquembouche. This is a staple for anyone’s pantry.
FOOD ISBN 9781742584966 288 PP, HARDBACK $55.00
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SEPTEMBER 2013
Dwoort Baal Kaat & Yira Boornak Nyininy KIM SCOTT, RUSSELL NELLY, HAZEL BROWN, ROMA WINMAR AND THE WIRLOMIN NOONGAR LANGUAGE AND STORIES PROJECT WITH ARTWORK BY HELEN (ING) HALL AND ANTHONY (TROY) ROBERTS
A man goes hunting for some tucker with a pack of dogs, but he doesn’t get what he expected. Dwoort Baal Kaat is the story of how two different animals are related to one another. Left stranded in a tree by his wife, a Noongar man has to rely on his wadjela friend to help him back down. Yira Boornak Nyininy is a story of forgiveness and friendship. Presented in both Noongar and English, these art books will inspire and delight all ages. Previous books in this series include Mamang and Noongar Mambara Bakitj.
ILLUSTRATED ISBN 9781742585116 & 9781742585123 36 PP, PAPERBACK $24.99 EACH
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SEPTEMBER 2013
‘As Wirlomin Noongar, we hope these stories will help you feel the human, cultural pulse of this part of the oldest continent on Earth.’
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OCTOBER 2013
‘I fixed my mind on the power of love, to the extent of painting it.’ Stan Hopewell Facing the Stars TED SNELL
When war veteran Stan Hopewell’s beloved wife Joyce became crippled with illness, he turned to art as a means of expressing his incredible love for her, and his belief in the power of God. Though he had never painted in his life, art became his means of expressing love, of dealing with hardship, and of celebrating the life that he and Joyce had shared. This is the powerful and life-affirming biography of a man compelled to paint not by his passion for art, but by an inherent creative spirit. Ted Snell moves from the story of one man to the creative journeys of self-taught artists and their ineffable drive to create. This book documents that brief moment of creative focus and energy that turns ordinary people into artists. ART/BIOGRAPHY ISBN 9781742585130 194 PP, ILLUSTRATED FLEXICOVER $34.99
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OCTOBER 2013
Is life worth living after the death of an only child? Stella’s Sea SALLY-ANN JONES
Stella moves from her wheatbelt family home to a run-down house in Cottesloe on WA’s coast. Her daughter, Miff, has died in a motorbike accident; her husband can’t bear her; her father is in a nursing home; her brother is overseas. Her only motivation for living is her daughter’s dog. Every morning Stella walks with Miff’s dog along the beach. She’s not a part of the scene even though she’s conspicuous in her beekeeper things and mismatched garments. Her yellow scarf sparks the interest of Ari, an ex-prisoner and coastcare volunteer. As a new friendship slowly forms, Stella recollects her past and battles with her guilt. But can she acknowledge the guilt that prevents her from moving into the future? FICTION ISBN 9781742583570 200 PP, PAPERBACK $24.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK
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OCTOBER 2013
Fourteen mesmerising fables and the etchings they inspired draw us back to our antipodean origins in a garden of sorrow and exile, death and renewal, beauty and melancholy. The Garden of Sorrows JOHN HUGHES
John Hughes re-imagines fables in which animals take on human qualities, as thief and actor, warrior and poet, farmer and merchant. These are reverse fables – in the way that Australia reverses northern hemisphere logic – that cast us back to the flux at the beginning of the world; inchoate nature, the world in a state of formation, the garden and the inferno. Accompanied by artist Marco Luccio’s darkly wry etchings, this collaboration between two artists is as unique as the stories it contains.
FICTION/FABLES ISBN 9781742585147 152 PP, ILLUSTRATED HARDBACK $29.99
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NOVEMBER 2013
‘The chunk of land bordering Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland is known as Namatjira. For most of us it is remote; geographically and metaphorically it is the heart of Australia.’ A Country in Mind Memoir with Landscape SASKIA BEUDEL
After a period of loss, and much change, Saskia Beudel began walking. Within eighteen months she had walked in the Snowy Mountains, twice along the south coast of Tasmania, the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs, the Arnhem Land plateau in Kakadu, the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, and in Ladakh in the Himalayas. Throughout the course of her journeys, she experienced passages of reverie, of forgetfulness, of absorption in her surroundings, of an immense but simple pleasure, and of rhythm. A rhythm that began to integrate into thoughts, words, language. A Country in Mind is a narrative memoir of one woman’s reflections on home, family and belonging while traversing remote and ancient landscapes. NON-FICTION/MEMOIR ISBN 9781742584942 320 PP, PAPERBACK, B&W ILLUSTRATIONS $29.99 ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK
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NOVEMBER 2013
‘He never knew his name, he never knew his mother, he never knew his family, he never knew his people, he never knew his country. Born Alice Springs, 4th January, 1973, murdered Perth, 4th January, 1992… because he was black.’ A Boy’s Short Life The true story of Warren Braedon/Louis Johnson ANNA HAEBICH AND STEVE MICKLER
Warren Braedon, named by his adoptive parents Louis St John Johnson, was taken from his mother in Alice Springs at just three months old. Told he had been abandoned, Louis’s adoptive parents, Bill and Pauline Johnson, raised him in a loving family in Perth. Yet Louis was increasingly targeted by school bullies and police for his Aboriginality. Attempts to find his natural family in Alice Springs were 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 Generations, A Boy’s Short Life captures the dark heart of racism in modern Australia. BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY ISBN 9781742585079 96 PP, PAPERBACK, COLOUR IMAGE INSERT $17.99
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NOVEMBER 2013
Forthcoming from Kate Campbell
On 7 November 2007, twenty-year-old Kate Campbell suffered life-threatening injuries when the boat she was on crashed into a pylon on the Swan River. She wasn’t expected to wake up from her coma, but she did – only to face an arduous recovery that would include bouts of depression, multiple surgeries and physical rehabilitation. What also lay ahead was a long legal battle after she sued the driver of the boat, Luke Woollard, who had been drunk behind the wheel. After five years in the courts her resolve for justice, along with a chance encounter with a top lawyer, finally saw the case settle in 2012. An inspiring and gripping story of a young woman determined to regain her life against any obstacle. MEMOIR ISBN 9781742585369 PAPERBACK $26.99
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NOVEMBER 2013
Forthcoming from Andrew Whitehouse
Dr Andrew Whitehouse takes on thirteen pregnancy and parenting myths: from choosing the gender of your baby, to baby brain for new mothers; from the imaginary friends children create, to the impact of violent video games. Dr Whitehouse combines stories from modern parenting and tales from history with scientific research to bust open some of the best myths around, providing reassurance for the challenges of parenthood – and some fascinating dinner party conversation starters.
NON-FICTION/ POPULAR SCIENCE ISBN 9781742585376 PAPERBACK $29.99
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