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Now available for order, exciting new titles by some of Australia's most talented authors, including Libby Hathorn, Hazel Edwards, Edel Wignell, Chris Mansell, Anne Morgan and David P Reiter. IP print titles are available internationally through our partners Lightning Source (Ingrams), CreateSpace (Amazon) and Small Press Distribution. Our eBooks can be ordered from Overdrive, Amazon (Kindle), iBookstore (Apple) and Kobo (more details below). Or you can order directly from IP: sales@ipoz.biz.

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MyPlanets

Non-fiction: Memoir

My Planets: a fictive memoir

David P Reiter

PB & eBk: 15 Oct
CD: Now

My Planets is in fact a suite of works – a physical book; an enhanced eBook incorporating images, music, sound and video with spoken word and text, a film. Like most of David P Reiter's work, it challenges the boundaries, changing shape with the message, inviting the reader to time-travel on a Tardis of the mind.

Making his planets your own.

Paper (224pp): ISBN 9781921869556; AU$30
US$24
NZ$32.99
£15.95

Enhanced CD (eBook + images + music): ISBN 9781921869570;
AU$25
US$20
NZ$27
£12.95

CodaforShirley

Verse Novel
Coda for Shirley

Geoff Page

PB & eBk: 15 Oct

Coda for Shirley is the sardonic yet poignant sequel to Geoff Page's successful 2006 verse novel, Lawrie & Shirley: The Final Cadenza.

 

Paper (96pp): ISBN 9781921869303; AU$25
US$18
£13
NZ$28

ePub: ISBN 9781921869310; AU$13
US$10
£7
NZ$15

Edge Music

Poetry
Edge Music
Stuart Cooke

PB & eBk: 15 Oct

Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes – be they geographical or historical.

 

Paper (104pp): ISBN 9781921869426; AU$25
US$18
£13
NZ$28

ePub: ISBN 9781921869433; AU$13
US$9
£7
NZ$15

MenBrieflyExplained

Poetry
Men Briefly Explained
Tim Jones

Men Briefly Explained explores all aspects of contemporary manhood, the humourous and not so humourous, where men are in relation to women and to society in general.

 

Paper (72pp): ISBN 9781921869327; AU$25
US$18
£13
NZ$27

ePub: ISBN 9781921869334; AU$13
US$10
£6.95
NZ$15

TonguesofAsh

Poetry
Tongues of Ash

Keith Westwater

Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2011.

Keith Westwater's poetry arises from his appreciation and love of the New Zealand landscape. Well-travelled throughout the land, the poet evokes memories as he revisits places invested with emotion, history and spirituality.

Paper (92pp): ISBN 9781921869266; AU$25
US$18
£12.95
NZ$27

ePub: ISBN 9781921869273; AU$13
US$10
£6.95
NZ$15

WaterOverStone

Poetry
Water Over Stone

Laura Jan Shore

 

Winner, IP Picks 2011, Best Poetry.

Like water spilling over stones, these poems seem to bubble up from the depths.

These are luminous reflections on the complex and sometimes fraught relationships between society and the natural world.

Paper (92pp): ISBN 9781921869280; AU$25
US$18
£12.95
NZ$27

ePub: ISBN 9781921869297; AU$13
US$10
£6.95
NZ$15

YellowcakeSprings

Science Fiction
Yellowcake Springs
Guy Salvidge

Winner, IP Picks Best Fiction, 2011

Welcome to Yellowcake Springs; a pristine, friendly, secure community of citizens involved in the maintenance of one of Western Australia's CIQ Sinocorp nuclear reactor facilities.

 

Paper (184pp): ISBN 9781876819174;
AU$30
US$25
NZ$33
£14

ePub: ISBN 9781921869181
AU$16
US$16
NZ$18
£9

NullarborSC

Film
David P Reiter

David Reiter's latest film celebrates the beauty and spirituality of one of Australia's iconic landscapes through voices present and past. Based on a poetic song cycle published in The Age Monthly.

DVD (30 min); ISBN 9781921869167; $20

CityPossibilities

Poetry
Jane Williams

Jane Williams, winner of the Anne Elder Award and the D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship, continues to test the boundaries of what poetry can be rather than what many people assume it is.

Paper (84pp): ISBN 9781921869105; $25

ePub: ISBN 9781921869112; $11.95

YesterdayToday

Poetry
Amelia Fielden, Kathy Kituai

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is an innovative project continuing and developing the collaborative relationship between two fine poets, juxtaposing tanka in diary form.

Paper (144pp): ISBN 9781921869082; $25

ePub: ISBN 9781921869099; $11.95

AboutFace

Picture Book
Robert Moore / MonkeyStack

About Face is a humorous illustrated children's book about a dream in which ears, eyes, nose and mouth become detached from the narrator's face, taking on lives of their own.

Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921869129; $26

ePub: ISBN 9781921869136; $13

SavedByBomb

Non-Fiction
Eric Leadbetter

Gets at the truth still hidden away in Government archives about what happened after the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, from the perspective of those who were forced to work on the Burma Railway and other prisoner of war camps.

 

Paper (128pp): ISBN 9781921869198; $26.95

Love You Book

Picture Book
Libby Hathorn / Heath McKenzie

This reminds us of all the books we love, and why we like to see and to feel, to touch and to smell and even to taste the books and the stories that light up our lives.

Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479692; $26

ePub: ISBN 9781921479908; $13

Shades of Exodus

Fiction
Barry Levy

Shades of Exodus revolves around the true story of a South African family who flee the violence of South Africa only to fall victim to a vicious and bloody crime in Australia.

Is paradise always what it seems? And is there ever a way back?

Paper (296pp): ISBN 9781921869013; $33

ePub: ISBN 9781921869020; $16.95

Sky Dreamer

Picture Book
Anne Morgan / Céline Eimann

The Sky Dreamer is an achingly beautiful and ultimately comforting picture book about a young child learning to take control of his life after the death of a loved one.

This title was supported by the Australia Council in its 2010 Grants round.

Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479977; $26

ePub: ISBN 9781921479984; $13

Schadenvale Road

Short Fiction
Chris Mansell

Schadenvale Road is a place that exists in all the secret hearts. In these stories, old women rebel, God is chained but breaks free, lovers accidentally kill each other, friends are saviours and the world is seriously never quite serious.

Paper (228pp): ISBN 9781921479946; $30

ePub: ISBN 9781921479953; $16

Lyli Meets Stone-Muncher

Picture Book
Céline Eimann

When Lyli sets out on her expedition, she finds a lot more than she bargained for. Were the legends true all along? And what's really over the mountains?

A lively story of friendship, adventure and extending your horizons.

Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479991; $26

ePub: ISBN 9781921869006; $13

Penny in Time

Junior Fiction
Anna Bartlett

Yared stumbles upon a box of old coins in his nanna's bedroom and things begin to change. Worlds open up before him and lives are linked across the decades as Yared discovers truths he never knew about history, love and belonging.

Celebrating 100 years since the first Australian penny.

Paper (208pp): ISBN 9781921479489; $17

ePub: ISBN 9781921479731; $10

Christina's Matilda

Picture Book
Edel Wignell / Elizabeth Botté

'Banjo' Paterson became famous for 'Waltzing Matilda'. But Christina Macpherson's part in the song's creation was forgotten and she disappeared from history until the 1970s. Come a-waltzing with Christina now and discover her story.

Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479465; $26

ePub: ISBN 9781921479885; $13

Long Live Us!

Picture Book
Edel Wignell / Peter Allert

Clever traps, lucky escapes and unwelcome surprises combine in this fascinating fractured fairytale as a hungry troll is outwitted by fairy tale characters like Goldlilocks, the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs.

Cloth (37pp): ISBN 9781921479878; $26

ePub: ISBN 9781921869065; $13

Tiger

Junior Fiction
David P Reiter

After their early success with Project Earth-Mend in The Greenhouse Effect and Global Cooling, in Tiger Tames the Min Min, our hero heads for the Australian Outback with his friends Wanda the Blue-tongue and the magical extraterrestrial Tark (who is disguised most of the time as a frog, but who can shape change at will into characters like Elvis Presley or Madonna) and the spaced out crow Syd to spread the word about how to save the Earth.

Paper (208pp): ISBN 9781921479748; $16.95

ePub: ISBN 9781921479755; $9.99

Taste of Apple

Verse Novel + Enhanced Music /Spoken Word CD
James Laidler / Don Stewart

Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2010

Pedro Jones is lost. Abandoned by his father and forced into commission housing with his Filipino immigrant mother, the future seems bleak.

But when Pedro meets the 'mad' street busker, Johnny Lazzaro, and gets involved with the East Timor freedom movement, life takes an unexpected detour through the uncharted backblocks of the human heart.

In The Taste of Apple, James Laidler deftly crafts a cast of vivid characters in this gritty story of self discovery, justice and belonging.

 

Paper (332pp): ISBN 9781921479816; $30

Enhanced CD (eBook + music): ISBN 9781921479823; $25

ePub: ISBN 9781921479830; $13.95

DuckStar1

Junior Fiction
Hazel Edwards / Christine Anketell / Mini Goss

In the first two back-to-back stories in the two book DuckStar Series, a Duck with attitude joins Goat, Sheep and Pig to do a TV commercial to raise funds to save the Children's Farm, in spite of threats from the Cyberfarm and ferals.

Paper (96pp): ISBN 9781921479571; $17.99

ePub: ISBN 9781921479588; $8.99

DuckTour

Junior Fiction
Hazel Edwards / Christine Anketell / Mini Goss

In the second DuckStar book, the crew perform a version of Aida to save a community church from a apartment development. They tour to the Outback and everything's going well until it starts to rain...

Paper (84pp): ISBN 9781921479809; $17.99

ePub: ISBN 9781921479861; $8.99

 

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