Winner, IP Picks 09 Best Fiction Award.
Part comedy, part tragedy, part henna-drawn thriller peppered with romance and intrigue, A Beginner’s Guide to Dying in India is a spiritual journey across the continents of the soul.
Winner
IP Picks 2005 Best Non-Fiction. ‘ A
wonderful story of ordinary people made extraordinary through events
not of their own making, coping with a much loved but always difficult
child, and with an unheeding and incredibly unhelpful bureaucratic system.’ – Sharyn
Pearce, QUT. Endorsed by SANE, Australia.
Winner,
IP Picks 2007, Best Creative Non-Fiction. This inspiring travel memoir is about a man learning to open up to the new culture around him, letting in freedom and happiness. Written in an honest and natural voice Chris skillfully balances keen observations on Ireland, as well as historical and cultural details, with a good dose of humour.
“Alive
with wisecracks, broad jokes, puns, (‘making his bed out of procrustination’)
as it moves through rhetorical high and low styles to portray mood
swings between ‘negative optimism’ and cheerful melancholic
openness to life.” – Michael Sharkey
Kearney
lays just claim to being a Master of Limericks, Master of Obfuscation (Oxbridge),
Fellow of the Royal Society of Limerickers, Honorary Fellow of the Ancient
and Royal Society of Obfuscators in delivering limericks and satires that
are an antidote to a world that takes itself far too seriously.
The
essential reference and research guide for professional and amateur growers
of orchids. Over 100 pages of interactive text and 750 colour images
about orchid genera worldwide.
37
year-old Claire is hitting her stride as a woman behaving badly. Merle
Thornton’s novel is an exhilarating trip through a feisty woman’s
escapades in the course of a turbulent life. “Stylishly written,
clever and funny.” — Dan O’Neill
Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Fiction Award. Marked by the events of the Great Flood of 1893 and the formation of the first miners’ unions, Over My Dead Body is an Australian epic; a literary feat exemplifying a writer’s craftsmanship and dedication to bringing history alive.
Phil
Brown brings a sharp journalistic eye to subjects ranging from his childhood
in Hong Kong to Brisbane. Streetwise and accessible, these are poems confronting
everyday experience with insight and enticing wit. “An idiosyncratic
and engaging collection of poems that is fresh and wonderfully liberating.”
— Ross Fitzgerald
Gauguin
and van Gogh reflect on their stormy relationship at Arles, which may
have contributed to Vincent's suicide. A multimedia production based
on the sell-out Brisbane live performance.
Plato, an eco-warrior, and part-time plumber fixes watery problems like leaking taps, but he also fixes grumpy people with jokes or a smile spray. His tool kit is legendary.
Despite ferals along the creek bank, Plato is on call to help Zanzibar and his family who are renovating their old creekside house.
Plato the Platypus Plumber (part-time), Hazel Edwards & John Petropoulos, IPK, March, 2010. HB:
ISBN 9781921479373 $26.95.
Pumping life, the teenagers in this novel jump off the page. From the intelligent but physically abused Gray Morrow, to his heroic but temperamental older brother, Gordon, and his tragic relationship with the city-wise but sexually abused Dusty Jones, this is a world many of us fail to recognise as very much our own.
Rowbotham
has continued to write 60 years on, in a confident and lucid voice that
transcends single continents and cultures. This book is certain to earn
him that elusive literary Oscar. “Should
be nominated for a Patrick White Prize.”
— David
Gilbey
Winner,
IP Picks 2005, Best Fiction. “When an author unleashes an imaginative concept
into reality trans-global adventures conspire, best friends turn detective,
and lovers’ trails unfurl. Will dazzle the adventure-minded and armchair
travellers alike.” — IP Picks 2005 Judges’ Report
Almost
in the same breath, poet Liam Ferney tackles the legend of Babe Ruth,
the neon jungle of Surfer's Paradise, and the pathos of Monet.
This book, in Guinness Book of Records style, tells the remarkable true stories of some of Australia’s youngest heroes.
At different times and in different ways, these brave, clever, adventurous, creative, athletic, caring or enterprising young Australians have done something amazing.
In his second novel, satirist David Reiter does for the Australian education system what the BBC series Teachers did for the British system. A humourous exposé of the education system, with a serious undercurrent.
Jack performs the classic bush poems of greats like Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson, Will Ogilvie, and C J Dennis. An excellent reference work for schools and to be enjoyed by lovers of bush poetry everywhere.
Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-fiction Award
This memoir is a nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s. Mixed with undertones of delightful humour and fading innocence.
This highly illustrated DVD examines the philosophy and practices behind 'terratecture' and provides key information the reader needs to design, build and live or work in an earth-integrated building, including architectural aspects, site selection and council regulations. Also see The Healthy House.
The Best of IP 10th Anniversary Celebration CD, with nearly
400 pages of fiction, poetry, multimedia, podcasts, even a movie trailer
from some of the finest authors working in Australia today.
Australian Earth Covered and Green Building, Sydney, Joan and David Baggs, IPD, new edition, 2009. DVD, ISBN 9780975680711 $49.50.
Winner,
IP Picks 2002, Best Poetry by a Queensland Author. “Brett Dionysius
has chronicled urban and rural life, aligning myth and truth with an uncompromising
lyrical seriousness.” — Anthony Lawrence
Jon,
like many young boys, is fascinated by guns. He finds a loaded pistol hidden
under
his parents’ bed, with nearly tragic consequences. The close call
prompts his father to explain to Jon why he needs to keep the gun, forging
a much closer bond between father and son.
One of the first poetry collections in the world to explore the epic tragedy of the Iraq War. ITold from the perspectives of Iraquis and Americans alike, it's a collection that expresses the anxieties and aspirations of all those who resist the dark forces shaking our world.
Winner,
IP Picks 2007, Best Fiction. Sylvia Petter’s collection flings the reader across the globe in its bold exploration of love, death, passion, relationship, and family. Echoing her own life experience, Sylvia Petter’s award-winning stories explore universal themes through lenses of distance and separation.
One day Emme, an illegitimate daughter of a woman who hates and beats her, meets a stranger in her forest who tricks her into going through a portal to an alien city on the other side of the world.
Frightened, Emme flees into the city, and is pursued by relentless enemies who would do anything for the price on her head. Alone and vulnerable, Emme finds herself on a quest for the truth about why she has been brought here, and just who her enemies really are.
A former nurse tells it as she saw it: the dedication of medical professionals doing their best for their patients but also the limitations of people who are after all only human.
'Secret
Writing, Michael O'Sullivan's third novel, achieves
something quite rare in Australian fiction. It ventures into Patrick White's
territory, into that
strange, visionary 'country of the mind' that White made his own - and survives.' — John
Clanchy
A
Buddhist monk, Sera goes on a political and philosophical journey of discovery
that moves us beyond inertia and impotence to a state in which we can act
to make our neighbourhood and the world a better place.
The
third CD from the star of the Tamworth Music Festival’s annual Sex,
Lies and Bush Poetry event. “Whoever
it was who coined the term ‘A Knockabout Bloke’ may well have
had Jack Drake in mind.” — Bruce Simpson
A
murder mystery in multimedia! David P Reiter’s second work of literary
multimedia begins as a short novel set in Far North Queensland, but your
imagination takes you far beyond the immediate page, with links to other
works and surprising places.
Bronco Harry’s Last Ride,
Jack Drake, IPS, 2005. Audio CD: ISBN 0957847750, $25. iTunes Store samples
Sharpened Knife, David
P Reiter, IPD, 2002. Interactive (Win/Mac) CD-ROM: ISBN
1876819553 $27.50.
Commended,
Best Poetry, IP Picks 2003. Jenni Nixon’s
book is a journey of salvage through some hard lessons and difficult times,
told in a way that is atmospheric and immediate, often with a wry twist.
— Jill
Jones
Winner,
IP Picks 2004, Best Poetry.
“With
great sensitivity and compassion Nora Krouk faces and speaks of the
personal demons of her
Russian-Jewish background.” — Peter
Boyle
“These are poems that engage the senses, challenge the intellect, and
fire the imagination. They explore the mystery of what we are and our perpetual
quest for communion.”
— Alex Skovron
Commended,
IP Picks 2007, Best Poetry.
Judge takes the reader through a whirlwind of contradictions and chaos, and then suddenly slows to embrace life’s quieter moments. The effect is powerful, chilling and unforgettable.
A
skillful blend of Celtic harp, guitar, bass, mandolin, tenor harp, banjo and
vocals by Alan S. Ferguson, who breathed Celtic air and music from his youth
in Scotland, who now plays in bands in Western Australia, where the meeting
of cultural traditions continues.
Stepping over Seasons artfully depicts the finer details of life, encapsulating change within people and places as the seasons unfurl. In ‘Overlook’, Capes argues that it’s much easier for great poets to romanticise the world’s most classic cities by poetically and playfully ridiculing his own not-so-romantic Australian hometown.
“A
wild ride of angels, monsters, slapstick and pop. In this not so divine comedy
actress Isabella Rosselini becomes Leggett’s post-modern Beatrice. A
book that begins and ends with angels and recalls the spirit of Yeats’ Crazy
Jane.”
– Craig Powell.
Highly Commended,
IP Picks 2007, Best Poetry. Kathy Kituai’s tanka journal steers the reader through joyful and sorrowful meditations on her life between two winters.The journal that emerges is drenched in a deep love of nature, and imbued with a searching, insightful sense of the human condition.
A long-awaited collection from the much-admired editor of the FourW anthologies, Death and the Motorway traverses intimate and intellectual ground here and abroad with surety and insight.
David Gilbey's poetry mines a rich seam of wit—something increasingly rare in Australian verse.
Dinkum
performance verse from a country Queensland legend. “Whoever
it was who coined the term ‘A Knockabout Bloke’ may well have
had Jack Drake in mind.” — Bruce Simpson
Two steamy collections from Queensland’s tropical
coast: Louise Waller’s Slipway and Kristin Hannaford’s Inhale.
“Their poetry shares a similar celebration of love and family, as
well as in detailed description and the joys of being immersed in nature.”
— Gig
Ryan.
Dinkum Poetry, Jack Drake,
IPS, 2002. Audio CD:
ISBN 0957847726, $25
Jocelyn
is a poet’s poet – a true singer steeped in mysticism and literature.
In creative abandonment she lives in the language that grows in silence
and she also knows the Dark Night.
— Margaret Diesendorf
The
story of a seminal conflict between the forest industry and the conservation
movement. “Terania Creek: Rainforest Wars strikes a brilliant balance between artful
story telling and objectively woven historical fact.”
— Lauren
Daniels
In Easter at Tobruk Christianity and
war collide in an Australian context. An enticing work peppered with a
glistening sense of magic realism, O’Sullivan’s novel paints
lush, dimensional scenes with literary brushstrokes.
A non-stop
collection of “fiction
schmiction” from Tasmania. “She
brings together wittily observed reality and her own brand of magic to
deliver some revelatory accounts of life beyond the comfort zone.”
— Margaret
Scott
Given contemporary attacks on religious faith, the 2008 Backhouse Lecture from the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia asks what are the intellectual resources and sources of spirituality that can sustain us in these times of uncertainty?
Winner,
IP Picks 2006, Best First Book. “Elegant
meditations on freedom and entrapment, desire and restriction. They canvass
a broad geographical, intellectual and emotional range, and are memorable
for their resonant combinations of words.”— Michael Sharkey
The Young Friends (Quakers) give their views on the key issues facing youth today in an effort to encourage spiritual discovery and deep bonding within and outside the Quaker community.
An
in-depth exposé of the Ultra Right in Australia during World War
II, and how their nationalism degenerated into support for German fascism
and Japan as well as rabid anti-Semitism. “A valuable reference to anyone
working on the Australian Right in the 1930s and 1940s and on issues
relating to detention and internment today.” — Dr Andrew Bonnell, Univ of Qld
This
is writing that celebrates the art in science and the science in art. Frankenstein's
bathtub will give you 'at last a word / for the thing [you] could
never name.’ “[Her] poems show us new ways of seeing ourselves
and the world.”
— Deb Westbury
In this book, self-made multi-millionaire Huang shares his personal and business coaching, property marketing, management, investment and development advice to show you how to potentially create an extra $2 million to $10 million net equity for yourself and your family.
Winner, Anne Elder Award; and Somerset Poetry Prize; Highly Commended, IP Picks Best Poetry, 2006. Resonant
and delicate, this
is a collection that investigates the human experience, parting the veil
of the mundane to reveal passion, beauty, myth and mystery.
A history of intrigue and corruption in the 1880s at the highest levels in the celebrated Taranganba Gold Mine and the Sydney Company. An essential text for students of the history of resource development in Australia, exhaustively researched, with an index and extensive correspondence and reports from the period.
In the sequel to The Greenhouse Effect, Tiger the Cat heads off to the coast with his friend Wanda the Blue-tongue and the frog Tark (who is really an extraterrestrial from the Planet Griffon) to spread the word about how to save the Earth.
Highly Commended,
IP Picks 2007, Best Fiction. Buggerum is the sort of country town everyone drives past without seeing, and that’s exactly how the locals like it. This is a subtle and compelling satiric novel that looks closely into the heart of all Australian towns.
Harmonic brings together the strengths of Oliver’s poetic; clarity of thought, compressed, highly original imagery, and rhythmic expression.
In this book, Oliver displays a depth of thought, and a range of perception rarely found in contemporary Australasian poetry.
Navarre has a passion for the colourful and different personalities who made a positive contribution to the Planet, and little known places in the Australian Outback. Extensive interviews and documentary photographs.
Harmonic, Stephen Oliver, IP, 2008. PB:ISBN 9781876819743 $24.
Harry Potter Power uses motifs and situations from the popular Harry Potter series and links them to theories and strategies designed to help young people overcome anxiety, anger, depression and grief.
Performance poetry with a bite from
the Bush Poet of the Year 2001! His
love of words and verse started when his father gave him a copy of Banjo
Patterson’s verses when he was 10 years old.
A team of young detectives sets about to solve the crime. Just about everyone these young detectives come across has a motive and as time goes on there are more and more fires and more serious confrontations...
This is the first of a series featuring Anna and Zach, Private Eyes (A~Z PIs).
Winner
of the Queensland Premier's Poetry Award. “Reiter's
line is smoothly flowing... [his] attitude is of confident external observation...[his]
voice is youthful and excited about the world.” — Ken Goodwin,
Australian Book Review.
The Cave After Saltwater Tide,
David P Reiter. Penguin, 1994. Sold out, but a sizeable selection is
available in Kiss and
Tell.
Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Literary Awards. “The poems stitch you into a tapestry...with loose threads left hanging
just to trip you up if you become complacent.” — Bev Braune, Australian
Book Review.
This
lively collection of historical, modern and fantasy stories is a cross
between Henry Lawson, Ben Elton and Fay Weldon, taking the reader to
unexpected places.
Hemingway in Spain: poems and images,
David P Reiter, IP, 2nd edition, 2007. ISBN 9781876819828 124pp,
$25.
In his first film, multi-award winning
author David P Reiter makes a time traveller of the legend. Hemingway’s
on a quest for his arch-enemy Franco, during the Spanish Civil War, but he
also meets up with famous people
from the past and future who have shocking things to say about war, love
and art.
“With
settings ranging from wartime to a women's prison to feral pig territory,
coupled with solid, memorable characters of true depth and desire, these
stories reach out to a wide audience with the grace, wit and wisdom of
an introspective storyteller.” — Lauren Danels, for the judges,
IP Picks 2005
Hemingway in Spain, David P Reiter, IPD, 2006. DVD-R, 125 minutes. ISBN 9781876819866 Available in PAL or NTSC versions (please specify), $40.
Winner,
IP Picks 2006, Best Fiction. “"The
characters of House of Given reveal a story of family as we all
know it to one extent or another, and of life, the fragile kind in which we all,
sooner or later, find ourselves."
— Lauren
Daniels
Mansell
is lively and very much her own poet, at her best when her observations
are sharpest, emotionally
frank and pungent enough to surprise. And that is often. — Philip Salom
House of Given,
Bill Collopy, IP, 2006. PB:ISBN 9781876819378
292 pp., $30.
The
author uncovers the reasons why her great-grandfather survived the Holocaust
when so many in his family perished. “She has provided a rich tapestry — through
narrative, visual images and sound — of Jewish life in that period.
— Suzanne
Rutland
Reiter
completed this work while in residence at the prestigious Banff Centre
for the Arts. An adaptation of his poetry collection, Letters
We Never Sent, it's
a ground-breaking work of interactive, literary multimedia that will
shed new light on the possibilities for poetry.
If These Walls Could Talk... Genevieve Cumming-Jaffé, IPD. Interactive (Win/Mac) CD-ROM:ISBN
1876819626 $27.50.
Winner,
IP Picks 2003, Best Poetry. “Rich
with a sensuality and love of language that invests both myth and the modern
day with vibrancy and beauty.” — Peter McFarlane
Lily and Amanda Smart are lucky girls. They live in a tall house made of purple bricks, and every day they get to walk to school through a park filled with beautiful trees. Their favourite tree is the Giggle Gum, and they look forward to playing in it.
Winner,
IP Picks 2006, Best Poetry.“Whether addressing issues
such as racism, homophobia and terrorism, or turning a wickedly
scathing eye on the failings of writers and other misfits, Paul
Dawson’s poems are angry and unforgettable.” — from
the Judges’ Report,
IP Picks 2006
When
Tiger the cat moves to Canberra with his owner, he befriends a local,
Wanda the blue-tongued lizard,
who is suspicious of introduced species. A delightful children's novel
with an environmental conscience!
Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best First Book Award. An impressive first poetry collection traverses time and place with ease. Acute in her ability to juxtapose cultures in a breath, Gleeson is as much at ease adopting a perspective on Tongan women as the wife of the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel.
The definitive guide to creating a safe, healthy and environmentally friendly home. The Healthy House shows that you can put a stop to pollution in your own surroundings, whether you are building a new house, renovating an existing building, or renting.
The Healthy House, Sydney and Joan Baggs, IPD, 2nd edition, 2005. DVD, ISBN 9781876819811 $49.50.
With a witty conversational tone and accessible verse, B N Oakman takes on topics ranging from Socio-economic to the personal – the ekphrastic to football – the political to the historical.
A
stunning biography set on the Great Barrier Reef. “Veron
reveals the heart and soul of a person whose profound love of Nature touched
all
who
knew her.” — Isobel Bennett, author of The
Great Barrier Reef
A brilliant collaboration of words and music between tanka artist Kathy Kituai and composer/musician Nitya Bernard Parker based on Kathy's poetry book Straggling into Winter.
Highly Commended, 2008 IP Picks Best Poetry Award. Accomplished poetry from a veteran poet. Takes us to such diverse destinations as the Abrolhos Islands off WA, a coal mining region, the Hunter, NSW, and a remote New Zealand tidal river valley. This poetry looks at paths of human endeavour and its traps.
World famous actor Sam Neil and rap legend Chuck D rub shoulders with writers like JP Donleavy and Carmel Bird. Physicists, business leaders, publishers, political activists, soldiers, poets, athletes and comic book creators are brought together by their common experience of hitching a ride sometime in the past.
Highly Commended in the IP Picks Awards for Best Creative Non-fiction, this is an intimate portrait of an individual and a family that recreates the experience of so many people who grapple with a new culture and language, never quite escaping their urge to return to “where they belong”.
An
intriguing true story of the role Australia and its intelligence agencies
played during the Pacific campaign
of World War II. With endnotes, bibliography and index.
Jason Chen learns of a strange and powerful machine lurking in his neighbour’s backyard. Mrs Bryant is supposed to be weird, but she buys fish and chips from his parents’ café so he thinks she can’t be too bad. But Mrs B has a secret. And when she says she can’t succeed in her dangerous mission without him, Jason agrees to join her for a ride in her Time Banana.
Brings together two peculiar people, an absurd
situation and a harsh examination of romantic love. Throw it all in the
interactive blender and the result is a multilinear, hypertext romance.
Choose your own path through the story to the final decision point, which
will have you re-examining your own choices in life and love.
Mitchell
uses his formidable reading skills so that the listener is thirsting for
what comes next. Buttler employs music styles at times so familiar to us
they act as another image in the poem. — Garth
Madsen
Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best Poetry Award. Poetry at the cutting edge of contemporary writing. Works from ‘artesian memories of the Australian desert to the shifting territory of the gods in rural Pakistan’
Stephen Oliver’s voice resonates with strength and passion. With the highly original music of Matt Ottley this CD transports us across soundscapes of harmony and disharmony, life and death, peace and violence.
Commended,
IP Picks 2006, Best Poetry. “This
is a world wonderfully changed by Huisman’s
fine observation, playful intelligence and true feeling. Her poetry gives
us what we need: it helps us recognise ourselves even as it constantly
surprises us. A pleasure to read—and read again.” — Noel Rowe
King Hit,Stephen Oliver (words), Matt Ottley (music), IPD, 2007.Audio + textCD-ROM/CD:ISBN 9781876819705 $25.Music Is Here samples
A creative and well-crafted fantasy story for young adults, and takes the reader on an entertaining ride as it looks at magic curses, good and evil, and the challenges of dealing with the adult world.
Much
awaited Selected and New from one of Australia’s most exciting and
innovative authors. His imagination resists
cultural razor wire by composing without a passport, accepting no subject
as off-limits. And this multi-award winning author more often sets the
trends these days rather than following them.
The Umbilical Word is a contemporary novel about chasing dreams, confronting loss and discovering what’s important in life. A mustread for every parent and parent-to-be.
A fresh story full of warmth and humour, The Umbilical Word
will charm its way into your heart.
– Rebecca Sparrow
When Hanna and her younger sister Zoe find a duckling with a broken leg in a nearby park, they are determined to nurse it back to health. The local postman for thirty-five years, Reg Reid, is given the job of collecting all the townspeople’s stories.
But after doing so, they realise that an even greater threat to the duckling has appeared: someone wants to develop the park into a shopping centre!
Sailing from Queensland to Melanesia in 1903, 17 year-old Hilda Kofke accompanies her beloved father, Gustave, a government officer on his final ‘labour recruiting’ voyage through the South Seas. Far from the pacifist and champion of Pacific islanders’ rights she believed him to be, Hilda learns that her father was once ‘the butcher of New Guinea’ who believed in the ‘perfect logic’ of the pre-emptive strike.
A
satiric novel from multi-award winner David P Reiter. “We
have women afraid to be women, and men afraid to be men. In the midst
of all this, children happen, and the noose tightens. The only way to
stay sane is to learn to laugh at the absurdity of trying to make sense
of it all.”
Incisive, punchy, emotional and humorous, this is a story of obsession. An absolute must-read for those people who spend four years of their lives waiting for each World Cup, not to mention those who have to live with them!
Como muchos otros niños, Juan está fascinado con las armas, de juego y de fuego. Una noche, Juan escucha un argumento entre su padres acerca de una arma de fuego escondida en su casa. Al día siguiente se propone encontrarla. Efectivamente, Juan descubre una caja bajo la cama de sus padres y ahí encuentra – ¡una arma de fuego! El siente con sus manos el peso y lo fría de ésta… Lo siguiente, cambiará para siempre las vidas de Juan y sus padres.
Las Armas de Fuego, David P Reiter
(author), Patrick J Murphy (artist), Guadalupe Rosales-Martinez (traducida) IP Kidz, 2010. ISBN: 9781876819441 (PB)
$17.95.
Landscapes are created and figures emerge from those landscapes to inhabit them. They are meant to grow from inside and surface gradually. The life-force of the poems - the images, impressions, the archetypal moments - are left to sink even deeper into the unconsciousness.
“These are poems that go beyond the limits
of words. By wrestling with the poems in 3rd i, by engaging with them,
the world is more intensely lived. This guy is offering us everything.
This is heroic poetry.”
— John Marsden
The latest music CD from Alan Ferguson and Co, based on an impromptu concert at the WA Irish Club, featuring the best of traditional and more recent Celtic music.
Prepared over nearly 10 years, this is the distillation of the thoughts of 1000 Quakers with an interest in spiritual subjects. Includes inspirational writings and personal stories about challenge and opportunity, which reflect on the geography and social history of Australia.
Live at the Irish Club, Alan Ferguson, L Steding, C Merry, IPD, 2008. Music CD: ISBN 9781921479007 $25. iTunes Store samples
“In this novel about the shadow cast by unrecognised creativity and
frustrated sexuality, Margaret Metz offers riveting insights into what drives
individuals to violence and drink.” — Sue
Booker
With heartbreaking clarity, and using grammar as her springboard, Waugh leaps between/into buildings, stops for the
death of a bee then soars over a fence and off the page before returning to a Lithgow childhood. Amidst the destruction, dignity and despair of our culpable world this book is a bell.
– Les Wicks
Award-winning short story author King provides thought-provoking fantasy cycling through the shadowy landscapes of death, gnarled relationships and the slippery side of human nature.
The
fourth collection by one of Queensland’s most respected poets. “There is real pleasure
here — these poems enjoy life but are astute to
its play of meanings. The poems grow on you...in their
surprising textual metaphysics.” — Philip
Salom
First
Runner-up, 2000 Steele Rudd Award. These are
stories of our time: the loves we dream of as opposed to the relationships
that define us. Exploring passion in its many twists and turns, Reiter shows
a gift for satire that is rare in an age that takes itself too seriously.
Winner,
IP Picks 2003, Best Poetry. “If poems
were nails I would want Paul Mitchell to build my house. His poems are straight,
simple in design, gleaming with insight — and they’re sharp.” — Kevin
Brophy
A guide/workbook to assist speech and drama practitioners and individuals wanting to improve their speech habits and public presentations. It places vocal enrichment back in its rightful balanced position as a path to confident communication, well being and self-realisation in all its aspects.
Artist Dale Kentwell headed for the Outback with two young children and a desire to paint what she saw. Her quirky paintings are set against witty nuggets of text , commenting on themes of motherhood, and the beauty of the Outback.
The DVD film has an extended interview with Dale, narrated by her son Jarrah, plus a complete slideshow of the paintings.
Prose writers have had it their own way for too long. At last, here is an anthology of poetry from New Zealand that captures the essence of science fiction: aliens, space travel, time travel, the end of the world - as well as concepts you may not previously have thought of as science fiction.
Cutting
edge multimedia, blending memoir, astronomy, mythology and documentary. Phase
1 of an ongoing project supported by a major grant funding
by Arts Queensland.
Winner,
IP Picks 2007, Best Poetry. O’Flynn’s poems wander between the urban and the rural, childhood and adulthood, the mundane and the bizarre, holding up shards of memory to the light for inspection. Intelligent, searching, poignant, and frank, these poems make for compelling reading.
Newts, Lutes and Bandicoots is full of rhymes, riddles and objects to search for; these provide the clues for what to search for on each page. So the book becomes a language learning experience as well as an enjoyable read.
This second edition has detailed and humorous full-page colour illustrations that children will revisit time and time again.
When Willow Farrington first meets Isaac Silberstein she doesn’t know what to expect. He’s a gnome-like old man who survived a World War II concentration camp, and she’s an almost-14-year-old who’s just back at school after a four-month stay in hospital with an eating disorder. He’s written a recipe and gardening book, and she has to do a talk on it for school.
Winner, IP Picks 2009, Best Poetry Award. Wings of the Same Bird is an impressive collection grown from the mythological idea linking birds and the human world with divine realms just beyond ordinary experience.
Winner,
IP Picks 2007, Best First Book. The act of painting takes on metaphorical significance as Dean navigates themes of creation and documentation of life through art. What emerges is a sensuously layered and intriguing meditation on the past that offers a sense of connectedness and hope for the future.
When Nadine Neumann decides that she wants to be an Olympic swimmer at age eight, she trades a normal life of school friends and parties for the rigours of elite sports training. Sweeping from Perth to Germany, India to Sydney, Brisbane to Hong Kong, the reader is invited along this journey of a remarkable young woman who stops at nothing to achieve her goals.
What will happen when young Zahara reaches the Hanging Gardens of Babylon with the Flower of Heaven and tries to offer it to the Queen? Much acclaimed author, Libby Hathorn has told a gentle, celebratory tale, illuminated by the evocative illustrations of Doris Unger.
