This significant collection, edited by Wiradjuri writer Kerry Reed-Gilbert, was first published in 2000.
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A ground-breaking collection of poetry and prose from some of Australia's best-known Indigenous women writers.
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'If you want to know the reality of inside Black Australia, this book is for you. The women who speak within these pages allow you, the reader, to look into their hearts, minds, bodies and souls. Share with them their journey - the journey of life.' (Back cover)
(...more)Canberra writers foreground the strength of regional writing in this important collection.
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An authentic taste of life in the nation's capital from seven acclaimed women writers.
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'These stories by seven writers capture the contradictions of life in the nation's capital. They penetrate the glittering surface of a city that is much more than a stamping ground for bureaucrats, diplomats and fat cats. Beneath the sparkle are the shadows of dislocated, sometimes broken, lives.'
Source: Front cover.
(...more)This collection won two different categories of the Age Book of the Year Award in 1987, among other accolades.
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A multi-award-winning collection of short stories from the author of Tirra Lirra By the River.
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'Stories told from the point of view of Beatie, a young girl growing up in Brisbane, (Publication summary)recreate family relationships and trace the path from adolescence to adulthood.'
(...more)Better known for his award-winning crime fiction, Garry Disher is also an accomplished short-fiction writer.
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A collection of award-winning short stories from acclaimed author Garry Disher.
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'A collection of award-winning short stories by Garry Disher spanning the continents of Australia, Africa and Europe, the extremes of loneliness and connection, and all the relationships between people and places.
'Stories in this collection have won the National Short Story Award, the Alan Marshall Award and the Henry Lawson Award, and have been published and broadcast across Australia and in the UK, Canada and Denmark.'
Source : publisher's blurb (Ligature)
(...more)Winner of the T. A. G. Hungerford Award, the Steele Rudd Award, and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award.
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A multi-award-winning short story collection from Gail Jones.
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'The invasion of East Timor, the sinking of the Titanic, Freud's encounter with an "imbecile dwarf," astronomy, pregnancy, Tiananmen Square, a remote Aboriginal community: these historical episodes and narratives inspire the fourteen superb and engaging short stories in The House of Breathing, winner of four major Australian literary prizes. Concerned with the extremes of human experience, Jones's stories give fictional form to a wide range of philosophical concerns: cultural imperialism, political and sexual repression, the impact of modern technology on culture and consciousness.
(...more)'Memories of a holiday hospital stay accompany stories about a poisoned husband, a frustrated sculptor, a lonely storyteller, jealousy, broken families, and infidelity.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
(...more)19 short stories where the author's characters 'inhabit dreamlike cities, where they confront problems as distracting, yet elusive, as moving shadows.'
Source: Inside front cover.
(...more)Intersperses works by Margaret Scott with the testimonials of her peers.
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A collection of Margaret Scott’s writing and tributes celebrating the life and work of this Australian cultural icon.
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The best-known work by Judah Waten, who was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1979 and won the Patrick White Award in 1985.
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Autobiographical short stories from an award-winning writer.
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'Alien Son, in simple yet rich language, is the story of a Russian family settling in Australia in the years before the first World War. Waten tells of life in his home, among the family's Jewish friends, among his new Australian playmates, on his father's bottle-o rounds - of their hopes, despairs, the comedies and tragedies - all told with the warmth, understanding, and sometimes lack of understanding, that is felt by a child finding himself between the two worlds. His attempts to reconcile the demands of these two worlds rarely meet with success; often they end in situations that are at once poignantly sad and humorous.
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