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1 y separately published work icon Pluto Pups S. Wrigg , S. Wrigg (illustrator), Sydney : Black Cockie Press , 2022 25837211 2022 single work graphic novel

'A delicious collection of comics by S. Wrigg.

'Pluto Pups features a whole bunch of recent non-4-panel works over 28 delicious pages (plus a cover!).' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon The Bonehead Resistance Narelle King , Katoomba : Black Cockie Press , 2022 25828330 2022 single work novel crime 'This is Australia, but not as you know it. Adrian Walker, a little known minister, has taken control of the government. As if that wasn’t shocking enough, rumours swirl around Canberra about Walker's strange and shadowy backers. When the General Election is cancelled Amber Yu, along with thousands of other ordinary Australians, takes to the streets in protest. After sheltering a neighbour, Amber comes to the attention of the security forces and her infant son Ollie is taken as a hostage. Amber must now risk everything she has known and depended on as she and Bec, a friend from their university days, set out to rescue her son. The Bonehead Resistance is an epic chase from the leafy suburbs of North Sydney to the dusty outback of Dubbo, as Amber flees, fights and inspires her fellow Australians.' (Publication summary) 
1 y separately published work icon Mother's Pearls Linda J McLeod , Katoomba : Black Cockie Press , 2021 25836854 2021 selected work poetry

'A selection of humorous verse about mothers, motherhood and family from the author of Guru Stew, Linda J. McLeod. The women in your world will recognize themselves in these some times funny, sometimes moving poems of family life. Mum's the word don't you know.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Guru Stew Linda J McLeod , Katoomba : Black Cockie Press , 2019 25826552 2019 selected work poetry

'Guru Stew brings together the poetry of Linda J McLeod. Ranging across a multitude of subjects from narrative poetry and humorous verse, to poems celebrating the highs and lows of friendship and family life, as well as self-reflective and meditative works. Guru Stew is by turns engaging, funny, and reflective. These poems speak with the original compelling voice of this outsider poet.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Scum of the Universe Grant J. Everett , Katoomba : Black Cockie Press , 2018 25837691 2018 single work novel science fiction

'Growing up Bob Tuesday had few expectations of life. Well, how many expectations can a boy have, when your father is a waste of space and your mother is a genetically enhanced super soldier on the run from the authorities? But even in the irradiated wastelands of the Nevada desert, evil stalks Bob's world; in the form of criminal mastermind Earnest Fell.Thrust alone into the vast galactic empire known as the Unison, Bob must learn quickly how to navigate worlds of interspecies pimple popping, educational upgrades, suicide attack rats and a host of other catastrophes, as he attempts to answer the biggest question of all: "Where's my lighter?" Scum of the Universe is a riotous romp across the science fiction genre. Outrageously funny, this is an electrifying debut from Grant J Everett.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon The Red Dust Phillip Aughey , Katoomba : Black Cockie Press , 2017 25837109 2017 single work novel

'The summer sun shimmers in glimmering mirages on the drought baked plains of western New South Wales. The Stirlings’ dams have long since dried up and now the bore pump has packed it in. Marg Stirling faces a long hot drive through the red dust to town to collect the replacement part. Life in this part of the world is a battle, whether it is droughts or fires, isolation or missed opportunities, prejudice or ignorance, or beneath that the biggest battle, the battle with the land itself. During her long drive, past battles fill Marg’s mind, as events conspire to make her wonder if there is not another way to live?

'Drawing on the author’s own childhood experience of life in western New South Wales, The Red Dust is an affectionate, knowledgeable and often funny portrait of life in these isolated farming communities.' (Publication summary)
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