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1 1 y separately published work icon A Song for the Road : Touring Tales from Our Best Singer-Songwriters Kate Morgan (editor), Sydney : Pier 9 , 2012 Z1901394 2012 anthology prose 'Some people are lucky enough to make a living from making music, and an inevitable part of this means touring. Whether across a wide, brown land or to exotic overseas destinations, travel is a part of a working musician's life. Song for the Road contains tales from the road from some of our finest singer-songwriters. From the moving account of Paul Kelly as an audience member watching Blues legend Solomon Burke in Edmonton, Canada, Mark Seymour's journey to a muster at Oodnadatta or the legendary drinking adventures of Cameron Muncey (Jet) in Mexico City or Adalita in LA, the four corners of the globe are covered. This expansive and insightful collection ensures that you'll never look at the people on stage in quite the same way again. ' (Trove record)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Sweet Dreams Book Andrew Wynne , Emma Scott (illustrator), Sydney : Pier 9 , 2012 Z1899309 2012 single work picture book children's
1 4 y separately published work icon The Man Who Invented Vegemite : The True Story behind an Australian Icon Jamie Callister , Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2012 Z1889572 2012 single work biography

'Vegemite is perhaps Australia's most enduring cultural icon. But how did this pungent, salty black paste, which for most of us is how we start the day, come to be created?

'Cyril Callister was a passionate scientist and innovator, and his story is inextricably bound with that of our country through the first half of the twentieth century, through two world wars and the Depression. He was the grandson of a gold miner who arrived in Ballarat in the 1850s. His own father, a widower, raised a small army of kids, and Cyril was the first to go to university. He was sent to England during WWI and in the 1920s was employed by the flamboyant and entrepreneurial Fred Walker, charged with the task of creating a substance that would, in time, be named Vegemite. Cyril remained at Kraft until his death in 1949. He was a progressive boss and encouraged further training for all of his staff, many of them women.

'Cyril was also a husband and father to three children - two were struck down by polio as children, while the third, a fighter pilot, was tragically killed while on a dawn air sortie in the Trobriand Islands, east of PNG during WWII.

'The Man Who Invented Vegemite is a must-read for all of us interested in remarkable Australian stories. Jamie Callister, sets out to learn more about the grandfather he never met and, along the way, discovers that extraordinary things can happen to (almost) ordinary people.' (From the publisher's website.)

2 6 y separately published work icon Thirst L. A. Larkin , Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2012 Z1877223 2012 single work novel crime

'A few years from now, climate change has produced global drought. Wars over water are becoming commonplace.

'When communications are cut from an Australian Antarctic station and two colleagues go missing, maverick glaciologist Luke Searle and his team are unaware they have fallen victim to a plan to harvest Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier for water. Yet the ruthless leader of this secret project has a second plan, far more ambitious and destructive than the first, which will give his country unchallengeable military power and make him exceedingly rich. But the plan risks destroying the enormous West Antarctic Ice Sheet, causing sea level rises that will not only wipe out low-lying cities, but whole countries.

'With their station burned to the ground and the team under fire, Luke Searle must not only survive the harshest environment on Earth but battle a mysterious assailant to stop a global catastrophe. Who has hatched this plan, how far will he go, and what will it take to stop him? With complex and intriguing characters, and plot threads skilfully woven together into a surprising and dramatic climax, Thirst will entertain and enthral. Based on L.A. Larkin's experiences in Antarctica and her interviews of scientists who have visited the remote Pine Island Glacier, Thirst is a chilling and explosive action thriller that is a startling reminder of the fragility and power of Earth's most precious resource. ' (Publisher's blurb)

1 13 y separately published work icon Dancing with Empty Pockets : Australia's Bohemians since 1860 Tony Moore , Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2012 Z1871273 2012 single work criticism 'In the nineteenth century, the word "bohemians" initially conjured the primitive, exotic and mysterious power of gypsies, but in a few short years it would be used to describe any nomadic or vagabond character - with strong overtones of poverty and even criminality. In Australia, bohemians have been associated with subcultures and movements across most creative arts and media for more than 150 years. Cities spawned networks of poets, painters, novelists, journalists, philosophers, actors, filmmakers, comedians and hackers famous for their controversial, eccentric lifestyles and for the work they produced. Dancing with Empty Pockets is an exploration, and a celebration, of Australia's most creative figures - our bohemians, from Marcus Clarke through to the twenty-first century - and is a must-read for everyone interested in our counterculture' (Publisher website).
1 1 y separately published work icon Bohemian Nation: A History of Australian Counter-Cultures and Avant-Gardes from Clarke to Cave Tony Moore , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2012 Z1754395 2012 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon In Any Case Andrew Fraser , Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2012 19851185 2012 single work autobiography crime

'A compelling, jaw-dropping collection of stories from Andrew Fraser's high-profile career as a criminal defence lawyer.

'Andrew Fraser has made mistakes in his life. Big mistakes. And he has paid a hefty penalty for them. A flash, arrogant and highly successful criminal lawyer, he made a great deal of money defending a huge range of clients before a spectacular fall from grace in the late 1990s through his cocaine addiction. 

'In Any Case is the compelling blue-chip collection of Fraser's fascinating stories of people he has defended over the years as well as his own battles with the law, and himself.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

1 5 y separately published work icon War and Peace and Sonya : A Novel Judith Armstrong , Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2011 Z1880134 2011 single work novel

'In 1862, Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known, Leo Tolstoy. For forty-eight years they shared their lives in a union that was at once passionate, collegial and combative. Sixteen years younger than her husband, Sonya bore him thirteen children and worked for years as his copyist, rewriting countless drafts of his timeless novels. Both were mercurial and passionate personalities and, towards his end, Tolstoy deserted her.

In War & Peace and Sonya, Russian scholar Judith Armstrong tells Sonya's own story exploring their devotion and ambivalence to one another, their passion for great literature and the powers of the imagination, and showing us just how remarkably true to life fiction Judith Armstrong can be.' (Publisher's website)

1 3 y separately published work icon Mawson's Forgotten Men : The 1911-1913 Antarctic Diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson Charles Turnbull Harrisson , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2011 Z1824805 2011 single work diary 'Tasmanian-born Charles Turnbull Harrisson (1867-1914) was one of the members of Douglas Mawson's legendary Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14. Harrisson joined the expedition as a biologist and artist, a part of the Western Party based on Queen Mary Land and led by Frank Wild. He was also a gifted writer and the diary he kept from December 1911 to March 1913 has been transcribed and edited by Heather Rossiter, and reproduced for the first time. Harrisson's engaging narrative is complemented by his sketches and watercolour paintings of the landscape, as well as photographs of the men in the Western Base party. By bringing Harrisson's diary from obscure history to published volume, complete with his own sketches and watercolour paintings, The 1911-1913 Antarctic Diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson honours the daring spirit of these lesser known but equally audacious Antarctic explorers.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 2 y separately published work icon Paramedico : Around the World by Ambulance Benjamin Gilmour , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2011 Z1822451 2011 single work autobiography

'As you read this, more than a hundred thousand ambulance medics across the planet are responding to emergencies. They are scrambling under crashed cars, carrying the sick down flights of stairs, resuscitating near-dead husbands at the feet of hysterical wives, and stemming the blood-flow of gunshot victims in seedy back alleys. A good number too are just as likely to be raising an eyebrow at some ridiculous, trivial complaint their patient has considered life threatening enough to call them for.

'Paramedico is a heart-stopping, white-knuckle ride about a paramedic at work in an ambulance, attending emergencies in far-flung places such as England, Iceland, Macedonia, Mexico, Pakistan, The Philippines, South Africa and Thailand - at the time of the 2004 tsunami. This is also a brilliantly written collection of wild tales of wild people whose lives are so different from our own that it's hard to believe they really exist. Gilmour is able to make us stop and think not only of how to live a life, but how precious life is and how important it is to protect it.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 4 y separately published work icon Simpson's Donkey : A Wartime Journey to Gallipoli and Beyond Peter Stanley , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2011 Z1774093 2011 single work children's fiction children's Based on the most famous animal in Australian history, Simpson's Donkey tells the story of his service during the Gallipoli campaign where for three weeks he was one of several donkeys that Simpson used to carry wounded men down to Anzac Cove. His life before and after Gallipoli is a mystery but Peter Stanley has beautifully imagined the rest (Libraries Australia).
1 1 y separately published work icon The 1000 Hour Day : Two Adventurers Take on the World's Harshest Island Chris Bray , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1744306 2010 single work autobiography travel 'In 2005, Australians Chris Bray (then 21 years old) and Clark Carter (20) dreamed of embarking on an adventure - one that would be completely different to any polar, mountaineering or river expedition ever before attempted. With virtually no prior experience they turned their attention to one of the largest islands in the world - Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic - and vowed to cross it on foot. With humour and honesty, Chris Bray tells their thrilling story. ' (Trove record)
1 2 y separately published work icon A Life in Frocks : A Memoir Kelly Doust , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1742081 2010 single work autobiography
1 8 y separately published work icon The King's Speech : How One Man Saved the British Monarchy Mark Logue , Peter Conradi , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1740809 2010 single work biography

In June 2009 Mark Logue was contacted by the producers of The King's Speech, a film based on the relationship of Logue's grandfather Lionel Logue with George VI, for information on his grandfather. While supplying information from family papers and from online and published references, Mark Logue became aware that his grandfather's archive was incomplete. Inspired by the film and wanting to tell the complete story of his grandfather, Logue continued to research and write, with Peter Conradi, a biography of Lionel Logue. In the process he discovered much of the missing parts of his grandfather's archive.

Source: Mark Logue, 'Introduction', The King's Speech : How One Man Saved the British Monarchy (2010): ix-xiv

1 5 y separately published work icon The Genesis Flaw L. A. Larkin , Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1716965 2010 single work novel thriller 'Human experiments in Zimbabwe. An Australian farmer's death. A Sydney CEO's suicide. These events are linked in the mind of one woman, Serena Swift, a ballsy advertising director with a guilty conscience, when she decides to take on one of the world's most powerful producers of genetically modified food, Gene-Asis. Serena disguises herself to infiltrate Gene-Asis in an attempt to expose the company's horrific genetic experiments. But suddenly Swift's informants disappear, she is hunted by a hired killer, and framed for murder. Chased from Sydney to New York, she must face the man she fears most, on his own turf. If she fails, nothing can stop a global catastrophe. And nobody can help her — except a dead man.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 7 y separately published work icon Ethan Grout Matt Howard , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1714767 2010 single work novel humour

'Ethan Grout realises it's his 27th birthday when he receives a card from the fitness centre he recently quit along with the only job he had ever held. Having moved into a tiny room above a busy city bar, the buzz and lights of downstairs and the street soothing him to sleep, Ethan takes a new job, and another, and even another - collecting a life as he goes. Ethan Grout journeys through life, challenging himself to create his own gang of misfits when being alone just won't do any more.

'This bittersweet novel will strike familiar chords with anyone who has suffered through jobs that resemble glee clubs, cults or blind dates, and who have tried to fit in even when it all just seems too hard.' (From the publisher's website.)

2 2 y separately published work icon The Wedding Shroud : A Tale of Early Rome Elisabeth Storrs , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1714403 2010 single work novel historical fiction

'In 406 BC, to seal a tenuous truce, the young Roman Caecilia is wedded to Vel Mastarna, an Etruscan nobleman from the city of Veii. The fledgling Republic lies only twelve miles across the Tiber from its neighbour, but the cities are from opposing worlds so different are their customs and beliefs.

'Leaving behind a righteous society, Caecilia is determined to remain true to Roman virtues while living among the sinful Etruscans. Instead she finds herself tempted by a mystical, hedonistic culture which offers pleasure and independence to women as well as a chance to persuade the Gods to delay her destiny. Yet Mastarna and his people also hold dark secrets and, as war looms, Caecilia discovers that Fate is not so easy to control and that she must finally choose where her allegiance lies.

'Exploring themes of destiny versus self-determination and tolerance versus prejudice, The Wedding Shroud is a novel that vividly captures a historical time and place while shining a light on the lives of women of the ancient world.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 8 y separately published work icon Making News Tony Wilson , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1708430 2010 single work novel

'"The photo was clearly sexual, all skin and limbs. It was a CCTV image, which looked to be from security footage. Lucas leaned forward to read the accompanying paragraph. Within half a sentence it was as though a foot had crashed through the monitor and kicked his teeth in. He closed his eyes and willed himself to wake up. He checked again. The image was still there. My god, look at the goofy smiles. No wonder the world was laughing. Under normal circumstances, he'd be laughing too. If the face that was front-and-centre didn't belong to a member of his family."

'Lucas Dekker is celebrity offspring, twice over. His Australian father, Charlie, has recently retired from a stellar football career in the Premier League. His English mother, Monica, is a self-help guru, who has sold millions of books with her pro-family message. But when Charlie's involvement in a bizarre sex scandal hits the tabloids, the Dekkers' own family dynamic will never be the same again. Making News is a darkly hilarious story about celebrity culture, the media and what really goes on behind the smutty front pages that everyone loves to read.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 1 y separately published work icon EleMental : Come to Virtualitee and See for Yourself Steven O'Connor , Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1701366 2010 single work novel young adult science fiction 'It's the year 2050. It's a city with ziprams that screech across the horizon and hyperboards that zoom through the air. Three teenagers - Zeb, Willis and Arizona - are drawn to a new kind of games console and a weird demo game supplied to them by a mysterious stranger named Grimble Dower. It's a game of superior graphics and challenges, and Zeb is soon unable to resist playing. But his growing addiction leads to danger as he becomes steadily drawn into Grimble Dower's dark world called Virtualitee.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 y separately published work icon Australian Voices : Glimpses of Our Pioneering Past through Diaries, Letters and Recollections from the First Fleet to the Great War Ariana Klepac (editor), John Thompson (editor), Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1694827 2010 anthology extract correspondence diary prose 'Australian Voices presents a broad social history of colonial, predominantly European, Australian life, focusing on the ordinary and the every day, through the words of Australians of the time and a handful of visitors. This atmospheric anthology comprises letters and diary entries, memoirs and photographs.' (Trove record)
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