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Age range 5 to 9Set in an African jungle, a warthog realises that everyone has worries and how to handle his worries. What are some of your worries? Ralph the worried warthog has plenty of worries, and they all seem impossible to overcome. A...

Age range 5 to 8In the middle of a great big river stands a single wooden post. It appears useless because the lone post cannot form a bridge by itself. The wooden post yearns for freedom and friendship. Its days are brightened when a shepherd boy sits...

Age range 3 to 5An easy, enjoyable read featuring quirky animal characters and a surprise ending.Muddle and Mo are the best of friends. Muddle is a loveable, slightly confused yet enthusiastic little duckling. Mo is a long-suffering, not very adventurous...

A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people.rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine's...

The memoir of a deep friendship between two important intellectual figures bound by their interest in art and their experience of migration.In John Berger and Me, the eminent Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis recalls his relationship with the...

In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and treatment. Mourning a Breast, published two and a half years later, is a disarmingly honest and deeply...

Song in the Grass is Kate Fagan's most personal collection to date. Each of its five sequences moves out in a widening circle from where the poet is standing in life. The collection is an almanac of significant changes; in particular, new lives begun in...

Judith Beveridge's much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018.The poems in Tintinnabulum focus on animals, people, and places, though you could say that the real subject matter is the...

Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to life the histories and events, the stories and myths of a displaced and...

'I can talk for as long as you like, no problem. You'll just have to tell me when to stop. How far back do you want to take it?'Tell is a probing and compelling examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own lives and of other people's...

In 2023 the Sydney Review of Books celebrates a decade online and the publication of more than a thousand essays and longform reviews of Australian and international literature. Over these ten years the SRB has cleared a unique space for serious...

An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy's fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past -...

The new novel from the author of The Magpie Wing, longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.It's 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that...

Powerful debut which interrogates the nature of love in its various formsFrom poems of desire and sexual longing to poems of love in the face of death, The Cyprian explores the joy and heartbreak love weaves into our lives. The collection confronts some...

How to Be Between is a memoir about female facial hair, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and negotiating identity for those visibly between gender binaries. Young women's bodies are relentlessly scrutinised and judged, so for most, the appearance of facial...

The last work by Antigone Kefala, renowned for both her poetry and her prose, one of the first writers to open Australian literature to a diversity of voices, and of the most distinctive and powerful of those voices.Late Journals completes a trilogy of...

*Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize**Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022*Happy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often...

New collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australia's richest lyrical poets.Acanthus offers a collection of poems that dwell in the landscapes of the northern and southern hemispheres, evoking myth and fantasy and romance, as they move between...

The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to...

Final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as 'a genius on the level of Beckett'.A book which will appeal equally to Murnane's...

Jane Gibian's poetry is remarkable for its clarity of perception and its sensitivity to the details and rhythms of life - whether in nature or in social routines. The poetry's engagement is first and foremost with the natural environment, and with the...

From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys.In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal...

Helen, Walt and Duncan are looking for ways to entertain themselves in the sprawl of Sydney's western suburbs. Walt, scrappy and idealistic, wants to prove a point, and turns to petty vandalism. His friend Duncan sticks to his fledgling football career,...

Sydney Spleen takes Charles Baudelaire's concept of spleen as melancholy with no apparent cause, characterised by a disgust with everything and combines it with a contemporary sense of irony so as to articulate the causes of our doom and gloom: corporate...

New collection of essays on the relationships between humans and animals, by Vanessa Berry, author of Mirror Sydney, and the memoir of adolescence Ninety9.Gentle and Fierce focuses on the world of animals, and the way their presence has shaped the...

Song Lin is one of China's most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and was imprisoned for almost a year. He left China soon afterwards. This selection of poems, made...

"His is either a well-oiled universe or a chaos huddled together...he's a mannish character, unanimal, counterfeit, scurrilous."Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous is a work of wild erudition and rococo elaboration, a collection...

The crags do not notice if I have come from stone or am becoming stone or am merely part of the weather.The Anthropocene what can poetry do in this epoch in the Earth's history defined by human impact? With its immersion in powerful wilderness...

Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to...

*Shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize*No Documentis an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and...

Novelist Fiona McGregor'snew book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous,...

When J.S. Harry died in 2015 she was acknowledged as one of the great female poets of her generation, alongside Fay Zwicky, Antigone Kefala, Jennifer Maiden and Judith Rodriguez.This commemorative volume gathers poems from all her collections, as well as...

*A 2021 CBCA Notable Book: Older Readers**Longlisted for the 2021 ABIAs: Book of the year for Older Children**Shortlisted for the Australian Book Design Awards 2021: Best Designed Children's Fiction Book**Shortlisted for the 2021 New South Wales...

Celebrated poet Laurie Duggan's first collection with Giramondo.Laurie Duggan's new collection begins with poems written during his last year in Britain, in Faversham, a market town in east Kent, with others written on a visit to Australia in 2016 and...

*Winner of the Australian Book Design Award 2021: Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover*A new edition of Beverley Farmer's out-of-print classic A Body of Water, which in its mixing of genres - essay, memoir, fiction, folk tale - opened up new...

'One of the most original books of the year'  Natalia Barbelagua, Revista IntemperieIn a small city perchedbetween the Pacific Ocean and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, a dyingwoman relives her childhood and adolescence in vivid...

Winner ofthe prestigious 'Premio Novela Breve Juan March Cencillo'May 1814. On the island of Elba, the beekeeper Andrea Pasolini awaitsthe arrival of the defeated, exiled emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte. Pasolini is a self-taughtdisciple of the...

Towards the End presents thecontemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversiblytowards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection begins with the speaker'sdisillusion with the ideals of capitalism, and the ironic...

Carment is one of Australia's best-known plein air artists. It is his distinctive mark as a writer that he writes as he paints from life capturing the likeness of a particular place in time, remaining faithful to the moment when he sees...

*Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry*Heide is an epic poem about history,painting, painters, patrons and the people who made art happen in Australia -from Louis Buvelot to Edith Rowan, Tom Roberts and Robert Streeton...

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adas Award for New WritingLonglisted for the Stella Prize 2020Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: FictionThe House of Youssef is a...

IntimateAntipathiesis the much-anticipated new book by Luke Carman, the award-winning author ofthe cult classic An Elegant Young Man. The essays in this collectionfollow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, andin the...

*Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry**Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry*The third poetry collection by LisaGorton, one of a small number of Australian writers...

To say it is hard to be queer in Indonesiais a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regularbasis from those around them, and increasingly, from the state itself. Yetthis was the stage on which Norman Erikson Pasaribu's poetry...

A Novel Idea is a memoir in photoessay form that follows Fiona McGregor's life as shewrites her award-winning novel Indelible Ink. It is a tongue-in-cheekrumination on the monotony and loneliness of the novelist's daily life, and theact...

Giramondopublishes in a single volume, for a new generation of poetry readers, adefinitive selection of the timeless work of revered Melbourne poet Emma Lew.The dark aura of Emma Lew's poetry has madeher a compelling and mysterious presence for...

John Lee is a lonely and increasingly misanthropic Chinese migrant whohas lived in Auckland for thirty years, running a second-hand junk shop whilemaintaining a relationship of disdain with his disabled wife. When hebecomes infatuated with a...