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Giramondo Publishing

The Giramondo Publishing Company publishes quality creative and interpretive writing by Australian authors. It seeks to build a common ground between the academy and the marketplace; to stimulate exchange between Australian writers and readers and their counterparts overseas; and to encourage innovative and adventurous work that might not otherwise find publication because of its subtle commercial appeal.

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Southern Barbarians
John Mateer

$24.00

The Portuguese traders who brought Europe to Japan in the sixteenth century were known as ‘southern barbarians’. In his new collection John Mateer offers a contemporary re-charting of the...

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Amphora
Joanne Burns

$24.00

The poems in amphora seize on the miraculous moments contained in life and language, interrogating them with scepticism, celebrating them with a comic sense of wonder. Their focus ranges from the m...

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Not Dark Yet
David Walker

$32.95

David Walker is a distinguished Australian cultural historian whose eyesight deteriorated suddenly at the end of 2004 as a result of macular degeneration. His blindness caused him to reconsider...

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Pirate Rain
Jennifer Maiden

$24.00

Pirate Rain builds on the highly acclaimed George Jeffreys poems, exploring themes of power, violence, politics and love across Paris, Baghdad, New York and the waters of the Gulf.

The poems...

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HEAT 21 - Without a Paddle
Edited by Ivor Indyk

$24.95

The summer 2009-2010 edition of HEAT offers a range of literary essays, with poet and critic Kate Lilley on filiation and inheritance in the work of American poet Susan Howe, Peter Craven on the...

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The Land I Came Through Last
Robert Gray

$34.95

Winner of the 2009 CAL/Waverly Library Award for Literature.The title of Robert Gray’s memoir is from a poem by Christopher Brennan, ‘The land I came thro’ last was dumb with night/ a limbo of...

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House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
Evelyn Juers

$32.95

Winner of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction

In 1933 the author and activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in the south...

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Barley Patch
Gerald Murnane

$27.95

Gerald Murnane is the winner of the 2009 Melbourne Prize for LiteratureBarley Patch is Gerald Murnane’s first published book of fiction since 1995. It is a meditation on fiction and Murnane’s own d...

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Storm and Honey
Judith Beveridge

$22.00

The major part of Storm and Honey portrays the working life of a trawler’s crew, fishing in estuarine and coastal waters. It opens with the discovery of a child’s corpse inside the belly of a...

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The Bath Fugues
Brian Castro

$29.95

The Bath Fugues is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas, centred respectively on an aging art forger; a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector; and ...

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Look Who's Morphing
Tom Cho

$24.95

Look Who’s Morphing is a collection of bizarre, funny, often menacing fictions in which, along with his extended family, the central character undergoes a series of transformations, shape-shifting ...

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The Bone House
Beverley Farmer

$29.95

Beverley Farmer is the winner of the 2009 Patrick White Award for LiteratureThe three long essays that make up The Bone House are an extended meditation on the life of the body and the life of the ...

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Carpentaria
Alexis Wright

$29.95

Alexis Wright is one of Australia’s finest Aboriginal writers. Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007. An epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where Wright's...

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Eighth Habitation
Adam Aitken

$22.00

Eighth Habitation takes its name from the Buddhist notion of purgatory, a mystic realm where the meaning of a human life is judged. The poems inhabit a range of landscapes and perspectives, in...

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Fire Season
Kate Middleton

$22.00

The poems in Fire Season are illuminated by the intensity of everyday experience, dwelling in situations of want or absence, or radiant in the aura of those legendary beings, the heroines and...

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Between Stations
Kim Cheng Boey

$27.95

Between Stations is a collection of personal essays exploring notions of home and belonging, and where they may lie for a migrant writer, shuttling between the stations of the old and adopted...

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Original Face
Nicholas Jose

$27.95

The drama begins with a body dumped in south-western Sydney – skinned, with no face. Lewis Lin, taxi driver, photographer, recent arrival from Beijing, happens to be at the scene. With detectives G...

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Burning In
Mireille Juchau

$27.95

In her late twenties, Martine Hartmann moves from Sydney to New York to pursue her career as a photographer, leaving behind her mother Lotte, a holocaust survivor. Nine years later, Martine’s...

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The Orphan Gunner
Sara Knox

$29.95

The Orphan Gunner is an unconventional romance set in bomber command in Lincolnshire during the Second World War. Evelyn and Olive grew up together in the Canabolas Valley near Orange. They are in ...

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Tamarisk Row
Gerald Murnane

$27.95

First published in 1974, and out of print for almost twenty years, Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane’s first novel, and in many respects his masterpiece, an unsparing evocation of a Catholic...

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Stepping Out
Catherine Rey

$27.95

Translated from the French by Julie Rose

The new novel by French-Australian author Catherine Rey opens in provincial France in the 1970s, with the eighteen-year-old protagonist, dressed in borrowed ...