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Hunter

We’re an independent publisher, located in Melbourne, interested in creative new writing that takes a few risks — that is original and engaged and keen to have a bit of fun along the way. Much of it written by young Australian writers you’ve never heard of, but should have.

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Torpedo: Greatest Hits
Chris Flynn (ed)

$27.95

Torpedo marks the dawn of a new age for local fiction publishing.’ —3000

‘The heart of contemporary Australian fiction is beating loud and strong. Stupendous.’—Herald Sun

‘We’d be fools not to ride ...

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Lunatic In My Head
Anjum Hasan

$29.95

‘You’ll be charmed by her fresh, engaging, and altogether unexpected voice.’—Sophie Cunningham, author of Bird & Geography

‘Haunting, lyrical, and daring, bringing fresh air into the stale confines ...

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How a Moth Becomes a Boat
Josephine Rowe

$16.95

How a Moth Becomes a Boat is moving its way along my shelf to the space strictly reserved for old favourites.’ — Brad Dunn, Three Thousand

‘Josephine Rowe has mastered the art of the short story...

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The Hawkline Monster
Richard Brautigan

$19.95

‘Reads like a spaghetti Western crossed with Frankenstein, viewed through an opium haze.’ — Sunday Times

‘The twists and turns of the plot, the precise coolness of the language, the rich humour and ...

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The Norseman's Song
Joel Deane

$32.95

An ancient man without a past hails a taxi driven by a petty criminal with no future.

Reluctantly, the pair embarks on a journey in search of a legendary whaler and murderer known only as the...

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Father's Day
Tony Birch

$24.95

‘To make stories look and sound so heartbreakingly real you need an unflinching eye and a compassionate ear and Tony Birch knows just what details are going to go straight to his reader’s heart...

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Passion Play: love, hope, and heartbreak at the Footy
Matthew Klugman

$29.95

There’s something about Australian Rules football that drives people towards madness. Something that produces great pain and joy and an insatiable hunger for more.

Passion Play journeys into the...

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Beneath Our Armour
Peter Bakowski

$19.95

Beneath Our Armour’s portrait poems cover vast tracts of history, geography, and personae in a way that is at once intimate and epic. Intimate, because Bakowski imagines his way into the lives of p...

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Villain
Justin Clemens

$19.95

‘The meeting of Villon and Clemens is one of true minds. These are snaky, savage poems, charged with an electric intelligence.’—Chloe Hooper

In Villain Justin Clemens invokes the spirit of medieval ...

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The Two Kinds of Decay
Sarah Manguso

$27.95

'A remarkable, clear-eyed account that turns horror into something humane and beautiful.’— New York Times Book Review

'Whilst Sarah Manguso’s style is spare and unsentimental, she communicates the i...

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Oink, Oink, Oink: a savage modern fable
Eric Dando

$29.95

'Imagine Woody Allen and Chuck Palahniuk programming a festival for your brain … Part satirical horror, part spooky speculative fiction, a savagely funny critique of consumer-driven society.' —...