Underground is the 3rd book in the Master of The Ghost Dreaming quartet, beautifully and insistently portrays the enduring reality of Aboriginal Dreaming in a fascinating story of initiation, maternal longing, and colonial violence.
One of the great novels of early settlement in Tasmania, seen through the eyes of the shaman Jangamuttuk, who battles for the survival of his tribe in a world of white ghosts.
Literary black comedy with lashings of thriller. Adult children take revenge on their brutal father, but the victim crawls back ... "A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive" Zadie Smith "Fast-moving, energetic, constantly surprising" Hilary Mantel "Supremely artful" Lionel Shriver
East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, a. M. Kaizer, and I. a. Lisky
In London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950, Vivi Lachs presents a selection of previously un-translated short stories and sketches by Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky, for the general reader and academic alike. These intriguing and entertaining tales build a picture of a lively East-End community ......
Frank Hannaford, a young Australian from a sheltered Catholic background, is searching for a deeper version of himself in 1930s Germany. At the university and in an organisation of young Catholic men he finds friendship and a new confidence in his own resources. A German identity begins to form, surprising and delighting him.
The Punjabi migration provides the material for the first Indo-Australian literary work, first published in 1965. Set in northern New South Wales this is something of a rural idyll, recording a cross-communal marriage and settling in to life on a sheep farm with a cast of typical bush characters.
The Devil Wears Prada meets the Wolf of Wall Street meets I Don’t Know How She Does It with just a dash of Marion Keyes. Set in glorious Sydney sunshine, Jill Valentine’s debut novel reveals some of the nastier deals (and ‘blue hushing’) underscoring the high pressure worlds of finance and hospitality, while proving that kindness and great ......
Like all cities, Cartel is filled with good and bad people who enter each other's lives and influence their everyday existence. A son denounces his father, a devoted daughter turns from the good life to a more profitable life, and a family tries to escape their horrific past. On the streets of Cartel, cultures collide and greed consumes, until all ......
ISBN-13: 9781925117264
(Paperback)
Publisher: LITTLE STEPS Imprint: LITTLE STEPS PUBLISHING
When factory worker Pinquean Smallcreep, who has slotted a certain type of slot into a certain type of pulley for many years, packs his sandwiches and sets out on a journey to investigate what it is he is producing, his discoveries become increasingly more bizarre and disturbing. Peter Currell Brown's brilliantly surreal satire of automation and ......
