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Ireland, Nick: The Popondetta Butterfly
Book Number: 49798
BookPal, Australia 2006 8vo softcover 345pp. very good+. Signed by author. Underachieving small time slob lawyer and Sydney Roosters tragic - Gerard "Gout" Flanagan, wakes up one Monday in his terrace in Surry Hills not quite knowing what he got up to on the weekend. He eventually realises that in a moment of drunken clarity he promised the Papua New Guinea government to run a class action against the evil Malaysian Logging Incorporated on behalf of the West Sepik Tribes to win back their land before it gets de forested. Thereafter he finds himself in a life and death adventure in Papua New Guinea dealing with: Indonesia's Kopassus, the Aussie SAS, Millwall and West Ham hooligans, plane crashes, angry cassowaries, gay tribesmen, raskols, ASIS and a South Sydney rugby league heavy. In the midst of all this chaos he still finds time to have a red hot fling with a native girl, brood about Penny his new love interest in Australia, surf his new found secret wave discovery - Gout's Left, spot the best ever rugby league talent for the Roosters and watch as many games of the inaugural Quad Nations league tournament between the Kumuls, Kangaroos, Kiwis and Lions. And all this is just on the way to the Wewak Provincial Court. Now if only he can win the case, get the girl and survive to tell the tale.
Keywords: The Popondetta Butterfly Ireland Nick
Price: $25.00 |
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Carey, Peter: My Life as a Fake with limited edition DVD.
Book Number: 49855
Milson's Point, N.S.W. Random House Australia 2003 8vo hardcover 280pp. comes with limited edition dvd 778/1000, the dvd has an interview with Peter Carey on it. fine / near fine d/w, rough cut page edges, ribbon place marker. Po name stamp on fep. In his remarkable new novel, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey creates a Creature as indelible as Frankenstein's. My Life as a Fake is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, but the leap he takes is into the realms of richly imagined fiction. Sara, an English poetry editor on holiday in Kuala Lumpur, stumbles upon an Australian, Christopher Chubb, reading Rilke in a bicycle shop. The man shows her a scrap of poetry the like of which she's never seen. She becomes determined to get her hands on the poetry, to publish in (and revive) her ailing poetry journal. Chubb insists that Sara hear his story first. His tale is told over many sittings, and is the central story of My Life as a Fake. As a conservative young poet in Melbourne in the 1950s, Chubb decided to teach the country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submitted for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet of raw power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at twenty-four and entirely the product of Chubb's imagination. Not only did the magazine fall for the hoax, but its editor was prosecuted for publishing obscenity. At the trial someone uncannily resembling the man in the faked photograph of the invented McCorkle leapt to his feet. At that moment the horrified Chubb was confronted by the malevolent being he had himself manufactured. Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how the phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to the seedy, sweaty, tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur.
Keywords: Fiction General My Life as a Fake Carey Peter
Price: $65.00 |
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Baker, Roz: Sooner or Later We All Stop Laughing - Signed by Author
Book Number: 50434
Southwood Press January 1, 2004 8vo softcover 232pp very good. For 16 years, Elizabeth Conroy had been sloly suffocating, when circumstances dealt her a crushing blow. Gone was the laughter and the life she had known as bitterness and anger bit into her soul. Shaking off the trappings of her executive lifestyle, she boarded a north bound train, with no particular destination in mind. Looking like a vagrant, Elizabeth roamed the Queensland hinterland, not at all sure that life had any value. But one thing she was sure of, no one would ever push her around again.
Keywords: Sooner or Later We All Stop Laughing Baker Roz
Price: $11.00 |
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Woolfe, Sue: Painted Woman
Book Number: 50440
Australia in Print August 1989 8vo hardcover in d/w. 175pp very good. Painted Woman: a totally engrossing story of the evolution of a woman painter, and her emergence from her father's tyranny to the freedom of artistic autonomy.
Keywords: Painted Woman Woolfe Sue
Price: $10.00 |
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Edge, Arabella: The Company - The Story pf a Murderer
Book Number: 50591
Picador 2001 8vo softcover 371pp very good. Based on the 1629 voyage of the Dutch East India Company flagship Batavia, which foundered off the Western Australian coast with its cargo of untold riches, The Company tells the story of Jeronimus Cornelisz, 31 year old apothecary and uppermerchant, a man so twisted by lust and greed that he turns to mutiny, rape, torture and murder. With the ship wrecked, its passenders dying, the treasure trashed at the bottom of the sea, Cornelisz assumes command of the survivors, who all thought they were lucky to be alive. With Cornelisz in control, however, and extraordinary reign of terror begins, leaving his victims wishing they had gone down with the ship.
Keywords: The Company Edge Arabella
Price: $12.00 |
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Baynton, Barbara: Bush Studies - Classic Australian short stories.
Book Number: 50810
London ; Sydney Angus & Robertson 1983 8vo softcover 140pp near fine. Includes a Memoir of Barbara Baynton, a Lecture delivered in full, Barbara Baynton Stories, and six short stories. A Dreamer, Squeaker's Mate, Scrammy 'And, Billy Skywonkie, Bush Church, The Chosen Vessel.
Keywords: Bush studies Baynton Barbara
Price: $10.00 |
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Coupe, Stuart, Nigel Krauth, Robert Wallace, Peter Coris, Garry Disher, REL Cassidy, Marlele Day, Kerry Greenwood, Jean Bedford, Steve Wright, J. R. Carroll, Robert Hood: Case Reopened
Book Number: 50975
Allen & Unwin October 1994 8vo softcover 272pp very good. The Wanda Beach murders, the disappearance of Harold Holt, the Bogle-Chandler case, the missing proceeds from the Qantas Bomb Hoax, the mystery of the Beaumont children and the Shark Arm murder. These are just some of the real 'cases' investigated by the cream of Australian crime writers who were given the brief to take a famous Australian murder or mystery and solve it!
Keywords: Case Reopened Coupe Stuart
Price: $16.00 |
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Hamlet, Herb: Bluey's War
Book Number: 51052
Penguin Group January 1, 2009 8vo softcover 420pp very good. Bluey O'Donnell and Ellen Sommers are childhood sweethearts ready to take on the world when news of the war hits their quiet county town.
Keywords: Bluey's War Hamlet Herb
Price: $10.00 |
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Praed, Rosa: Lady Bridget in the Never Never Land
Book Number: 51232
Pandora1987 8vo softcover 293pp very good, page edges browned, owner's signature on fep.
Keywords: Lady Bridget in the Never Never Land Praed Rosa
Price: $15.00 |
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Price, Colin: Cunyarra: The North West 1950
Book Number: 51297
Qawra Press 2004 8vo softcover 296pp near fine. In 1949, following reports that survivors of German raider Kormoran may have buried politically sensitive files, at Cuvier Bay on the North West Coast of Australia, the Royal Navy sends Sam Lejeunne on paid leave to visit his family's station situated nearby to investigate. Sam flies to Carnarvon where an opportunity presents itself when George Roberts, owner of a coastal station close to the cave where the Germans camped, invites them all to join in excavating the site. The outcome is unexpected.
Keywords: Cunyarra The North West 1950 Price Colin
Price: $16.00 |
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