Written in the voices of two gay men an Australian tourist and a Singaporean local Excess Baggage and Claim shines with a bright lucidity. What makes this book so startling is not that these poems about difficult self-discovery are sometimes shocking, but that they rise out of darkness, and a sense of dislocation, with such tenderness and courage. This is an extraordinary collection of poetry a masterful collaboration by Singapore Literature Prize winner Cyril Wong and Australian poet Terry Jaensch. These poems are odes to longing and desire, sung at 4am from the back bar of an impossible city where the borders have yet to be created and have yet to be dismantled. This is a shimmering, hard and beautiful collaboration. - Christos Tsiolkas, author of Dead Europe and Loaded. Jaensch's always-deft phrasing and sense of metaphor twists the reader's expectations and compels us to watch more closely; Wong's candid, conversational style reveals the vagaries of faltering relationships and power plays. These characters take the microphone and sing; the confining world of their subculture setting the parameters for the universal lyrics of love and loss. - Cate Kennedy, author of Dark Roots and Sing, and Don t Cry.

Excess Baggage and Claim

Terry Jaensch and Cyril Wong

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A Long Walk in the Himalaya: A Trek from the Ganges to Kashmir

Travel

Garry Weare

Specialty Travel

It is 1914 and Bairnsdale, Australia, is filled with the news of a war in far off places. Ida Hallam, a young shop assistant, has fallen in love with Ralph Mitton, a land surveyor, but like everyone else he is caught up in the romance and adventure of fighting for his country. Ida envies his freedom, but when he returns wounded and troubled she begins to understand something of the nature of what he has experienced. Years later Ida s sons go off to fight in the Second World War. Peter McConnell has a sharp understanding of the detail and sweep of history, of Australia s connections with the East and of how world events impact on the daily life of the individual. A History of the Great War is a gentle, strangely haunting novel set in small town Australia. Imbued with sadness, moments of happiness and quiet courage it is the moving story of one woman s innocent life; of love, family and loss. Like a dream steeped in reality it is not easily forgotten. The pyramids themselves would turn to dust in the end.

A History of the Great War: A Novel

Peter McConnell

Literature & Fiction

From the Sudan to Northern New South Wales, Australia, Tarab is an epic mesemerizing tale of high adventure and the search for meaning. Carl Cleves escapes national service in Belgium to live in South Africa at the height of the Apartheid era. So begins the adventures and quests, wanderings and narrow escapes , mishaps and illuminations of a guitar-toting troubador in his roles as young beat poet, law student, single father, relief worker in India and recording star in Brazil. Cleves' page turning memoir is no simple music biography, but rather the story of an artist's quest for Tarab: a place where music and poetry bestow true bliss upon the lucky one.

Tarab: travels with my guitar

Carl Cleves

The New Angel

Ali Alizadeh

'A vivacious contemporary tale of life, love and dreaming. It is a sheer joy to read.'  David Rankin In Marisa Raoul's delightful memoir she takes us to the heart of her 'medieval' B&B in Treignac, France. The book is full of Gallic humour and eccentricity, romance and discovery. Part 'Fawlty Towers', part 'Almost French', 'My French Folly' is a book for anyone who has ever wanted to fall in love with a foreign country. Charming, passionate and inspired it will make you want to follow your dreams, pack up your life and shift to France.

Ma Folie Francaise ( My French Folly)

Marisa Raoul

<p>James Murray recounts nine days spent in the remote and beautiful landscapes of the Northern Territory, yet this is much more than a book about bushwalking. A delicate hymn to the wilderness of Northern Australia, My Life in the Sea of Cars: A Letter from Arnhem Land is a journey of personal exploration and self discovery, and a passionate argument for a new way of living. The ways in which rampant consumerism, and an obsession with the motor car have become so entrenched in people s lives is explored through relationships, memory, culture, identity and the meditative act of walking. When Murray candidly reveals his own family secrets and likely ancestry his book takes on yet another dimension. Totally original, and heartbreakingly honest, Murray asks us the difficult, awkward questions that will not go away. Where has our culture gone so wrong? An original and provocative book, part stream of consciousness, part epiphany, part treatise and part heartfelt lament for a consumerist, car-addicted society which leaves such a trail of devastation in its wake. Murray's unflinching eye takes in the fallout left by the wrecking ball of unquestioning materialism, and his observations are acute, honest and at times uncomfortably spot on. He plumbs these assumptions from the car-less, people-less tranquility of a solitary nine-day bushwalk, and we are there with him every step of the way: across remote gorges and into creeks, on escarpments and past rock drawings, listening to his impassioned arguments, ideas and insights, the recounting of old conversations and new possibilities, breakdowns and breakthroughs. It's a rich, intriguing, candid mix Murray is one hitchhiker I would definitely pick up. Cate Kennedy, author of Dark Roots, Sing and Don t Cry, and The World Beneath</p>

My Life in the Sea of Cars: A Letter from Arnhem Land

James Murray

Iran: My Grandfather

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Memoirs

New and Rediscovered

Vicki Viidikas

I Hate Martin Amis Et Al

BARRY, Peter

Humor & Satire

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