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Fiction
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Jackalope
Emma Schwarcz

Jackalope, gripping new fiction by Emma Schwarcz

Poetry
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Tiny Island
Jill Jones

Tiny Island by Jill Jones

Memoir
Cappadocia
The Guidebook
Alice Melike Ülgezer

Alice Melike Ülgezer reflects on a journey through Cappadocia, Turkey

Essays
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Australia In Three Books
Katherine Brabon

Australian in Three Books by Katherine Brabon

Essays
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Australia In Three Books
Katherine Brabon
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But Enough About Me
Richard Chirgwin
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It Had Become My Instinct To Laugh …
Gabrielle Jackson
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Recognition From The Right
Dominic Kelly
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Arts Funding: The Random Alternative
Martin Langford
Fiction
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Jackalope
Emma Schwarcz
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Girls Calling Girls
Laura Stortenbeker
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The Last Thing She Expected
Erin Ritchie
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From Their Brilliant Careers
Ryan O’Neill
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Mister Cardigan
Colin Varney
Memoir
Cappadocia
The Guidebook
Alice Melike Ülgezer
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A Capacity To Lie
Luke Stegemann
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View From A Treehouse
Jane Gilmore
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Now No-One Here Is Alone
Melissa Howard
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Permanent Wave: My Mother’s Hair
Robyn Annear
Poetry
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Tiny Island
Jill Jones
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Year of the Wasp
Joel Deane
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Branch
Stuart Cooke
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Bacchus Marsh Road
Brendan Ryan
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Of Books and Silence
Peter Boyle
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