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Winner of the 2013 Thomas Shapcott Award. Both fun and playful, Stavanger's poems display wit and beguiling originality. They shift from the oddball to the vulnerable and from the zany to the deeply meditative.

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Sam's life is haunted by the day that her mother inexplicably abandoned her at the beach, leaving her homeless at thirteen. Years later, Sam has created a life for herself by the sea. When a coma patient is brought into the hospital where Sam works, she believes the woman to be her mother.

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A love story that chronicles Virginia's renovation of the house she shared with her husband, John, and the ways in which that process paralleled her own emotional 'renovation' in the year after his death.

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Steven Ralph lives alone and drinks alone. When his luckless life as an advertising copywriter is about to implode he prescribes himself a dog - 75 kilos of canine anti-depressant. Caesar is his four-legged clover, and suddenly, anything seems possible. Until Ralph's world becomes a dog's breakfast - literally.

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Three Crooked Kings is not just a social history over half a century, but a grand narrative teeming with murder, pay-offs, political machinations, drug heists, assisted suicides, police in-fighting and a complicated system of corruption that ultimately collapsed under its own weight.

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People searching, people on journeys. A young woman goes in search of the father she's never known. A man travels the vast length of Australia to uncover the secret that has teased and tormented him throughout his adult years. These stories are humorous.

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Winner of the 2011 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Water Mirrors was inspired by the Nicholas Powell's 'enchanting and disorientating' experience of moving to Finland. His poems circle intimacy, illusions, and the task of reconciling the many facets of experience.

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Urban migration and the rapid growth of cities are creating global change. Brugmann shows how the city is now a medium for revolutionary change. Not just political upheaval but technological, economic and social innovations are forged in our cities. Brugmann shows how they are becoming laboratories for solving the major challenges of this century.

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Yellowlees (online health and psychiatry, U. of Queensland) explains how to use the Internet to find health information and practitioners. He assumes readers know how to get around in cyberspace. He does describe useful sites and mentions examples often, but he discusses the principles and practices