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The 20th century has seen a growth in human consumption, which has placed a colossal load on the very elements of life. This title explains how this predicament is as old as civilisation, a 10,000 year experiment which has been seldom controlled.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Krissy Kneen was raised by a very protective, quite eccentric family who avoided any mention of sexuality. Perhaps it was no coincidence that she became obsessed by the very idea of sex. After leaving home she plunged into a world of voracious exploration. The true story of a woman, her body and the extraordinary adventures they've shared.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope they might be seen and rescued, we discover the stories of their lives, the sequences of events that brought them together and the shocking truth behind the cause of their crash.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback, New edition)

A beautifully written tale of childhood friendship in America's Deep South, in the tradition of To Kill a Mocking Bird. David is nine, He knows all the bones. When he was born, his father Dr Franklin Church hung a skeleton in his room and taught him the names, bone by bone by bone.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A lament but also a call to arms, Caravan Story is a thrilling piece of satire, a compulsively readable, extremely well-wrought Orwellian fable that I believe announces the arrival of Macauley as a major Australian writer, one who definitely has something to say.

(Paperback)

Chemistry follows a young Chinese American woman who must discover what she really wants before her life can truly begin.

(Paperback, UK ed.)

Mind-blowing In the vein of George Saunders, Rick Bass, and Alex Shakar, Weinstein writes with stirring particularity, unfailing sensitivity, and supercharged imagination, creating nuanced stories harboring a molten core of astutely satirical inquiries' (Booklist)

(Paperback)

Australias favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter Wash Road.

(Hardback, UK ed.)

Exploring various aspects of tattooing - from the symbolism of tattoo motifs to inking methods, from their use as means of identification and control, to expressions of individualism and defiance.

(Paperback, New edition)

In Vientiane's Mahosot Hospital morgue, 73-year-old Dr Siri Paiboun, national coroner of Laos, handles the fatalities at the state hospitals-and the odd murder. His assistants - the gorgeous, clever, fat Nurse Dtui and the slow but irreplaceable Geung - have helped Dr Siri out of scrapes before.

(Paperback)

Here is the updated edition of Murray Bail's remarkable collection of short stories, first published in 1975. In addition to established classics such as 'The Drover's Wife' and 'Huebler' , this edition includes a number of new stories. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive.

(Paperback)

Fup is a tale of two humans, one duck and several vats of home-brewed whisky. There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler. There's Tiny, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent. And then there's Fup, a mallard duck, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee household.

(Paperback)

Isn't it enough having your very own terminal disease, without your mother dying Or your father dating your Art teacher No wonder Sacha Thomas ends up in the lake... But the real question is: how does he end up in love with Jewel Valentine Sacha and Jewel have a crazy adventure. But Sacha's running out of time, and Jewel has secrets of her own.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, UK ed.)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

An adventurous, surreal story about Iris' visit to her unusual aunt's even more unusual house in Spain, where she seeks the meaning behind a painting named Iris and the Tiger.

(Hardback)

From the award-winning author and illustrator Simon Barnard comes an embellished version of Australias first ever dictionary, published on its 200-year anniversary