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With photographic precision, author Susan Midalia captures the fleeting beauty, light and darkness to be found in the ephemera of everyday life. Like the beanbag of the title, the stories are an invitation to settle yourself in for a reading experience by turns vivid, haunting, bizarre and strangely comforting.

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When Kate, a white Australian foster mother, takes her 18-year old Torres Strait Islander foster son back to Brisbane to meet his sick birth mother, Kate's own mother has a homecoming of a very different kind planned for her daughter. Paydirt paints a portrait of contemporary Australia that is that is anything but black versus white.

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An organisation called The Cleaners is making threats, days before the Australia Day holiday in Sydney. An Aboriginal protester was murdered the year before. Lost in the emotional quicksand of marital breakup, journalist Alex Tolman finds himself caught up in the events. An intricately plotted novel written with page-turning energy.

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Threads the stories to two sisters, two betrayals and the two acts of violence years apart that lead Isabelle and Madeleine to Ravello, Italy, the mythical place of their childhood. From Hong Kong to Paris, this book about the sisters' past and present become a haunting narrative of longing and unfulfilled desire.

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This exquisite collection of poetry, while loosely following Charles Darwin's life, is more a 'portrait' in verse of his inner and family life.

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A no holds barred collection of short stories tells of people caught between places and lovers as well as between desire, addiction and regret.

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Using Eva - the cleaning lady protagonist from her acclaimed 2003 novel "The Secret Cure" - as both catalyst and metaphor, the author explores Western science, psychology and epistemology for clues to better understanding the creative writing process.

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Photographs generated by NSW in the course of their investigations in 1945-60 form a visual reference for a richly imagined story to take place. Ross Gibson writes a fictional story behind each of these intriguing police photographs. Exhibition of photographs to be held in Sydney.

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Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of the Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection Harrison has gathered together some of his best works and included some alluring and lyrical new works.

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Explores the profound impact of time and place on the lives of two women, and questions the things we value, the places we call home and the spaces between life and death.

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Moving between Perth, Melbourne and the English village of Granston and shifting between two generations, this title illuminates the stories of Grace and her parents Peter and Madeleine. It explores the tragic consequences when people cease communicating with each other, and the suffering imposed on children by adults crippled by grief.

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The dictum goes: Go to the bars of a place to understand its living. Go to the museums to understand its dead. When Fiona McGregor, writer and performance artist, travelled to Poland in 2006 as a festival participant, it was her first visit to Eastern Europe.

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Jo narrates the story of her strong, passionate mother, Willa, whose gradual slide into dementia shifts them into a new and difficult relationship. Infused with abundant warmth and wry humour, The Seamstress is a memorable tale of friendship and love between women.