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Robert Drewe teams up with John Kinsella to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are drawn. For Drewe and Kinsella, it evokes the memories - both personal and cultural - that inspire the writing in this book.

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Explores issues of sublimity and beauty, contemplates the aesthetic and the transcendent, examines nature and the artificial. John Kinsella is one of Australia's most internationally respected poets.

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Making extensive and imaginative use of oral sources and official documents, 'Sort of a Place Like Home' creates a vivid and intimate picture of the life experience of Moore River inmates, whilst documenting the appalling bureaucratic incompetence, official indifference and brutality that made Moore River notorious.

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In this collection of three long narrative poems, Temperton conjures up the highs and lows of the coastal environment to explore the effects of nature's 'Powerful forces at work' on human existence. An impressive third collection written with flair, passion and the ability to look unpleasant realities in the eye.

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A deserted house, an abandoned baby and an elderly neighbour who has the answers, but cannot speak. Then the body of a woman turns up in the river - limbs bound, and a shotgun wound to the head. Soon DSS Stevie Hooper is on the trail of a human trafficking ring. A ruthless group that has at its rotten heart a disregard for all human life.

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This is the story of Dame Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie. Lena is Music's Most Modern Musician; the first theremin player of the twentieth century. From the obscurity of a Perth boarding school to a glittering career on the world stage, Lena Gaunt's life will be made and torn apart by those she gives her heart to.

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Conway dreams his way back to the arrival of Europeans in Western Australia when Captain Charles Fremantle chooses to throw off the mantle of Empire and join the Nyoongar people.

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The West represents twenty years of work by internationally renowned poet John Mateer. This is the first time his Australian poems have been published together in one volume. Taking its bearings from the Indian Ocean, Mateer's poetry crisscrosses the continent inviting the reader on a journey into the psyche, culture and landscape of this country.

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In August 2004, Parliamentary senators wept as they presented Forgotten Australians, the report from the Senate Inquiry into the treatment of children in care.