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Personal Effects
Lilith and Ross have always been moving; from Cervantes on the Turquoise Coast, to Calgary in Canada, and places in between. Now, in middle-age, the work at home has dried up and they’re back in Calgary, where many years before they suffered a miscarriage and where decades later they have returned for yet another new start. While Ross works away on the oil rig for weeks on end, Lilith unpacks their apartment and is confronted with the need to balance being alone with true loneliness. Her mind wanders, back to the windy plains and white sand beaches of the Turquoise Coast, to her strained and damaged relationships with her parents and brother, to the love between her and Ross and the ache of missing her daughters. She is reminded of the compromises she has made for this life of uncertainty. Of the achievements and disillusionments of her many selves — wife, mother, friend, lover, sister, daughter, artist, expat. Brimming with dualities, Grahame’s novel deals with the ambiguity of life, and the decisions we make in the hope that they will change our lives for the better.
A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900
A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.
The Albanian
"Rosa longs for mystery, adventure, the exotic, and escape from small country-town Australia. Fatally attracted to a romantic image of Eastern Europe, she arrives alone in Dubrovnik in the months before the implosion of the old Yugoslavia."--Cover.
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Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett
Leading Australian literary figure, Dorothy Hewett is remembered and rediscovered in this very personal book of selected poetry. Compiled by Dorothy's daughter, the poet and literary scholar Kate Lilley, Selected Poems encapsulates Hewett's enduring themes of grief, loss, despair and memory.
Everyday Madness
Life sucks when you are a vacuum cleaner-salesman facing redundancy, and your wife of nearly 40 years fills your days and nights with incessant chatter. But when Gloria suddenly and alarmingly stops talking, the silence is more than 59-year Bernard can bear. In desperation, Bernard turns to his ex&–daughter-in-law for help. Meg has issues of her own, and her bright and funny daughter Ella sometimes wonders if her mum is trying so hard to keep her safe it stops them both from spreading their wings. Will Meg's suspicious nature thwart her chance encounter with the kindly but enigmatic Hal? And is there still hope for Bernard and Gloria on the other side of silence?
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A New Map of the Universe
Grace dreams of designing a house for her lover, Michael. A place where they can begin their life together. But before she can step into her future with Michael, Grace must journey into the past to confront its crippling legacy of silence and secrets. This lyrical, engaging novel spans two generations as Grace navigates her new map of the universe. It is a story about grief and passion, architecture and astronomy, but above all it is a story about finding yourself.
