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NEW
BOOK! - 'Through The Valley' (2007)
by Les Murray, Patrice Newell, Jean Kent, Julian Croft, Jan Dean and many others.
Experienced and new writers explore the history of the hunter and its people in this new anthology of poems, stories, memoirs and images. Through the voices of 80 authors, the tales in this collection are as varied in their scope as they are in their delivery. It's truly a great read for anyone looking for a well told tale.
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'Stories for a Long Summer' (2006)
by Col Maybury, Andrew Slattery, Wendy Alexander, the winners of the SFLS Student competition and many more local Hunter Writers.
Full of warmth, laughter, sadness and hope, Stories for a Long summer is a book that celebrates the stories and poems that Australian summers birth. In it we have compiled a collection of writings that give the reader a place to escape from the summer heat.
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'BENEATH THE VALLEY' (2005)
by Justice Michael Kirby, Jim Comerford, Zeny Giles, Jan
Dean, Jack Delaney et.al.
These stories,
memoirs, poems and photographs explore the tight bonds that weave
families and communities together: their loyalties and violent clashes,
their passion for music, their camaraderie and wicked humour, and
the dread and horror of disaster.
Justice Michael Kirby, Jim Comerford, Zeny Giles, Jan Dean and Jack
Delaney are among the contributors who bring to life the richness
and variety of a fading era.
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'CAUGHT
IN THE LIGHT' (2002)
by ZENY GILES
... a fascinating mixed-mode book; intensely
locative, the collection groups short stories, poems, autobiography,
photographs and essays around each of four places: the Newcastle BHP,
Hunter Street milk-bars, the Royal Newcastle Hospital and the Newcastle
Ocean Baths, all as experiencedand as createdby migrants
from other cultures and languages. READ
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'HEAVEN'S GATE'
(2001)
by TREVOR FING
This, Trevor Fing's first novel, was
written in a series of NSW prisons. He knows the chafing oppression,
menace and claustrophobia of inside' as one who is enduring
years in jail, and the freedom and peril of the skies as one who
has flown in both. The soundless precision of expert criminal trespass
and the meticulous alertness of a helicopter pilot come through,
chill and passionate, as you have never read them before.
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'VISIONS FROM
THE VALLEY' (2001)
by DONALD MOORE
Dr Moore, once executive of an international
textiles organisation, now in his ninetieth year, chose the works
in this definitive anthology of the voices and visions of seventy-nine
Hunter Valley poets over forty years. Who would you expect to star
in such a collection? T.H. Jones (Harri), from the sixties? Roland
Robinson, from the seventies and eighties?
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'BACKYARD COSMOS:
new and selected poems' (2000)
by ROBIN LOFTUS
In poems of exhilarating clarity and
generosity, Robin Loftus invites us into an intensely experienced
world. Her backyard cosmos is radiant with the joys and griefs of
everyday contemporary life. There
are poems of social and cultural observation, tart with irony, and
poems of memory and family illuminated by images of flight, birdsong
and landscape.
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'THE GOBLIN
CHILD' (1999)
by LISBET DE CASTRO LOPO
The Goblin Child is the story
of Vanessa, whose sheltered early life and warm acceptance as a
teenage bride into a prosperous Italian-Australian family could
not be expected to prepare her for the darker aspects of society.
Newly widowed, this mother of five grown children finds herself
curiously alien and vulnerable as she journeys alone along the north
coast of New South Wales
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'IS THAT LOVE?'
(1999)
by MARGARET SUTHERLAND
Margaret Sutherland, one of New Zealand's
finest story writers, has published six books variously in Australia,
Britain, New Zealand and the USA. Is
That Love? includes some stories that are now out of print or
very difficult of access, as well as new work.
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