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Product Description: In 1951, just days before her scheduled lobotomy after years in a mental hospital, New Zealand author Janet Frame’s first collection of short stories unexpectedly won the Hubert Church Memorial Award, one of the country’s most prestigious honors...read more
By Janet Frame and Denis Harold (editor)

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9781619027282 | Counterpoint, May 10, 2016, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: In 1951, just days before her scheduled lobotomy after years in a mental hospital, New Zealand author Janet Frame’s first collection of short stories unexpectedly won the Hubert Church Memorial Award, one of the country’s most prestigious honors.

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By Terri-Ann White (editor)

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9781742586212 | Univ of Western Australia Pr, April 8, 2016, cover price $24.99

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Product Description: Twenty-one New Zealand short stories forming a mosaic of fiction written with deep understanding of characters and the lives they lead. A glimpse into everyday families in times gone by where the settings may be simpler but many problems are the same as today’s...read more

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9781530422791 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 6, 2016, cover price $13.90 | About this edition: Twenty-one New Zealand short stories forming a mosaic of fiction written with deep understanding of characters and the lives they lead.

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9781530161645 | 2 una edition (Createspace Independent Pub, February 24, 2016), cover price $11.99

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Product Description: The Human Landscape is a collection of short story by Aurealis and Black Dog Award winning author Robert N Stephenson

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9781530149704 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 19, 2016, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The Human Landscape is a collection of short story by Aurealis and Black Dog Award winning author Robert N Stephenson

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Product Description: Our editors went out into New Zealand and rounded up a pile of blogs and travelogues, memoirs and journalism – some of the best true stories from the last year or so. We’ve got bullies and Barbie, chakra and shipwrecks, loose lips and AK47s...read more

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9781869408442 | Auckland Univ Pr, May 1, 2016, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Our editors went out into New Zealand and rounded up a pile of blogs and travelogues, memoirs and journalism – some of the best true stories from the last year or so.

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9781523488629 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 28, 2016, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humor, and anecdotes—the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history, and yarning to mates and other colorful characters from all parts of Australia...read more

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9781760113063 | Allen & Unwin, December 1, 2015, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humor, and anecdotes—the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history, and yarning to mates and other colorful characters from all parts of Australia.
9781743316832 | Allen & Unwin, March 1, 2014, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humor and anecdotes—the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates and other colorful characters from all parts of Australia and all walks of life.

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Product Description: Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law, as well their own mounting boredom and squalor...read more

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9781628971200 | Dalkey Archive Pr, February 15, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment.

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9781519119070 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 5, 2015, cover price $7.15

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9781519159922 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 23, 2015, cover price $5.38

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9781518708534 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 21, 2015, cover price $9.40

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Product Description: Oceanic Mythology is a collection of myths from Polynesia, Australia, and more.

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9781517114367 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 5, 2015, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Oceanic Mythology is a collection of myths from Polynesia, Australia, and more.
9781475256949 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 26, 2012, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing.

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By Claire Davison (editor), Gerri Kimber (editor) and Todd Martin (editor)

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9781474400381 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, October 1, 2015, cover price $120.00

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Product Description: Verge is Monash University's annual anthology of creative writing, and this eleventh edition features the best of Monash University's creative writers, as well as a selection of other emerging Australian and international wordsmiths...read more
By Anna Jacquiry (editor)

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9781922235961 | Monash Univ Faculty Info, September 28, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Verge is Monash University's annual anthology of creative writing, and this eleventh edition features the best of Monash University's creative writers, as well as a selection of other emerging Australian and international wordsmiths.

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Product Description: This latest collection of short stories from 'Sydney's hippest writer' (independencejones.com) deals with the issue of mental illness, but told from the viewpoint of those so affected. If you like quirky stories with bizarre characters doing even stranger things then this book is for you...read more

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9781517453831 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 21, 2015, cover price $11.50 | About this edition: This latest collection of short stories from 'Sydney's hippest writer' (independencejones.

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9781517403447 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 16, 2015, cover price $8.00

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Product Description: In this uniquely Australian anthology of short stories we traverse the country known by Australians as the ‘wide brown land’. You will be introduced to a ‘Bachelors & Spinsters’ Ball, the wonderful memories of yesteryear’s Cracker Nights, Aussie nicknames, the dangers of our wildlife, all written by gifted sassy women — women who have learned to live in a harsh, unforgiving land with irreverent humour, optimism and grace...read more

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9781517244477 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 11, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: In this uniquely Australian anthology of short stories we traverse the country known by Australians as the ‘wide brown land’.

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Product Description: "Along the journey of my unconventional childhood, I was introduced to the ‘great Australian shed’. As Australians, we are excessively fond of our sheds. My theory regarding this lies in our convict heritage. After all, we arrived in this harsh land, with nothing but the chains on our feet...read more

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9781517244231 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 9, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: "Along the journey of my unconventional childhood, I was introduced to the ‘great Australian shed’.

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9781517240851 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 8, 2015, cover price $14.99

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9781517110611 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 30, 2015, cover price $5.38

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