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An Elegant Young Man by Luke Carman
Category: Fiction | Series: Giramondo Shorts Ser.
For a long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation, but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book of fiction is about to change all that: a collection of monologues and stories which tells it how it is on Australia's cultural frontier. His young ...Show more
Ninety9 by Vanessa Berry
Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Shorts Ser.
In the 1990s, when music was recorded on cassettes and movies on VHS, Vanessa Berry was reacting to the loneliness of life in the suburbs by constructing imaginary worlds and identities from video hits, late-night music programs, band t-shirts, mixtapes and zines, and the dark energy of the Goths. A mem ...Show more
Street To Street(Prizewinner longlist Miles Franklin 2013) by Castro, Brian
Category: Fiction | Series: Giramondo Shorts Ser.
Brian Castro takes up the novella, the form favoured by David Malouf and Helen Garner, in his new work of fiction, based on the life of the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan. Brennan wrote some of the most powerful and ambitious poems in Australian poetry; he was a formidable liter ...Show more
The Recluse by Evelyn Juers
Category: Biography | Series: Giramondo Shorts Series
Evelyn Juers's study of reclusion focuses on Eliza Emily Donnithorne, long considered the model for Charles Dickens' character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. For most of her life she lived in isolation in a large house in the inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown. It was said that she had been jilted at ...Show more
The Tribe by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Category: Fiction | Series: Giramondo Shorts Ser.
The Tribe is a collection of three novellas portraying life in an extended Muslim Allawite Lebanese-Australian family, as seen by one of its youngest members. The first novella describes the family house in the Sydney suburb of Alexandria, and the three generations who live, often in some discord, in it ...Show more
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