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Ernabella Arts

Ceramic Warka Wiru 20 Years-kutu (20 years of creating ceramics)

Carly Tarkari Dodd, Caitlin Eyre, Maya Hodge

'This book tells the story of the Ernabella Arts Ceramics Studio. We are very happy to work together with the JamFactory to make this book and also for the 20th anniversary exhibition. We have a long history and partnership with the JamFactory. They helped us to make the first ceramics more than 20 years ago.' - Anne Nginyangka Thompson, Chair Ernabella Arts ...
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No Singing in Gum Trees

The honest life of Max Martin

Jeremy Hill, Ronald Millar, Max Martin

A young man from the working-class suburb of Fitzroy was on the cusp of a brilliant career and was the talk of the Academy's salons. Far from his humble origins, he now stood shoulder to shoulder with the leading figures of London's art world. ...
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The Trials of Billy Freeman

Alan Atkinson

Of all the Australian states, South Australia has most loudly perpetuated the historic myth that it was convict-free. But although it was not a destination for transportees, convicts and ex-convicts arrived in their thousands and helped build the new province. One of those was Billy Freeman. ...
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South Australia From Above

Views from then and now

D. Darian Smith, Paul Dare, Sharon Mascall-Dare

Featuring the work of pioneering aerial photographers, this book takes you on a journey through history. From the city to the bay, from vineyards to shipyards, discover South Australia's heritage and 21st century transformation from a unique perspective as we explore South Australia from above. ...
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Celebrating 50 Years

Samela Harris

This wide-ranging collection of interviews by Samela Harris celebrates and reflects on the first 50 years of Adelaide Festival Centre. From the early vision of Don Dunstan, to the many thriving festivals Adelaide Festival Centre now presents, this is an engaging look back on an important period in Australia's cultural history. ...
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The Adelaide Art Scene

Becoming contemporary 1939-2000

Margot Osborne

This landmark anthology of new and archival writing on the Adelaide art scene across six decades reveals the untold story of the highs and lows of progressive art in Adelaide since the outbreak of the Second World War. ...
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Default Depression

How we now interpret human distress as mental illness

Anthony Smith

It's a stressful world and we can become overwhelmed. But at what point does sadness become depression, and stress an anxiety disorder? ...
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Brutal

A story of survival

Paula Nagel

Brutal is a story within a story.

Former ABC journalist Paula Nagel, a household name in the early years of current affairs television, has led a dramatic life. ...
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On Luck Street

Peter Bakowski, Ken Bolton

On Luck Street builds on The Elsewhere Variations, Nearly Lunch, and Waldo's Game - taking the reader around the corner, and around the world. From a small circus in Nepal, to a florist in New York, and the streets of Coogee and Fitzroy. ...
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Waldo's Game

Peter Bakowski, Ken Bolton

Waldo's Game extends the reach of The Elsewhere Variations and Nearly Lunch - going around the corner, and around the world. From supermarket aisle to art gallery - from nocturnal shiftiness in industrial zones to dawn reckonings … in bedrooms, on wild coastlines. ...
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Mood

A memoir of love, identity and mental health

Roz Bellamy

Mood is a memoir that perfectly suits our times, and our collective journey to understand how we are shaped by our identities. It is a testament to hard-won growth through self-knowledge. ...
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Temperance

Carol Lefevre

December, 1963, Australia: a road trip to Byron Bay and night spent in the tiny outback town of Temperance will alter a family's lives, and ignite a chain of events the children will struggle to both conceal and resolve, long into adulthood. A haunting novel of tightly held family secrets. ...
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