Sunburnt Veils
Sara Haghdoosti
Sunburnt Veils is a smart, funny, character-based exploration of Islamophobia through a heroine who's the kind of girl who reads at parties, but pushes herself to take a visible stand after a fellow student calls in a bomb threat on her first day of university, after she leaves a bag in a lecture theatre to take a phone call.
Girl meets boy, ghosts his text messages, then convinces him to help her run for the student union. Just your typical love story with a hijabi twist.
Tara wears hijab even though her parents hate it, and in a swipe right world she's looking for the 'will go to the ends of the earth for you' type of love. Or, she would be, if she hadn't sworn off boys to focus on getting into med. Besides, what's wrong with just crushing on the assassins, mages and thieves in the fantasy books she reads?
When a bomb threat on her first day of university throws her together with totally annoying party king and oh-so-entitled politician's son Alex, things get complicated. Tara needs to decide if she's happy reading about heroes, or if she's ready to step up and be one herself.
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Preparing for Business
Geoff Goodfellow
Award-winning poet Geoff Goodfellow is back with another vivid, affecting, laconically dark-witted collection that pulls no punches as it masterfully chronicles Australian life.
Filtered through Geoff's uniquely powerful perspective, these poems capture growing up with a charismatic but damaged father, the aftermath of broken marriages - and parenting amidst the rubble, the working life of a poet (including prank calls from entitled students), and dealing with cancer - again.
As always, Geoff delivers a series of brilliantly captured portraits of working-class life, from the street scenes of formerly industrial Port Adelaide and his home suburb of Semaphore, with its heightened blend of affluence and poverty, to his fearless inhabitations of teenagers beset by home lives that feature domestic violence and addiction.
And as a treat, there's 'Don't Be So Glum, Mum', a female-voiced version of his iconic poem, 'Don't Call me Lad, Dad'.
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Sincerely, Ethel Malley
Stephen Orr
In the darkest days of World War II, Ethel Malley lives a quiet life on Dalmar Street, Croydon. One day she finds a collection of poems written by her late (and secretive) brother, Ern. She sends them to Max Harris, co-editor of modernist magazine Angry Penguins. He reads them and declares Ern an undiscovered genius. Determined to help publish the poems, Ethel moves in with Max and soon becomes a presence he can't understand, or control. He gets the feeling something's not quite right. About Ethel. About Ern. Then two poets come forward claiming they wrote Ern's poems.
What follows is part-truth, part-hoax, a dark mystery as surreal as any of Ern's poems. Max wants to believe in Ern, but to do this he has to believe in Ethel, and attempt to understand her increasingly unpredictable behaviour. Then he's charged with publishing Ern's 'pornographic' poems. The questions of truth and lies, freedom of speech, and tradition versus modernism play out in a stifling Adelaide courtroom, around the nation's wirelesses, and in Max's head.
Based on Australia's greatest literary hoax, Sincerely, Ethel Malley explores the nature of creativity, and human frailty. It drips with the anaemic blood of Australian literature, the gristle of a culture we've never really trusted.
Praise for Sincerely, Ethel Malley
'The poet who never lived is fated to live forever in Australia's literary imagination. For my father Max Harris, he was a genius provoking a detective story, a tabloid sensation, and a public humiliation. But, until his death, Max stood behind the view that Ern Malley's hoax poems were brilliant, whatever their genesis. Stephen Orr recontextualises these poems and revives a 1940s world whence they came, fleshing out a life for Ern's sister, Ethel, and another version of Max in those fecund bohemian years. A new world springs from the old in a vivid reimagining. I was simply enthralled.' - Samela Harris (Max Harris's daughter)
'I bloody loved it, devoured it in a couple of short sittings. Funny in exactly the right way, unique and - perhaps most importantly - entirely plausible. Ethel Malley is easily one of the most vibrant and glorious literary creations I've encountered in a very long time.' - Chris Womersely
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Flying with Cranes
Heather Caddick
Flying with Cranes (and other stories) is the third collection of short stories by world traveller and environmentalist Heather Caddick showcasing the human condition and the perilous future for animals fighting to survive in the wild.
Avoiding the path trodden by most tourists, Heather shares her adventures in Romania, Czech Republic and Iran, Africa and the Ukraine, as well as her encounters with endangered wildlife in wild habitats. Her message is clear. We must all work towards a balance between human life and wildlife, because only then can we guarantee a better world for our children and grandchildren.
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