Ginninderra Press

A former lecturer in Greek, Roman and Ancient Near Eastern history and literature at the University of Tasmania, Graeme Hetherington has spent much of his adult life living at large in Europe and...

Spanning a life from the 1950s to the present, this memoir begins with very South Australian roots; German and Cornish. It shines a light on some key events that helped shape the social consciousness...

Two women stepped from the steamship Orient onto Australian soil on a hot December day in 1879. Beatrice Beauchamp epitomises the younger middle-class English woman settler unused to the unpleasant...

Beauty In ObscurityAuthor: Andrew DrakePublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Jun 03, 2023Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761095471ISBN-13: 9781761095474

Simon Stuart studied at the Canberra School of Music and Monash University, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1999. Since then, he has made a living teaching and playing the double bass. This is...

One summer's day, thirteen-year-old Kirsty-Lee comes home from school to find her father has left them. This novel explores the ways in which she comes to terms with this and the subsequent changes...

Irene Wilkie's work closely observes her environment, human and natural. This first book is a confident and charming debut which will reward the attentive reader. 'An impressive first book from a...

Surprising personal glimpses of the eminent and enigmatic Australian poet 'I wonder sometimes if the literary pests are writing memoirs: "The last time I saw her she was pale and sick but smiling...

'These poems about friendship and belonging - I've had them with me for just two weeks and yet I feel as much at home with them as with friends I've known all my life. Meg Mooney has the language to...

These poems have been a lifetime in the making. A lifetime filled with love, joy, work, longing and loss. A lifetime that came to an end too soon in between the writing and publishing of this work...

Author: Angela PritchardPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Feb 10, 2022Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761092502ISBN-13: 9781761092503

Migration has played a large part in Australia's history and culture since 1788, and in this collection Adrian Rogers reflects on the migrant experience, evoking the northern hemisphere through his...

The poems in this collection were written in Pristina and Prizren (Kosovo), and in Dubrovnik - each with their rich stories and heritage. The title represents a new era for the Balkan region, beyond...

In 2014, George Huitker decided to merge his love of music and service education, and convinced his band, Junk Sculpture, to undertake a life-changing tour of north-western New South Wales. This was...

Determined to uncover the truth behind her brother's sudden death, a young woman returns to the haunting landscape of her youth to confront the town she thought she'd left behind and the secrets...

Antonia Hildebrand, author of The Nine Eleven Handbook, explores how the neo-liberal worldview was created and for what social, political and economic purposes it came into being. Going back to the...

In Blind Spots, Bruce Dawe (author of such popular poetry collections as Condolences of the Season and Sometimes Gladness) turns his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected...

Whimsy and from the heart, Libby Goodsir's words reflect what is to be human and to be a mother. Madeleine's images perfectly counterpoint Libby's words, adding a thousand new dimensions to the...

Blundstones and a Brown Dog is about living in the real world with your heart and your eyes wide open. This collection, written over a twenty-five-year period, speaks about the perplexity of simple...

From the Eyre Highway to the tiled lanes of Lisbon, and the muted Australian suburbs at the beginning of a pandemic, Bone Picker presents vignettes of place and memory that draw on senses of...

In Bookends, his third book of short stories, the man who wrote The Complete and Utter Truth about the World and Everything In It and Where the Hell is Heaven? once again paints life and death, love...

Borrowed Riches is an apt title for this fine collection of 100 short lyrics composed by an experienced and skilful poet. With her deft usage of the traditional Japanese tanka form, Julie Thorndyke...

Bouquet Of TrapsAuthor: Mary PomfretPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: July 14, 2021Number of Pages: 52 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761091239ISBN-13: 9781761091230

Breath & Other PoemsAuthor: Thérèse CorfiatisPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: May 30, 2020Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760419125ISBN-13:...

Two women. Two poets. Two countries. One man. Thérèse Corfiatis lives in Ulverstone, Tasmania; Britta Stenberg lives in Rentjärn, Sweden - two women joined in friendship by Tom Langston, who...

Edna Taylor's second book of short stories is about a scarecrow, a dog and a cat, a UFO and dreams. Brief encounters and an anonymous gift, plus strange happenings which can turn one's life onto...

Briefly in Spring : Haiku and SenryuAuthor: Judith E P JohnsonPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Jun 12, 2020Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Brushstrokes of the Mind brings together a collection of poems that spread the colour of nature and the psyche with light and shade; colour and monotone; form and abstract - like an artist's brush...

Canberra residents have little reason to know Charles Daley's name or be aware of the details of his life in Victoria as a teacher, botanist, writer and historian. But they might be more familiar...

This collection of short stories - probably my last - is made up of remnants, snippets of dreams, of things that have happened and things that I have only imagined. Hopefully, together they make up a...