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On Australia Day 1990, a seventy-three-year-old man was plucked from the Adelaide suburbs and accused of helping massacre nearly nine hundred men, women and children in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.The...

When the University of Adelaide established Australia's second law school in 1883, South Australia became one of the few places in the common-law world where all new lawyers studied at university...

Imagine visiting Florence to study Italian and being swept off your feet by a charming chef who takes you speeding through the moonlit hills in his Fiat to visit the village of his childhood, and...

At the Blue Monkey: 33 Outlandish StoriesAuthor: Walter SernerPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: February 18, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Newly arrived in Papua, where even the vegetation conspires with the bureaucrats to bewilder her, Stella Warwick is determined to prove her husband did not take his own life. Defying the concern of...

Author: Lydia LaubePublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: Nov 30, 2020Number of Pages: 234 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 186254462XISBN-13: 9781862544628

The killers were Pevay and Timmy. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian countryside. As Tasmanian Aborigines, they had many reasons to be angry. When...

The archetypal Symbolist novel, and a gorgeous tapestry of death and melancholy, Bruges-la-Mortewas also the first work of fiction to employ photographs in the style of Breton, Drndic and Sebald A...

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.While recovering from a double...

Colonial Cousins explores the historic relationships and connections between Australia and India, two colonies of the British Empire. The work considers affinities of landscape and culture, and...

Colouring the Rainbow uncovers the often hidden world of Queer and Trans Blak Australia and tells it like it is. Twenty-two First Nations people reveal their inner reflections and outlooks on family...

Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and SeaAuthor: Jean Ray|Scott NicolayPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: December 23, 2019Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Mr. Gica is the world's greatest barber. He holds the world record for sculptural hairstyling and has won three Olympic golds in neck massage. But his specialty is the shave. Mr. Gica's shop has six...

Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories is a unique anthology of essays, interviews, and stories written by children and young adults. The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through a...

'Dune is a four-letter word', said Griselda Sprigg on the first day of her family's attempt to make the first motorised crossing of the forbidding Simpson desert. 'And so is bloody spinifex.' Dune...

Wild law is a groundbreaking approach to law that stresses human dependence on nature. For the first time, this volume brings together voices from the leading proponents of wild law around the world...

In 1849, James Brown, a South Australian pastoralist, was charged with shooting dead nine Aboriginal people. Unable to find witnesses, the crown was forced to drop the case even though the magistrate...

A semi-autobiographical novel portraying a frenetic and literary Zurich as the backdrop to the Dada movementIn 1916, Hugo Ball (1886-1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the...

'The Collesses. Theirs is the story of Australia itself. Convicts, bushrangers, cattle thieves, pioneers, punters, graziers, ANZACs; floods and droughts, boom and bust, they lived right through it...

From Beehive Corner and Bert Flugelman's polished balls in Rundle Mall to the vineyards, churches and cemeteries of the Barossa Valley, tangible signs of South Australia's Germans are everywhere to...

In the Land of the Magic Pudding is a fabulous potpourri of popular writing by our top writers, on the theme of Australian cooking and eating, the vital ingredient being the entertaining quality of...

The Kaurna Dictionary is a valuable resource for our community to learn and share our language and culture. This book will enable our community to revive their connections to land and each other to...

Crime and mystery. The mysterious medium known only as Methuselah Kzradock is conducting a series of horrific seances in Paris, under the treatment of Dr. Renard de Montponsier. But Montponsier...

Language matters.The words and phrases we use can shape our experience and the experience of others. The use of appropriate language is crucial to facilitating appropriate support to people in...

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.Roz...

Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin NovelAuthor: Paul Scheerbart, Christina SvendsenPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: February 16, 2021Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

When South Australia was first established in December 1836, it was meant to be the perfect colony. Barely six months after proclamation, the state's first murder was recorded.Murder in the Colony...

Mynona's other 1921 collection of grotesques is no less provocative and just as indefinable in nature--even close to a century after its original publication. These twelve off-kilter parabolic tales...

Dame Nellie Melba (1861--1931) is, arguably, the most famous of all Australian women and her portrait graces Australia's highest denomination banknote. Blessed with an exceptionally fine voice, Melba...

A collection of stories creating a narrative picture of Australians, past and present, this title includes stories of hatred and love, war, aftermath, and resolution, fear and hope, great suffering...