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At the beginning of spring, photographer Daniel Craig immersed himself in life on a cattle station and the harsh beauty of outback Australia. With dusty light streaming through nearly image, Daniel Craig has captured the personalities of the stockmen - fit hardworking men and women of the outback - and all the excitement of the muster, the tones of earth and metal, denim, leather, grit, and red dirt in a place where people work hard and down tools for a cold beer and rodeo after the sun has gone down. Accompanied by written observations from the photographer, the reader receives insight into what happens on the other side of the lens, a rare perspective from behind the camera.

Examining ideas of belonging and being an outsider, this story follows Billy, a young school teacher and drifter who arrives in Australia's remote far north in search of his past, his Aboriginal roots, and his future. Through masterful language and metaphor, as well as a sophisticated tone that is both subtle and spirited, the novel finds Billy in a region not only of abundance and beauty but also of conflict, dispossession, and dislocation. On the frontier between cultures, Billy must find where he belongs in what is ultimately a powerful portrayal of the discovery of self and a sensitive exploration of race and culture.

Deep in the heart of the city, Frankie dreams of a thousand trees... over them, under them, through them, above them. Award-winning artist Kyle Hughes-Odgers takes readers on a journey of imagination and discovery, exploring the art of nature and the nature of art.

When push comes to shove, there is nothing as fundamental as a well functioning bowel. Dr Michael Levitt, highly respected surgeon, has restored hundreds of patients to bowel health and happiness. This comprehensive guide is full of practical advice, helpful tips and clear explanations for how to obtain and maintain a successfully working bowel.

Award-winning nature photographers Stanley and Kaisa Breeden explore Australia's small animal life to reveal the wonder and beauty of looking closely into nature. Their specially developed digital photography techniques make it possible to see intriguing details you may never have suspected were there.

Caitlin Maling's second volume, Border Crossing, continues to showcase the development of an exciting new voice in Australian poetry. Now Maling's poems shift from the first volume's gritty treatment of childhood and adolescence growing up in WA, to a consideration of what it is to be an Australian in America, where the conflicting voices and identities of home and abroad jostle against and seek their definitions from each other. In this volume, as in the first, her emphasis on place – geography and environment – is as strong as ever.

In this collection of three long narrative poems, Temperton conjures up the highs and lows of the coastal environment to explore the effects of nature's “Powerful forces at work” on human existence.An impressive third collection written with flair, passion and the ability to look unpleasant realities in the eye.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Australians were challenged by new visions of their nation. Assimilation was heralded as the mechanism to sweep away divisions and exclusions of the past and absorb Aboriginal and new Australians into a common shared way of life. The rhetoric and reality of assimilation was to have a profound and lasting effect on several generations of Australians before it was abandoned in the 70s for multiculturalism. With Spinning the Dream, multi-award-winning historian Anna Haebich re-evaluates the experience of assimilation in Australia, providing a meticulously researched and masterfully written assessment of its implications for Australia's Indigenous and ethnic minorities, and for immigration and refugee policy.

The short memoirs and cultural histories in this anthology speak of the love between Aboriginal peoples and their countries. They are personal accounts that share knowledge, insight, and emotion, each speaking of a deep connection to country and of feelin

If you dream of being published, this book will teach you the nuts and bolts of what it means to be an author. In a friendly, informative and practical way, Georgia Richter and Deborah Hunn share all you need to know about inspiration and research, preparing to submit to a publisher, creating an author brand, legal, ethical and moral considerations, pitching, effective social media and much more. Practical advice and top tips from Liz Byrski, Alan Carter, Nandi Chinna, Tim Coronel, Amanda Curtin, Daniel de Lorne, Deb Fitzpatrick, James Foley, Alecia Hancock, Stephen Kinnane, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Natasha Lester, Brigid Lowry, Caitlin Maling, Meg McKinlay, Claire Miller, Brendan Ritchie, Rachel Robertson, Holden Sheppard, Sasha Wasley, David Whish-Wilson and Anne-Louise Willoughby.

Shell and Mel are best friends, united by their love of ABBA. But when Scary Sharon decides she wants to be friends with Shell, and Mel begins acting strangely, things start changing fast. Confiding in her pen pal from 1829, Shell discovers she has a lot to learn about loyalty, honesty, and roller skating.

The Sound is set in the 1820s, in the violent and lawless world just before the English established colonial law in Western Australia. It is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia from Tasmania to WA, plundering seal colonies, and stealing women and children from indigenous communities as they went. It follows the journey of Wiremu Heke of Aramoana, who begins his journey on the quest to avenge the destruction of his village, but ends it older, wiser, and looking at the world in an entirely different way.

Nick Chester is working as a sergeant for the Havelock police in the Marlborough Sound, at the top of New Zealand's South Island. If the river isn't flooded and the land hasn't slipped, it's paradise. Unless you are also hiding from a ruthless man with a grudge, in which case, remote beauty has its own kind of danger. In the last couple of weeks, two locals have vanished. Their bodies are found, but the Pied Piper is still at large.Marlborough Man is a gripping story about the hunter and the hunted, and about what happens when evil takes hold in a small town.

Isaac arrives on Rottnest Island hoping for an awesome holiday adventure, but his mum would rather he stayed inside, where it's safe. Then Isaac meets Emmy. She's allowed to do whatever she wants – and she wants to have fun! With Emmy daring him on, Isaac's life gets more and more exciting. When Emmy suggests a midnight stalk to the salt lakes, Isaac knows his worrywart mum won't say yes – so he sneaks out. A junior novel about family, adventure and trust.

Popular columnist, ABC broadcaster and landscape gardener Sabrina Hahn says no plants generate more questions than citrus.‘In the twenty years I have been doing talkback radio, there has never been a program where citrus questions didn't pop up. So frequently in fact that producers screen the calls and cap them at three per program,' says Hahn.This pocket-sized gardening book is packed with juicy tips on how to grow happy healthy citrus plants in your garden. Bringing together lemons, limes, grapefruits, kumquats, oranges and much more, you'll love this quick, practical and environmentally-friendly guide to common problems.‘Smail In slze, its packed with practically all you need to solve citrus problems and grow the juiciest fruit.' Better Homes & Gardens

Fifteen Australian women writers were asked to respond to the colour purple. In their hands, purple takes on many meanings. There are stories about Tyrian purple, a snippet of King George's coronation gown, pigeon fanciers, the Dockers' Purple Haze ­ and their layers are explored through themes of feminism, multiculturalism, artists and aging, mothers and daughters and aunts. This is a book for women readers everywhere.

From Gold Coast surf culture to the relationships of humans to the sea; from surf travel in Mexico to Taj Burrow's final campaign in Fiji -- this collection features six authors writing about surfing and the ocean in six very different ways. Their stories are reverential, energetic and mystical and between them cover thousands of kilometres of coastline, at home and away.