Giramondo The Giramondo Publishing Company is an independent Publishing Australian university-based literary publisher of award- winning poetry, fction and non-fction, renowned for the quality of its writing, editing and book design. Giramondo’s frst publication, in July 1996, was the book-length magazine HEAT, which soon established itself as the premier literary magazine in Australia. Its forty issues appeared in two series from 1996–2011. Following on from the success of HEAT, Giramondo began publishing books by individual authors in 2002. Giramondo now publishes up to twenty titles a year, all of which are of literary quality, and excellent design. Our authors have consistently won major Australian prizes, including the Miles Franklin Award, the Prime Minister’s Award, and all of the state Premiers’ Literary Awards. We specialise in poetry, essays, creative non-fction, and novels which push the limits of what fction can achieve. Our books also often work across the genres. Many have been published overseas and in translation. In return, we have published authors from China, India, France, Germany, the United States, New Zealand, Mexico and Argentina. Because of our geographical location, we have a special interest in literature of the Asian region, and have recently inaugurated a series called Southern Latitudes, devoted to writing from the southern hemisphere. Another of our series, called Giramondo Shorts, promotes the shorter forms of literature, particularly the essay and the novella. As an independent literary publisher which enjoys support from the Australia Council and Western Sydney University, Giramondo is able to take risks, and to concentrate on literary quality. We are driven by ideas and by a cultural mission based on recognition and reciprocity, as much as by the imperatives of the marketplace.

Ivor Indyk Publisher Gerald Murnane Border Districts Fiction

Gerald Murnane is the author of eleven books of fiction and a collection of essays, the majority published by Giramondo. He is a recipient of the Literary Award, Melbourne Prize for Literature, Adelaide Festival Literature Award Shortlisted for the for Innovation and Victorian Miles Franklin Literary Premier’s Literary Award. Award 2018

Giramondo’s publication The effect of his writing of Border Districts, and is to induce images in the Murnane’s Collected reader’s own mind, and to Short Fiction, coincides hold the reader inside a with their publication by world in which the reader is Farrar, Straus and Giroux. at every turn encouraged to turn his or her attention to those fast flocking images. Praise for Gerald Murnane NEW YORK TIMES

A strong case could be made for Murnane…as the greatest Border Districts lives living English-language writer most people have never resolutely in the narrator’s heard of. own head. Like Marilynne NEW YORK TIMES Robinson’s Gilead, it is a philosophical proposition as No living Australian writer, not even , has higher much as a work of fiction – Conceived as Gerald Murnane’s last work of claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction.’ and often an act of devotion. fction, Border Districts was written after the author SYDNEY MORNING HERALD WASHINGTON POST moved from Melbourne to a small town on the western edge of the Wimmera plains, near the The emotional conviction...is so intense, the somber A remarkable conclusion border with South Australia. The narrator of this lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiseled to a body of writing many fction has made a similar move, from a capital city sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief.’ are only now recognising to a remote town in the border country, where J.M. COETZEE for its true originality and he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is importance. a time for exploring the enduring elements of his Murnane is interested in what part of consciousness – THE AGE experience, as these exist in his mind, images whose of sensation, of emotion – might be shareable and what persistence is assured, but whose signifcance needs part is irreducibly individual, a private territory. November 2017 to be rediscovered. As Murnane’s narrator declares, BEN LERNER PB 160pp 198 x 130 mm ‘the mind is a place best viewed from borderlands’. 9781925336542 In this work, Border Districts also refers to the A genius on the level of Beckett. Rights: World ex. N.Am, country between life and death; and to the border TEJU COLE UK, Spain districts which separate, or unite, two human beings. Also by Gerald Murnane from Giramondo Gerald Murnane Collected Short Fiction Tamarisk Row (Fiction) Fiction March 2008 (1st ed. 1974) PB 294pp 9781920882396 Rights: World ex. UK Murnane’s frst novel, and in many respects his masterpiece, an unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a Victorian country town in the late 1940s.

Inland (Fiction) May 2013 (1st ed. 1988) PB 256pp 9781922146281 Rights: World One of Murnane’s most complex and rewarding works, A monumental achievement a study of guilt, longing and regret, and of worlds within from one of Australia’s most worlds, rich in metaphysical insights and pressing towards important writers...Murnane the edges of what fction can accomplish. is an accomplished master, and this collection is a vital Barley Patch (Fiction) resource. October 2009 PB 320pp PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 9781920882532 Rights: World ex N. Am The book written after a fourteen-year break in Murnane’s A house of fiction with a career, and beginning with the question, ‘Must I write?’ multitude of windows... What follows is a chronicle of the images that have an ideal opportunity to see endured in the author’s mind. the author’s approach in the round. A Million Windows (Fiction) THE AUSTRALIAN June 2014 PB 216pp 9781922146533 Rights: World ex N.Am, UK A prose that mixes Woven from images, and the feelings associated with them, musicality and precision, A Million Windows focuses on the importance of trust, and written in a manner at once the possibility of betrayal in storytelling as in life. serious, cunning, and gently self-mocking. Each fiction is Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs (Essays) an attempt to read the book The defnitive collection of the short fction by a August 2005 PB 230pp being written in his mind. master storyteller, regarded by many as Australia’s 9781920882099 Rights: World ex. UK SYDNEY MORNING HERALD most innovative writer of fction. This volume gathers This collection of essays describes Murnane’s youth in the Gerald Murnane’s shorter works of fction, published 1950s, his debt to writers as unlike as Marcel Proust and between 1979 and 2012, for the frst time. These Jack Kerouac, and his obsession with racehorses, grasslands short works are marked by Murnane’s intricate and and the Hungarian language. eccentric imagination and his distinctive literary style. His stories imbue ordinary situations and A History of Books (Fiction) memories with magical and allegorical signifcance, May 2012 PB 208pp bringing the ideal constantly into dialogue with 9781920882853 Rights: World lived and remembered experience. There is no April 2018 one to match Murnane in his sensitive portraits of Landscape with Landscape (Fiction) PB 480pp 235 x 135 mm family members – parents, uncles and aunts, and July 2016 (1st ed. 1985) PB 328pp 9781925336641 particularly children – and in his probing of situations 9781925336115 Rights: World Rights: World ex. N.Am, UK which contain anxiety, embarrassment or delight. Felicity Castagna No More Boats Fiction

Felicity Castagna spent her youth in Asia and North America before moving to Parramatta in Western Sydney, where she has worked as a teacher, arts worker and editor. She won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction Shortlisted for the for The Incredible Here Miles Franklin Literary and Now, which was also Award 2018 shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia No More Boats offers us and NSW Premier’s a way of understanding the Literary Awards and adapted contradiction of one migrant for the stage by the National turning against others. Theatre of Parramatta. This is an important book.

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If we need new ways of Felicity Castagna speaking to each other, novels The Incredible Here and Now such as this can only help. Young adult fction THE SATURDAY PAPER Something terrible happens the summer Michael It is 2001. 438 refugees sit in a boat called Tampa turns ffteen. But The Incredible Here and Now is not off the shoreline of Australia, while the TV and about tragedy. It is about his place, the West, where radio scream out that the country is being fooded, ‘those who don’t know any better drive through the inundated, overrun by migrants. Antonio Martone, neighbourhood and lock their car doors’. Michael once a migrant himself, has been forced to retire, knows it intimately and lets the reader in: to the his wife has moved in with the woman next door, unsettled life of his family, the friends who gather in his daughter runs off with strange men, his deadbeat the McDonald’s car park at night, the one girl who son is hiding in the garden smoking marijuana. Amid will acknowledge he’s alive, the classmates who his growing paranoia, the ghost of his dead friend drool at the Coke factory on their way to school, shows up and commands him to paint ‘No More and the white Pontiac Trans Am that lights up his life Boats’ in giant letters across his front yard. The like an omen. It is here that he fnds an escape from Prime Minister of Australia keeps telling Antonio that his mother’s growing silence and the absence of his ‘we will decide who comes to this country and the brother Dom, who could charm the whole world June 2017 circumstances in which they come’. Antonio’s not September 2013 with his energy and daring. Michael’s stories are PB 234pp 210 x 148 mm sure he wants to think about all the things that led PB 200pp 198 x 130 mm about love and joy and wonder, felt in the company of 9781925336306 him to get on a boat and come to Australia in the 9781922146366 friends, and the place he lives in. Winner of the Prime Rights: World ex N.Am, UK frst place. A man and a nation unravel together. Rights: World Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. Fiona Wright The World Was Whole Non-fction

Fiona Wright is a writer, editor and critic from Sydney. Her book Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger won the 2016 Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Nonfiction, and was shortlisted for Praise for Fiona Wright: the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier’s Wright has a gift for Douglas Stewart Award compression, lyricism, and for Nonfiction. Her first a poet’s ear for rhythm, all poetry collection, Knuckled, of which animate even the won the 2012 Dame most heartbreaking passages. Mary Gilmore Award; THE AUSTRALIAN her second, Domestic Interior, was published This is deeply personal by Giramondo in 2017. material, but Wright is a generous writer and draws lines – sometimes fractious, sometimes breaking – to larger communities of Fiona Wright people and bodies of Small Acts of Disappearance knowledge. Non-fction KILL YOUR DARLINGS Our bodies and homes are our shelters, each one intimately a part of the other. But what about those Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays Each essay works as who feel anxious, uncomfortable, unsettled within that describes the author’s affiction with an eating a kind of poetic auto- ethnography, moving these havens? In The World Was Whole, Fiona Wright disorder which begins in university, and escalates into between inexplicable examines how we inhabit and remember the familiar life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. realities of the self and spaces of our homes and suburbs, as we move Fiona Wright’s account of her illness is informed by those of the world-at-large; through and away from them into the wider world, a keen sense of its contradictions and deceptions, between life’s surfaces and devoting ourselves to the routines and rituals that and by an awareness of the empowering effects of interiors. make up our lives. These intensely personal essays hunger, which is unsparing in its consideration of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD consider how all-consuming the engagement with author’s own actions and motivations. The essays the ordinary can be, and how it is the small details combine research, travel writing, memoir, and literary and encounters that illuminate our lives. The essays discussion, together with accounts of family life, and are poetic and observant, and often funny, animated detailed, humorous views of hunger-induced situations. October 2018 by curiosity and candour. Beneath them lies the September 2015 PB 256pp 234 x 153 mm experience of chronic illness and its treatment, and the PB 206pp 198 x 130 mm Poetry by Fiona Wright from Giramondo: 9781925336979 consideration of how this reshapes and reorders our 9781922146939 Domestic Interior November 2017 PB 96pp 9781925336566 Rights: World assumptions about the world and our place within it. Rights: World Knuckled August 2011 PB 96pp 9781920882754 Chris Fleming Tom Lee On Drugs Coach Fitz Non-fction Fiction

Chris Fleming is a highly Tom Lee is a writer and regarded philosopher, researcher known for his translator, and cultural philosophical interest in analyst. He is Associate place, technology and Professor in Humanities the forms of sensuality. at Western Sydney He was the recipient University and is the of a Marten Bequest author or editor of eight Scholarship in 2014 in books, including René the category of prose. He Girard: Violence lectures in the School of and Mimesis (Polity, Design at the University 2004) and Modern of Technology Sydney. Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid (co-authored with Emma A. Jane) Tom, a young man struggling to forge some sense (Bloomsbury, 2014). On Drugs explores philosopher Chris Fleming’s from his experiences, employs the services of On Drugs is his first experience of drug addiction, which begins an older woman as his running coach. A former work of memoir. while he is a student and then becomes a life- psychoanalyst, Coach Fitz’s methods combine ftness threatening obsession. Fleming describes the training with an intense curiosity about the places intricate mechanics of drug acquisition and use, through which they run. Enthusiastic and perceptive their impact on the intellect and the emotions, and yet plagued by self-consciousness, Tom fnds himself the chaos that emerges as his tightly controlled fascinated and troubled by his mentor’s peculiar life spins out of control. His account is informed ideas. As they follow their eccentric course across by searching refections on his childhood, with its parklands, streets and beaches, a conversation unfolds acute obsessive compulsive disorder and auditory about the athletic body, architectural style and the hallucinations, through to his teenage fxations on transition from adolescence into adulthood. But when karate, music and bodybuilding magazines. Combining his relationship with Coach Fitz breaks down, Tom June 2019 a meticulous, almost ethnographic observation August 2018 fnds himself dogged by past failures and obsessions, PB 272pp 234 x 153 mm of his own life with a keen sense of the absurd, PB 256pp 210 x 148 mm and sets out in search of a student of his own, in an 9781925818048 On Drugs opens out into philosophical meditations 9781925336900 attempt to orchestrate an ideal expression of his Rights: World on time, religion, popular culture and the body. Rights: World emotional, athletic and intellectual urges. Mariana Dimópulos Pending (translated by Alice Whitmore) Fiction

Mariana Dimópulos was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. She studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg. She is the author of three novels as well as short stories and non-fiction, including a critical study of the work of Walter Benjamin. She is a translator from German and How to describe the clear English into Spanish, and and mysterious force of teaches at the University Mariana Dimópulos’s of Buenos Aires. All My writing: the brief intensity; Goodbyes is her first book the compassionate irony; the to be translated into English. grand themes viewed through the lens of a microscope; the recognition and exceeding of past traditions. Above Mariana Dimópulos all, it is a writing gestated All My Goodbyes (trans. Alice Whitmore) in unknown lands. Fiction ESTHER CROSS

All My Goodbyes describes the restless movements Mariana Dimópulos’s of a young Argentinian woman who spends ten writing, with its delightfully years in Europe working variously as a shelf-stacker, strange perspectives, its auto-parts sorter, bakery attendant and waitress, self-absorption, its iciness before returning to Buenos Aires. Diffdent, self- and its passion, its power Taking place over the course of an evening in Buenos critical, wary of commitment, she feels as if her and its vulnerability, seems Aires, Mariana Dimópulos’s novella shifts seamlessly identity is in pieces – a condition dramatised by the somehow to condense the between the present and the past, as it probes the fragmentary way in which she tells her story. As the poetry of mathematics; uncanny duality of trauma and joy inherent to new title suggests, the heroine of Mariana Dimópulos’s Pending posits an elegant motherhood. In this dreamlike space, she retraces novella is condemned, or condemns herself, to formula for the experience of the mirrored paths of a life flled with visions that repeated acts of departure, from places, parents contemporary womanhood. swell and recede like rivers: cats, babies, distant and lovers – until, arriving in the southernmost EL PAIS wars, fooded deltas, hopeless deserts. The narrator region of Patagonia, she convinces herself she has fnds herself caught between four male fgures – the found happiness. It is at this point that she is caught bookish Pedro, the terse and competent Ivan, a up in the horrifc murders that haunt her story. sinister, domineering cousin, and her bewildering August 2017 April 2019 infant son Isaac. As she insists time and again, as if it PB 160pp 198 x 130 mm All My Goodbyes is the frst title in Giramondo’s PB 160pp 197 x 130 mm were their accusation: ‘I’m not a woman.’ An arresting 9781925336412 ‘Southern Latitudes’ series, featuring writers 9781925336962 follow-up to All My Goodbyes, Pending explores the Rights: WE ex N.Am from the southern hemisphere. Rights: World English hidden complexities of feeling. Marcelo Cohen Suneeta Peres da Costa Melodrome (translated by Chris Andrews) Saudade Fiction Fiction

Marcelo Cohen is a widely Suneeta Peres da Costa was respected and highly born in Sydney, Australia to innovative Argentinian parents of Goan origin. Her novelist, who has invented a first novel, Homework, was distinctively South American published internationally by kind of speculative fiction, Bloomsbury. She writes across and an imagined world, the the genres of fiction, non- Panoramic Delta. One of fiction, playwriting and poetry. the most agile stylists writing Her literary honours include in Spanish today, he is also a Fulbright Scholarship, an internationally renowned the BR Whiting Residency A coming-of-age story set in Angola in the period translator, critic and editor. in Rome, and an Asialink leading up to the colony’s independence, Saudade Arts Exchange in India. focuses on a Goan immigrant family caught between Winner of the 2011 complicity in Portuguese rule, and their dependence Premio de la crítica from A lyrical, bold evocation of on the Angolans who are their servants. The title Argentina’s Fundación childhood, enlivened by un- speaks to the melancholy longing for homeland El Libro, and the third When the affair between successful businesswoman forced flourishes of magical that haunts the characters, and especially the young title in Giramondo’s Lerena Dost and her psychoanalyst becomes known, realism, that plays intricately girl who is the book’s protagonist and narrator. Southern Latitudes series. both are disgraced, and lose everything. It takes a on layers of awareness and Suneeta Peres da Costa’s novella captures with intense chance encounter with an unknown woman in an awakening. lyricism the diffcult relationship between the girl A fundamental name in elevator to turn Lerena’s fate again. She begins a SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and her mother, and the ways in which their intimate Argentinian literature of quest for her benefactor, whom she discovers is the world is shaken by domestic violence, the legacies the last two decades. notorious leader of a spiritual cult, hidden away in the Every character in this of slavery and the end of empire. Her intellectual FERNANDO BOGADO hills. To fnd her, the one-time lovers embark on a road novel is adrift, searching awakening unfolds into a growing awareness of the lies trip through the futuristic world of the Panoramic Delta for home…a beautifully of colonialism, and the violent political ruptures that – a place strangely like our own, but with its details, its written, enlightening read. ultimately lead to her father’s death, and their exile. settings, and even its language altered in unexpected BOOKS+PUBLISHING ways. The author’s inventive style, brilliantly September 2018 translated by Chris Andrews, creates a hallucinatory March 2018 PB 152pp 197 x 130 mm atmosphere, in which the estranged couple relive PB 128pp 197x 130 mm 9781925336771 their relationship, and confront its consequences. 9781925336634 Rights: World English Rights: World Ali Alizadeh Maryam Azam The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc The Hijab Files Fiction Poetry

Ali Alizadeh was born in Maryam Azam is an Iran and lives in Melbourne. Australian-born Muslim He grew up during the millennial who lives Iran–Iraq war and migrated and works in Western to Australia as a teenager. Sydney. She graduated Fascinated with Joan of Arc with Honours in Creative since childhood, he wrote Writing from Western an epic poem about her Sydney University and holds for his PhD. Alizadeh is a diploma in the Islamic the author of the critically Sciences. She is a recipient acclaimed Ashes in the of the WestWords Emerging Air (shortlisted for the Writers’ Fellowship and Prime Minister’s Literary has performed her work Award), the short story at the Sydney Writers collection Transactions, Festival and the Emerging Maryam Azam’s debut collection takes the and Iran: My Grandfather Ali Alizadeh’s novel The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc Writers Festival. signifcance of the hijab as its focus of attention. (shortlisted for the is a provocative new portrait of one of history’s Though shamed and angered by the prejudice NSW Premier’s Literary most captivating and mysterious fgures. Countless Azam’s voice is engaging, towards Muslims the scarf arouses, Azam is also Award). He lectures at books have been written about the young potent and full of wry aware of its sensuality and allure, and the power Monash University. Frenchwoman who claimed to hear the voices of humour as she negotiates and protection it offers. In ‘A Brief Guide to Hijab saints, led the armies of France in the war against the challenges of her own Fashion’, she refects on the rich possibilities of An absorbing romantic England in the Middle Ages, and was captured culture and of maintaining the scarf, the moral values it embodies, and the tragedy notable for its precise and burnt for heresy by her enemies. Driven by her religious observances… commitment required to maintain these values in a and fiercely felt prose. a passion for justice and forbidden desire, her The Hijab Files is a most secular society. In the second section, ‘Wallah Bros’, THE AGE courage changed the course of Western history. necessary book for our times. she examines the tensions young Muslims experience JUDITH BEVERIDGE when negotiating the technology of modern dating. Alizadeh’s innovative storytelling is based on The poems in the fnal section, ‘The Piercing of this rigorous study of the historical material, and draws Place’, open on to the larger dimensions of time September 2017 on his lifelong fascination with this enigmatic icon. May 2018 and space, to mystery and the prospect of death. PB 288pp 210 x 148 mm His reimagining of Jeanne’s story weaves together PB 80pp 210 x 148mm Azam’s style is simple and direct, and informed 9781925336405 multiple narrative perspectives to illuminate her 9781925336658 with humour: it frames as it reveals, asserting the Rights: World presence as a fgure of history, myth and obsession. Rights: World dignity of ritual and observance in everyday life. Eunice Andrada Judith Beveridge Flood Damages Sun Music: New and Selected Poems Poetry Poetry

Eunice Andrada is an Judith Beveridge is one of award-winning poet and Australia’s most important lyricist based in Sydney. poets. She has published She has performed six collections of poetry her poetry on diverse which have won major international stages, from literary awards, and is the Sydney Opera House a recipient of the Philip to the United Nations Hodgins Memorial Medal Climate Negotiations in and the Christopher Paris. She was awarded Brennan Award for lifetime the John Marsden & achievement in poetry. Hachette Australia Poetry Prize in 2014. The culmination of an exemplary career… Andrada’s verse carries In Flood Damages, Eunice Andrada explores the mandatory for anyone Sun Music brings together poems published over us beyond flood, open wounds of colonial occupation, diaspora and interested in Australian a thirty-year period, from Judith Beveridge’s grief, deportation and inheritance. Through the fgure of a young Filipina- poetry over the past four collections The Domesticity of Giraffes, Accidental dictatorship – from Australian woman whose family has been irreparably decades. Grace, Wolf Notes and Storm and Honey. It begins visceral oppression into damaged by deportation, violence and illness, events SYDNEY MORNING HERALD with an introduction by the poet, outlining the political consciousness. both political and personal are felt most keenly in and contours of her writing, and ends with a gathering MICHELLE CAHILL through the body – ‘your blood sings of the scattered Sun Music reveals one of of thirty-three new poems, including the exquisite histories/ that left you here’. A poet and performance Australia’s finest and most elegy which gives this collection its title. Beveridge artist, Andrada combines the passionate intensity of original poets at the height is an exacting poet, and the form of her poems voice, image and rhythms of prayer to affrm the brown of her powers. contains and intensifes their expression of female body as a site of vulnerability and power. SARAH HOLLAND-BATT emotion. Their clarity and drama, their musical language and often playful metaphors, give them an immediate appeal. This is poetry of wonder and enchantment, compassionate in its identifcation May 2018 June 2018 with the ungainly and the vulnerable, the simple PB 80pp 210 x 148mm PB 272pp 210 x 148mm and the poor, and insistent in its emphasis on the 9781925336665 9781925336887 dignity and self-possession of all that it observes. Rights: World Rights: World Beverley Farmer This Water: Five Tales Fiction

Beverley Farmer is the author of four collections of short stories, including Milk, which won the NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction, the writer’s notebook A Body of Water, and the novels Alone, The Seal Woman and The House in the Light, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. The Longlisted for the Bone House, a collection Stella Prize 2018 of essays on the life of the body and the life of the Farmer writes like someone mind, was published by who is eternally enchanted Giramondo in 2005. by the dynamic wonder of the visible world…there are few writers more sensitive to the intrinsic worth of seeing and feeling through prose.

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Beverley Farmer Farmer is a philosophical The Bone House writer rather than a realist; Non-fction her stories are meditations This last work of fction by Beverley Farmer is a on experience rather than collection of fve interwoven tales, three of them The three long essays that make up The Bone House narrative recreations of it. novellas. Each has a woman at its centre: in each are an extended meditation on the life of the body SYDNEY REVIEW OF BOOKS the women speak, act, think for themselves, in and the life of the mind, each based on a single opposing or escaping from an oppressive authority. theme and woven out of the same few elemental One tale, set on the south coast of Victoria, is symbols of earth, and water, fre and blood, light animated by the legend of the Great Silkie; another and darkness. What does art know that we do not? fnds its rebellious princess in Lake Annaghmakerrig How does the image have such a hold on us all? in Ireland; a third has Clytemnestra as its central Alongside the urge to grasp the world, to abstract fgure, mourning the daughter sacrifced by her and delve, is the urge to make our visions known, husband Agamemnon so that he could go to war somehow to fx the moment in time in its fullness with Troy. References to water and stone, ice and of meaning. In the essays, this hoard of moments fre, light and darkness are woven throughout the takes the form of a mosaic, composed of myth, collection, as are fgures and images from myth October 2005 poetry and fable, of relics of the past, of explorations June 2017 and fairy tale – kings and brides, swans and seals, PB 324pp 197 x 134 mm and illuminations and surface impressions. Set PB 280pp 210 x 148 mm a ring of gold, ‘the blood red of her silks’ – their 9781920882065 out like a commonplace book, they can be read 9781925336313 power evoked by repetition and resonance, and Rights: World in any sequence, or savoured for their detail. Rights: World the remarkable rhythms of Farmer’s language. Alexis Wright The Swan Book Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth Fiction Non-fction

The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginal people still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute young woman called Oblivia, the victim of gang rape by petrol-sniffng youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp flled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the frst Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confned to a tower in a fooded and lawless southern city. The Swan Book offers an intimate awareness of the realities Winner of the Stella facing Aboriginal people; the energy and humour in her Prize 2018 writing, which draws freely on myth and legend, fnds August 2013 hope in the bleakest situations. Winner of the ALS Alexis Wright is widely PB 352pp 235 x 153 mm Gold Medal for Fiction and Kate Challis RAKA Award, regarded as one of 9781922146830 and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, the Stella Prize, Australia’s most significant Rights: World ex. UK, N.Am and the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Literary Awards. authors. A member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, she is Alexis Wright renowned as the author of Carpentaria the prize-winning novels Fiction Carpentaria and The Swan Book. Her books Alexis Wright’s best-known novel, an epic set in the have been published widely Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from overseas, including in China, where her people come. The novel’s portrait of life in the US, the UK, Italy, Alexis Wright returns to non-fction in her new the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance France and Poland. She is book, a collective memoir of the charismatic centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Boisbouvier Chair in Aboriginal leader, political thinker and entrepreneur the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with at the Tracker Tilmouth, who died in Darwin in 2015. old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob on the University of Melbourne. Taken from his family as a child and brought up in a one hand, and the white offcials of Uptown and the mission, Tilmouth worked tirelessly for Aboriginal neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s ‘A magnificent work of self-determination, creating opportunities for land storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth collaborative storytelling.’ use and economic development in his many roles, and scripture, farce and politics. The novel teems THE AGE including Director of the Central Land Council of the with extraordinary characters – above all, the queen Northern Territory. He was a visionary, a projector of the rubbish-dump Angel Day and her sea-faring of ideas, renowned for his irreverent humour and his husband Normal Phantom, the fsh-embalming king anecdotes. Composed by Wright from interviews August 2006 of time – fgures that stride like giants across this November 2017 with Tracker Tilmouth, and with his family, friends PB 528pp 197 x 130 mm storm-swept world. Winner of the Miles Franklin PB 656pp 235 x 153 mm and colleagues, this memoir weaves stories together 9781920882310 Literary Award, the Victorian and Queensland 9781925336337 in a book that is a tribute to the role played by Rights: World ex. UK, N.Am Premiers’ Awards and the ALS Gold Medal. Rights: World storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life. Giramondo Publishing Company Writing and Society Research Centre Western Sydney University

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