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Capsule Collections eBook Series

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  • The Dead Aviatrix

    Eight Short Stories

    by Carmel Bird ...
    Series series Capsule Collections
    In prose that sparkles with wit, shocks with insight, and beguiles with the air of legend, these seven stories take the reader from post-apocalyptic Tasmania to the tragedy of surrogate pregnancy in the 1950s. Loss of species, the whims of publishers, the question of Islam in regional Australia - these are among the subjects Carmel Bird addresses in her characteristic probing style.Carmel Bird's ... Read more

    $3.56 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Best Australian Stories

    A Ten-Year Collection

    Edited by Black Inc. ...
    The best of the best …This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian fiction ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Australian Gothic

    An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction

    by Mary Fortune, J. E. P. Muddock, Ernest Favenc, Marcus Clarke ...
    Australia has a long tradition of weird fiction, stretching back to colonial times. The stories in this anthology showcase the richness and variety of Australia horror and supernatural stories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the authors included are: Mary Fortune, Lionel Sparrow, Marcus Clarke, Guy Boothby, B. L. Farjeon, J. E. P. Muddock, Ernest Favenc, Hume Nisbet, Rosa ( ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Diary

    Crocodile Spirit Dreaming - First Edition, #2

    by Graham Wilson ...
    Series Book 2 - Crocodile Spirit Dreaming - First Edition
    She holds his diary in her hand. Its contents terrify her, What is the awful tale it tells. She knows she must read it to see what is hidden. Can she bring herself to do so. She hides it away and passes responsibility to another.A fisherman finds a unidentified head in a waterhole in Northern Australia. What first appeared to be a crocodile attack turns into murder. Who is this man who no one ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Australian Bush Stories

    by Jim Haynes ...
    Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond, an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.Australia's national character and spirit have always been defined, rightly or wrongly, by 'the bush'. This entertaining, thought-provoking, humorous, nostalgic and, above all, highly readable collection of stories for the modern reader shows why the ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

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  • Australian Classics

    50 great writers and their celebrated works

    by Jane Gleeson-White ...
    What are the classic works of Australian literature? And what can they tell us about ourselves and the land we live in? Providing a selected overview of Australia's greatest literature, Australian Classics is an accessible companion to our literature and a story of writing in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present.Australian Classics celebrates many of the country's beloved novels, ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • BWB Texts: Turning Points

    by Geoff Chapple, Claudia Orange, Anne Salmond, Dick Scott ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Award-winning writers Geoff Chapple, Claudia Orange, Anne Salmond and Dick Scott explore pivotal moments in New Zealand’s history in this bundle of BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. In When the Tour Came to Auckland Geoff Chapple describes the startling scenes as the ... Read more

    $7.09 USD

  • The Best Australian Stories 2017

    Edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke ...
    In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country’s leading literary talents. Herself an award-winning short-story writer, Beneba Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with experience and truth, and celebrate the art of storytelling.Previous contributors include Kate Grenville, Tony Birch, David Malouf, Kirsten Tranter, Anna Krien, Georgia ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Square Pegs

    Crossing The Divide Short Story Series, #3

    by J.B. Reynolds ...
    Series Book 3 - Crossing The Divide Short Story Series
    All he wants is an icy cold drink on a blazing hot day…For Darryl, a young man with big dreams, surviving summer in Brisbane's sweltering eastern suburbs isn't proving to be simple. Following a night disturbed by the criminal antics of his troublesome neighbours, the only thing he wants is to drown his sorrows. But when his quest for booze goes horribly wrong, Darryl discovers that friends can be ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BWB Texts: Economic Futures

    by Paul Dalziel, Caroline Saunders, Shamubeel Eaqub, Max Rashbrooke ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Get up-to-speed with some of the biggest challenges facing New Zealand with this bundle of high-profile BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. Seventy-five years after Labour’s social security reforms of the 1930s, Paul Dalziel and Caroline Saunders argue in Wellbeing Economics it ... Read more

    $7.09 USD

  • Permission To Lie

    stories

    by Julie Chevalier ...
    'Chevalier is a new voice in Australian fiction, wry, gritty, knowing and true.' Fiona McGregor, Indelible Ink'Compact phrasing, pinpoint imagery and a wicked sense of humour are hallmarks of Chevalier’s writing.' Mark Vendor, Famous Reporter.Permission To Lie provides, as Vendor says, 'a broad sweep of ordinary life in modern-day Sydney, not-so-ordinary life in NSW jails and correctional ... Read more

    $7.12 USD

  • The Taciturn Man

    and other Tales of Australia

    by Geoffrey Gibson ...
    Series series World Voices
    An immigrant's tale of an untamed countryAlexander Gibson, my father, was a young Englishman who with his brother settled in Australia in the 1920s. The brothers each married one of the Solomon sisters just prior to the Great Depression. The Taciturn Man begins just after the Second World War when Alexander took up a rough bush sheep-grazing block in isolation among the tall trees of New England ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus