Author: Merlinda Bobi
Publisher: Spinifex Pre
Keywords: turtle
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1875559892
ISBN-13: 9781875559893

Gingered chicken in green papayas, smothered with coconut milk, never fails to keep the tongue moist long after the meal is over. So does slightly burnt sugar lodged at the roof of the mouth, melting with infinite slowness. The acrid sweetness teaches the tongue not to forget... An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A woman’s twelve-metre hair trawling corpses from a river. These enigmatic tales of chance and hope are among twenty three stories set in the Philippines and Australia. Alternately mythic, wistful or quirky, Merlinda Bobis’ tales resonate wi

Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Spinifex Pre
Keywords: innocent, screaming
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1876756209
ISBN-13: 9781876756208

When a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village, the local police tell her mother and the villagers that she has been taken by a wild animal. Five years later, a young government employee finds a box containing evidence of human involvement in the affair.

Author: Lizz Murphy
Publisher: Spinifex Pre
Keywords: girls, wee
Number of Pages: 373
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1875559515
ISBN-13: 9781875559510

A moving collection of poetry, fiction and a utobiography Wee Girls draws upon the enormous amount of lit erature produced by Irish women writers throughout the Engli sh-speaking world. ’

Author: Sarah Brill
Publisher: Spinifex Pre
Keywords: glory
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 187675625X
ISBN-13: 9781876756253

A story of one girl’s struggle with herself, her life, and her family—and the story of a family’s struggle with a daughter/sister they can never hope to understand.

Author: Laurene Kelly
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: monday, crying, started
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 1999-04-28
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1875559787
ISBN-13: 9781875559787

Fourteen year-old Julie starts crying on Monday when things go badly at school. Worse is to come.

Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: heavens
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1876756489
ISBN-13: 9781876756482

This legal thriller offers an insider’s perspective on the triumphs and failures of the law. After taking up the case of an assaulted teenager, an up-and-coming lawyer must face manipulative opponents and an unreliable judge to fight for what she believes is right. An uncompromising exposé on the ways in which the law can sometimes fail, this novel acts as a homage to the sights and sounds of everyday life in Botswana.

Author: Bronwyn Whitlocke
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: pregnancy, therapy, shiatsu
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1875559817
ISBN-13: 9781875559817

This instructive manual for pregnant women, practitioners, partners, and birthing partners caring for pregnant women is the sequel to the highly successful Chinese Medicine for Women.