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.

Author: Patricia Sykes
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: ground, home, modewarre
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1876756500
ISBN-13: 9781876756505

In poems that are as concentrated as pearls, Patricia Sykes explores various histories—her own, those of her forebears, and the wider histories of identity and place. Citing the intersection of three distinct philosophies with particular birds—the indigenous modewarre, the colonial biziura lobata, and the common Wathaurong musk duck—these poems set out on the winding paths of memory and aspiration, searching for answers to the questions What is home? and What is identity? Their context is local and universal, their voices are restless and insistent, their themes are as broad or as narrow

Author: Beryl Fletcher
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: classics, feminist, spinifex, burners, word
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1876756233
ISBN-13: 9781876756239

Winner Commonwealth Writers’ Prize South East Asia and South Pacific: best first book. Beryl Fletcher writes about ordinary people with extraordinary style, revealing sisterhood in all its incarnations - blood, friendship, family, love - with pinpoint accuracy, for the past and a poignant hope for the possible.- Stella Duffy

Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: truths, juggling
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1876756381
ISBN-13: 9781876756383

The Botswanan childhood of Monei Ntuka is shaped by stories from her mother, father, and grandmother as well as from the colonizers and the Christian church in this novel about the tensions between modernization and tradition in postcolonial Africa.

Author: Susan Hawthorne
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: epilepsy, writings, bird
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1875559884
ISBN-13: 9781875559886

Birds don’t fly with leads, I said. / Safety belts are to learn with, not to live with -- / I’m safer on the trapeze than crossing the road. / And I do that every day, often by myself. So thirteen-year-old Avis argues when confronted by the limitations imposed on her at school. She has epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her from participating in the sport she loves most. From societal limitations to the inner experience of seizures, Susan Hawthorne’s poetry takes the reader on a journey rarely recorded. Physical injury, memory loss, explorations of consciousness a