A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

A Gap in the Records is about spies. But these are no ordinary spies. In a world where women are unnoticed, women make excellent spies. Gathering information, attending functions or taking a simple holiday by the beach, these women are to be reckoned with. From Paraguay to Paris, from Hong Kong to Pine Gap, the women are watching and interfering. A Gap in the...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

This quirky manifesto about writing was first published in 1983. Finola Moorhead, one of Australia’s most interesting writers sets out her ideas on writing. As an experimentalist she surveys the world of literary creation, she challenges readers and writers alike not to fall for a romantic view of the world. She asks questions about imperialism in language use,...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

Frictions is a classic. Frictions is writing that is risky and exhilarating. Now in its third edition, Frictions shows where the writing of now started. With work by Elizabeth Jolley and Finola Moorhead, Andrea Goldsmith and Ania Walwicz, this anthology brought a fresh generation of writers to the world. A passionate and witty anthology that is an adventure for any...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for meaning in the contemporary world. Mothers are spectacular, for every child there is a mother even if unknown. Is she a bad mother, a good mother, a TV mother, a kitchen mother, an immortal mother, a devil mother, an immaculate mother? Is she the...