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,...

When a child disappears, who takes the blame? A child disappears. A woman grows up harbouring a terrible secret. Her daughter wants to know the truth. It's the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two 9-year-old girls, Eleanor Ramsay and Alice Howland, are playing hide and seek in the ruins of The Mills, a deserted village on the Sussex coast. When it is Eleanor's turn to...

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Mrs Angel Rendle-Short said that a book given to her daughter, Francesca, as an English textbook at school would teach her to be a permissive rebel.—Courier Mail, 1975

Bite Your Tongue is a story of great heart. It is the story of a teenage girl’s growing up in Queensland during the 1970s, the daughter of a morals crusader: Angel Rendle-Short / Mother Joy Solider. The tale is...

Cow leaps and flies into imaginative realms carrying mythology and language. Cow creates the universe, the galaxies and travels through the sky as a herd of stars. Cow writes love poetry and ponders lost histories.

An intriguing approach to the rewriting of myth, this book takes the reader on a...