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Collection of the Week
Discover more books from Carol Lefevre with this special Collection.
The Happiness Glass (2018) is fiction that forms around a core of memory, life writing that acknowledges the elusiveness of truth, described by Brian Castro as “a superb collection I read with relish and grief.”
Shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (Fiction) 2022 and the NSW Premier’s Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2021, Murmurations (2020) is simply exquisite. Debra Adelaide said “there is not a false note here, not a single word out of place, not one detail that is irrelevant.”
The loneliness of not belonging, of being cut adrift by grief, betrayal, or old age, binds the twelve connected stories in The Tower (2022) into a dazzling composite novel. Susan Wyndham said it was a “perfect mosaic of women's lives and rooms lit by sinuous, perceptive writing.”
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Discover our Bestselling Books
1. Transsexual Transgender Transhuman by Jennifer Bilek (2024)
2. Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines by Judy Atkinson (2002)
3. Seven Sisters of the Pleiades by Munya Andrews (2004)
4. Doublethink by Janice G Raymond (2021)
5. The Women’s Pool edited by Lynne Spender (2021)
6. On the Meaning of Sex by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2023)
7. “He Chose Porn Over Me” edited by Melinda Tankard Reist (2022)
8. Harvesting Darkness by Robin Morgan (2023)
9. The Rust Red Land by Robyn Bishop (2023)
10. Not Sacred, Not Squaws by Cherry Smiley (2023)
11. Detransition: Beyond Before and After by Max Robinson (2021)
12. Greek Actually by Penny Zagarelou-Mackieson (2023)
13. Invisible Women of Prehistory Judy Foster (2013)
14. The End of Patriachy by Robert Jensen (2017)
15. Grace & Marigold by Mira Robertson (2024)
16. Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans (2020)
17. Haifa Fragments khulud khamis (2015)
18. Being and Being Bought by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2013)
19. The Leaves by Jacqueline Rule (2024)
20. Flying with Paper Wings (new edition) by Sandy Jeffs (2024)
updated January 2025
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Statement from Spinifex Press
#WeStandWithUshaAkella
Men’s rights are alive and well in India.
We have been subject to a mass outpouring from Men’s Rights Activists who have targeted Usha Akella’s book I Will Not Bear You Sons and placing one star reviews on the Amazon India website and other sites in protest of its publication.
MRAs have taken exception to a line quoted in online book reviews (regarding aborting male fetuses) and have not looked at the poem in its full context. If they had looked at the context, it is the speaking character answering her tyrannical father-in-law who wants the speaker to have only sons.
Usha’s poetry is brave and brilliant. We stand behind this book and trust you will too.