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In 2021 Spinifex Press celebrated 30 years publishing award-winning, innovative and controversial books.

Spinifex Press distributes to the ANZ book trade directly. You can place orders via Pacstream edi, email or phone. For terms of trade information please email us at women@spinifexpress.com.au

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The Rust Red Land

A$36.95

“Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.engaging and intriguing story filled with complex characters and rural Australian themes that remain relevant today. A highly recommended book for readers who enjoyed Maggie by Catherine Johns.”

— Books+Publishing

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Top 20 Bestsellers Updated February 2024

1. The Women’s Pool edited by Lynne Spender (2021)
2. Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines by Judy Atkinson (2002)
3. Doublethink by Janice G Raymond
4. “He Chose Porn Over Me” edited by Melinda Tankard Reist (2022)
5. Seven Sisters of the Pleiades by Munya Andrews (2004)
6. Penile Imperialism by Sheila Jeffreys (2022)
7. The Tower by Carol Lefevre (2022)
8. Harvesting Darkness by Robin Morgan (2023)
9. On the Meaning of Sex by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2023)
10. The End of Patriachy by Robert Jensen (2017)
11. Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating by Caitlin Roper (2022)
12. Oneness vs the 1% by Vandana Shiva (2018)
13. Invisible Women of Prehistory by Judy Foster (2013)
14. Being and Being Bought by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2013)
15. Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans (2020)
16. The Rust Red Land by Robyn Bishop (2023)
17. It’s All Connected edited by Pauline Hopkins (2022)
18. Detransition: Beyond Before and After by Max Robinson (2021)
19. Body Shell Girl by Rose Hunter (2022)
20. Prostitution Narratives edited by Caroline Norma and Melinda Tankard Reist (2016)

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PO Box 200, Little River, VIC, 3211
+61 448 222 934

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In The News

Penny Mackieson’s story is the subject of SBS Every Family Has a Secret. Penny has been interviewed for Mamamia, The SMH/The Age, 9Honey and ABC Conversations. Media links can be found on her book Greek, Actually. You can also read an extract in The Australian here.

The Rust Red Land was reviewed in Books+Publishing:

Robyn Bishop spins a gripping story, infusing it with true grit and realism. The Rust Red Land is an engaging and intriguing story filled with complex characters and rural Australian themes that remain relevant today. A highly recommended book for readers who enjoyed Maggie by Catherine Johns.
—Books+Publishing

and in The Nine Media where Cameron Woodhead said:

This is vivid and evocative historical fiction, immersive and intensely felt, that’s alive to how societal forces constrain women, and the strength it takes resist them. Read the full review.

Chinongwa was Fiction Pick of the Week in the Nine Media (SMH/The Age/Brisbane Times/WA Today) 16 September 2023. Read the full review. The book was also featured by Ginger Gorman at Broad Agenda in an article called ‘The child cannot fathom the horror awaiting her’. Read it here.

The Meaning of Sex by Kajsa Ekis Ekman was reviewed in the Nine Media (SMH/The Age/Brisbane Times/WA Today):

“Her overarching concern is with how this ideology disproportionately disadvantages women: through the erasure of the category of woman, the threat to fertility posed by early hormone treatment and the reluctance to address the reasons behind the rise in the number of young women adopting transgender identity. This is a book that will no doubt generate heated debate.” Read the full review.

The Tower by Carol Lefevre was reviewed in The Age/SMH:

“It’s an exquisitely crafted novel true to the complexities and contradictions of women’s experience, while daring to reimagine the limiting conventions of gender and narrative.” Read the full review.

The Kindness of Birds by Merlinda Bobis was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, NSW Premier’s Literary Award 2022. It was also shortlisted for the University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection, 2022 Queensland Literary Award. It was recently a Finalist in the ACT Book of the Year Awards.