New Books – take a look

Poetry

#55248

The Haiku Anthology ( Expanded Edition)

Cor Can Den Heuvel (ed)

$25

 

 

 

 

“Cabbage moth-the whole golf course- to itself.” Poetry that conveys in a few short lines a myriad of emotions and imagery. Haiku, originally a form of Japanese poetry has been given a modern Western twist in this small, but comprehensive anthology. “The men on both sides- have taken- my armrests”. Something for everybody, just delightful.

 

Sport

#49735

Rugby the Golden Age (extraordinary images from 1900-1980)

Introduction JPR Williams

John Tennant

$30

A coffee-table sized book of B/W photographs from both codes and all nations. Ranging from men in scrums to women on the terraces. A unique compilation of extraordinary images.

Australian History

#54942

Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers

Curthoys, Ann

$25.00

Charles Perkins and a group of students set out to challenge discrimination and racism in country towns in NSW in 1965. One picture shows a banner “good enough for Tobruk, why not Walgett RSL?”  Read it to get an insight.  b/w photographs throughout

History

Heffernan, Thomas Farel

Mutiny on the Globe

$12.00

Its 1824 and Samuel Comstock slaughters the crew of a Nantucket whaling ship, sails to Mili Atoll between Hawaii and Tahiti, to start a new tropical kingdom. The bloody adventure unfolds and his dreams unravel…..

 

Classics

#54913

Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver’s Travels

$10

Okay so its not a First Edition, that was in 1726. This one is from 1947, yes that means its still 55 years old this year. Very cute small hard cover. Highly portable and will make you look pretty interesting while you’re waiting for friends at the coffee shop. b/w maps, green cloth, decorated boards, gold lettering on spine.

Australian True Crime

#48804

Linton, John Suter

Bound By Blood (The True Story Behind the Wollongong Murders)

 

 

$18.00

“Three victims and three perpetrators- all bound in blood” John Suter Linton began his media career working at Sydney Radio Station 2GB. He went on to work as a radio journalist in Wollongong and Tamworth. Moving onto writing episodes for ‘Sons and Daughters’ and ‘Neighbours’, he was instrumental in developing the TV show “Australia’s Most Wanted” His second True Crime book relates the story of the brutal murders of  a former Wollongong Mayor and a local shopkeeper by the 18 y.o Mark Valera , pleading childhood sexual abuse. The story goes on to tell us of his sister Belinda who with the help of her boyfriend dispatched of her father with a tomahawk and poker. Colour photographs.

 

 

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