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Graduate Jane Elliot had landed herself a wonderful summer job tutoring English to the three children of a wealthy Spanish family.But when one of them turned out to be anything but a child, while t

The story of a young widower with two little girls and the nun whose urge to help them makes her question her vows.

Shortlisted for the 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes) Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the &quo

With crisp, elegant language, sharp wit and resonant images, Julie Bruck's new book gentles the largesse of life out of its many smallnesses.

Autobiography of a colourful Australian Prime Minister and Treasurer in the middle decades of this century.

Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments is a collection of poems that zooms in and out of places and states of mind, from a lit bicycle shed in the back yard to a root canal in November, fro

Shortlisted for the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains,

At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the Taklamakan Desert.

Victoria Jones, a resourceful London typist, helps to thwart an attempt by an international network to split the civilised world into two factions.

The Fleece Era is Yukon-based, UK-born Joanna Lilley's first book of poems: a wry and eloquent testament to the intricacies of our various relationships.

Co-winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Award.

Shortlisted for the 1994 Pat Lowther Award "I believe in the common magic/ of forests and household godd" writes Neile Graham in "Spells for Clear Vision," the title poem of th

Granddaughters, asters, Medea cakes, para pom tandle, Mrs.

Story of a remarkable family whose fortunes have been linked so intimately with the history of Port Lincoln, South Australia.

Poems that occupy the difficult territory of contemporary crisis with great candour and trenchant wit.