 | Au Pair
McGregor, Fiona
In an attempt to escape the pressures of belonging to a large demanding family, Sioban spends a small inheritance on travel. She lives and works in France as an au pair, only to become engrossed in the dynamics of the family she works for. (McPhee Gribble) (more...) |
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 | Aunt's Story
White, Patrick
With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating other people's lives, even in love and pity, can lead to madness. Her ability to reconcile joy and sorrow is an unbearable tor (more...) |
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| Australian Gay and Lesbian Plays
Parr, Bruce (ed)
This collection showcases Aust. drama, plays look at issues as varied as lesb. custordy battles, desire in the trenches of Gallipoli, same-sex interracial relationships and surviving through the AIDS epidemic. The plays span two decades of playwriting. Playwrights include: Alex Harding, Sandra Shotlander, Michael Gow & Margaret Fischer.
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 | Away With the Fairies
Greenwood, Kerry
Phryne Fisher-dangerous, passionate, kind, clever, and seductive. She drinks cocktails, dances the tango, is the companion of wharfies, and is expert at conducting an elegant dalliance.
It's the 1920s in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women's magazine (more...) |
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| Bad Policeman
Hodgman, Helen
Constable Blainey has done bad things. The Bad Policeman is his attempt to set the record straight. Inside his head is not always a comfortable place to be now his wife has left him and isn't coming back. His son doesn't plan to forgive him either. The remaining redeeming features of his life are his cat, his partner Steve and a waning passion for poetry.
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 | Balanced Garden: Town, Country & Courtyard
Bagnay, Paul
Now in a handsome new edition, Paul Bangay's The Balanced Garden is one long, glorious stroll through more than thirty of his landscape designs - an invitation to discover the very different charms of a variety, of gardens from the minimalism of a rooftop space to the vistas and garden rooms of an extensive country retreat. As always, Paul is passionate about showing his (more...) |
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 | Banned; Tales from the Bizarre history of Australian obscenity
Cockington, James
Banned takes us on an unexpurgated journey through the ebb and flow of Australian obscenity. Throughout the last century and a half, society in general reacted against what it deemed lewd or disgusting in literature, film, art, TV and personal behaviour. Numerous assorted works, objects and events from the novels of D. H. Lawrence to the sight of a man's exposed nipples (more...) |
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 | banQuet 2010: A Feast of New Writing and Art by Australian Queer Women
Carson & Dettori
Sassy, edgy protagonists shove the boundaries of sexuality, gender and convention in these tales of desire, unlikely couplings, jealousy, homecomings and impending catastrophes. This banQuet of stories and images by emerging writers and artists offers thought-provoking, smile-inducing snapshots of what it is like to be a queer woman. (banQuet) (more...) |
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 | Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices In the West
Jeffreys, Sheila
In Jeffreys' latest book, she questions why the beauty industry is expanding, and why liberal feminists should see a virtue in women having the power to choose practices that a few years back were condemned as oppressive. The critique of beauty practices... has today all but disappeared, making way for procedures that break skin and spill blood. (Routledge) (more...) |
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 | Beauty of Truth
Bouchet, Bruno
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 | Bee Hut: Poems 2001-2008
Porter, Dorothy
Known for her passionate, sensual and edgy poetry, Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's truly original writers. She was twice short-listed for Australia's premier literary award, the Miles Franklin, and her verse novel The Monkey's is a modern Australian classic.
The Bee Hut, her fifteenth book, brings together the poems she wrote in the last fi ve years of her life. (more...) |
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 | Behind the Exclusive Brethren
Bachelard, Michael
January 2010
Out of nowhere in 2004, this obscure religious sect burst on to the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conservative political parties. But its members were shy to the point of paranoia about who they were - preferring, as they said, to "fly u (more...) |
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 | Behind the Moon
Teo, Hsu-Ming
How did people connect with each other? How was it that some people managed to manacle others to their lives, bearing their childhood friendships with them triumphantly into the future, whereas others found friendship as weak as water, sparkling and slipping through cupped fingers?Justin Cheong, Tien Ho and Nigel Gibbo' Gibson have been best friends since school in a world divi (more...) |
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 | Beijing Blur: A Head Spinning Journey into Modern China
West, James
'I was in China and I wanted something more Chinese than Chinese: bigger, better, badder, redder. China held the promise of dragons' heads, acrobatics, mahjong and brothels. I was also expecting a display of kitsch, old-school communism: messages daubed on walls, Mao sculptures propped up against cash registers, crumbling socialist monoliths... But when my eyes hit Beijing for (more...) |
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| Being Different
Wotherspoon, Gary
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 | Beneath the Sequinned Surface: An Insight into Sydney Drag
Langley, Carol
Drag is an integral part of Australian culture, and Sydney drag – which is highly creative and immensely professional – is said to be the best in the world. This book captures the colour and vibrancy of this art and gives a rare insight into the reality of this often-stereotyped scene. (Currency) (more...) |
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 | Bent Lens: World Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film
Daniel, Lisa & Jackson, Claire
Compiled by local gals Lisa Daniel, director, and Claire Jackson, president of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, The Bent Lens is a must for all film and video aficionados. Extensively researched with 2300 titles from 45 countries, including feature films, documentaries and short films listed in a handy A-Z format, each with its own brief synopsis. It also contains comprehensi (more...) |
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 | Best Little Knitter in the West
Bin Saad, Sermsah & Cook, Samantha (ill.)
Age 4-8
George is not only the best male knitter he can knit anything at all. But how will knitting help George when he gets into trouble. (more...) |
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 | Between The Rock and a Hard Place
Collins, Paul
This is not an invective against the Church, but a deeply felt argument on behalf of the many Catholics who now feel disenfranchised. It encourages those holding on to a faith they love (often with gritted teeth) to keep going, and offers a concept of Catholicism through which they can still find deep meaning and stay connected to their Church. (ABC) (more...) |
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 | Bird
Cunningham, Sophie
To her lovers and friends, Anna Davidoff was a mystery. Beautiful, charismatic, irresponsible yet disarming; famous, in a way, but ultimately unknowable. To her daughter, she is no less an enigma even now, thirty years after her death. Of course Ana-Sofia knows the stories of Anna's unlikely transformations. How the young post-war refugee from a devastated Soviet Union became a (more...) |
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| Bird and Other Writings on Epilepsy
Hawthorne, Susan
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| Bit of a Post-Script
Post, Sue-Anne
Melbourne's own lesbian comic takes a humouress and heartfelt look at her life and it's formative influences. She recounts her childhood, family life and the course of her career as a comic. In a witty yet sensitive style she explores the impact of the Mormons and alcohol on her self esteem and lesbian identity. An inspiring story of personal growth, self acceptance and inner t (more...) |
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 | Bitin' Back
Cleven, Vivienne
When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny and cleverly covert, too, this is a truthful rendering of small town prejudice (more...) |
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| Black Hours
King, Wayne
Autobiography of Aboriginal gay writer Wayne King. This is a deeply personal story about belonging and the destructive practice of removing aboriginal children from their families. It is a tale of discovery, survival, anger and hope. In confronting his families' past and his own inner demons King gains an understanding of his aboriginal/gay identiies that had previously brought (more...) |
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 | Bleeding Hearts
Cameron, Lindy
Poison pens can draw blood. And that’s exactly why TV presenter Rebecca Jones hires private eye Kit O’Malley to investigate the threats against her. But the trouble with being tenacious, tough, and too smart for her own good is that everybody else wants her on their team.
As if trying to keep Rebecca alive and on the air wasn’t enough, Kit is beset by a clutch of other peopl (more...) |
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