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Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish
Interactive Press£18.99| /Hal Judge is a energetic, risk-taking poet who is formulating a unique poetics. It is fascinating to watch something poetically 'new' take shape, w...
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Song of the Broad-Axe
Schiffer£318.99| /Produced in a numbered limited edition of 350, this is a full-sized facsimile of Wharton Esherick?s prototype of Walt Whitman?s ?Song of the Broad-...
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Song of the Taxidermist
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /There's something fresh and fantastic in Aurian Haller's view of the world. In Song of the Taxidermist, he demonstrates both a fascination and unea...
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Songbird in My Heart
Bella Vista, LLc (US)£25.99| /This book is a call to action, a song of grace, whispering softly to anyone listening for the call of inner knowing. For many, the call is so quiet...
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Songket / This Territory
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /"Songket" -- What happens when one person's culture is another's crime? Koua Neng Vang, a Hmong migrant is accused of raping Chan, a young textile ...
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Songs from the Territories
Dekel Press£15.95| /In 1988, a 38 year old ex-hippie, ex-stockbroker, spiritual pilgrim on the lam boards a plane to Israel, where he has never visited, with a one way...
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Sons of Cain
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£13.99| /The story of a fighting newspaper editor who with three investigative journalists takes on the 'Mr Bigs' of the drug trade (2 acts, 6 men, 3 women).
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Sophist
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to speak most directly to the interests of contemporar...
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Sophist
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato presenting a new conception of the Theory of Forms. Socrates and others discuss the epistemological and met...
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Soul of Poetry Redefined
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£32.99| /What is the soul of poetry? The most influential answer was probably given in Aristotle's Poetics, but even within that tradition which claimed the...
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Sound and Bundy
Interactive Press£20.00| /In 2006, the posthumously-published works of little known poet Jason Silver caused a minor sensation on the Adelaide literary scene. His surreal, i...
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Sound, Music, Writing
Boulevard Books (UK)£15.95| /A highly original and bravura reading of twentieth century literature in Italy that traces the role of sound, music, voice and even noise in the co...
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Soundings
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Soundings is another landmark in the development of an important and widely read New Zealand poet. This collection continues and develops the theme...
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Spaces in Between
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This is a retrospective selection of poems by Governor General's Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie. Arranged in chronological order from 1965 right...
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Spatial Practices
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /In recent decades, the conceptualisation of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings has received significant attention an...
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Speech & System
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£56.99| /In this investigation, creative writing and philosophy are shown to be specific types of language games, distinct from speech as used in communicat...
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Speed Twins
Playdead Press£9.99| /The Speed Twins is an exhilarating, intriguing and moving story about a long lost love between two women. Respectable widow, Queenie, is astonished...
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Spinning the Secrets of State
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clari...
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Spirit of Place
Eschia Books Inc (CA)£9.99| /An injured dragonfly is picked from a car grill and placed on a rock to recuperate, only to materialize at a distant trailhead to usher the hiker t...
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Spitting Chips
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Syblil, aka Spud, lives with her father who won't discuss Sybil's dead mother. Her reluctant friendship with an old woman helps both of them addres...
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Splinter
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Tales of missing children have always held a terrible fascination. Celtic folklore chilled the bones of many a superstitious new mother with storie...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£17.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£9.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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St James Infirmary
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /As protestors march against the war in Vietnam, boys in a Catholic school prepare for their final exams (4 men, 2 women).
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St Kilda Tales
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /This play chronicles the subculture that is St Kilda. Its numerous stories cross like tramlines, building a many-faceted picture of city life. Yupp...
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Staging Asylum
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /The first of its kind, this timely anthology brings together six contemporary Australian plays that offer a range of narratives and perspectives on...
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Standard candles
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major's earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle w...
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Stars of the New Jersey Shore
Schiffer£18.99| /In the pre-Hollywood era, theatrical stars flocked to the New Jersey coast to escape the eastern cities' sweltering heat. After performing from Sep...
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Start to Figure
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. In this wide-ranging collection, Andrew DuBois rounds up some 200 reviews of contemporary Canadian poets (from Jordan ...
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State of Shock
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Based on the true story of Alwyn Peter, a Queensland Aboriginal charged with murder in 1979; his case created legal precedent when he was released ...
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State of the Union
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This collection is the first chosen from Albert Jay Nock's entire work and the first new collection in nearly thirty-five years. It includes his be...
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Steeling Effects
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Why do some of us learn to bend? Others break? How do we move from shame to being "enough"? How do we bounce back stronger after adversity and then...
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Stephanii Notæ Uberiores in Historiam Danicam Saxonis Grammatici
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£35.99| /This facsimile edition of Stephanus Johannis Stephanius' Notæ Uberiores in Historian Danicam Saxons Grammatici, one of the high-water marks the cen...
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Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia
Ronsdale Press (CA)£16.99| /In an intimate narrative, Braun ushers us into the life of one extended Mennonite family -- in particular the lives of her father and grandfather, ...
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Stepping Over Seasons
Interactive Press£19.99| /This collection artfully depicts the finer details of life, encapsulating change within people and places as the seasons unfurl. In "Overlook", Cap...
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Steveston
Ronsdale Press (CA)£13.99| /A collection of poetry and photographs that reinvents the little village of Steveston, close to Vancouver, Canada -- a fishing village populated at...
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Still Angela
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /STILL ANGELA is an unpredictable portrait of a contemporary Australian woman at three ages. On the cusp of Angela's birthday, we are invited on a r...
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Stitching Things Together
Interactive Press£19.99| /This is fluent, well crafted poetry but it is not always comfortable as Leah Kaminsky takes us on a journey with her father fleeing from Poland to ...
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Stolen
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /"Stolen" tells of five Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domesti...
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Stop. Rewind.
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A disparate group of seven work colleagues in a local government office struggle to hold onto their dreams, as they desperately attempt to prevent ...
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Stories From My Life
Ariadne Press (US)£30.99| /The author was one of the major Expressionist painters of the first half of the 20th century, and also wrote a number of plays, poems, and stories....
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Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Volume 2
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£49.99| /Volume 2 opens and closes with tales of tragic conflict between a king and his son: Prince Seyavash and Prince Esfandiyar are both driven from the ...
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Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Volume 3
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£89.99| /With our third and final volume of stories from the Shahnameh we move from mythology and legend to romanticized history. Here the mighty events tha...
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Stories in the Dark
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out h...
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Story of Petese Son of Petetum & Seventy Other Good & Bad Stories
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£51.99| /The book presents a complete edition of the three known versions of the ancient Egyptian narrative The Story of Petese son of Petetum and Seventy O...
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Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In the 1870's a girl is born under a tree -- her birth tree -- chosen to give her strength and wisdom. When the tree is cut down she follows it int...
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Straggling Into Winter
Interactive Press£18.99| /A serene and very human voice emerges from a year-long tanka journal in which the changing seasons reflect the poet's thoughts on illness, love, an...
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Strands of Eternity
Ayurvedic Press (US)£10.99| /The Sanskrit word, sutra, means thread or suture. It is the 'Strand of Eternity' that sews our two selves back together and reawakens us to that wh...
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