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Strange Attractor
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Deep in Western Australia's mining country, against the blood-red landscape of the Pilbara, a cyclone has wreaked havoc in a remote railway constru...
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Strange Beautiful Excitement
Otago University Press£22.99| /How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through ...
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Strategic Plan
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /"Failure is not on the whiteboard". Feel like you are drowning in paper work? Beaten by the impenetrable weight of office bureaucracy? Adrift in a ...
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Stray
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Allison LaSorda's Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful. LaSord...
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Strength of the Human Spirit
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£13.99| /"Jade's poetry is an inspiration not only because of his perseverance and dedication in the face of such great odds but because he writes straight ...
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Stripping Wallpaper from the Sky
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /Written over seven years, Jules Leigh Koch's latest collection depicts people living between pension day and charity. Fringe dwellers whose lives a...
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Strong Words 2019
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.00| /Judging her first Landfall Essay Competition in 2018, Landfall editor Emma Neale was seriously challenged. The overall high quality of the 90 submi...
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Struggle for Sovereignty, Volumes 1 & 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£33.95| /The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...
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Struggle for Sovereignty, Volumes 1 & 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...
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Study of Medieval Greek Romance
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£21.99| /Study of Medieval Greek Romance
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Stunning debut of the repairing of a life
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /SIMPLE BROKEN BEAUTIFUL is the title on a notebook of poetry written by Leigh Davis in 2008. This was during radiotherapy treatment following surge...
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Suicidal Airplane
Play Press (NZ)£8.00| /This is NZ's first 'Graphic Play', presented as a series of full colour drawings and text, and designed to be imaginatively interpreted for the sta...
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Sum
Playdead Press£9.99| /A technology that will change the concepts of self and other, love and death. This is just the pilot. Following the pioneering technology of the ne...
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Summer of the Aliens
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Takes an affectionate look at madness and mayhem (3 acts, 5 men, 4 women, 2 boys, 3 girls).
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Every summer Roo and Barney have come down from their work in the Queensland canefields to the Carlton house they share with Olive and Nancy for an...
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Summer Rain
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Turnaround Creek, outback Australia, Boxing Day, 1945. The dust and inertia settle on the town as Harold Slocum of Slocum's Travelling Tent Show be...
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Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals
Spinifex Press£12.95| /To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...
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Sunday Sentiments
Wisdom Tree (IND)£16.95| /Written in Karan's inimitable style, the articles in this book are a real treat -- racy, fun and enlightening at the same time. It is a must read f...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£46.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Sunjata: A New Prose Version
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...
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Sunjata: A New Prose Version
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£43.99| /"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...
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Sunset Strip
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /At Sunset Strip the only people left are those who couldnt leave. Arriving home after a bout of chemotherapy to this once-thriving summer hot spot...
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Sunshine Super Girl
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A grimy old ball, a racquet made from a wooden fruit box, a pair of borrowed shoes then the world at her feet. This is the heart-warming story of...
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Superheroes
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In Thirroul, Emily sits on the beach with her sort-of-ex-sort-of-not boyfriend, trying to figure out how to deal with her unwanted pregnancy. In Mo...
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Surrender
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.99| /"As one of eight writers, poet Janet Charman was invited in 2009 to take part in a hectic, immersive literary residency in Hong Kong. Written out o...
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Surviving the Gulag
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking ai...
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Susanna Shakespeare
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£19.95| /One can find plenty of literature on the life and works of William Shakespeare. Much less if any can be found and read about his three children. Th...
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Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada
University of Alberta Press (CA)£42.99| /Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increas...
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Sweet Water
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /This book gathers the voices of poets from across Canada, the US and the UK who write of water. Bottled, clouded, held in rain, in river, estuary ...
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Swelling with Pride
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Theres no straightforward path to LGBTQ2 parenthood and just as every queer person has their own coming out story, every LGBTQ2 family has a uniqu...
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Swimming Ginger
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Shortlisted, Independent Publishers Book Award, PoetryThe Qingming Shanghe Tu scroll, sometimes called "Spring Festival by the River," was thought ...
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Switzerland
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Its 1995 in the Swiss Alps and the ailing reclusive crime writer Patricia Highsmith is visited by a genial young man from her New York publisher, ...
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Sybil
Spinifex Press£9.95| /Gillian Hanscombe performs a feat of lesbian imagination in this stunning sequence. Her sybilic voice, familiar and strange at once, radiates both ...
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Symposium
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent print...
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Symposium
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...
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Synesthetics / Edges of Sound
Birch Brook Press (US)£20.99| /An essayist (Harry Smith) and poet (Stanley Nelson) team up to achieve a literary synergy that explores synesthesia, a condition in which one kind ...
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Syzygy
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Louise Bak's third collection of poetry continues to reinvent the English language as a sharp and challenging post-modern argot that combines termi...
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T.S. Eliot
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£14.99| /T S Eliot, udually considered to be difficult and obscure, must be approached through the images running through his work as woof and wrap. This bo...
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Tacoma Narrows
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In Tacoma Narrows, Mitchell Parry reflects on the nature of disasters, both public and private. A reflection on things lost, Parry allows himself t...
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Take Us Quietly
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In Take Us Quietly, Armstrong explores life, sickness, death and the importance of paying attention to the wider world, filtered through her own un...
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Taking My Mother to the Opera
Otago University Press (NZ)£15.50| /Piquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly 'marbled' throughout with social history. From careful...
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Tales From The Arabian Nights
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)Original price £15.99Current price £14.99| /In this delightful adaptation of the classic tales, Donna Abela brings centuries-old tradition into the modern era with a play that is timeless yet...
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Tales From the Vienna Woods & Other Plays
Ariadne Press (US)£26.99| /Ödön von Horváth (1901-1939) is one of the most important theatre writers in the 1930s. His reputation rests largely on the four plays in this coll...
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Tales of a City by the Sea
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A Palestinian journalist writes poetry on the beach. A doctor must decide to stay or leave. Then come the missiles and the phosphorus showers. This...
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Tales Tall & True
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /A compelling collection of four plays by multi-award winning playwright Reg Cribb. THE HAUNTING OF DANIEL GARTRELL -- In the tradition of Australia...
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Tao of Walt Whitman
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£10.99| /Walt Whitman, whose Leaves of Grass was called "the secular Scripture of the United States" by Harold Bloom, is a source of contemporary inspiratio...
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Tar Swan
Newest Press (CA)£14.99| /An allegorical reckoning of the physical and psychic wounds inflicted by the oil sands.