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1 y separately published work icon Raw Silk and Pearls : Poems to Celebrate Life Sarah Louise Thompson , Marrickville : Southwood Press , 2007 Z1449933 2007 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Sooner or Later We All Stop Laughing Roz Baker , Forster : Southwood Press , 2004 Z1469352 2004 single work novel

'For 16 years, Elizabeth Conroy had been slowly suffocating in her Pollyanna straightjacket, when circumstances dealt her a crushing blow. Gone was the laughter and the life she had known as bitterness and anger bit into her soul. She knew she had to escape the city and all she had held dear before she emotionally festered to death.

'Looking like a vagrant, Elizabeth roamed the Queensland hinterland, not at all sure that life had any value. But one thing she was sure of, no one would ever push her around again.' (Author's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Time of Sorrow and Rage Bill Gibbons , Jannali : Bill Gibbons , 1998 Z1087212 1998 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Bailey's Pine : A Novel Len Fox , Potts Point : Len Fox , 1997 Z525237 1997 single work novel historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon Windows : Rebellion Poetry Slaven Jelisavac , Sydney : Slaven Jelisavac , 1991 Z515649 1991 selected work poetry
1 20 y separately published work icon Cardboard : The Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters Fiona Place , Sydney : Local Consumption Publications , 1989 Z42640 1989 single work novel 'A fictionalized account of one woman's life-threatening eating disorder and her eventual hard-won recovery. Author Fiona Place has created Lucy, a narrator who is capable of taking the reader inside the dark and puzzling experience of anorexia nervosa. A university student, Lucy falls ill while on a coach trip in Europe. Ashen, thin and with a thready heartbeat, she cannot understand what is wrong with her. The tour leader decides she is homesick. And lying on her bed, she is left to fend for herself. Alone in her tiny hotel room Lucy wonders what she should do? Is she really sick or just homesick? Reluctantly, she decides to fly to an English speaking country. And to her embarrassment is taken off the plane in a wheelchair. Lucy is now a patient. And unknowingly enters into a dynamic and powerful struggle over the ownership of her life's narrative. Hospitalized she undergoes a range of treatments - some harsh, some ineffective, others insightful and intelligent. Cleverly observed, Lucy invites the reader to make sense of what it means to be ill. To understand why eating has become impossible. And as she fleshes out her journey towards recovery, demands her distress be understood. Demands it be put into her own words. When it was first published Cardboard was recognized as a compelling portrait and one of the first books to understand the importance of the role of narrative in the recovery process. Similarly today when much of the focus on eating disorders concerns decoding the genetics and biology of the condition, this prize-winning novel continues to provide an understanding of the individual's affective experience and the socio-cultural context in which it occurs.' (Source: bookseller's website)
1 y separately published work icon Our Stralia : Tales of This Country and Its People Skip Farley , Kurramine Beach : Skip Farley , 1988 Z1029365 1988 selected work poetry humour
1 y separately published work icon Companions and Sinners : My Last Will and Testament Frank Smyth , Sydney : Perpetual Trustee Co , 1985 Z1463678 1985 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon 4 Australian Poets Dorothy Hewett , Geoff Page , John Scott , TT. O , Marrickville : Southwood Press , 1985 Z1337727 1985 anthology poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon The Dingo-Baiter John Hinton , Sydney : John Hinton , 1978 Z963381 1978 single work novella
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