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An independent Australian literary publisher of award-winning poetry, fiction & non-fiction, and the literary magazine @HEAT_journal.

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Book Cover for: Praiseworthy Son, Rafael Sanchez

Praiseworthy Son

Rafael Sanchez
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

OUT NOW✨The new edition of Alexis Wright’s classic novel, Carpentaria, released to accompany her new book Praiseworthy (April 2023) and her re-released 2013 classic, The Swan Book. Learn more: https://t.co/Jk9Xsuuz60 https://t.co/OEweirlj1r

Paperback, 2022

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri

Whereabouts

Jhumpa Lahiri
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

'Flawed understanding, consolation, and insufficiency all infuse this compelling, unsettling novel reminiscent of Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts or Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy.' An advance review of Jessica Au's Novel Prize-winning book, coming Feb 2022. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jessica-au/cold-enough-for-snow/

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Miles Franklin: A Short Biography, Jill Roe

Miles Franklin: A Short Biography

Jill Roe
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

We counted, and – including today’s longlisting for the #MilesFranklin – this takes the awards that Jessica Au’s novel Cold Enough for Snow has won or been nominated for to 13! 🤯 A big congrats to Jess 🙌 Learn more about the book: https://t.co/jnJKgnrHv7 https://t.co/IvQuYxlIXL

Paperback, 2019

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Australian Style: Guidance To The Successful Business: Successful Start-Up Guide

Angelo Parhan
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

This Saturday, @rawah_arja will be at the @OzAsiaFestival for the event YA Fiction: Asian Australian-Style. ‘A great novel,’ said Melina Marchetta of her debut YA book The F Team, ‘funny and authentic and full of characters I loved.’ Learn more: https://t.co/ttxyebp4e3 https://t.co/PkbydOpsqj

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Book Cover for: Inside My Mother, Ali Cobby Eckermann

Inside My Mother

Ali Cobby Eckermann
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

The 2022 @SydWritersFest has begun ✨ The festival opened last night at Sydney Town Hall with powerful and moving speeches from Ali Cobby Eckermann (author of Inside My Mother, and pictured here), Jackie Huggins and Nardi Simpson. Explore the program: https://t.co/fhXxkIysfY https://t.co/iIXF4XeOxy

Paperback, 2019

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Swan Book, Alexis Wright

The Swan Book

Alexis Wright
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

OUT NOW✨The new edition of Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic, The Swan Book – a novel set in a future in which Aboriginal peoples still live under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. Learn more: https://t.co/WdiU3r5g6p https://t.co/0q7oaw8dba

Paperback, 2018

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Autumn, Again; Spring, Anew: A Poem, Stephen Morel

Autumn, Again; Spring, Anew: A Poem

Stephen Morel
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

A poem from Michael Farrell’s latest collection Googlecholia is featured on the home page of the @Poetry_Daily website! Read ‘Dubious Evidence Skelton Was Chinese’ in full here: https://t.co/bq48VhX4hl @readingrevival https://t.co/sVdJPE3XXW

Paperback, 2014

$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Hospital, Sanya Rushdi

Hospital

Sanya Rushdi
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

OUT NOW ✨ Hospital by Bengali-Australian writer Sanya Rushdi, translated by @arunava. Based on real-life events, written in an unflinching and understated way, Hospital is a daring literary account of a young woman’s experience of psychosis. Order here: https://t.co/mJHRp6bIbY https://t.co/sf2G364Tsx

Hardcover, 2023

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Plains, Gerald Murnane

The Plains

Gerald Murnane
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

‘To meet a literary voice that really talks to you, it’s rare. It’s like a new friendship. It doesn’t happen that often.’ Jon Fosse on reading Gerald Murnane. The renowned Norwegian writer is now translating Murnane’s 1982 classic, The Plains. https://t.co/MMp75ROgKw

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Book Cover for: Nothing to See, Pip Adam

Nothing to See

Pip Adam
Giramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing

OUT 1 JULY ✨Audition by @PipAdam, the award-winning author of Nothing to See. Part science fiction, part social realism, her new novel asks what happens when systems of power decide someone takes up too much room… Pre-order the book: https://t.co/5KrGC2WARB https://t.co/41PrgQER2R

Paperback, 2021

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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