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

Praiseworthy Son
Rafael Sanchez
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
Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri
'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
Miles Franklin: A Short Biography
Jill Roe
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
Australian Style: Guidance To The Successful Business: Successful Start-Up Guide
Angelo Parhan
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
Out of stock

Inside My Mother
Ali Cobby Eckermann
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
The Swan Book
Alexis Wright
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
Autumn, Again; Spring, Anew: A Poem
Stephen Morel
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
Hospital
Sanya Rushdi
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
The Plains
Gerald Murnane
‘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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Nothing to See
Pip Adam
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