John Kinsella
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The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry is a comprehensive survey of the state's poets from the 19th century to today. Featuring work from 134 poets, and including the work of many WA Indigenous poets, this watershed anthology brings together the poems that have contributed to and defined the ways that Western Australians see themselves.
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Barry Simmonds is a partner in a small-time law firm in Belize, a small not very rich Central American country squeezed between Guatemala and Mexico. His principal business is setting up and servicing offshore companies and bank accounts for British, Russians and whoever else wanted to hide their money or assets.Concealing the ownership of businesses and property behind opaque locally incorporated firms, for the purpose of tax avoidance, evasion and...
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The Fitzwilliams Foundation, a London think tank, engages Michael D'Arcy, the overeducated son of a well-connected Irish diplomat, to gather information for a report on the trafficking of tropical timber from Papua New Guinea's rain forests to China.His girlfriend Lucy Wang, the daughter of a Shanghai tycoon and property developer, has returned home and the idea of heading east pleases Michael.When Michael arrives in Papua he learns how rich Chinese-Malaysian...
4) Secrets
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This is the story of an adventure told through the eyes of Michael D'Arcy and his Uncle John Ennis, two different generations, separated by half a century. A chronicle of collapse, the story of our headlong gallop towards disaster, of the destruction being waged by shortsighted or corrupt politicians, unscrupulous men and their businesses, on our environment, our planet, our home, our only home, in this dark, silent, hostile universe.Doesn't concern...
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Published for the first time, this collection gathers the poetry of David McComb, the gifted and enigmatic songwriter and lead singer of the Triffids. Written during his 20s and 30s, when the band's output peaked, these perceptive pieces explore and confront topics such as addiction, pop culture, and the colloquial and metaphysical. Illuminating a hitherto neglected aspect of the artist's creative brilliance, this collection will strike a chord with...