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The Piano Woman highlights the fragility of family, the price of love, and the importance of traditions that can sometimes save us from ourselves.

In these 22 interviews with notable verse novelists, Linda Weste explores the uniqueness of storytelling through poetry and the verse novel genre. Her subjects include Bernardine Evaristo, joint winner of the Booker Prize in 2019; and what they have to say enriches our understanding of the many ways poetry and narratives can meld.

1918 was a triumphal year for the Australian Corps in France yet perceptions of this have been clouded by legends. This concise and knowledgeable account will not sit comfortably with everyone.

Artist Ugo Catani's 'A Summer Shower in Collins Street, 1889' sets the scene for walking the streets of Melbourne, imagining the everyday past and seeing the urban landscape with new eyes. This award-winning book is a rich commentary on the growth and transformation of a great Australian city.

Text in English; translated from Albanian.

From silent cinema pianist born in the Australian Bush to celebrity virtuoso entertaining Royalty in Mayfair-an extraordinarily magical and inspirational musical odyssey.The concert pianist Edward Cahill (1885-1975) rose to prominence from humble beginnings in the inauspicious setting of 19th-century rural Queensland. At a time when Australian concert artists were virtually unknown in Europe, he dazzled the salons of royalty, aristocratic patronage and privilege in London, Paris and the French Riviera during the glittering decades of the 1920s and 1930s …'With what vigour, what virtuosity and poetry this master plays the piano!'-Chronique musicale, Montreux, 5 May 1939

As this book shows, films, novels and memoirs enable authors to imagine the deep-seated predilections and peccadilloes of spies and secret agents over the last four centuries of Australian existence. Sex and seduction? Those books and this one are replete with it. Narcissism? It is everywhere in novelistic and filmic treatments of the theme.