Australian Fiction from Diversity Books, IOBA

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Morgan Ramsay Press, 2003. 393pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper has negligible edgewear, soft corner crease to front panel. 31 chapters. Book weight approx. 475g. (This book will post as a small parcel within Australia only, and postage charge will be reduced accordingly). First Edition. Softcover. Very Good+.… Read more about this item

Inverloch, Victoria, Australia: Jellie N. Wyckelsma, 2013. 47pp. Book clean, square. Saddle-stitched, splaebound format. Staples firm and clean, no rust. Leaves clean and unmarked. Card wrapper has a soft crease to upper foredge corner of front panel. From the rear panel: "Years after an incident, when a circus came to town, Celina tries to solve the problem of who… Read more about this item

Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.: CreateSpace (Amazon Imprint), 2012. vii, + 149pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Printed card wrapper nominally bumped only. A brief inscription, "To xxx - remember 3rd Feb. 2013, love Marjorie xx" on title page, else textblock unmarked. "Three Chords and The Truth" is a story of three musicians travelling the Australian landscape in search… Read more about this item

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: The Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1981. 172pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour-illustrated (Noel Stapleton) card wrapper mildly edgeworn, with blind pressure marks on rear wrap. Textblock unmarked, uniformly age-toned. Anthony Scott Veitch (1914-1983) was an Australian multi-media script writer and novelist. This title, 'Roses & Boronia' is a romance drama based on an… Read more about this item

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The Text Publishing Company , 2011. 307pp., pattern-print endpapers. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over firm spine. Plain black boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket minimally edgeworn only. This book features Sarah Thornhill, youngest child of the family who were at the heart of Kate Grenville's multi-award winning novel, 'The Secret River'. Sarah Thornhill… Read more about this item

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia: Knocklofty Press , 2008. 268pp. Book clean. A soft reading crease on a mildly canted spine. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped on foredge corners. Textblock bumped on upper foredge corner, else textblock unmarked. Set in Tasmania, Australia amid an eccentric mix of employees at the Truggamora Museum. Same-sex couples, Cindy Lee with a biological urge for… Read more about this item

Victoria, Australia: Feather Knight Books, 2019. 341pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. Textblock unmarked. From the rear wrap: " 'Red Time' has suddenly taken on greater significance for nomadic country footballer, Mick Stewart. While those final moments of the game have always been important for the renowned goal kicker, the stakes are… Read more about this item

Nambucca Heads, N.S.W., Australia : Lois Botsman (Happyning Publications), 1988. 88pp. Illustrated throughout: b/white line-drawn story locality map, plus title-page and chapter-footer sketches (illustrations by Christa Botsman). Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated (Christa Botsman) card wrapper nominally bumped only. Textblock uniformly tanned, else unmarked. The author of this novella, Barry Botsman (b.1934-d.1987) passed away before he could… Read more about this item

Mena Creek, Queensland, Australia : M & J Evans (M. & J. Dream Productions) , 2013. (v.) + 273pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Art-illustrated (Matthew Evans) card wrapper trivially bumped only. Textblock unmarked. This debut novel by Canadian screenwriter and filmmaker Grace Bogaert came about by a chance meeting with Mark Evans of Paronella Park, North Queensland,… Read more about this item

Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador (Pan Macmillian), 2018. 583pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper undamaged. A multi-generational family saga. From the rear cover: "The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love… Read more about this item

Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia : Central Queensland University Press, 2005. vii, + 183pp., small b/white chapter header and closer halftone plate illustrations. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour-art illustrated (Norah Kersh) card wrapper mildly bumped and edgeworn. Signed by author on half-title page, else textblock nominally bumped only. This title is the third in Marie Mahood's 'Serendipity Trilogy'. Set… Read more about this item

Capalaba, Queensland, Australia: Even Before Publishing (Wombat Books) No publication date (S.L.V. suggests 2012). 227pp., illustrated publisher's promo and author portrait/bio at rear. Book clean. Spine firm, but slightly canted. Colour-illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped only. A handwritten inscription, "I hope you enjoy", signed by author on half-title page, else textblock unmarked. Life was on a downward spiral… Read more about this item

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Author / FFFL Productions, 2009. 92pp., several b/white halftone plate illustrations. Book clean and square. Colour-plate illustrated card wrapper slightly wavy, else very good. Textblock unmarked. From the author of "The Gathering of The Fairy Horses" comes the story of 'One', a character who sees no bad in anyone. Set in the year 2010, within a multicultural… Read more about this item

Montville, Queensland, Australia: Walter McVitty Books, 1996. 106pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked, with faint edge-tanning. Art-illustrated (Lyn Wood) card wrapper very mildly edge-creased at head of rear panel. "Mark had been warned: the Black Pyramid, a huge outcrop of rock in a remote part of the Flinders Ranges, was not the sort of place people… Read more about this item

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Vandal Press, 1998. 133pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper very good+. Ten short stories. Book weight approx. 135g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good +.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books), 2013. 423pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Matt illustrated boards very good+. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket undamaged. From the front flap: "Tom Keely's reputation is in ruins. And that's the upside. Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him . . . But even in his seedy flat, ducking the… Read more about this item

Ringwood, VIC, Australia: McPhee Gribble (Penguin Books), 1992. 209pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, small, soft corner crease to several. Illustrated card wrapper has a soft corner crease to lower front panel. From the rear cover: "On a winter's night, a dishevelled child, Perdita, is left bound with barbed wire to the cast-iron fence of a Melbourne orphanage.… Read more about this item

Glen Waverley, VIC, Australia: Sid Harta Publishers, 2008. 293pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped on lower rear panel. From the rear cover: "Many years ago, after being kicked out of England and forced to flee Van Diemen's Land, Harry bumbled, stumbled, boozed and battled his way through much of Victoria's early history with… Read more about this item

North Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: George Allen & Unwin Australia, 1982. viii, + 166pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain blue boards very good. Leaves clean, several with a small corner crease. Illustrated dustjacket mildly foxed on inner surface of flaps. From the front flap: " . . . the story of a boy and a racing pigeon… Read more about this item

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Text Publishing, 2008. 307pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain dark boards very good. A small mark to foredge, else leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket mildly edge-creased. From the jacket flap: "Daniel Rooke, soldier and astronomer, was always an outsider. As a young lieutenant of marines he arrives in New South Wales on the First… Read more about this item