An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 18 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Eight hundred kilometres from the sea, Lake Otway is dying. Heat, drought, and thirst-crazed animals take their toll. When Ray Gillen, lucky lottery winner, went for a swim one night and never came back, some thought it was an accident, or was it murder?
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 20 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate weather forecasts had helped farmers all over Australia, lived nearby. Ben died after a three-week drinking binge ......
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 11 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room. But how did he die?
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 13 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Broome is a little sun-drenched town on the barren north-west coast of Australia, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else’s business, where all the little bungalows might be glass for all the secrets they hide.
The highly anticipated second collection from this Forward Prize-winning poet. Book of Days is a long poem recounting a journey along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
When Inspector Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback sheep station he finds that two men have been savagely beaten to death. Clues are scarce in this sun-baked, sand-blown country, but Bony’s understanding of the bush and the people who live there – both black and white – leads him inexorably towards the killer…
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 29 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. When Eric Maidstone was found dead near Bore Ten, just west of the Dingo-proof Fence, the first thought of those who discovered his body was that he might have been attacked by the rogue camel known as The Lake Frome Monster. But camels don’t carry guns… and ......
This third collection from award-winning poet and translator James Womack is a long poem remaking the Elegies of the 'last Roman poet' Maximianus, boldly exploring sex and old age.
This is how the witness ends: touch, withdraw; touch again. 'American Goshawk', the opening poem in this collection, concludes with these words. The word 'witness' comes with a wealth of meanings. The poems are, at one level, acute observations of the world in its physical and dramatic detail. But eye and ear detect, in what is there, shadows and ......
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 28 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. If any man was ever born to be murdered, it was William Lush – a hated drunk who disappeared after beating his wife to death. Plenty of men had the opportunity to murder Lush, some the means, none the motive. This book is Upfield at his best.
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 27 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. It is in a harsh and eerie landscape – the crater formed by the meteor they called “The Stranger” – that another stranger is found… dead. In an area where the presence of every outsider is announced by the bush telegraph, how had this man passed unreported? Who ......
The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the south-east coast of Australia. Inspector Bonaparte wonders why a coffin is moved at night, who was the girl struggling with Dick Lake on the cliff tops, and what caused the Bully Buccaneers to deal in death. An ordinary policeman could afford to fail, but ......
A forceful and moving final volume from one of the most masterful poets of the twentieth century. Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry.
Variously called Australia's first modern poet, the father of modern Australian poetry, and "the master craftsman of them all," Kenneth Slessor continues to be admired in Australia and abroad for a comparatively small body of work. Yet one of his critics, Herbert C. Jaffa, has said that "some of [Slessor's] poems are among the most important ......
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 22 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Deep in Australia’s outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Ole Fren Yorky, a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body. When he too disappears, even the Aboriginal trackers are ......
In her first book of poems, Isabel Galleymore takes a sustained look at the `eight million differently constructed hearts' of species currently said to inhabit Earth. These are part of the significant other of her title; so too are the intimacies - loving, fraught, stalked by loss and extinction - that make up a life.
David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been compared with some of the most gifted poets in the English language: Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke. The Antioch Review has ascribed to him a''profoundly earthbound sanity,'' while Publishers Weekly credits him with a ''plainspoken formal virtuosity'' and a ......
Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange ‘bad boy’ Tony Carr? Why were the local Aboriginal tribe far away from town at the time of the murders? Inspector Bonaparte finds this small community very tight, till the arrival of a job-seeking bloke by the name of Nat ......
To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet proudly publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's House of Commons apology, and a new author's note.
An innovative take on the memoir, a biography fusing poetry with prose to honour the author’s late mother. Part one evokes the bliss and innocence of the author’s childhood; part two focuses on her mother’s upbringing and marriage; and part three relates the heartache of her mother’s life against the backdrop of changing times in the 1960s and 70s.
This critical edition of T. S. Eliots Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliots astonishing debut, ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."" As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains the poems of Eliots ......
This critical edition of T. S. Eliots Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliots astonishing debut, ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."" As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains the poems of Eliots ......
