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Here is a list of many books written by our members. We are in the process of building this part of our website to enable you to buy books with PayPal. Meanwhile you can order these books by phone (02) 62629191 or in person at the Writers Centre.

In alphabetical order by title...


A Banquet of Memories: an anthology of Multicultural Women’s writing & recipes
, edited by Sally D’Souza $25.

A selection of Ginninderra Press poetry and short story titles (various prices)

A Soldier of the Queen: letters of Trooper Granville Thomas Cooper: 1878-1900 by Valda Brown, $20.

A wake up call by Irene Hess-Oates, $69.90. A guide to good health & nutrition with a 7 day healthy eating plan and recipes.

A World Of My Own by Catriona Annis $19.95

Against the Wind, a book of interest to adoptees by Glenda Bates, $18.

Alpaca Addiction, A holistic approach to Alpaca Rearing by Joy Elizabeth Allenby-Acuna, $35.

Australian Book Contracts 3rd ed (Keesing Press). $27.50

Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview by Donna Maree Hanson, $45.

Book title: The Fast Books complete guide to self publishing in Australia in the 21st century by Pat Woolley $7.95

Books written or edited by Lizz Murphy: Poetry: Pearls and Bullets Island Press $16.95; She’s a Train and She’s Dangerous, $12; Two Lips Went Shopping $19.95; Stop Your Cryin $18.

Canberra: where the wattle blooms, $15;  From the Andes to the Brindabellas; To Life, Verses of Love and Hope $14 Spring… trines & verses to love (CD),$15, Voice and Trails of Dark America (poetry) $6, all by Sergio Mouat.

Canberra’s Secrets (2nd ed), by Margaret Wade, $24.95

Chloe – the girl next door by Joanne Boyd $19.80.

Con the Silly Giant by Julie Brennan, illust P Donnellan, 14.95.

Cosmic Sciences: A Scientific Approach To Numerology, Astrology and Hand Analysis by Janis K Butt, Poseidon Books, RRP $38

Creative Journal Writing; the art and heart of reflection by Stephanie Dowrick $27.95

Cycling Canberra: A history of cycling  by Barbara Malpass, $14.

Different Angles, collection of poetry by Alan Watts, $12.50.

Earth poems for time by G Hekimian, $25

Encounters: an anthology of Speculative Fiction, edited by M McArthur and D Hanson. $18.95.

Footprints on Quicksand, by Frances Isaac, $18.95

Going Down Swinging (prose, poetry, non fiction, short stories and Australia’s only annual spoken word CD anthology), $19.95

Grammar Made Easy by Barbara Dykes (Hale & Iremonger). $19.95

Helena’s Ecumenical Childhood by CS Ford Linsen, $19.95

Hunt for the Tiller, Doonkuna Poets $18.50

Ideal Decision Making For An Ideal World by Ken Hird

Jumping out of cars by Kathleen Bleakley, A. Gawthorne and ‘pling $22.50

Kadaitcha, Peter Bulkeley, revenge & the Olympics, $16.95.

Launching for Authors: making the most of your sales, $15.

lip magazines $5

Love Apples by Allan Watts, $10

Many Hands Make Light Work by Beverley Lamb, $19.95.

Mission Possible: how to make money from your writing, by R Whitton & S Hollingworth, $25.

Mother from the Edge an anthology edited by Helen Nicks $25

My Heart’s Country, memoirs by Jo Forestier, $15.

My Sheep Hear My Voice by Jessie Pearce, $25.

Nine Parts Water, a novel by Emma Hardman, $22

Off the Beach by Peter Burbrook, $18

Out of the Ordinary by Annie Bolitho &  Mary Hutchison. $25.

Ozzie, the Crop Duster by Richard Stubbs,10.50

Passages through Parenthood, Real-life Stories from Australian Parents, Anne Godfrey, $24.95

Peasant in January poetry $12.50, Hidden Waterfall CD, $7.50 and Among the Sepias (poetry $18.70), War and Peace $20 by V Holmgren.

Pegasus Touch, $19.95; The Scales, 4 Fabulous Fantasies $14.95, Kered’s Cry $19.95; Kered’s Call $19.95; Kered’s Crown, $22, all by Kaaren Sutcliffe.

Poems for Peter: on sculptures and memories $24.50 Singularities shown as poems $25.50, Chanting the Eikon: a triptych $20, African Eucharist poems: a South African Retrospective $24.50, Words Have Sound Too: ‘Musical’ Inspirations in two parts - I.  Maske for Music-Makers; II.  Form (poems) $25/20, all  by Maris Ursula Hurley.

Pushing thirty, wearing seventeen, Melinda Smith, $14.

Rest Easy Journal: a practical journal to help family and friends to facilitate your passing by Shanna Provost.  $14.95

Secret Writing by Michael O’Sullivan, $27.

Self-publishing Made Simple by Euan Mitchell (Hardie Grant), $29/27.50 membs.

Springfield, a novel; The Wild Sweet Flowers, short stories; The Woman at the Window, short stories, all by Marian Eldridge, $12.

Strands of Serendipity, short stories, by Frances Isaac, $14.95.

Talking Ink from Ochre, edited by J Martiniello, $32.

The Alpha Code: Proving God by John Duffey, $24.50 non-members/$22 members.

The Australian Writers’ Marketplace 2007-08, containing lists of publishers, magazines, newspapers, literary journals, script markets, publishers, manuscript appraisers, agents, literary organisations, writing courses, festivals and events, competitions and informative articles. $43.95. (Add $6.60 for postage.) also available online at www.awmonline.com.au

The CSFG Gastronomicon edited by Stuart Barrow, $11.

The Dark House - A paranormal story, John Teagle, $11.

The Golden South, $30 and Bungonia to Braidwood, $34, both by Barry McGowan.

The Grinding House by Kaaron Warren (story anthology) $18.85.

The Indian Summer, a raj anthology, B Earle, $19.95

The Knock-kneed Gnu from Dubbo Zoo,  $10, The Brave Aardvark from Taronga, and The Muddle-headed Minotaur, written and illustrated by Liz Porter, $10.

The Little Red Writing Book by Mark Tredinnick,$29.95.

The Lonely Mountain by Peter Burbrook, about the twilight of domination and the dawn of global nurturing, tolerance and hope, $22.

The Shiny Bum Singers Package of 5 books for $25: The Tiny Shiny Bum Songbook, They’ll Go Ape at Our Procedures,  It’s Been a Long Year, Have You Been Told Lately and Am I Not Busy Enough. The Shiny Bum Singers Collection 6 pack for $30.  The Shiny Bum Singers If We Could Talk to the Bureaucrats for $7.  The Shiny Bum Singers An Audience with the The Shiny Bum Singers 2 CDs for $25

The World on my Washing Line, poems by Robin Davidson $11.95

Trouble in the Garden by Peter Frankis, $20.

Turtles all the Way Down by Anne Edgeworth, $14.95.

Underneath the Apple Tree  $9.95, Beetles & Bugs, $9.95,  Butterflies $9.95, (all children’s picture books and all by Diana Harley & Sue-Ellen Yates)

Writing us Mob edited by J Martiniello, $14.95.

Writing Your Life: a journey of discovery by Patti Miller, $24.95.

Yatrik: reflections on an overland journey by Kirsty Powell, $15.

Your Sustainable Garden: Conserving the ecology of your garden by using its natural resources by Robin Johnson, $25.95



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