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| Issue 61, August 2015 |
Welcome to the August edition of The Spin packed with news and reviews, and photos of our latest events.
LATEST RELEASE
  
Locust Girl by award-winning author Merlinda Bobis was launched by novelist Bruce Pascoe at Collected Works Melbourne on July 31
BOOK LAUNCH
Author, reviewer and book launcher Lucy Sussex gave a witty and insightful introduction to Hoa Pham's new novel Wave at North Melbourne library July 22
Have a listen to a moving interview with Hoa Pham on Radio National's Book and Arts program
BOOK REVIEWS
Haifa Fragments
by khulud khamis
Although the novel is low-key and subtle when it comes to conflict, one anticipates danger at every turn of the page, as if there were a ticking time bomb in the background waiting to explode and implode on all the characters’ lives.
—Rana Asfour, Bookfabulous
Locust Girl: a lovesong
by Merlinda Bobis
Filipina-Australian writer Merlinda Bobis’s new work Locust Girl: a love song is a surreal allegory on the divide between selfish privilege and disenfranchised victimhood...At the story’s heart is the malevolence of imperialism and its mercenary and parsimonious protection of the little that is left of its plunder of the remainder of the world. This is no pointer to the future: the future is now and we live the border and the divide. —servethepeople
AUTHOR EVENTS
Emma Ashmere, author of The Floating Garden was a guest at the recent Byron Bay Writers Festival
This beautiful novel evokes the hardships and the glories of Sydney’s past and tells the little-known story of those made homeless to make way for the famous bridge. Peopled by bohemians and charlatans, earthy folk and fly-by-nighters, The Floating Garden is about shedding secrets, seizing second chances, and finding love amongst the ruins.
FORTHCOMING AUTHOR EVENTS
 
Hoa Pham, author of Wave is a guest of this year's MWF
ACMI 10:00 AM 30/08/2015
 
Francesca Rendle-Short author of Bite Your Tongue, also a guest of MWF will be reading at three events:
The Morning Read Sun 23 August 10am
Writers Across Borders Sun 23 August 2.30pm
Big Love Sun 29 August 10am
 
In partnership with Brisbane Writers Festival outspoken presents Olivera Simić, author of Surviving Peace, A Political Memoir
Surviving Peace is one woman’s story of courage that echoes the stories of millions of people whose lives have been displaced by war. As we still face a world rife with armed conflict, this book is a timely reminder that once the last gunshot has been fired and the last bomb dropped, the new challenge of surviving peace begins.
Wednesday September 2
Maleny Community Centre
6 for 6pm
NEWS
Spinifex Press has sold Indian Tamil-language rights to My Sister Chaos written by Lara Fergus
eBOOK NEWS
Spinifex Press titles are now available through the Spinifex website. If a book is available as an eBook, you can see next to the cover Instant download and, where the price is listed, a link to the download. Please note that just as we respect the copyright and moral right of our authors in print version, we expect purchasers to do the same and to treat each download ethically. Please do not break this trust. Spinifex is an unfunded independent feminist press which depends on readers’ support through purchasing our books and eBooks.
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Best Regards,
Staff
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