Current &forthcoming

titlesjanuary TO june

2011

february 2011

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‘He’s done so much suffering for

me and I’ve read him so much and

I think that’s what poetry is for.’

judith wright

Francis Webb is one of our great poets. The worlds he created – which draw on Australian landscapes, myths and religion – resonate with the universal quest for self-knowledge, and his words have been a source of inspiration for generations of writers and readers. This splendid

collection celebrates Webb’s thirty-three-year writing career and is essential reading for everyone who believes in the importance of Australian literature.

Toby Davidson is a lecturer and Australian poetry researcher at the Department of English, Macquarie University, Sydney. He is also an award-winning poet.

Collected Poems of Francis Webbedited and introduced by toby davidson

poetry

isbn 9781742582689

416 pp

$32.95

UWA publishing is committed to producing beautiful books that bristle and shimmer with life –

books with big stories, big ideas and a strong sense of place.

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The Imago is a revealing portrait of a singular and

intriguing writer, who was a pioneer of literary themes explored decades

later by Katharine Susannah Prichard,

Randolph Stow and Patrick White.

The ImagoE. L. Grant Watson and Australia

suzanne falkiner

In 1910 Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson joined anthropologists on a Cambridge University–sponsored expedition to Western Australia to record Indigenous marriage customs. Profoundly affected by his

experience, he developed a deep respect for the Aboriginal communities he encountered.

Back in Europe, and encouraged by luminaries such as Joseph Conrad and Gertrude Stein, Grant Watson began writing fiction, in which his observations of the Australian landscape would feature

as a recurring metaphor for spiritual isolation and notions of the unconscious in his novels.

Suzanne Falkiner grew up in central western New South Wales. She has traveled extensively and now divides her time between writing, reviewing books and freelance editing.

biogrAphy (illUstrAted)

isbn 9781921401558

512 pp

$49.95

march 2011

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A fine novel about an eccentric non-

nuclear family with two, then three, and

finally four heads, but always with just

one heart: Rosie.’ the new yorker

A year ago Rosie’s dad died; but this young girl, wild of hair, smart of mouth and with an open heart, is busy embracing the world. Unfortunately her mother Elizabeth is finding the business

of living much more difficult.

Rosie is the first of Anne Lamott’s best-selling trilogy about a mother and daughter and how Elizabeth and Rosie, two forceful and complex people, rebuild their family of two. Imperfect

Birds, which continues their story, was published by UWAP in 2010.

Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies, and Operating Instructions.

Rosieanne lamott

fiction

isbn 9781742582511

288 pp

$24.95

MARCH 2011

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‘Birds have a natural, real presence. It is unqualified. That is their power. At

the same time, their presence is

constantly mediated by our culture,

which sets off other vibrations, including

spiritual ones.’

Lines for Birds is an explosion of lush images, a rich collaboration between two distinguished artists – painter John Wolseley and poet Barry Hill – both long fascinated by nature’s

beauty and power. This remarkable collection captures the very essence of Bird – its energy, inquisitiveness and daring – and is proof that these creatures suggest new ways of telling

stories about the Earth.

John Wolseley is an acclaimed painter and print-maker represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery and Australian Galleries. Barry Hill is an award-winning writer of poetry, the essay and non-fiction.

Lines for BirdsPoems and Paintings

barry hill and john wolseley

illUstrAted

isbn 9781921401534

232 pp

$59.95

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A lyrical novel, with wonderful pace, about a confidence trickster, a restless woman, and

their travels across four continents.

Frances, a New Zealand woman, is laid to rest in an unmarked grave in Jamaica in 1894. Her enigmatic husband, the Rev. William Hammond, cannot be found. Reports are later sent

to her brothers with allegations of cunning, fraud and, perhaps, murder. After all, Frances is not Hammond’s first wife and his movements have always been elusive.

This thrilling, bitter-beautiful novel skilfully explores notions of identity, redemption and love.

Ian Reid is a widely published author of literary and historical non-fiction. His poetry has earned him the Antipodes prize in the USA. Originally from New Zealand he now lives in Perth

where he is Winthrop Professor at UWA and an Emeritus Professor at Curtin University.

The End of Longingian reid

fiction

isbn 9781742582740

304 pp

$32.95

She remembered detachedly the spirited young woman who

had left Dunedin just four years earlier with such eager longing

for new scenes, new experiences. Unsure after all this travel and

turbulence what exactly she was then seeking, she could not tell

whether she had found it. Indeed she had ceased to care much.

Now that she and William were a childless couple again it was

their relationship with each other that increasingly preoccupied

her. These days, while the love she felt for her husband remained

intense, it became clouded with anxious doubt as he withdrew

almost sullenly into indistinct corners of his mind. William

Hammond had turned out to be a much more puzzling man

than she could have known at first. Intimacy had failed to

disclose everything.

Frances felt most alone when they were in the same room

together and he sank into one of his moods of silent, wounded

seclusion. It appeared that the loss of their babies was weighing

heavily on his mind.

She felt ill in her stomach; but the cause, she thought, was

unlikely to be physical. A fatigue of the spirit had weakened her.

Weary lines from a well-remembered poem came unbidden to

her mind:

For, what with my whole world-wide wandering,

What with my search drawn out through years, my hope

Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope…

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‘Great wisdom comes from the

study of others and reflection of one’s

own impact on the world. This incisive

collection of the stories of leaders is worthy for all who are trying to bring

about a wiser world.’ simon sheikh, national

director, getup! australia

‘In this remarkable collection…Kreisler poses provocative, open-ended questions leagues deeper than typical sound bite–centered journalism. While discussion ranges from apartheid with Justice Albie Sachs to the Iranian revolution with Nobel Peace Prize–winning lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Kreisler also investigates the formative experiences of each subject. Offering insight into world events, as well as the life and career paths of those who work for change, this study in the art of thoughtful dissent should fascinate anyone interested in activism and world events,

especially new and soon-to-be graduates.’ Publishers Weekly

Harry Kreisler is the executive director of the Institute of International Studies at Berkeley.

Political AwakeningsConversations with History

harry kreisler

cUltUrAl stUdies

isbn 9781742582894

304 pp

$29.95

April 2011

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‘Great works have a universal significance and each generation must find new

meaning in them suitable for its

state of the soul.’ georg tintner

Conductor-composer Georg Tintner is best known for his stunning interpretations of Bruckner’s symphonies, recorded in the 1990s. His long and eventful career began at the age of nine,

when he was the first Jew to join the Vienna Boys Choir. In 1938 he fled, and ended up in New Zealand where he started a new life, before moving to Australia and, much later, to Canada.

Out of Time is a must-read for anyone who believes in the discipline and rigour that creativity demands, the transformative power of music, and the pure joy it can bring.

Tanya Tintner, Georg’s third wife and widow, explores with both tenderness and a clear eye the privations that her husband, a true vessel for art, had to confront to survive in the modern world.

Out of TimeThe Vexed Life of Georg Tintner

tanya buchdahl tintner, foreword by richard gill

biogrAphy (illUstrAted)

isbn 9781742582566

448 pp

$39.95

APRIL 2011

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‘It just seems natural to me. It’s all writing, you know.’

dorothy hewett

Dorothy Hewett was never fazed by her own diversity as a writer. Best known as a poet, Hewett worked across genres with great ease and in the process produced some

outstanding works of prose.

Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewett offers readers new and old a stunning array of Hewett’s writings on literature, theatre and politics. It is both an engaging glimpse into Australian political history

and activism, and an enlightening point of access to one of our great women writers.

Fiona Morrison teaches literature at the University of Sydney.

Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewettedited and introduced by fiona morrison

fiction

isbn 9781921401626

336 pp

$32.95

may 2011

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‘If the essay should come to displace

the novel in popular favour, it would

be a clear sign of an advance in civilization.’

walter murdoch

On Rabbits, Morality, Etc.Selected Writings of Walter Murdoch

edited and introduced by imre salusinszky, foreword by rupert murdoch

For many years, Walter Murdoch was one of our bestselling twentieth-century authors – in the weekly essays he contributed to The Argus and other newspapers and in his books that sold in

their tens of thousands.

Irony was a key element in his approach, as was a lightness of touch in the treatment of his topics, from literature and social commentary to discourse on tripe and onions or the

etymology of the word ‘bloke’. This selection restores this wonderful writer’s work back into print for a new generation of readers.

Imre Salusinszky has been a journalist with The Australian since 2003.

cUltUrAl stUdies

isbn 9781742582757

208 pp

$29.95

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‘My gray flannel skirt, with a

rhinestone belt buckle saying jon-

jon attached to it, is respectable. Stockings, wigs,

pancake makeup, and whatever else

crossdressers do that I don’t do – keep it

away from me.’

The Man in the Gray Flannel SkirtA Memoir of Androgyny

jon-jon goulian

Jon-Jon Goulian – the grandson of renowned pragmatic philosopher Sidney Hook – had a most liberal upbringing, although it also initiated some unusual habits.

Somewhat adrift, in his thirties Jon-Jon got a job as assistant to Robert Silvers, the much-loved and redoubtable editor of The New York Review of Books, and, in situ, he often spoke to the greatest writers of our age. He also started wearing skirts and nail polish daily, and began to bring his army of stuffed toys to the office for support. Silvers regards Goulian as ‘one of the

most brilliant people who ever worked’ at the magazine, and indeed, this fascinating memoir is a deeply funny and moving account of how it can take time to find yourself.

MeMoir (illUstrAted)

isbn 9781742582900

336 pp

$34.95

MAY 2011

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‘Both gardening and writing are means of controlling the

sometimes chaotic elements of language

and landscape; of imposing order

and structure.’

Between the LeavesStories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens

katie holmes

Between the Leaves is an intimate exploration of the lives of nine twentieth-century women – including Judith Wright, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Winifred Venus and Wendy O’Dowd – who

wrote about their garden in their letters or diaries.

The writings are rich, diverse, eloquent and halting, conveying a powerful sense of the importance of the garden and how important the writing of it became. The garden, both written

and actual, is revealed as a place where women’s personal stories find expression.

Katie Holmes is Associate Professor of History at La Trobe University and an author. In 2010 she held the Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History at University College, Dublin.

biogrAphy (illUstrAted)

isbn 978742582535

304 pp

$34.95

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Starting over is always risky. Sometimes it can be fatal.

Once, Miles was a writer. Now he’s a wanted man. The police are after him. So too is renegade cop Robert Wilson, who has a weakness for crystal meth, and Sweeney, a violent man Miles made a cuckold of. And how is it that an Irish hitman has also become involved? It was only a few weeks earlier that Miles had hopped into his ute with his dog Roley and drove out of

Melbourne up the Gippsland coast in search of a new life.

This is fresh and compulsively readable fiction that defies genre. Seldom Seen may be a quiet little hamlet in Victoria’s High Country, but lives there are about to be blown apart.

J. D. Cregan lives in Fremantle, WA, and this is his second work of fiction.

The Wonder of Seldom Seenj. d. cregan

fiction

isbn 9781742582887

336 pp

$32.95

Miles lay face down on a blanket, head to one side, sucking in

deep breaths. His arms ached, his legs burned, the stitch he’d got

earlier was back. He sipped some water, and crossed another forty

push-ups off the list. He was about to start on fifty squats when

he heard cars on the track. Sarah pulled up, with Maggie behind

her in the postal van. Henry was with them.

‘You look different.’

Miles had shaved off his beard and cut his hair as best he could.

‘Yeah, well…’

‘Didn’t like the bushranger look?’

‘There’s enough bushrangers around here, thank you. What are

you all up to?’

‘Ladies want to talk to you.’

Sarah spoke first. ‘How are you…Tom? It is Tom Harrison, isn’t it?’

‘Only to my friends.’

‘You didn’t tell me you were a famous writer, Tom.’

‘Who’s a famous writer?’ asked Henry.

‘Miles here. Or Tom Harrison. Or whatever his name is.’

‘You’re a famous writer?’ asked Maggie.

‘I published one book.’

‘An award-winning one,’ said Sarah.

‘It was a long time ago,’ said Miles. ‘Look, I’m sure you’re not

here to talk about—’

‘The police rang me this morning,’ said Sarah. ‘Geoff Hanson?

From the Homicide Squad.’

Miles nodded. ‘I know Geoff.’

Sarah looked exasperated. ‘For God’s sake, Miles. I’m trying to

be serious.’

‘Sorry.’

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Published to great success in eleven

countries and now available in English.

Johan Harstad’s debut novel tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon: a man willing to stand in Neil Armstrong’s shadow in the service of the Apollo 11 mission. Following a series of disasters,

Mattias finds himself lying on a rain-soaked road in the desolate, treeless Faroe Islands when a truck approaches. The driver is a troubled man, who stops and makes Mattias an offer that will

soon change his life.

Johan Harstad is a Norwegian author, graphic designer, playwright, drummer, and international sensation who lives in Oslo.

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?johan harstad, translated by deborah dawkin

fiction

isbn 9781742582634

480 pp

$34.95

UWA Publishing is proud to announce

its first selection of ebooks titles,

launching over 20 award-winning

backlist and exciting new release titles to

the global market.

Ready to be downloaded in a variety of formats, UWAP’s ebooks are distributed through several outlets,

including Amazon digital, ebooks.com and Kobo e-Reader.

Quality academic and non-fiction titles are also accessible to students and teachers through popular library tool, Informit.

Further titles will be available throughout 2011 as UWAP continues to expand its list of world-class Australian writing.

Sign up to UWAPs newsletter online to receive updates on forthcoming titles.

cUrrent list of ebook titles

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The Charles and Joy Staples South

West Region Publications Fund

was founded in 1984 when the couple made a

generous donation to the University of

Western Australia.

Its purpose is to make the results of research on the South West of Western Australia widely available to assist the people of this region,

and for government and private organisations involved with South West projects to appreciate the needs and possibilities of the area using a

wide historical perspective.

In the second half of 2011 the Staples imprint will be home to two new titles from a fascinating series of stunning picture-book stories, in both English and Noongar language, that

have been compiled as part of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project.

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A story inspired by one that Freddie Winmir and Bob Roberts told linguist Gerhardt Laves in Albany, WA, around 1931. This retelling is by Kim Scott and Lomas Roberts, with artwork by Geoffrey Woods. This tale is about a man who goes out hunting for food and is drawn into a

fight with a mambara (spirit creature).

Noongar Mambara Bakitj

A story inspired by one that Freddie Winmir told linguist Gerhardt Laves in Albany, WA, around 1931. This retelling is by Kim Scott and Iris Woods, with artwork by Jeffrey Farmer, Helen Nelly,

Roma Winmar (Yibiyung) and others. This story is about a man who jumps into mamang (whale) through its blowhole and is taken on a great adventure.

Mamang

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NON-FICTION

Bollywood in Australia Transnationalism and Cultural Production

andrew hassam and makarand paranjape

From Blogs to Bombs The Future of Digital Technologies in Education

mark pegrum

Je Suis Australienne Remarkable Women in France, 1880–1945

rosemary lancaster

Land of Vision and Mirage A History of Western Australia since 1826

geoffrey bolton

Paupers, Poor Relief and Poor Houses in Western Australia 1829–1910

penelope hetherington

Aborigines and Activism Race, Aborigines and the Coming of the

Sixties to Australia jennifer clark

Strange Museums A Journey through Poland

fiona mcgregor

The Zealous Conservator A Life of Charles Lane Poole

john dargavel

Pirates, Prostitutes and Pullers Explorations in the Ethno- and Social History

of Southeast Asia james warren

Edging towards Bioutopia A New Politics of Reordering Life and The Democratic Challenge

richard hindmarsh

North to Matsumae Australian Whalers to Japan

noreen jones

Sir Ronald Wilson A Matter of Conscience

antonio buti

Come with Daddy Child Murder–Suicide after Family Breakdown

carolyn harris johnson

This Crazy Thing a Life Australian Jewish Autobiography

richard freadman

FICTION

The Darwin Poems emily ballou

Wild Bees New and Selected Poems

martin harrison

Arrhythmia Stories of Desire

richard rossiter

The Sinkings amanda curtin

A History of the Beanbag susan midalia

The Concerto Inn jo gardiner

The Seamstress geraldine wooler

Paydirt kathleen fallon

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