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The sixteen punchy tales of Caleb Caudell's debut short story collection, Novelty, sees Caudell continue in the pioneering midwestern realist style he carved out with The Neighbor (2021) as well as branch out into more conceptual and philosophical territory, with stories depicting the indignity of contemporary alienation, the valorisation of youth, the emptiness of film and television, and the eternal tragic-comic struggles of love and romance. By turns slapstick, sombre, and absurd, these stories will knock you down, give you conniptions and leave you stroking your chin in rumination.

Albany Unravelled is a new and fascinating account of the foundation and history of the King George's Sound/Albany region of Western Australia, written in honour of its upcoming Bicentenary in 2026. Ranging from pre-settlement, through the town's years as a whaling port, up to just before the Great Depression, experienced local authors Steffan Silcox and Douglas Sellick paint in miniature, as it were, and adhere strictly to verifiable fact to correct both sensationalist and agenda-driven histories. It would be wrong to call Albany Unravelled merely a local history. Just as each of us lives in a village made up of the inhabitants of our daily lives, regardless of where we live, all history is in the best sense local history. In particular the story of early Australian colonisation is by necessity intimate, because the decisions of a relatively small number of people had enormous influence on the nation we were to become. As one of the earliest and most isolated settlements in Australia, Albany's story is both representative and unique. The product of years of research and sifting of primary material, this book is likely to remain the definitive one-volume history of the region for many decades to come.

It's time to get to work-- on our knees.We need to be praying just as much as we need to be breathing-continually. But what if you don't know where to begin? After all - it's downright bold to address the God of the Universe, right?This study will help you learn from scripture how to:Take your place as the daughter of a God who's both close and colossal.Bare your soul while casting your cares on the best Burden-Bearer.Pray with kingdom purpose, prayers that join in bringing about God's will.In this study we'll learn to pray boldly with kingdom purpose, prayers that move our hearts, grow our faith, and shape our lives. Prayers that God uses to bring about His will. Because just like Hannah and Miriam, just like Deborah and Mary, we're praying to the God who sees us and knows us by name, the God who shakes heaven and earth to give us the impossible victory, the God who provides for our every desperate need.Friends, it's time to pray bold.

Half-Crown Bob is the longest work of fiction by Price Warung (1855-1911), one of colonial Australia's most popular writers. An affectionate character study of a "new chum" with a mysterious past who becomes universally beloved on the Victorian goldfields, Half-Crown Bob illustrates the pain of emigration in colonial times, the depths of filial loyalty and the redeeming nature of an upright character. From Monte Carlo to London to Ballarat, Bob's sacrificial destiny unfolds painfully and heroically. Published for the first time as a stand-alone work, this novella is a distilled shot of purity and tragedy worthy of Dickens, told in knock-about Australian style.

Jessie Clemons is out of cash and on the run, from his job, his neighbors, the cops and his life. The Neighbor is a Middle American odyssey in which truck stops and farmhouses stand in for the Aegean Islands and the neon signs of convenience stores are the sirens of dissipation. Told in a unique double-narrative form, with sardonic humour and grim realism, Caleb Caudell's debut novel is an unflinching look at the desolations and consolations of the hidden people of the heartland.

Price Warung (1855-1911) was one of colonial Australia's most popular fiction writers. This selection showcases the best of Warung's gruesome tales of Australia's penal settlement founding and sardonic yarns of early steamboat traffic on the Murray River, and includes The Secret Society of the Ring, a novella set on Norfolk Island, the darkest corner of the convict system. With a new introduction that sets Warung in the context of his time and place, this volume reintroduces his meticulously researched work to a new generation of readers.