Spinifex Press imprint: 90 books

by Patricia Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

The Abbotsford Convent becomes more than the setting of this poetry collection; it emerges as presence, intimate and familiar as well as constraining and forbidding. But, it is childhood itself that becomes the subterranean geography and pulse of this compilation as the poems explore what it means...
by Laurene Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001

Julie’s youthful concerns are swept aside by a tragedy that splits her family. She and her brother Toby must begin a new life in Sydney, a city that is sometimes exciting, often overwhelming, and always different to the home she knew. This is the sequel to acclaimed I Started Crying Monday.
by Lara Fergus
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

The story of twin sisters who escape from an unknown, war-torn country, this novel follows an obsessive-compulsive cartographer trapped in the mapping of her own house and a painter turned code-breaker trying to find the lover she lost in the war. While the cartographer is obsessed with keeping the...
by Pat Rosier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005

This thoughtful follow up to Poppy's Progress explores issues of family relationships, especially grief and loss. Middle-aged Poppy Sinclair is content enough with her life and her comfortable relationships with her friends, family, and cat. She is thrown into turmoil, however, when she must move...
by Beryl Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

In 1920, deep in the New Zealand bush, a settlement of Christian fundamentalists lives a life of austerity and isolation. It is an existence that leaves little room for compassion, particularly for the women, who are viewed with suspicioun on account of “Eve’s original sin.” The elders lord...
by Jean Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000

The C-Word is an honest and forthright account of cancer. It deals with the loneliness the partner of a sufferer faces, the gruelling treatments of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and the terror and calm of facing death. A story of a powerful lesbian partnership, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of community.

Fear of Food

A Diary of Mothering

by Carol Bacchi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004

Incorporating diary entries and reflections, this personal account of one mother's struggles during the first 12 months of her son's life to get him to eat openly confronts the social challenges mothers encounter, including insensitive doctors, the marketing of maternity in the media, postpartum depression,...

RU486

Misconceptions, Myths and Morals

by Renate Klein, Lynette Dumble, Janice Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

A classic text for health activists and feminists interested in the complexities of how drugs are developed, marketed, and sold to women around the world, this book reviews the unusual history of the French abortion pill RU-486. Critical of the positive claims made for RU-486, it argues that its...
by Rose Zwi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002

With a delicate but ironic touch leavened with gentle humor, the awardwinning author of Another Year in Africa, Safe Houses, and Last Walk in Naryshkin Park presents characters ranging from a political activist under house arrest to the child of immigrant parents caught between two cultures.
by Finola Moorhead
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

A work of feminist, lesbian fiction, this experimental novel explores the lives of 26 women—each named for a letter of the alphabet—during the 1980s. Following the five women whose names begin with vowels more closely, this account places Iona, the taxi-driving narrator, front and center. Written...

Defiant Birth

Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics

by Melinda Tankard Reist
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2006

Daring women—those who were told not to have their babies due to perceived disabilities in themselves or their unborn children—tell their stories in this controversial book that looks critically at medical eugenics as a contemporary form of social engineering. Believing that all life is valuable...

Bibliodiversity

A Manifesto for Independent Publishing

by Susan Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

In a globalised world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, about sameness, about following a formula based on the latest megasuccess. Each book is expected to pay for itself and all the externalities of publishing such as offices and CEO salaries. It means that books which take off slowly but...
by Patricia Easteal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994

Powerful and moving stories from survivors of sexual assault.
by Sandy Jeffs
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

but I am madnessand madness is meit holds you captivelike a hapless bunnycaught in the headlights.In this moving collection of poems, award-winning writer Sandy Jeffs shares her journey through madness over four decades, drawing inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and the motley...
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