Blue Moon Bay

Blue Moon BayThe deceptively calm waters of Blue Moon Bay host a gallery of flamboyantly grotesque characters. Their winding and poignant journeys always teeter on the edge of absurdity while remaining strangely moving, testament to the enormous affection with which they are drawn. There is the sexy but troubled Solange, Pope the footy coach and founder of a new religion, and Noddy Mason, taxi driver extraordinaire who is made of wood. Chief amongst the characters

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Daughters of the Dreaming (first published in 1983) is an outstanding study of Aboriginal women's lives

This title features many mouth-watering chicken-and-egg recipes

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Twenty years later Kirsten

Friday's irritatingly high IQ has her fast-tracked to graduation

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the Top End

As Stanner writes in his introduction to the 1963 collection

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