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non fiction

•NEW! - Jones Classic Australian Car Guide
Sure, there’s the mortgage, the kids, dental work that needs doing and somewhere to put those aged relatives – no shortage of options for disposable income, but owning an Australian collectable car before you die is the new must do thing
the question is…which one?
over 650 models...
over 200 manufacturers...
this book is the ultimate Australian classic car guide
 
$17.95
 
Also available from:
 
Beven Young
www.bevenyoung.com.au
 
 The Pitstop Bookshop
www.pitstop.net.au
 
International orders
www.lulu.com/content/2280989

Trash Can, tales of low life losers & rock & roll sleaze by Bob Short.
"I'm going to take you on a journey not into science but into my own fetid prose. The story is as real as you want it to be. Nothing has been changed to protect the innocent because all the ninja movies I've seen have taught me that everyone is guilty. It's a dirty job but someone has got to do it.
"Don't try this at home.
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King Street Blues, by Denis Fitzpatrick, $12.95.
When When I arrived in Newtown I had absolutely no idea about how to go about finding a squat (they are advertised but in underground shops).
'JUST LOOK,' said a voice, which seemed sensible enough
So, again, I headed away from relative safety, inveigling myself in the back alleys, sniffing the urban air for musty scents and looking for telltale signs of abandonment.

•Collected Thoughts of our Time, Volume one
Insight, wisdom, thoughts – a selection of writers', philosophers' and thinkers' minds are collected in one intellectually psycho-shattering volume.
$12.95.

•Cape York Expedition, 1848
As told by W.M. Carron.
In 1848 14 men set off on an expedition that would ultimately end in tragedy, $9.50.

•Dig This
the best of pop culture
late 90s cult fanzine, limited number of issues available $4.00ea

•Bizarrism
fanzine, for the discerning reader who seeks knowledge and entertainment issues 6 & 7 $5.00ea.

•Cookin' with the Hillbillies.
30 Great recipes straight off the farm, $6.50.

•Leon Fish's Food Guide to Good Lovin'.
Limited edition, $12.50.

•Heinous Number Five.
The classic Evel Knievel fanzine from Seattle. Last issue, $6.50.

Ringo Ray's Guide to Cinematic Lunacy. [ see pic ]
The sleazy, the cheezy and the downright trashy, $8.50.

Tales in Australian Aviation. [ see pic ]
Real-life Australian aviation stories, $12.50.
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Tales of the Cinematic Experience. [ see pic ]
Real-life cinematic stories from film-makers and film-watchers, $12.50

This book combines the experiences of people who make films and people who watch films. From guerilla to B-grade to Hollywood. It's all here - the good, bad and ugly.
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life-style

•NEW! - The Daddies Split Guide, by Ian Purdie, 12.95.
This guide is hard hitting, sometimes bellow the belt but always true to form. Purdie tells it like it is, he pulls no punches in what gets ugly, tackles the bad and ends up all good.
"...this book is like a Henry Miller of divorce, righteous & true..."
Gas Wylde.

•Tales of the Lovin' Experience.
Holly Delasandro brings to together people's experiences of the lovin' process, $12.50.

Analysing the Smiths. [ see pic ]
A session by session analysis of a marriage entering the apocalypse, by Morris T Speed, $12.50.
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How Not to Marry an Idiot. [ see pic ]
A woman's guide to finding the perfect husband, by Holly Delasandro, $12.50.
Marriage for many women is what they want. So it makes sense to think it through.

Mr Mum and Loving It: Staying home with the kids - a man's survival guide.
by Damian Kringas, $12.50.
"If you want to hang with the mummies, you have to walk like an Egyptian."
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fiction

Going Home by Timothy John GrothGoing Home, by Timothy John Groth, $19.95
Tim Groth’s latest sci-fi novel.
 
"…Engaging... Laced with dark humour and wit… Delivers an uncompromising vision of a future world grown both cruel and cold…"
-Gerhard Mozsi.

Death Run 24-70, by Jack T Elliot, $11.50.
"This skater tale is so rad it's all I can do not to bust my bearings reading it in one go."
Diggs "flip-trick" Slone. [ Read a sample... ]  

Fairy Twisted Tales, $12.95.
...while ol' tales and their messages remain timeless the interpretation is well-up for renovation.
And that's what we have here.
The best writers taking a hammer to the oldest tales – with or without fairies and leaving them – twisted.
Well and truly.

The Causeway Fables Vol. 11,
By Gas Wylde
Working class mystery man, Dixie Dreggs, is back in full cry with a collection of tales from the great beyond. $12.95

Stella Mylo,
By Hilton Freebourne
Cold day- Stella and I are sitting on this bench.
"I'll get you a jumper", she says.
"Hug would be nicer."
"I don't do hugs."
Yeah right. Stella Mylo doesn't do hugs.
$12.50

Hit 'em High
A classic tale from the cult gay western writer Dallas T. Steaghourn.
It ain't easy huntin' outlaws for a livin'. It takes a certain kind of man. A man like Tex Chancy. $12.50

•Lonesome Outlaw
A classic tale from the cult gay western writer, Dallas T. Steaghourn.
The life of an outlaw can be lonely. For one man, it was the only life he knew. $12.50.
Watch out for Dallas T's next great title, Hit 'em High.
Also available as an audio book, $7:50 (CD format).

•The Noise Maker
by Timothy John Groth, $12.50
"Sci-fi can often be unbelievable, but The Noise Maker is extremely believable in its unbelievability. An epic in miniature. A classic."
–Skive Magazine

•Canteen Bitch-slap
by Damian Kringas, $12.50
Running a school canteen is never an easy job. For a man dealing with his mid-life crisis it's a matter of life and death.

•Bearing all Gods and Goddesses
by Denis Fitzpatrick
A collection of short stories from Sydney's hippest writer.
$12.50.

•Zeppelin 59
by Leon Fish
Leon Fish once more adds his unique writing style to an epic tale of guts, courage and mateship, $12.50.

•Compiled Fitzpatrick
a collection of short stories from the hippest of off-beat writers, Denis Fitzpatrick, $9.50.

•Reprint 2008! - Jake with a Snarly Smile on his Chops.
by Matthew Ward.
A fast-paced tale of love, lust, infidelity & hard-drinking Australians. $16.95 print / $5.00 Ebook.
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Her, leaving, as the Acid hits. [ see pic ]
A story in the form of a free-verse novel in four movements & two tenuously linked appendices by Benito Di Fonzo, $14.95.

•Leon The Fish.
A novel in episodes, Zaresky Press, by Damian Kringas, $16.50.
"Proust meets Zippy the Pinhead in a nudie bar."
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•Orpheus Emerged.
A lost classic by Jack Kerouac, ibooks, h/cover, $14.50.
"Rebellion, self-destructive behaviour, alcoholism - all the Kerouac hallmarks are in evidence..."
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•The Causeway Fables Volume 3.
A collection of short stories by Gas Wylde.
"...in a poetically woven tapestry of word-smithing - this book of Wylde"s gets my go-go going." $12.50.
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•Bloodspit.
A tale of blood, mirrors and scary little sisters.

The novella of the Trash Drive In, Hendrix/ Fish film. $14.95.

 

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Deploy All Seamen by Leon Fishtrash fiction $12.50 each

To Kill A Poet. [ see pic ]
Jack Bennet is a hip dude living in a crazy world filled with killers, druggies, poets and big drinking call girls. And they're just his friends.

•Yes Sir, I can Boogie.
James Spatular is a man of many talents. And in the world of international espionage he's never short of work.

•Pleasure World.
Turning forty is never pretty. When you're a washed-up private investigator, it's even uglier.

•Gomez Au Go-Go.
Felix Bolt is a guerilla film-maker who's never been to film school. And yet, he's going to make a feature film.

Deploy All Seamen.
Put twenty Ukrainian librarians on a worn-out submarine chasing illegal fishing boats - all hell breaks loose. Add a hard drinking Captain and it starts to get interesting.

•Black Cat Bastard.
Captain Bunsen returns to the sea in this, Leon Fish's latest trash novella.

 

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poetry

 

Peninsula: Selected Poems
by Trevor Hewett (UK)

In print ($12.95 incl. postage)+ ebook ($3.00).
"Most of the poems reflect the magic of nature, but together the images build a detailed picture with nuances. There is also the powerful, indifferent, cruel side of the natural world, but Hewett finds the life-sustaining aspect even of this..." (–Clark Gormley)

Sub-Urban Poems
Lynda Hawryluk
"I would crawl across a river of broken glass, sell my liver, or hock a lung for one phoneme of Lyndarama's stuff" –Benito Di Fonzo.
$12.95.

Wordjammin'
"Spoken, sung, slurred and slung, Wordjammin' is the word and the word is good – syntactically elastic and phonetically fecund." - Tug Dumbly.
Book and CD, $16.95.

Cut me a line of Poetry
a very limited collectors edition of the works of Benito Di Fonzo, $10.00.

First Breath
poems on pregnancy, birth and motherhood
edited by Vee Malner, $16.95.

•Mad Dogs in the Junkyard
poetry by Mathew Flood. $12.50.

    ...I wandered for miles alone
    through the tombyards full of bones
    through lonely distant towns
    full of despots tears and clowns
    and the rain crumbling down
    grumbling tumbling humbling fumbling down
    from the fierce black midnight sky into the streets
    below...

 

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