All posts tagged "Wakefield Press"
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Bee-stung Lips, by Nic Brown, Jacqueline Milner and Elspeth Pitt
NON-FICTION: Bee-stung Lips reproduces more than 100 of Barbara Hanrahan's works on paper, while new essays by Nic Brown, Jacqueline Millner and Elspeth Pitt delve into the artist's themes, motivations and motifs.
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1.8KFilm & TVLocal Film-makers Wayne Groom and Carolyn Bilsborow Chat about their New Film
Film-makers Wayne Groom and Dr Carolyn Bilsborow chat about their latest film The World at Her Feet, about renowned performer Marjorie Lawrence.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ, by Catherine Bishop
BIOGRAPHY: Annie Lock believed Aboriginal lives mattered, with controversial results. This biography dives into massacres, stolen generations and the thorny problem of Aboriginal missions.
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950Books & LiteratureBook Review: Road Tripping with Pearl Nash, by Poppy Nwosu
YA: The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friendship with a whirlwind end-of-year road trip that is definitely, absolutely, most positively going to solve all her problems.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Trouble is my Business, by Lisa Walker
YA: Lisa Walker's second Olivia Grace novel is another rip-roaring excursion into madcap sunshine noir, with nods to Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes, and a flavour of Veronica Mars meets Elmore Leonard.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Vernacular Visions, by Noris Ioannou
ART: A folklife history of Australia: art, diversity, storytelling.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Sunburnt Veils, by Sara Haghdoosti
YOUNG ADULT: Girl meets boy, ghosts his text messages, then convinces him to help her run for the student union. Just your typical love story with a hijabi twist.
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2.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Maddening, Self-Indulgent Crap, by Peter Goers
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: South Australian broadcaster, columnist, theatre guru and critic Peter Goers has been known and loved for his sardonic wit and laconic flair for decades. This collection gathers the best of his Fringe shows, columns and a modicum of memoir.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: New South Australian Architecture by Peter Barnes, Lance Campbell & John Nowland
NON-FICTION: A beautiful celebration of key architecture in South Australia.
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2.9KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Landscapes of South Australia, by Alex Frayne
PHOTOGRAPHY: Alex Frayne has travelled the length and breadth of South Australia to capture the wonder of our big, beautiful, timeless, and daunting back yard.
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2.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Port Adelaide to Shanghai: Taking Australia’s Game to the World, by Andrew Hunter
NON-FICTION: They said it couldn't be done. Port Adelaide's rivals called it a 'sideshow'. Yet within five years, Port Adelaide had attracted major sponsors from China, played three in-season AFL matches in Shanghai, and featured in a series of significant moments in the Australia-China relationship. This is the inside story.
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2.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Pictorial History of Australia’s Little Cornwall, by Philip Payton
HISTORY: A widely researched book depicting the human face of the history of Australia's Little Cornwall as it was and as it still is today.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureDebut Adelaide Author Nets Five-Figure US Publishing Deal
The debut young adult novel from Adelaide author Poppy Nwosu has just been sold to Walker Books in the USA for a five-figure sum.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Images of the Interior, by Philip Jones
The work of seven amateur photographers who documented the land and the people of early Central Australia.
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1.8KAdelaide FestivalAdelaide’s Wakefield Press launches new dedicated YA list
Adelaide's own Wakefield Press, which turns 30 in 2019, is launching a dedicated new list for YA books.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Behind the Wall, by Mary Geyer
A fascinating history of the penniless women whose only option was life in Adelaide’s Destitute Asylum.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureWakefield Press 2018 Spring Book Sale
The annual Wakefield Press Spring Book Sale is on again this coming weekend featuring two days of massive discounts, children's books, and the launch of an exciting new book that breaks the myths around South Australian history.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Master of Stillness, by Barry Pearce
The works of South Australian artist Jeffrey Smart, showcasing how his art evolved and developed, and documenting his life story, from how he was inspired by the South Australian landscapes, to his travels in Italy.
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2.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Anzac Biscuits, by Allison Reynolds
A fascinating culinary history of one of Australia’s iconic foods, taking us around Australia, New Zealand and England, through recipe books, family treasures, letters to and from soldiers in WWI, photographs and anecdotes to discover the origins of our iconic Anzac biscuit.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: In the Land of the Magic Pudding, edited by Barbara Santich
A wonderful collection of poetry and prose from books, letters and journals along with magazine and newspaper articles on the history of Australian food, cooking, dining and etiquette.
