New from PARADOX POETRY And trees are trees By Eden Liddelow Distributed by Acland Press ISBN 780958 557634, pb, April 2008, 66 pp List price $23.95 Special price $19.95 Order   ‘When a man has studied little and knows nothing, mountains are mountains, rivers rivers, and trees trees. When he has studied more and knows something, mountains are no longer mountains, rivers rivers, or trees trees. But when he has completed his study and knows all, mountains are once again mountains, rivers rivers, and trees are trees.’ Zen proverb ...read more
	BACK INTO PRINT! Thule By Marjorie J. Law ISBN 0 17 005 186 2, hb, 242 pp List price $39.95 Special price $25.95 Order   It is 1944 and Melbourne is in the grip of rationing and war fever. Steve has just lost her job and her brother Van is ill; they decide to make a sentimental journey to a country township remembered from before the war...read more
	Biography/history The First Fagin: the true story of Ikey Solomon By Judith Sackville O’Donnell ISBN 09585576 2 4, pb, 192 pp. Illustrated. List price $A27.50 Special price $A25.00 Order   'I read The First Fagin with enormous pleasure' - noted British actor Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral)  touring in his one-man show The Mystery of Charles Dickens. 'A prototype untwisted..With verve in the telling and research lightly worn, she fashions..a complicated vesrion of Solomons's life that challenges preconceptions' - Professor Peter Pierce, Sydney Morning Herald. Was he defamed by literature? Dickens and Bryce Courtenay were pretty rough on Ikey Solomon, most probably the model for Fagin in Oliver Twist. Historical research shows he was a family man transported to Hobart Town in 1827 for love...read more
	NON-FICTION How to Live Together a new way of dealing with racism and violence by Charles Rojzman, with Sophie Pillods ISBN 0 9585576 1 6, 213pp List Price: $A29.95  Special Price $A25.00 Order   Rojzman’s approach combines an analysis of the racism in all of us with practical steps to reduce gang activity in dangerous neighbourhoods...read more
	NON-FICTION Sweet Horizons by Ian MacNeill ISBN 09585883 1 7, 233pp, List Price $A27.50 Special Price $A25.00 Order   Sweet Horizons is a history of the Solomon Islands, beginning with the human settlement of the region...read more
	FICTION The Quarantine Station by Eden Liddelow  ISBN 0 9585576 0 8, 213pp, List Price $A25.95 Special Price $A19.95 Order   Roger Cave is sent out to Australia in 1918 and is detained at Point Nepean Quarantine Station on account of the global epidemic of the Spanish 'flu....read more