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  • The Year of the Fruit Cake

    or Aliens with Irony

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Humankind is in danger. The Year of the Fruitcake tells of the Earth-based life of a mostly-mindwiped alien anthropologist inhabiting a human perimenopausal body instead of her own more rational body with its capacity to change gender. This alien has definitely shaken a great intergalactic empire by sitting in cafés with her new best friends. Chocolate may or may not have played a part. Will ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Langue[dot]doc 1305

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Professor Luke Mann is the leader of a team heading back to the Languedoc, year 1305. Their goal? To study the environment, refine delta T and, in Luke's words, "to change the universe". With him is Artemisia Wormwood: a Medieval historian who needs the money to save the life of her dying sister.But time travel is untested, and dangerous. Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert, a village in Languedoc, is a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enchanted Australia Collection

    The Complete Series

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Series series Enchanted Australia
    All three books in Gillian Polack's 'Enchanted Australia' series of contemporary fantasy novels, now in one volume!The Time Of The Ghosts: Ghosts trail after us. They are our fears and the shape of our hates. Poltergeists and the spirits of drowned girls; malicious presences and portents; cat vampires and roaming bushrangers. These ghosts haunt Canberra, and it takes four women, one cup of tea at ... Read more

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  • The Wizardry of Jewish Women

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Series Book 2 - Enchanted Australia
    Pink tutus, magic, sarcasm, amulets and bushfires: this is suburban fantasy in Australia.Life is never quite what it seems, even without the lost family heritage delivered to Judith and Belinda. Judith wants an ordinary life... mostly. If Belinda weren't Judith's sister, and if it wasn't for bushfires and bigots, Belinda's life would be perfectly ordinary. Judith will tell you so; you don't even ... Read more

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  • The Time of the Ghosts

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Series Book 1 - Enchanted Australia
    Ghosts trail after us. They are our fears and the shape of our hates. We bring them into our lives and into our homes.Poltergeists and the spirits of drowned girls; malicious presences and portents; cat vampires and roaming bushrangers. These ghosts haunt Canberra - these ghosts can kill.Lil is elegant and troubled. Ann has just retired and is about to divorce: she sees vistas of nothingness in ... Read more

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  • Mountains of the Mind

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Mountains of the Mind – A Polack Retrospective contains never before published early work from Dr Polack, prizewinning published pieces and brand new short stories written especially for this book. It will surprise and delight fans of her previous novels and non fiction publications, and introduce new readers to the complexities and subtleties of Dr Polack's short stories. Traversing the mountains ... Read more

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  • History and Fiction

    Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or ReviewFiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores the nature of the author’s relationship with history and fiction – often using writers’ own words – as well as the role history plays ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Art of Effective Dreaming

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Series Book 3 - Enchanted Australia
    Fay invented a world of fantasy where she could dwell in happiness. Her friends in this perfect world were Belle and Persa, Enlai and Flor. She visited them on the edge of sleep, shaping their lives to suit herself."I dream better than other people. More efficiently and effectively," she explained to herself. Her dreams were a flicker away from reality.After Gilbert turns up in her refuge, ... Read more

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  • Ms Cellophane

    by Gillian Polack ...
    "Life was standing still, waiting for Liz to fall into its trap."Elizabeth Smith, recently made redundant, thinks that her life is deadly dull. She feels like cellophane – like people look right through her, like she's not even there. A simple redecoration job involving a mirror turns her life upside down.Through ominous horror and an unexpected romance Liz learns to become a whole person – ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Story Matrices

    by Gillian Polack ...
    The culture we live in shapes us. We also shape the culture we live in. Stories we tell play critical roles in this shaping.The heart of cultural transmission is how stories and the way we shape knowledge come together and make a novel work. How do they combine within the novel? Genre writing plays a critical role in demonstrating how this transmission functions.Science fiction and fantasy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Poison & Light

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Renowned artist Grania, famed as a painter of light, arrives in a sleek space ship from Lost Earth, ready to embrace New Ceres and its New Enlightenment in its entirety - its 18th century set up, its coffee houses, its gossipy salons, and its obsession with a low-level approach to tech . . . But is she really ready for its cutthroat society, its strange food issues or for Livia? Livia who toys ... Read more

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  • Borderlanders

    by Gillian Polack ...
    Some keys open doors to strange worlds...Melissa has a happy marriage but her everyday life is a constant battle against pain. She discovers that her artwork can produce magic, prompting her to apply for an artist's retreat to a mysterious country house. Her old schoolfriends Bettina and Zelda are also at the same retreat. But neither the house nor their friendship is what they think. A mystical ... Read more

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