Wakefield Press

21/11/2024

Join us at the IAF’s November Literary Dinner next Tuesday night, featuring guest speaker David Sly and a special performance by Chris Finnen.

For 70 years, Chris Finnen has grooved to the music in his mind - and magically transposed it to the guitar, wowing audiences. Now, he is revered as one of Australia’s most beloved guitarists.

As told to David Sly in Finnenisms: Chris Finnen riffs on his 70 years of music, his lively story covers five decades of touring and is sprinkled with Chris’s own brand of wit.

To book your ticket, click the link in our bio and head to ‘Events’.

20/11/2024

Hot off the press!

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The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History (new edition)
eds Wilfrid Prest, Sandra Kearney, Kerrie Round, Bearnard O'Neil

More info here: https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product/the-wakefield-companion-to-south-australian-history-new-edition/
The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History is a one-volume guide to events, institutions, people, places, themes and topics of significance in the history of South Australia. It provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of historical background information, presented in readily accessible language and format. While paying attention to distinctive, innovatory and unusual elements in South Australian history, the Companion also underlines the contribution made by South Australians to the broader national culture, polity and society.

The first edition of The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, released in 2001, was a landmark publication, the first such work of reference for any Australian state or territory.

This new edition features more than 90 newly commissioned biographical memoirs and nearly 300 updated entries, besides some 40 additional thematic articles. This is a lively, wide-ranging work, presenting the latest findings and perspectives of 356 expert contributors.

Paperback $70.00 PDF ebook $50.00 Epub ebook $50.00

19/11/2024

A Wakefield Press diaspora (plus stick-at-home Michael Bollen): superstars Margot Lloyd, Jo Case, Emily Hart. At the launching of Splinter lit journal, published by Writers SA and edited by Farrin Foster.

17/11/2024

Don't delay: our Yuletide Sale ends soon! -

30% off all books online ends at midnight tonight!

16/11/2024

If you’re local to the 5031 area, trying to keep cool, but not bored, pop on down to our lovely little bookstore here at 16 Rose Street, Mile End!

Just for you we have our Yuletide 30% off ALL titles sale happening online AND here in shoppe at Wakefield Press HQ.

For those coming in store, we have extra specials for you with our prices as marked tables.

Sure, it’s a bit warm, but who wants to miss this?!

Open today in store until 4PM.

See ya soon ✨

15/11/2024

Click the pic for the latest Wakefield Weekly!

A roundup of the past week at Wakefield Press, including events, blog updates, news and reviews.

13/11/2024

SALE ON NOW 📚🎉

13/11/2024

Our Yuletide Sale is on now! -

Take 30% off all books online and in store!

12/11/2024

What makes good poetry, and who gets to decide?

Vanessa Kisuule, host of The Poetry Detective program on BBC Radio 4, asks these questions and more in a fascinating deep-dive into Australia's Ern Malley Affair.

Vanessa speaks with Stephen Orr, whose absorbing SINCERELY, ETHEL MALLEY takes a novel spin on the whole affair, and Samela Harris, Angry Penguins magazine editor Max Harris's daughter, about the players, the poems, and the aftermath of the hoax.

Vanessa Kisuule explores the incredible story of one of Australia's most celebrated poets

11/11/2024

Click the pic for the latest Wakefield Weekly! NB: 30% off sale this week via our website (wakefieldpress.com.au) and in our little shop (16 Rose Street, Mile End 5031) 👀📙📬🙂

A roundup of the past week at Wakefield Press, including events, blog updates, news and reviews.

04/11/2024

Wakefield Press presents a very special event -

Jon Faine in conversation with Robert Cox

01/11/2024

Gilberton

01/11/2024

Congratulations to Robert Cox on his second title Breakout! Pictured is Robert and launcher Tasmanian Aboriginal Elder Jim Everett at the for the official launch last night.

Two killers. A tainted trial. A bungled ex*****on.

The killers were Pevay and Timme. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian countryside.

As Tasmanian Aborigines, they had many reasons to be angry.

When teenagers they’d been jailed for being black. They’d taken unwilling part in the ethnic cleansing of Tasmania. Forcedly interned in a bleak offshore gulag, they’d watched helplessly as friends and family died of disease and despair. Then they were exiled to Victoria where colonists victimised them. It was the last straw. They stole guns and seized their freedom.

Their breakout was vengeful and violent. Farms were raided, settlers shot. Despite firefights and ambushes, they evaded pursuers for weeks before being captured in a blaze of gunfire. Their murder trial was a farce. Public officials lied under oath. The judge was biased and inept. The verdict was a foregone conclusion.

Now, for the first time, their tragic story is told in full. From their perilous boyhood during Tasmania’s Black War to their botched hanging in a crowded Melbourne street.

Both Robert¹s titles Breakout! and Broken Spear are available in store and online.

15/10/2024

Thanks to Whispering Gums for this thoughtful review of Stephen Orr's Shining Like the Sun!

'What makes [Shining Like the Sun] special is the quality of the descriptive writing, the knowing characterisation, the authentic dialogue, and the serious but warm tone leavened by natural humour that comes from ordinary people going about their business.'

A question that confronts many young people as they reach adulthood – in western cultures at least – is, should I go or should I stay? This is particularly so for young people in small …

15/10/2024

Adelaide author Heather Taylor-Johnson tells the story of her mother’s turbulent upbringing in a surprising new work of autofiction.