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24/12/2024

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl0dY5gYutw

Annie's "Universal Child" at TNT's "Christmas in Washington" - December 2010

23/12/2024

Easy free parking for last-minute beautiful book gifts. Here at Wakefield Press, 16 Rose Street, Mile End (Adelaide). Open today and the 24th.

21/12/2024

Click the pic for the latest Wakefield Weekly!

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

20/12/2024

Just a reminder that we will be closing for the break on Wednesday 25 December and reopening on Monday 6 January.

We’ll still be open for any last minute gift shopping on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24.

Thank you for supporting Wakefield Press this year! We’ll see you in 2025.

19/12/2024

HOT OFF THE PRESS: Dante’s Inferno

By Enrico Mercuri and David Blaiklock.

This translation of Dante’s masterpiece offers a meticulously crafted rendition of the original Tuscan vernacular. It adeptly balances fidelity to the linguistic structure, rich allegorical content and poetic qualities of the original text. By harnessing the extensive vocabulary of the English language, the translation skilfully employs alliteration and both internal and external rhyme.

Readers are promised an intensely intimate experience, thanks to the translator’s unwavering dedication to his bilingual education and literary expertise. This stylistic approach ensures the preservation of the harmonious musicality and spirit of Dante’s original work.

17/12/2024

Artist Dale Chihuly has always been captivated by colour and light. Glass became his medium of choice ‘as it transmits light in a special way’. And then he took glass in directions many thought impossible.

As Chihuly’s work scaled up and made its way outside, botanical settings became a favoured location. Chihuly has installed his monumental sculptures in public gardens since 2001, but this is the first time he has brought one of his stunning garden exhibitions to
Australia.

Sprawling over 50 hectares, Adelaide Botanic Garden has provided an oasis of green and tranquillity in the heart of our city for over 180 years. Hosted over seven months, Chihuly in the Botanic Garden entices audiences to glimpse our Garden through a new lens to watch how these glass sculptures transform with shifting light and as the foliage changes with the seasons.

This catalogue captures Chihuly’s 24 installations located throughout the Garden’s grounds, glasshouses and lakes in glorious colour. A series of articles explore what enticed this phenomenal artist to Adelaide, his impact on our thriving local glass scene, and how Nature has shaped Chihuly’s practice and led him down a garden path.

Chihuly is available in store now at $29.95

11/12/2024

Wakefield Press 2024 Showcase -

Proudly presenting our 2024 Showcase, a collection of all of the beautiful books we published this year

08/12/2024

Lovely story on master musician Chris Finnen, and his biography with David Sly, “Finnenisms”

26/11/2024

Puddin overseeing events at Monday's drinks for contributors to the Wakefield Companion to South Australian History. Here in the lane by our shop, at 16 Rose Street, Mile End (Adelaide). Thanks for photos, Noris Ioannou!

25/11/2024

Good Reading Magazine's Best Books of 2024 list has just been revealed, as voted by Good Reading reviewers.

We are delighted to see Stephen Orr's 'masterful' SHINING LIKE THE SUN included on the best general fiction list.

In a five-star review for Good Reading, Bob Moore wrote that SHINING LIKE THE SUN is 'a wonderful book, dealing with intergenerational friction, nostalgia, loss, love and endurance.'

Click the link below to see the list in full. Read Bob's thoughtful review here: https://bit.ly/4hXV2js

11 recommended books set in a single dayA lot can happen in 24 hours. Opportunities arise, decisions are made and unexpected events can change the future. Here are 11 recommended books that are set in a single day. See the list

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!