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Fiction

"I wait for the end of each day with longing. Tomorrow will be better."
Susan Varga, Headlong.

New Writing

"Irony, irony, irony. It hung over everything like exhaust over the freeway."
George Alexander, Slow Burn.

Biography and Autobiography

"Elizabeth Jolley was a normal child, if her first letter to Father Christmas was any indication, for she asked that her pillow case be filled to the top."
Brian Dibble, Doing Life.

Food and Wine

"If you love the ideas and embrace the philosophy of matching flavours you will be rewarded with enormous pleasure."
Kate Lamont, Wine and Food.

Current Affairs

"As in so many cities experiencing growth, the fundamental question for Perth now is: to sprawl or not to sprawl?"
Richard Weller, Boomtown 2050.

History

"While on the gallows with a noose around her neck, the hang man 'wound a strap' around her 'light print skirt' in order to avoid any improper displays as she fell through the trapdoor."
Simon Adams, The Unforgiving Rope.

Natural History

"As their common name suggests, the remarkable underground orchids spend their entire life cycle, including flowering, below the soil surface."
Andrew Brown, Pat Dundas, Kingsley Dixon and Stephen Hopper, Orchids of Western Australia.

Science

"The Universe expands faster and faster, carrying galaxies farther apart from one another as their last stars fade and die."
John and Mary Gribbin, From Here to Infinity.

Art and Photography

"They draw on the history and practise of photography in some way, perhaps as a unique way of looking at the urban landscape and its inhabitants, or as a way in which the photographer works to overcome technical challenges."
Philip Goldswain and William Taylor, An Everyday Transience