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“Double-Humped Mount Direction, Tasmania” watercolour by Emily Grant Australia’s best-selling literary novelist, Christopher Koch (1932-2013), was a writer of the old school. If he was a musician we would call… Read…

SLEEP CAPRICORN by Jack Norman was launched on Saturday, December 6th at The Lord Newry Hotel, Fitzroy North. Our original plan was a picnic in the park but the malevolence… Read…

Cover image: “Scratching Up The Sky” by Ryan W Daffurn Dear Friends, It’s been awhile since we sent out a Bonfire newsletter. Much has happened and continues to happen but… Read…

Today marks the publication of Clarence Caddell’s second collection BROKEN WORDS. Clarence stands firmly outside the mainstream of Australian poetry, both due to his style and subject matter. Deeply committed… Read…

She’d read a little Donne: Something about a Flea, bout the Sunne Rising… It happened I held Baudelaire In a translation that seemed pretty fair. She’d never heard of him.… Read…

“metaphorical richness rarely matched by other contemporary poets”-Judith Beveridge Join us tomorrow (April 26th) for the Sydney launch of Paul Scully’s The Literate Detective & Other Crimes at independent bookstore… Read…

Welcome to a brief and happy edition of the newsletter of Bonfire Books, Fanning the Flames. It’s been a somewhat quiet summer at Bonfire HQ. However, today our first book… Read…

“metaphorical richness rarely matched by other contemporary poets”-Judith Beveridge Bonfire Books is pleased to announce that the Sydney launch of Paul Scully’s The Literate Detective & Other Crimes will be… Read…

We are overjoyed to announce that The Literate Detective & Other Crimes is now available at the special pre-order price of $19.99 (plus shipping within Australia). The book will ship… Read…