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Two books on line today

2/11/2013

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Big day for me - two books listed on line.

Turn Left at the Devil Tree is on line at your favourite on line bookseller (or soon will be). Order now at $5.99. Paperback version available in December. In November they're listed as pre-orders - this gives them a chance to be launched with a number of sales and therefore 'noticed'. I really appreciate everyone who does a pre-order as it moves the books on even more.


Both books will be available from Lightning Source in December.

TURN LEFT AT THE DEVIL TREE 
by Derek Pugh with a foreword by Ted Egan

In the remote Top End outstations of Arnhem Land, Derek Pugh, teacher, naturalist and bushman, founded several schools and joined a lifestyle as old as time. 

By turns reflective, tragic and hilarious, Turn Left at the Devil Tree is the story of a visiting teacher in remote Aboriginal Australia. Accompanied by a ‘rough-tough hunting dog’ named Turkey, Derek Pugh founded several outstation schools in the most isolated parts of Arnhem Land.

Spending many years among the people and wildlife of the Top End of the Northern Territory, Derek Pugh reveled in the lifestyle and freedom of the bush and gained an insight into a traditional culture which has been witnessed by only a few outsiders. Told with respect and candor Turn Left at the Devil Tree is Pugh’s ‘slice of history’



TAMMY DAMULKURRA
by Derek Pugh and the Sunshine Girls


Dreaming stories, discos, and difficult love, the classic Australian story of 15 year old Tammy from ten young Maningrida girls and their teacher. 


Fifteen year old Tammy Damulkurra lives in Maningrida - a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. Tammy has friends and likes the disco and thinks at last she has her first boyfriend but he cheats on her and she gets into a fight with her arch enemy, Sharon. Tammy's parents send her to the outstations for several weeks to cool off and she quickly gets used to the bush and fishing and hunting with relatives. When she returns to Maningrida her love life is a mess and it's not until she leaves again for school that she realizes that it's all going to be okay.

Now a classic Australian story originally released in 1995 this second edition celebrates two decades of literacy education in remote communities in Australia.

“a landmark in Australian literature” Maurice Rioli, MLA, 1995

“a story that will strike chords with many teenagers,” with a “naive quality and adolescent voice (which) makes it instantly accessible” B Richardson 
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