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Polyester Boy: Paul Elliott

Interview by Andrew Garton

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Melbourne’s Polyester Books, on Brunswick St, is a phenomenon, not least for its hardy resilience in the face of narrow-minded attacks from authorities and certain sectors of the community alike. Now it faces a new threat – the extinction of the artistic culture it grew up in. Andrew Garton spoke with the […]

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The Football Factory: Kicking Lumps Out of England’s Green & Pleasant Land

THE FOOTBALL FACTORY
Jonathan Cape
ISBN 0-224-04302-1
The Football Factory, John King’s début novel, charts the lives of a group of football hooligans in present-day London, England. It has been re-issued to coincide with the release of England Away, King’s most recent book and the third part of his loose trilogy (Headhunters was the second). Although The Football […]

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Giant Shade: Cardigan Press

interview by Tasmin Waby

Image by Daniel New
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Cardigan Press is a small press operating out of Melbourne. Founded in 2001, Cardigan aims to promote experiments in short-story writing as an antidote to mainstream publishing constraints. The collective made big waves with the release of their first anthology, Machines Will Not Give Change, in 2002, and have […]

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