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Stephen
Scourfield Publications
• Beautiful
Witness
This is Stephen Scourfield’s world: Delhi in the rain,
motorcycling in the Himalayas, attending a Turning of the Bones Ceremony, paddling in the Yukon, lotus weaving in Burma, hearing a lion’s roar in the Masai Mara, joining family meals in Italy.
Stephen Scourfield, author, travel editor and photographer, has
travelled extensively throughout the world and in Beautiful Witness he
blends the stories of his assignments as travel editor of The West Australian newspaper with a sense of the personal journey of his own life. He takes us across a dizzying number of terrains, describing cultural norms and ceremonies with the sharp eye of the novelist, always with curiosity and empathy. As a gifted photographer, he then gives glimpse of places, people and moments from the book on the enclosed disk.
The relationship of humans to landscape has become a central
writing theme for this winner of a UN Media Award. But while Beautiful Witness represents just the last few years of the author’s travels, he delves back through his life to finds deeper echoes in these stories.
The printed book is available worldwide, through the UWA Publishing online shop,
www.uwap.com.au. It is $A26.99, with free postage within Australia and a flat fee of $A10 for every country other than Australia. (International orders have Goods & Services Tax subtracted.) ISBN: 9781742585833
• As the River
Runs As The River Runs is a
powerful ode to one of Australia’s most stunning
regions, from an author who writes with red dust
in his veins. A secret plan is being
cooked up to bring water from the monsoonal north
of Australia to the south. But Government minister
Michael Mooney needs to find out what opposition
he might face around the river valley. He sends
Kate Kennedy, his young, career-minded Chief of
Staff, and political fixer Jack Cole on a ‘fact-finding’
trip. Ex-greenie Dylan Ward is
their guide. Respected by both the mining industry
and Aboriginal elder Vincent Yimi, Dylan is
unaware that he has been compromised until their
journey takes some unexpected turns. But as they
travel through the wild river country, Kate begins
to see Dylan and the world around her in a new
light. The printed book
is available worldwide, through the UWA Publishing
online shop, www.uwap.com.au.
It is $A26.99, with free postage within Australia
and a flat fee of $A10 for every country other
than Australia. (International orders have Goods
& Services Tax subtracted.) ISBN:
978-1-74258-4904
Download for
Kindle at www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks
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here to read an extract of As the River Runs
• Other Country
Other Country has been described as “raw,
forceful and intensely masculine”. The author
has been called “a wholly new, striking and
original voice in Australian fiction.”
Set in the mythic, remote country of the Top End,
Other Country tells the story of two young
brothers, The Ace and Wild Billy, and their
struggle to overcome the bitter legacy of their
brutal father. Bound by blood and memories and
trust, they are destined to clash - one bound by
the past, the other straining towards the future.
“And out of it all lead only two paths . . . to
end up mean and empty like the Old Man, or not.”
Written with an authentic grittiness and an
understated, dry humour, it is also an
unforgettable story of the 'the other country' of
the Top End, the implacable and unforgiving moods
of the landscape and the laconic and tough
characters who make this unforgiving country their
home.
This vivid, forceful, and invigorating novel
announces the arrival of a very new, very
different voice in Australian fiction.
The printed book is available worldwide, through
the UWA Publishing online shop, www.uwap.com.au.
It is $A22.99, with free postage within Australia
and a flat fee of $A10 for every country other
than Australia. (International orders have Goods
& Services Tax subtracted.) ISBN:
978-1-74258-5031
Download for
Kindle at www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks
Other Country is
published as an unabridged audio book, on CD and
cassette, as a commercial title by Louis Braille
Audio. See www.louisbrailleaudio.com
Reader
Notes
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Unaccountable Hours (UWAP) |
Unaccountable
Hours is a collection of three novellas that
follow the fortunes of a maker of musical
instruments, the ethical dilemma of a
biologist and birdwatcher, and the romantic
friendship between a young man and an aged
woman - all firmly set in and defined by the
surrounding landscape. In The Luthier,
musician Alton Freeman devotes his life to
crafting a violin that will reproduce the
perfect sound of Bach’s Partitas and
Sonatas, as played by his idol, musician
Monica Erica Grenbaum. Ethical Man follows
the biologist and birdwatcher Bartholomew
Milner, who lives stringently according to
his ‘Milner’s Ethic’, and is put to
the ultimate ethical test whilst on a
research expedition in the Australian
outback. Like Water, tells the story of an
unlikely friendship and subsequent romance
that develops between two kindred spirits,
Matthew and Beatrice - two soulmates born
generations apart.
The printed book is available worldwide,
through the UWA Publishing online shop, www.uwap.com.au.
It is $A32.95, with free postage within
Australia and a flat fee of $A10 for every
country other than Australia. (International
orders have Goods & Services Tax
subtracted.) ISBN: 978-1-74258-291-7
Download for Kindle for $A9.99 at www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks
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Kimberley Stories (Fremantle Press)
Anthology edited by Sandy Toussaint
Stephen Scourfield writes a day on the
Kimberley coast, from High Cliffy island and
Montgomery Reef to Jar Island through its
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Connected
In his new book, Connected, published by St
George Books, Scourfield brings together
stories from around the world, drawing
together fact and fiction.
From the Kimberley to India, from an English
country town to the southern African
mountain kingdom of Lesotho, there are
connections which run around the planet and
through Scourfield’s life.
In Connected, he them together in essays and
short stories.
Some are quirky and humorous, some intensely
personal, but all are tales not just of a
traveller but follow the themes that form
the basis of belief.
The book is $19.95, including postage and
handling in Australia, from St George Books.
Phone: Australia (08) 9482 3111;
international +61 8 9482 3111 (or email the
author). ISBN: 978-0-867778-291-2 |
• Travel
Etcetera: The World on Another Plane
From his most recent, travels, Stephen
Scourfield brings together some of his most
fascinating journeys and encounters in the
book Travel Etcetera. From the giant
tortoises of Mauritius to the carbon ledgers
of India and mai tais of Hawaii. From the
temples of Bangkok to the frigid history of
the Yukon. The book looks at the world in a
personal and often amused way. It is a
literary journey that interprets the very
nature of travel.
This book is $15 and now only available from
the author. Email stephenscourfield@westnet.com.au
• Western
Australia: An Untamed View
A photographic journey covering more than
half a million kilometres and almost 20
years. From remote deserts to the cradle of
life, from the oldest rocks on Earth to
beaches with no footsteps. Complete with
personal and informative text (see Writing
section). Published in November 2003, by St
George Books, Western Australia: An Untamed
View has been widely acclaimed.
This title is sold out and no reprint is
planned at present.
• The Lighthouse Keepers (spoken word CD)A
dramatic story which draws on the intriguing
history of homing pigeons used to bring back
messages from Australian lighthouses. At a
remote lighthouse perched on a rocky island,
two isolated families become embroiled in a
bitter dispute. But this intense human story
only unfolds in the controlled quietness of
a birdkeeper’s loft, as carrier pigeons
return with messages from Long Rock. The
Lighthouse Keepers tells the story of the
homing pigeons which carried messages back
from remote Australian lighthouses. And it
portrays human weaknesses that can have the
most devastating results.
This CD is $15 and now only available from
the author. Email stephenscourfield@westnet.com.au
• Are We Nearly There Yet?
A collection of essays, Are We Nearly There
Yet? (1999/2000), sold out in five weeks. It
was approved by the English Teachers
Association and listed by the WA Education
Department for use as a curriculum text in
high schools. It received strong reviews and
has also been adopted at University level
for course use and as a library reference.
It is the first of a planned trilogy of
travel essay books by Stephen Scourfield.
This book is $15 and now only available from
the author. Email stephenscourfield@westnet.com.au
• Facing West
Stephen Scourfield’s text for a book which
features the Australian images of Magnum and
National Geographic photographer Steve
McCurry, from New York. (PCB, 2000)
• Being Australian
A coffee table style book containing a
personal, anecdotal text account of Western
Australian life, with colour photography.
(Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998).
• North of Capricorn
A spectacular journey through the remote
north of Western Australia, sold 10,000
copies. (WAN, 1995).
• Out Boating
A guide to Western Australia’s waterways.
(St George Books, 1989)
• Display prints of Stephen Scourfield's
landscape photographs are also available by
contacting stephenscourfield@westnet.com.au
• Other publications
He has also been involved in collating,
editing and producing a number of other
books:
• Picture by Rod Taylor. With introductory
essay and short stories by Stephen
Scourfield. (2008)
• Australian Seeds: A Guide to their
Collection, Identification and Biology.
(CSIRO Publishing, 2006)
• 20 Years of Alston, 1985 – 2005. The
work of cartoonist Dean Alston, with an
introduction, and edited by, Stephen
Scourfield. (WAN, 2005)
• Western Australia in the 20th Century.
(WAN, 2000)
• Kings Park: Soul of a City. (WAN,
1996)
• Eat with the Eagles, for which he wrote
the text. (WAN Publishing, 1994)
• Annual Western Australian wine guides,
various years.
• WA Restaurant Guide. |
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