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Independent publisher based in Australia

Borderstream Books

INDEPENDENT Publisher BASED IN AUSTRALIA. Imprint: BORDERSTREAM BOOKS

THE FIRST Arts Features International ANTHOLOGY 'Escape Artists' was released in 2018.

Borderstream Books

  • Statement by Ruth Skilbeck author & founder of Borderstream Books on New National Cultural Policy
  • Libraries and bookshops book orders
  • Books
  • Anthology. Journal. Books
  • About Borderstream Books
  • The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited
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The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited by Ruth Skilbeck. Paperback. 218 pages. Published 28 August 2025. “Skilbeck’s haunting coming-of-age novel" - Kirkus Reviews.
$32.99
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The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited by Ruth Skilbeck. Hardcover. 218 pages. Published 10 Sept 2025. "Skilbeck's haunting coming-of-age novel" - Kirkus Reviews
$47.99
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The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited by Ruth Skilbeck. Ebook-pdf. 220 pages. Published August 31, 2025. "Skilbeck's haunting coming-of-age novel" - Kirkus Reviews
$14.99
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Sayonara Baby by Ruth Skilbeck. New edition. Hardcover. 244 pages. 2024
$42.99
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Sayonara Baby by Ruth Skilbeck. "A sensitive and convincing account of Australian youth culture" –Kirkus Reviews. New edition. Paperback. 244 pages. 2023
$32.99
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The Antipode Room by Ruth Skilbeck. Hardcover. New illustrated edition, 14 colour images. 258 pages. Published 2024
$55.00
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The Antipode Room by Ruth Skilbeck. "[Her] prose is as measured as poetry"– Kirkus Reviews. Paperback. New illustrated edition, 14 colour images. 258 pages. Published 2023
$34.99
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The Antipode Room by Ruth Skilbeck. New illustrated edition, 14 colour images by the author. Ebook-pdf. 258 pages. Published 2023.
$21.99
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The Writer's Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity by Dr Ruth Skilbeck. [Musico-literary PhD thesis and book]. Ebook-pdf. vii, 436 pages. Published 2020
$26.00

"Arts Features International has provided me and colleagues with a superb platform for reaching a receptive community. Its spectrum of interests is comprehensive and inclusive and its welcome to contributors is warm and empathetic. I look forward very much to contributing further to Arts Features International and sharing in its well-deserved, growing success”. —Jeremy Gluck, author, artist, and musician, based in Wales, UK.

Arts Features International journal-anthology editions are published in paperback and hardcover; and in ebook-pdf editions (exclusively sold by Borderstream Books), which can be bought and downloaded from this website.

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited: An Australian Fugue Novel by Ruth Skilbeck was published on 28 August 2025 in Australia in paperback. It is also now out in hardcover, published on 10 September 2025.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of Djilang in the Wadawurrung Country, the land on which we live and work, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.

Borderstream Books. PO Box 124, Newcomb, Victoria 3219, Australia. Website copyright © Ruth Skilbeck/Borderstream Books 2026. Named reviewers hold the copyright to their work on this site. This site and its contents are human authored, created by humans, mainly Dr Ruth Skilbeck, through creativity, imagination, reflection, analysis, critique, self expression, enterprise, expertise, experimentation, philosophical inquiry, and determined work, all virtually unpaid, and many many all nighters, all without the use of “generative artificial intelligence” which she will never use. (Although her peer-reviewed journal work has been stolen by AI harvesters without any consultation with her, without her permission, to train generative AI large language models for whom? Those who have engineered the theft of her essay and maybe more of her works are most likely ‘tech billionaires’ or aiming to be, the people who apparently do not care about authors, their work, their souls, and their rights). To that, she says No. Enough. All rights reserved.