Set in urban contemporary Sydney My Year With Sammy is the complex and poetic story of a memorable child. ‘Parenting and grand-parenting are joumeys without a compass. In My Year with Sammy Libby Sommer gives us a raw heart-rending insightful and intimate story of one family immersed in the messiness of living ......
‘With this her first published collection of poetry Jill Nevile demonstrates that contemporary verse need not be oblique or obscure. She writes with an intriguing and refreshing candour on topics as diverse as her life in Britain her flirtations with Greece and her love affair with Australia. Writing in both free and traditional verse ......
Shards of Ice is about Antarctica the death of a beloved husband and grief. Written in fragments Shards of Ice interweaves experiences of the author’s trips to Antarctica – the first was soon after her husband died – and stories of the early explorers in the form of snapshots rather than linear ......
‘Another delightful collection of poems from John Egan. What graphic pictures he draws – one has a sense of actually being there. He is able to lead the reader into realms of imagination where the poem itself materialises into reality. I am always delighted with the Australian flavours that John can so easily summon up. He seems ......
Kathleen Miriam Bleakley was born before breakfast. She was delivered by her Grandad – Dr John Martin – in a room awash with Moroccan light. The first sentence she uttered was more sish singers. Her fish-like love of swimming can be traced to lighthouse keeper ancestry. When Kathleen moved to Wollongong she navigated her way around ......
A collection of short stories by Peter Strawhan who was born at the ‘Old Queen Vic’ Maternity Hospital Rosewater in 1932. A bleak wartime childhood in a working-class western suburb followed. He endured a five-year apprenticeship as a motor mechanic later spending almost twenty-five years as an insurance assessor. A midlife ......
Welcome to Live Poets @ Don Bank (née Live Poets’ Society) at 25. Concentrating on the years 2005 to 2015 this book is as much about the venue and how it operates as it is about the poems or the poets. We hope you enjoy the secrets within…
'In this story it’s possible to make a beginning and end; it should be understood though the lines are arbitrary…' So says Gunnar Abt at the Alexanderplatz police headquarters after the murder of a young communist in 1934. His response raises one of history’s big questions: how do we make sense of the actions of ......
The Complete and Utter Truth About the World and Everything In It is a collection of dark-humoured short stories sometimes whimsical sometimes passionate about a variety of relationships set in different times and cultures. The stories tell of things going wrong in the pursuit of pleasure a child’s understanding of suicide ......
