Unlawful Killing and Surrender in the Australian War Experience 1915-1918
One of the rarely discussed aspects of the experience of soldiers in the First World War was the refusal to take prisoners during battle and in some cases the killing of prisoners in the front line. No Quarter investigates the degree to which Australian soldiers were participants in this practice both as victims and perpetrators. Despite being ......
Tales from Port Vic & other stories is a collection of imaginative stories with a twist at the end. In the first section are stories from the author's childhood in Port Victoria stories based on fact but with a vivid imaginative component included. The second section contains family stories from Margaret's own wider family and those of a couple ......
On a sunny October morning in 1999 three friends set off to find the source of their local creek the Merri. Starting where the Merri joins the Yarra River they followed the watercourse through city suburbs outer industrial wastelands farmscapes and the foothills of the Great Divide. Temples goddesses medieval churches sacred birds ......
Something is killing the sheep on Epsom Downs. With her father sprawled on the sofa in an alcoholic haze Lizzie Epsom and her siblings set out in the family ute armed with guns and spotlight to save the farm. However it is not the expected wild dogs that they find on the edge of Magnetic Hill but a creature far more threatening. Soon Lizzie ......
Although the small town of Tillers Gap may seem out of the way it is one reward for those who venture off the beaten track along the western foothills of the Blue Mountains. A visit to this secluded gem is well worthwhile. The Beladgery River still runs clear and clean beside an area of abandoned mines and waterholes called Deep Pools. However ......
Everyone has a story. It would be foolish indeed to make comparisons for there is always someone better or worse off than oneself. However there is a comforting and healing sense of kinship with others who have had similar experiences. Even death that which we call the last act of our play does not end a story. Everyone who has existed no ......
During a two-day respite in World War I in France destiny entangles the lives of three young men: Patrick who is Anglo-Irish and Harry an Australian accidentally meet Karl an enemy soldier. Karl is seriously injured and the two allies are forced to measure their humanity against their military training. Should they comfort the German? ......
A bird-loving man: haiku and tanka collects haiku tanka haibun tanka prose and sequences from a variety of locations and experiences. Rodney Williams' poems have a thoughtful musicality and romance a sense of humour and sadness to which many people will relate. The poems are carefully crafted honest and unsentimental working well on many ......
'In this dusty rear-view mirror: 55 poems is a travelogue of the soul - anchored by a unifying voice that is authentic reassuring yet searching. In its scope it draws from a youth spent in the rolling hills (and sometimes dark valleys) of South Gippsland in Victoria to journeys in middle age through California and the vast deserts of the ......
