'Avril Smith brings a lifetime of keen observation to the stories in A Fragment of Time her second collection. The protagonists are often flawed beings struggling to make sense of the predicaments in which they find themselves; Cedric Percival who prefers green jelly and Belgian beer to oysters and football can barely cope with ......
'With sharp satire and fierce feminism Pamela Burton’s years of legal practice are put to devastating use in this interrogation of a murder mystery and the rollicking incompetence of ASIO super sleuths. The stench of rot from Operation Fishnet and its web of corrupt and greedy men with an eye to illegal immigration and boatloads of ......
In …a figment of your imagination, my dear, Elizabeth shares her remarkable story of family silences and distortion of her sense of self with raw honesty, courage, and humour.
What protection do females have from the social culture moulding the humans they develop into? The fourteen sharply perceptive tales in A Feminine Perspective celebrate the quiet courage within each woman's heart.
'A Christmas Posy is a wonderful collection of haiku. A longing for Christmas is in these pages. We all have our own Christmas memories; the only difference is that it is summer and a kookaburra is laughing as in the song we sang in distant days. However there may be another aspect to Christmas. Another Christmas story would be in the ......
Susan Fitzgerald has told stories to herself from childhood and has written since she was a teenager. She has had her work published in Under the Rainbow a collection of work by U3A writers and in Tamba. Now there’s this book which offers tales of the mischief of boys as they grow into men and of women who have moved ......
Daniel Neumann was born in England in 1951 of German-born parents and has lived most of his life in Australia in Canberra and then in Melbourne where he works as a psychologist and as a musician. His poems respond to landscapes texts paintings music and conversations real or imaginary. They inhabit spaces from Australia to ancient ......
"A Call to Listen is an oasis for those of us who take too little time to stop and refresh our senses. It is a journey through landscapes both familiar and new the beauty and the terror of the places we call home the histories we are living now and remember still. It bridges distance and carries us beyond our shores to examine ......
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 ......
