'Journal entries poems fragments meditations. Allusions to and critical engagement with philosophers and writers - Chinese European and Australian - this is what makes Ouyang Yu's Thought is Free a thinker's work not a "thoughter's" who only has thoughts. Delightfully readable!' - Professor Prem Poddar Vice-Chancellor of ......
'This important memoir about growing up brings tears laughter and goosebumps - sometimes all at the same time. It is utterly compelling. Johanson is a natural storyteller. With unique turns of phrase and a delicious sense of humour his human generosity and wisdom guide the reader through a most unusual set of life circumstances. Intelligent ......
'Absorbing empathetic and cerebral all at once. Using ordinary language and often extraordinary turns of phrase Williams manages to peel back the complex layers of our everyday lives with remarkable grace and clarity.' - Judy Johnson
'Jane Williams has the rare ability to make our ordinary days feel not just vividly real but also cared ......
A Gradual Grace is Christina's third memoir. In the first This Place You Know she tells the story of her childhood on an outback sheep station told in her mother's voice and her own voice and published by Ginninderra Press in 2019. The second A Practice of Loss tells the story of the breakdown of her marriage and ......
With Called to Coddiwomple Colleen Moyne draws the reader into a fascinating personal journey. This memoir-poetry book is not a tour guide of country South Australia but a deep insight into the writer as she "comes of age" and begins her nomadic travels in her beloved campervan and to paraphrase Colleen's own words to write from ......
Tess has lived in many cities until the hills and the sea called...this is where you belong. Her poems reflect the people she has met the places she has lived in and the memories of her wanderings. These poems are rich in their colour and movement capturing moments in a mix of form and knowledge. Published in many national and various ......
The bulk of this collection is devoted to the achievements of two pioneers Joshua Slocum and Percy Fawcett. Captain Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone - between 1892 and 1895 in a converted oyster fishing boat on his return chronicling his experiences in the book Sailing Alone Around the World. Colonel Fawcett was an ......
'The deepest pools of reflection come from loss and grief. Andrew Drake is among the sweetest gentlest and most patient of human beings but his life has been fraught by sorrows and recriminations. These he turns into a lifeline of loveliness love letters to the past. That pain is a poet's best friend seems unfair. And yet it is in the ......
It's 1974. Joanna's and Peter's dream is to turn a remote neglected property on the wild west coast of Tasmania into a thriving cattle enterprise. Having grown up as a sheltered only child Joanna had leaped out of the nest at twenty seeking adventure. While Papua New Guinea South America and Europe offered easy adventure she gets more than ......
