'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 ......
'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 ......
Craig Cormick’s award-winning collection of short stories pokes a sharp satirical stick into the eye of the age of terror through stories that refuse to conform to the political rhetoric and media sensationalism of our times. His humour and the aim of his pen are deadly!
In A Garden Full of Weeds a lifetime's observations and experiences are captured by Jean McArthur - poet nurse artist traveller. Poignant moments are described with a visual artist's eye and balanced with the compassion of one in the caring professions. With an intrinsic connection to the natural world and a fascination for people McArthur ......
These short poems celebrate the enigmatic sometimes comical often disappointing and always exquisite movement between dark and light in every human encounter.
Maggie Slattery received awards from the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Rhonda Jancovich Society for poems in this collection. She grew up in the suburban fringe of ......
These poems are explorations and celebrations of a wide variety of subjects and themes across a broad spectrum of time and place. Topics range from history to science local to global youth to age personal to universal. The diversity of form reflects the poet's intense interest in experimenting with his craft. The poet aims to combine ......
In this second collection of poetry by Adrienne Cosgrave author of I Have Secrets readers are taken on a journey through the human psyche: from joy to despair and the darkness within.
As the title suggests A Gloomorous Book Inverse is a seriously funny book and should not be left in the possession of unsupervised children. There’s a considerable risk that without the usual parental responsibility to spoil the fun children will not put it down and neglect their choirs and homework. Just as importantly parents ......
From the cobbled streets of Macclesfield Cheshire to the golden sandy beaches of the New South Wales south coast this memoir charts the life of Annie Gidman. Born into humble circumstances during the First World War the story traces the hardship of Annie's childhood the love she bore for her sisters and her difficult marriage to my father. ......
