The coastal town is not named, nor is 'the boy' about whom and by whom this story of 1950's and 1960's rural Australia is written. Much of the narrative revolves around fishing waters, fresh and salt in Victoria's Western District. More than that, it is a journey from birth to hormones-haywire, mid-teens of a lad blessed with good health and ......
It's the 1970s and Anne thought a fresh start in a northern town would be the adventure of a lifetime. But her husband Thomas has other plans. While he is busy with his career Anne struggles to adapt to a new culture a growing family and a marriage that seems to be unravelling in ways she doesn't understand. As the years pass Anne finds herself ......
The matter of these poems has been lifted from a long stretch of time. And from disparate experiences. Light moments. Dark moments. Random encounters, sharp observations startling reflections. And of course some fun and games moments of sheer silliness. Quite a rattle-bag. As Kate's collection shows you never know where words will take you.
This collection is a meditation on the garden that is my woodland sanctuary at the top of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Perched on the side of a ridge it is sheltered by tall silver-top eucalypts with their rough grey bark. Each year, the number of insects, birds reptiles and other animals declines, prey to loss of habitat and hard ......
A daring literary romp through a surreal landscape Copello's latest offering recasts the Biblical prophet Jeremiah in a dystopian world instantly familiar to the reader by its environmental degradation social inequality and political injustice. Just as the ancient Jeremiah inhabited turbulent times and came close to giving up so too does ......
In this beguiling collection of short stories Larry Boyd offers extraordinary insight into the human psyche and the many ways that we experience love and loss.
Deceptively simple at times each of the 16 vignettes reveals the intensity of the joy and sadness in the lives of ordinary people. Whether the young couple debating ......
In 'Harbour in Me' acclaimed poet Thérèse Corfiatis lays bare her hopes and dreams. So fine-tuned with nature are the peregrinations of these poems that they become an arboreal odyssey travelling the highways and byways of the author's island state of Tasmania. Juxtaposed against this sensory immersion is the painful truth that the world we long ......
In this beautifully constructed Russian doll of a novel, two Australian women leave their homeland in search of a room of their own in which to forge their art. Stella Bowen studies painting in London where she meets among other literati, wild Ezra Pound and the bearlike charming Ford Madox Ford with whom she lives in the countryside, has a child ......
