This is the story of Guy Winship told in his own words. Growing up in South Africa during the apartheid years Guy joined the struggle for equality and democracy while throwing himself into improving conditions in poor communities. His work in microfinance and livelihood development in South Africa and Uganda provided the foundation for Good ......
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 ......
Spanning five stages of life A Journey to Glory features stories from childhood up to middle age. The book is full of love and awe for the beauty of the landscape and at times aware of its ability to destroy. All the characters are aware that they are a part of nature and that she tends to intrude if you dare ignore her. One ......
‘To listen to South Australian poet Airlie Jane Kirkham’s latest collection is to listen to a musical mind at work. I greatly admire the way in which her poems evoke such delight in the life forces of nature despite the restrictions of her own reality. Her description of the simple beauty of the natural world and the permutations ......
John Avery was aged twenty-four with a wife and young child when he was arrested for stealing a grey mare his death sentence commuted to life transportation. After twenty years in Van Diemen's Land he was charged with sheep stealing and sentenced to fourteen years on Sarah Island. From a small Hampshire village in ......
A Life Deserves Nine Cats is a collection of poems and drawings of cats by Sue Schindler and Ron Heard. Tough and tender. Vivid and well observed. Never sentimental. A book for cat lovers and for readers of poetry.
'If you have ever known or loved or mourned a cat these poems and portraits will insinuate themselves into your ......
A Life in Writing charts the evolution of Michael Byrne as an award-winning poet in the Australian Capital Territory. It explores through vignettes his early life the awakening of his desire to become a poet his time as the new kid on the block and his arrival as a mature poet. Along the way examples of his ......
‘This is a comprehensive range of everyday close to the bone poems by Doug Gregory with sensitivity to other people's difficult lives. They are insightful and compelling. His poetry is universal; it is out there commenting most effectively on life's foibles as well as its delights. It is tender sometimes on recollection ......
