Bella was only seventeen when her mother Elie died. Jack and Katie were even younger. Each dealt with the loss in different ways: Bella became the surrogate mother the responsible one; Katie the arty rebellious eternal wild child; and Jack never settled changing jobs and girlfriends looking for the next adventure. When Bella discovers ......
This collection evokes situations confronting ordinary people in their ordinary lives. The author creates images of loss love hatred and warmth of particular characters in particular places as far apart as Scotland and Australia. Against a background haunted by Destiny people are led or pushed by emotions into a stream of experiences. In ......
In this collection of poetry the author explores the many facets of what it means to live life through the lens of schizophrenia. And yet it is more than that. Black humour irreverent mayhem and cheerful tragedy all vie for the right to co-exist within unreality’s dark prism. Where Words Go When They Die sways from surreal ......
Where to Go For a Seven-year Cycle is a philosophical often off the main tourist beat travel book based on the author Lyn Drummond’s seven years’ travel experiences working mainly in central and eastern Europe. The book’s title is based on a Jung philosophy that seven years of our lives represent a particular cycle ......
Where the Hell is Heaven? is another collection of dark-humoured short stories sometimes whimsical sometimes passionate about a variety of relationships set in different times and cultures. The stories tell of someone having it in for you in a foreign country violence in the education system navigation under difficult ......
The Story of Barcroft Boake, Bush Poet of The Monaro
Barcroft Boake’s star blazed briefly and brightly as an Australian bush poet for little more than a year before he took his own life by hanging himself by his stockwhip in 1892 on the shore of Sydney Harbour. Barcroft’s life was touched by romance adventure and finally tragedy. In Where the Dead Men Lie his story is ......
‘One feels accompanied by the poet in these pages; through gardens along country roads and city streets along windswept coastlines and out on the water. You will encounter many invitations to pause to share an observation of something tiny close-up or to admire some distant expanse. We also ponder occasional memories and wonderings ......
'Never read a verse novel? Here's a beauty. The world Helen Swain creates rings true from the very first page as she explores the complexities of a carer's life with brevity honesty and wry wit. Helen brilliantly evokes the tensions between an ageing mother and a daughter who wants to care for her When the time comes. This book is an act of ......
A collection of intriguing stories reflecting the author's view that life is a wonderful exciting sometimes dangerous and often totally boring trip. Rex Jacobs strives to write as honestly and openly as possible but he will never get drawn into discussing the source of inspiration for any particular tale. They are all true in some way he says.
