'I first met Jill Nevile when she was a regular contributor to the monthly meetings of the Gosford Bush Poets but it was not until I read the collected verses in A Scent of Frangipani that Jill's true skill as a writer became evident. The way she has captured her obvious love of the garden the beautiful area of ......
‘With this her first published collection of poetry Jill Nevile demonstrates that contemporary verse need not be oblique or obscure. She writes with an intriguing and refreshing candour on topics as diverse as her life in Britain her flirtations with Greece and her love affair with Australia. Writing in both free and traditional verse ......
A Season and a Time has poems that are snapshots and poems that read like short stories. They scan Ireland's green fields and Australia's ochre earth. Inspiration comes from a snowdrop a telephone call a broken musical instrument a night spent in sub-zero temperatures in the Snowy Mountains. The subject matter ranges from activities that ......
These stories show how your fate is twisted by choices you make. In one tale a woman realises how carefully she ignored signs of her lovers deceit and the pages of ......
“This is distilled cartography of a woman’s life. From a child’s-eye view of drought and hardship in the outback to the pains and love of motherhood Broughton turns her lens of brevity and poignancy on a rich life. With meticulous observation (‘a mopoke echoes its own hollow song’) wry humour (‘my mother is ......
A Sparrow Splashing is a journey into the heart of the Buddha’s teachings. This book of stories and poetry looks at the life of the author through the eyes of three characters: a child named Little Pebble a young man called the Seeker and the Teacher a Buddhist Monk. The reader is invited to reflect and meditate upon the ......
Warning: do not buy this book if all you want is a boring travel guide. Buy it only if you are interested in personal reflections and observations mostly sane but some completely insane history and the odd poem for good measure put together in 2022 in the post Covid lockdown era when I travelled from Port Albert to the tip of Cape York and ......
A Turn of Events is a collection of fourteen short stories that will take you into the world of Indian migrants to Australia. Each story explores a different aspect of Indian culture in Australia and the characters expose the social cultural financial and psychological issues that this diaspora is often confronted with. These ......
The story of Veronica Knight, the first victim in the Truro murders in South Australia
A police commander a parole officer a matron a court artist and a mounted police officer - the author found all of these key players from the seventies when she investigated the story of Veronica Knight the first victim of the serial killers in the infamous Truro murders in South Australia. Forty years after the discovery of the remains in ......
