After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia the country of her birth at the request of her aging narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered haunting mysteries solved and ......
Living alone in the Blue Mountains baby-boomer Kate Ward is estranged from her adult son. Where did it all go wrong?
She decides to return to Salt Pan Creek the place of her childhood in post-war Sydney suburbia. It’s here that she must come to terms with a history that’s far greater than her own personal ......
1904: a time of stability and hope. In a little Methodist chapel in country NSW shy reserved Albert marries confident emotional Ethel. Both of them are twenty four. Four years later at the bride’s family home in Sydney shy reserved Eva marries handsome confident Victor seven years her junior. 1969: a time of change and unrest. One ......
Deceptively simple the poems in All You Need Is Love touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness pleasure and pain enlightenment and illusion love and loneliness. This anthology of tanka reflects the full spectrum of what it means to love whether it be a partner a child a family member friends places or one's pet.
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‘The haiku in Alone at the Window resonate with warmth wit and wisdom. The poet’s tender observations and clear imagery create an unfolding of meaning as the reader reflects on each poem. These moments of celebration are imbued with a sense of wonder and appreciation for life inviting us to share the richness to be found ......
Set in the turmoil of the apartheid years in South Africa a coloured woman faces the trials of racial discrimination as well as her own family trauma. Her employer a privileged white woman is challenged by the insurmountable difficulties of her marriage. Both are brought to breaking point as they struggle to find equilibrium in their ......
Sometimes dramatic sometimes delicate always to the point Tessa Bremner’s collection of short stories presents a very poignant view of the lives of her characters and their struggle to have their voices heard above the noise of cultural sensibilities. In her storytelling Bremner draws on a lifetime in theatre to make her characters ......
In this his seventh book of poetry written over a period of more than forty years Graeme Hetherington explores how his friendship with James McAuley has parallels with that of Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the ancient Mesopotamian epic. As in the original it is a warts and all treatment with human behaviour in relationship to loss and the ......
