A collection of stories emanating from the experience of growing up living and working in Australia’s third metropolis. ‘Denying the Faith’ and ‘This Clown’ record the fearful impressions of a childhood spent in Irish Catholic suburbia reflected upon later in life when the fear has subsided but the guilt remains. ......
I hope readers will enjoy this collection from my own dreaming. Poems are collections of words assembled to express personal passions and as such may well reveal more than they conceal.
Peter Strawhan was born at the ‘Old Queen Vic’ Maternity Hospital Rosewater in 1932. A bleak wartime childhood in a working-class western ......
The characters in this collection are often dislocated outsiders looking for something more from their experience – some finding it some learning from it some losing it. The stories are blackly humorous twisting the reader towards an offbeat kind of compassion that lives in the heart for days.
In his first collection of verse poet James Milenkovic offers a fresh vision of the Australian landscape and its people both ancient and modern. Under his pen the land assumes a dreamy ambiguous and almost enigmatic quality that sometimes thwarts and sometimes amazes its human inhabitants. Readers will take much pleasure in the situations ......
Set in times ranging from the mediaeval to present day and in places as far apart as Australia Europe and North America these eighteen short stories reveal life in its bewildering sometimes funny and at times achingly sad moments. All is witnessed through the eyes of diverse often flawed characters: a professional cyclist who must ......
Adrian Flavell lives and writes in the Adelaide Hills South Australia. He has written scripts for children’s television and environmental education material for the Keep Australia Beautiful Council. His series of three children’s books Dans Days originally published by McGraw-Hill is currently published by Clean Slate ......
The second colourful varied and often hard-hitting collection of new poems from the South Australian author of Palace of Dreams.
Peter Strawhan was born at the ‘Old Queen Vic’ Maternity Hospital Rosewater in 1932. A bleak wartime childhood in a working-class western suburb followed. He endured a five-year ......
When the Campbell family move to the country eleven-year-old Jane spends all her spare time watching the horses in the paddock next door. Realising they need to do something about her obsession her parents sign her up for riding lessons. When they see that Jane has a flair for riding her parents decide she should have a horse of her own ......
Set in urban contemporary Sydney My Year With Sammy is the complex and poetic story of a memorable child. ‘Parenting and grand-parenting are joumeys without a compass. In My Year with Sammy Libby Sommer gives us a raw heart-rending insightful and intimate story of one family immersed in the messiness of living ......
