Joanna van Kool obtained a Masters in Creative Writing from Sydney University and has been writing in various forms for many years. Inspired by John Sinclair the man who fought to save Fraser Island from sand mining this coming-of-age novel is set in the 1970s and is about the clash between those who wish to exploit the island's mineral ......
Winner of the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel It's the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan's intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone hunting with some of the locals, leaving her in a huff. That same weekend, a teenage girl goes missing, and Hal returns with a flimsy ......
On the surface of a mine, overburden is the excess landscape-soil, stone, roots-excavated and pushed aside to get to the valuable material below. But what accumulates when we displace and disrupt? Inside the language of extraction, what can we undercover in that overlooked excess? Jolene Brink's Overburden excavates these questions. Across four ......
This debut collection takes readers to small-town Ohio, New York City, and beyond, presenting the unique voices of troubled characters-Polish and Ukrainian, young and old, rich and poor-as they face life-altering challenges and struggle with their faith in religion, family, society, and themselves. A Polish immigrant catches his son making ......
Three light-hearted heists:
The Coat Hanger: Mug and his crew are hired to steal a coat hanger from a dry cleaner. It’s a matter of life and death.
The Argument: Mug makes a bet over why two people are arguing. Will Mug finally make a bet he can win?
The Second Safe: One job, two safes. One contains money, but what’s in the second safe?
In the 1990s Julia Honeychurch moves to Canberra with her new husband Brian to take up a position at a school for troubled children. When the marriage sours Julia learns that in Canberra it’s difficult to keep secrets. She’s fallen in love with Kate Selby a university lecturer and consultant at Julia’s school. Kate and ......
The title, A Bright Soothing Noise, refers to the sound that fire makes, promising not only warmth and light but also violence and destruction. Brown's greatest hero is Frank O'Connor, and like O'Connor's his stories uncover the final bleakness of a national life but in the same moment glow with its promise of love and life and belonging. Brown's ......
Return to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very rural Mississippi at a time "when the poorest among us in the Deep South still took our water from holes in the ground and high school was considered ......
Donald C. Jackson's newest book of outdoor essays, Restless Winds: Memoirs of an Outdoorsman, takes the reader on a journey from America's Deep South out into the world. Jackson's essays explore landscapes, waters, and cultures that have defined Jackson's career and life. Hunting and fishing stories from his Mississippi farm blend with stories ......
