'In this story it’s possible to make a beginning and end; it should be understood though the lines are arbitrary…' So says Gunnar Abt at the Alexanderplatz police headquarters after the murder of a young communist in 1934. His response raises one of history’s big questions: how do we make sense of the actions of ......
The Complete and Utter Truth About the World and Everything In It is a 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 things going wrong in the pursuit of pleasure a child’s understanding of suicide ......
Is this the direction of Australian education today?
‘The measure of how well a school suits your child and consequently how successful it is in educating your child does not come from looking up an unreliable and highly variable ranking on the internet. It comes from observing your child being engaged in the school environment and building up a good relationship with your child’s ......
The Sun Behind the Sun covers a great diversity of subjects moods and scenes with four distinct threads interweaving their way through the collection. Journeys the nature of time the four seasons and that question with so many possible answers: what is real and what is illusory? As for the collection’s title read the last ......
In this diverse collection of poems Ron Barton explores the various aspects of his world that make him who he is. Regardless of the seriousness of tone which is often tongue-in-cheek each poem contains some element of his life – whether it be a reaction to childhood and fatherhood or a reflection of his love of teaching and football. ......
Fran Graham is a Tasmanian poet now living in WA. She completed a Bachelor of Arts from Griffith University in 2009 and spent much of 2010 volunteering with the Activ Foundation providing recreation and travel programs for adults with an intellectual disability. She has raised four children taught English in China sung at weddings and ......
Canberra residents have little reason to know Charles Daley’s name or be aware of the details of his life in Victoria as a teacher botanist writer and historian. But they might be more familiar with the name of his eldest son Charles Studdy (C.S.) Daley whose close connection with the story of Canberra for over fifty years is the ......
This is a story about growing up in a small racist town in the Eastern Cape South Africa during the Apartheid years. The author is the oldest son of the town’s mayor a publican. He grew up between the hotel where he was exposed at an early age to much of the town’s less salubrious goings on and a harsh boarding school ......
Being bullied for the colour of her skin is the least of fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown’s problems. Velvet was born with a terrifying second sight. She ‘sees’ the crazies the psychopaths those monsters sliding among us hidden behind normal-looking faces. There’s a double murder in her small-minded town and Velvet ......
