Born with an acquired brain injury, Davey Kanatopsky grew up in a loving Melbourne family before being placed at 16 with the Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God. There, he suffered severe abuse. Exposed by the Royal Commission, the Order’s failures revealed systemic injustice.
When a body is found in the mangroves of Queens Bay, Councillor Maggie Ashburn must act fast to stop her partner Mark being charged with murder. Battling threats at home and Sydney’s criminal underbelly, Maggie teams up—uneasily—with rival detective Keith Corvallis to uncover smugglers, corruption, and the truth that could save Mark.
Dog follows an Israeli officer returning from service who spirals into heroin addiction under the weight of PTSD. Among Tel Aviv’s marginalised drug community, an unexpected bond with a stray dog offers fragile hope. The novel explores trauma and physical and moral injury, revealing how redemption can emerge from unlikely connections.
Spanning Nazi Germany and postwar America, this novel tells a gripping story of survival and reckoning. In 1938, young Sarah Frank escapes a deadly SS officer and finds refuge in a traveling circus, discovering courage amid rising terror. In 1957 New York, a shocking discovery inside a zoo lion sparks an investigation that uncovers Sarah’s buried ......
Set in neon-lit inner Brisbane, In Dreams follows neurologist Garrick Willis as his violent premonitions blur with reality, leading to a murder he foresees—but can’t prevent.
Golden Days is Brenda Eldridge’s tender poetry collection chronicling her husband’s battle with cancer and his choice of Voluntary Assisted Dying, celebrating love, compassion, and courage in the face of loss.
In Flights of the Mind Lorraine James brings to life everyday experiences and common memories, with stories straddling the twentieth century up to the present. Seen through the daily struggles of individuals and families, the self-satisfaction of the wealthy, the hopes of the downtrodden, joys of beachside holidays, and, as a bonus, ......
In language at once robust and delicate, surgical and knockabout, Isle Full of Noises pries open the cracks of life in search of its guts: the blandishments of sex, art, alcohol; excitement, disappointment; the noises of wisdom as its drags itself up to the surface. From squib to disquisition, ekphrasis to historical recreation, the collection ......
Mona Hayes is anything but traditional. Diamonds, furs and murder: the many crimes of Mona Hayes is a historical fiction inspired by the life and crimes of little-known 1930s thief Mona Hayes who takes whatever she wants - particularly diamonds, watches and furs.
