Chat kato neko kitska meo kedi cat... No matter where in the world cats have settled they are cherished by those who adopt them. How amazing it is to have this wild little furry beast tamed clean-living inside your home and obviously enjoying your company (and food). In Furry Tales Jude Aquilina shares her poetic musings on moggies. ......
Migration has played a large part in Australia's history and culture since 1788 and in this collection Adrian Rogers reflects on the migrant experience evoking the northern hemisphere through his knowledge of Ireland and setting it against the reality of modern Australia thereby highlighting both the differences and similarities between the two ......
In A Garden Full of Weeds a lifetime's observations and experiences are captured by Jean McArthur - poet nurse artist traveller. Poignant moments are described with a visual artist's eye and balanced with the compassion of one in the caring professions. With an intrinsic connection to the natural world and a fascination for people McArthur ......
Claire Laishley wasn't particularly concerned when she found a lump in her breast. She'd had two others removed over the years both benign and at the time the doctor had intimated there would probably be more. But this time things would be different. The Diary of Delores D'Lump covers the twelve-month period from the day breast cancer was ......
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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Dawn Colsey has always loved words and language and graduated BA with Honours in French from Adelaide University. She was a teacher of English and French and student of Latin and Italian over a long teaching career. She taught for twenty years at Walford Anglican School for Girls until an increasing interest in theology led her to achieve BTh at ......
One route to wealth during the 1850s and '60s gold rushes was uncovering a nugget or glittering seam. A much more certain alternative was owning inns on roads to the goldfields. Irish Gold tells the story of two enterprising Irish settlers Jeremiah Lehane and Miles Murphy who adopted the second course and with their families led action-packed ......
Antonia Hildebrand author of The Nine Eleven Handbook explores how the neo-liberal worldview was created and for what social political and economic purposes it came into being. Going back to the Great Depression of the thirties Hildebrand describes an agenda devoted to the creation of an elite which is now so insulated by its power that it is ......
Many of us have envied couples who pack up and set off on the ultimate road trip - but not everyone! Due to a sad history of car travel in her youth the author is less than enthusiastic when her husband suggests they do the same. Things do start to look up however when they sign up to hire a Winnebago the Rolls Royce of motor homes. But once ......