This book contains two complementary stories written by two generations of the one family. It spans three centuries – from the 1860s to the present day 2016. The swagman Sully and Russ Gibson parson were both born in the nineteenth century though several decades apart. New South Wales was then a colonial state of Great Britain. The ......
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 ......
Praise for New Skin: 'When I first came across Fraser Mackay's wry ruminations I liked how they were rooted in place and gave off an air of hardy ......
It's the 1970s and Anne thought a fresh start in a northern town would be the adventure of a lifetime. But her husband Thomas has other plans. While he is busy with his career Anne struggles to adapt to a new culture a growing family and a marriage that seems to be unravelling in ways she doesn't understand. As the years pass Anne finds herself ......
Brenda Saunders is an artist and writer of Aboriginal and British descent. She has read in several poetry events with the Sydney Writers’ Festival and is a member of DiVerse poets who present their ekphrastic poetry at public art exhibitions in Sydney. Brenda was awarded the 2012 Varuna Dorothy Hewett Poetry Fellowship and in 2013 a ......
In his eleventh poetry collection John Jenkins displays a boldness and creative variety across a wide sweep of subject matter which should hold great appeal to readers. Here are poems of heartfelt emotion balanced against playful humour plus jabs of fast wit and satirical asides plus serious reflection on some pressing political and social ......
In this compelling collection eighty-nine writers traverse their particular territory of loss and bring back travellers’ tales. Their skilfully crafted accounts are insightful inspiring amusing heart-breaking resilient and above all damn good reading.
‘This beautiful collection of writings explores the landscape of ......
Everyone has a story. It would be foolish indeed to make comparisons for there is always someone better or worse off than oneself. However there is a comforting and healing sense of kinship with others who have had similar experiences. Even death that which we call the last act of our play does not end a story. Everyone who has existed no ......
A rich woman confined to a wheelchair commissions a portraitist to create for her an ideal mate. A successful doctor confronts his past life in a deserted cottage. A young idealistic teacher is caught in a web of power in a decaying country town. In these gripping gothic tales individuals’ fears and fantasies come ......
