A street called “Do Not Forget Me” in beautiful Budapest, Hungary, holds special significance for Erica Frydenberg, born there during World War II as Hungary’s leaders carried out Hitler’s ‘final solution’.
Survival desire disaster; misadventure murder and magic combine in this unique collection of tales set in locations including old rural Australia present-day cities and the distant mystical past. Twenty-seven short stories from renowned Australian ûction writer and poet Julie Thorndyke will take you on tantalising journeys in the company of ......
'With its beer-drenched Blundstones cricket balls retrieved from neighbour's backyards misbehaving pastor's kids and crabs plucked from the Moyne river O'Reilly's poetry collects and curates a series of vernacular objects and experiences that comprise life in Australia and beyond. From the streets of Ballarat to the dry highways of West Texas ......
‘Charles Freyberg entices us into a midnight world where passion brings both rapture and peril. Like Kenneth Slessor Dorothy Hewitt and Michael Dransfield he portrays the creative denizens of Kings Cross after dark with lyrical poems mourning the devastation wrought by addiction plague and madness.’ – Lou ......
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 ......
This book is a brief collection of some of the humorous anecdotes from the workplace the drinking place the living place and a lot of other places. All information in this book is from sources and recollections considered to be trustworthy and reliable. However no warranty is made to the accuracy thereof.
'In unaffected prose Barry Revill takes us back to the Australia of his childhood a time of simple pleasures and caring communities ready to heal each other's wounds. He shows us that while some of the ties that bind drag us down others offer liberation through the grace of small mercies.' - Paul Mitchell
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.
I don't take photographs. Or paint. Instead I use words as my medium – my way of capturing what I see and turning it into something meaningful. My hope is that the reader too will be able to see what I have seen feel what I have felt. This is of course the essence of communication.
