'In 1980 on her defection Heidi captivated the people of this nation' - Paul Connor
Come into Heidi's world. Her unique true story of a girl growing up in East Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall begins the moment she was chosen to go to ballet school. Through discipline passion and talent she delighted audiences as ......
Unexpected challenges to my self-confidence and then reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli sent me on an exploration of time and memory. Rovelli took my understanding of time to pieces from a physics perspective and put it back together again from a philosophical one. I've been aware for years of those famous words of Descartes - ......
D&M Between 2 Men began its life in January 2018 when Andrew contacted Martin who was hospitalised after a fall and the question popped in his mind ‘As men why don’t we talk about the moments we are struggling?’ He suggested writing a co-operative poetry chapbook together. Martin agreed and that was the ......
'Home is a profound and tangled experience that reaches far beyond the physical space. This wise beautifully edited selection of poetry and prose lays bare the universal longing to belong. Humorous comforting and devastating Cycles in Light maps the emotional and physical geography of home inviting readers on a word journey through ......
Ethan is 14 and running wild. This is Sumatra Indonesia. Land of jungles and volcanoes. And heart-stopping traffic and cheap beer and clove cigarettes. The rules from home don’t seem to apply here and Ethan’s having a ball. Ethan’s party is Jon’s worst nightmare. He’s only 19 but he knows he has to do something. ......
We disappear into the poinciana shadows into the dream that alcohol and music and love create. I go in a dream in a myth. This is how it should be I think. This is the pagan story the truth the fairytales promised us the ending imagined from the earliest of murmured memories...But myths are not founded on reality and fairytales do not ......
The powerful stories collected in Crossroads deal with the viciousness of apartheid and show how that policy dehumanised South Africans. The stories are populated by desperate characters who are damaged by the conflict and driven to violence. They and the state are all at their own crossroads. This collection was shortlisted for the ......
David Brelsford was born in Nottinghamshire and came to Australia in 1965. He worked for many years as a postman before becoming a library technician. He lived in Sydney Hawaii Queanbeyan and Brisbane before retiring to Launceston Tasmania in 2007. He is married with three sons and – to date – one grandson. A long-distance ......
‘It is a gift to take time to notice and another to bring one’s observations into creative verse. John Egan does both with craft and conciseness. He peacefully explores his world in all its potential and limitations. It is this note of quiet unruffled integrity that makes his poetry a pleasant reading experience. We are fortunate ......
