Wryly humorous and scarifyingly honest Coolamon Girl is a beautifully crafted memoir of a daughter terrified of her mother. Scarred by her mother's conservatism and palpable dislike of her body and her sexuality Di escapes her fraught home life and the stultifying narrowness of her 1950s and 60s small country town. Feeling lost ......
Diane Wahlheim has for many years worked in a culinary world. Her love of all things that tempt the palette and lift the senses has given her a satisfying and fulfilling career. Meandering beneath the layers of a fine food connoisseur however has ben a perpetual passion for poetry. Now retired and living in Aldinga Beach Diane is ......
What better way for a family to start the trip of a lifetime to Europe than the magic of Disneyland? Tales of dark deeds shiver at the Tower of London. The excitement at Hamleys toys gives way to a campervan odyssey. Think Dover Castle and Roman ruins. Friends from every country play with Neville and Clara's children language differences not a ......
Peter Hansen spent 40 years working and managing sheep stations in far west New South Wales. He then spent a couple of years living in the UK which gave him a different perspective on life. He currently works in Aged Care in Melbourne. This is his second volume of poetry
'The poetry of Keith MacNider is like a ground spring rising from deep within and lifting the reader to the airy grace of rivers trees stones clouds and to our human connection to the past and to the land. As a boy in Hong Kong Keith spent hours lying in grassy fields looking at the clouds - thinking and listening to the ......
Lives hold promise and promises. Keeping one promise might mean breaking another for life is anything but simple. I had promised myself I would not go back to England – or if I did I would stay there. I did not want to pull myself up by the roots to leave it again. But I also promised Stephen that I would go anywhere with him. We had ......
Conflict is a normal part of everyday life yet it is often something that people try to avoid or ignore in the hope that it will go away. Conflict Management provides useful information on how to embrace conflict and manage it in effective ways that enhance and strengthen relationships. The book provides important foundation knowledge ......
These stories are about being young getting old and life in between. An Australian teenage girl in 1970s country NSW waits in a wet wintery small New Zealand town for the arrival of her illicit lover and the decision that will change her life 'Mary's Story'. Three children are washed out to sea clinging to an upturned table when floods ......
This collection of linked tanka between two Australian and two American poets reminds us how exciting it is to colour outside the lines. Unexpected responses enliven the series as poets from different hemispheres move through the four seasons. For example Fielden’s final lines in ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ ‘to swim without ......
