'Simon Stuart writes with a deep understanding of the subtle extraordinary pivotal moments to be found in everyday life. With these six wonderfully understated yet moving stories he invites the reader to join him on a journey through the often chaotic and emotionally harsh everyday worlds of characters who reveal themselves in the ......
Beauty in the Darkness explores the concepts of love death grief and the ironic twists and turns that life deals out. With depth and compassion Andrew Drake speaks for the voiceless the marginalised and for those whose lives have been tragically cut short. Honest hard-hitting and poignant Drake’s poetry shines a light into ......
'The deepest pools of reflection come from loss and grief. Andrew Drake is among the sweetest gentlest and most patient of human beings but his life has been fraught by sorrows and recriminations. These he turns into a lifeline of loveliness love letters to the past. That pain is a poet's best friend seems unfair. And yet it is in the ......
Two women stepped from the steamship Orient onto Australian soil on a hot December day in 1879. Beatrice Beauchamp epitomises the younger middle-class English woman settler unused to the unpleasant. Yet she combats tragedy and meets challenge and difference with a level of equanimity not commonly expected from one with a genteel upbringing. We ......
If there are any perks from breast cancer Changing Your Life should be one of them. Yeah right. Nearly a year out from my diagnosis – just when everyone expects me to dust myself off and move on – I’m dull and dreary and utterly bogged. So I start a diary – hoping to sift through the quagmire in my head and make sense ......
A poet as beachcomber walks the beach sometimes with pen and paper gathering sights and sounds shells and stones scents and seagull scenes. Yet it is not always about the waves and wind for the sea carries the stories of the world; how it connects and disconnects how it gives and takes reveals how we treat it. Humanity is always ......
A road trip along the Hume Highway with some opinionated voices from Australia's history
It’s a fact not yet universally acknowledged that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway preferably in the company of Captain Cook Henry Lawson Caroline Chisholm and Ned Kelly. Backseat Drivers is a hilarious and biting ......
Spanning a life from the 1950s to the present this memoir begins with very South Australian roots; German and Cornish. It shines a light on some key events that helped shape the social consciousness of many Baby Boomers. A rigid school system Bob Dylan hippies drugs and protest. But it also reflects on a life challenged by family mental ......
A young woman suddenly confronts the life she walked away from. A loving husband must make a pact with the devil to keep his wife. A passionate collector must choose between a priceless work of art and a human life. Ten stories of individuals caught between worlds forced to make stark unpalatable choices to survive.
