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.
'Loss longing and nostalgia infuse the poems in this poignant collection. Some poems are elegiac some confessional others alert to environmental exploitation sexuality and human suffering. Here is a poet engaged with his world and showing us what it is to remember to question to see and feel.' - Julie Maclean
Aubrey believed that life was a game a test to be played in the best way he could. He was born when South Australia was seventy-three years old. Over a century later when he died a nation had been built people had endured two world wars and a depression technology had changed communications forever and society was accepting standards that ......
A former lecturer in Greek Roman and Ancient Near Eastern history and literature at the University of Tasmania Graeme Hetherington has spent much of his adult life living at large in Europe and Turkey to be closer to the source of his subject matter. More often than not his response to his culturally charged surroundings has taken the form ......
Virgilio Goncalves has worked out finally why he has a nomadic bent. It's because a lot of the time he's seeking the tribe that truly typifies him. Is he South African Australian or Portuguese? Place has loomed like a restless shadow in his life. But which of the three countries to which he has ties is the one most a part of him? This ......
