Set in the turmoil of the apartheid years in South Africa a coloured woman faces the trials of racial discrimination as well as her own family trauma. Her employer a privileged white woman is challenged by the insurmountable difficulties of her marriage. Both are brought to breaking point as they struggle to find equilibrium in their ......
‘The haiku in Alone at the Window resonate with warmth wit and wisdom. The poet’s tender observations and clear imagery create an unfolding of meaning as the reader reflects on each poem. These moments of celebration are imbued with a sense of wonder and appreciation for life inviting us to share the richness to be found ......
Deceptively simple the poems in All You Need Is Love touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness pleasure and pain enlightenment and illusion love and loneliness. This anthology of tanka reflects the full spectrum of what it means to love whether it be a partner a child a family member friends places or one's pet.
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1904: a time of stability and hope. In a little Methodist chapel in country NSW shy reserved Albert marries confident emotional Ethel. Both of them are twenty four. Four years later at the bride’s family home in Sydney shy reserved Eva marries handsome confident Victor seven years her junior. 1969: a time of change and unrest. One ......
Living alone in the Blue Mountains baby-boomer Kate Ward is estranged from her adult son. Where did it all go wrong?
She decides to return to Salt Pan Creek the place of her childhood in post-war Sydney suburbia. It’s here that she must come to terms with a history that’s far greater than her own personal ......
After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia the country of her birth at the request of her aging narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered haunting mysteries solved and ......
Stories of love kindness desire and revenge. Frank sets off on his bike to help people in his coastal village and stumbles upon a scene that changes his life. A journalist reflects on his betrayal of a colleague in Korea and resolves to make amends. Two former lovers reunite unexpectedly in Japan and visit the place that holds the secret of ......
Christopher Palmer was born in Brisbane in 1969 and raised in the UK. He has lived in many places since returning to Australia in 1987 and currently lives in Canberra where he completed a PhD in the biological sciences in 2005. He’s happiest in the ecotone between the arts and sciences and moves habitually between both. His poetry has ......
'These stories draw us into the many worlds of Carol Patterson's imagination and experience and we immediately become invested as readers in the characters and the dilemmas they face. The narrative thrust along with skilfully constructed dialogue lead us through the underbrush of human emotions make us scale the dangerous slopes of risk ......
