What is juggling? For the purposes of this history juggling is broadly defined as the manipulation of objects. So this book discusses hoop rolling plate spinning traditional club and ball juggling hat juggling and lots of balancing. There are also many discussions of individual jugglers including international visitors like Cinquevalli and ......
He's a man used to getting what he wants. Single-minded and focussed he sets goals and inevitably achieves his aims. He loves his wife. But love is a living thing. It needs constant nourishment. Although his love for her is ever-present it is not burning brightly enough. He embarks on a clandestine affair with a married woman who is part ......
'These poems record a life lived sensuously and to the full in three countries: Italy Ireland and Australia. In an era when eros-charged descriptions of foreign feasts make best-selling travel books and TV programs this book will find a large audience. But Luke Whitington is far more than a sensualist whose mind's tongue curves inquisitively ......
Brendan lives within a short walk of Wentworth Falls Lake in the upper Blue Mountains of New South Wales and finds pleasure inspiration and renewal in the changing seasons and moods of this body of water that was created when European settlers dammed Jamison Creek in 1878 to supply water for the steam trains that carried passengers to and ......
Parenting a child through the first year of gender transition
Lyndsay Brown’s journey as the parent of a transgender child started on 25 October 2017 at about eight-fifteen p.m. It was abrupt and shocking with no prior contemplations or parental imaginings to pave the way. It was the birth of a daughter she had absolutely not anticipated even for a single moment in her life until then.
Hidden in deep grass beyond the line of the distant ridge half-remembered hopes fall prey to savage chance and lie broken or finding fresh earth rise again with tender growth. The stories of Wheelbarrow Ridge are each a landscape populated by searchers who yearn for the horizon that they have never crossed or whose need for ......
A collection of intriguing stories reflecting the author's view that life is a wonderful exciting sometimes dangerous and often totally boring trip. Rex Jacobs strives to write as honestly and openly as possible but he will never get drawn into discussing the source of inspiration for any particular tale. They are all true in some way he says.
'Never read a verse novel? Here's a beauty. The world Helen Swain creates rings true from the very first page as she explores the complexities of a carer's life with brevity honesty and wry wit. Helen brilliantly evokes the tensions between an ageing mother and a daughter who wants to care for her When the time comes. This book is an act of ......
‘One feels accompanied by the poet in these pages; through gardens along country roads and city streets along windswept coastlines and out on the water. You will encounter many invitations to pause to share an observation of something tiny close-up or to admire some distant expanse. We also ponder occasional memories and wonderings ......
