It was an act of simple kindness for an Australian couple to take two Czech refugees from post World War II Europe into their working-class home. They could never have foreseen the tensions these sophisticated Europeans would create or the life-changing impact they would have on their teenage daughter. A Promise of Peaches explores ......
Dick a disillusioned husband and lawyer living in a middle-class 1997 London suburb stands dressed in period costume on a railway platform. Dick is convinced he is in the middle of a dream but his adventures become ever more curious tantalising and amazingly real!He shares a compartment with some country folk travelling to old London Town. ......
At twenty Anna married an ambitious computer scientist. Now twelve years later they have three young daughters. Yet something vital is missing. He is more away than at home and she dreams of an equal love. But she dreads the price of breaking free. Within a year the marriage shatters and her children are abducted overseas. In the vengeful ......
‘Megan Schaffner knows how poetry works. She knows the way a strong poem can float you gently to somewhere you’ve never been before/ [where] with luck/ you’ll land wrong side up/ exhilarated/ ready to explore a new country. This is precisely what Megan’s poetry does. As soon as you land you realise you are in the hands ......
Avril Bradley emigrated from England to Australia in 1971. Her poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies since 2006. She was a performance poet in Poetry Idol at The Melbourne Writers’ Festival (2007–2011). She received an honorary degree from The University of Roehampton (London) in May 2017. She lives in Frankston ......
Taking us across culture and landscapes and evoking other states Derek Baines’s new collection touches raw nerves and brings humour to some of our most challenging experiences. A lone traveller enjoys hospitality at an ancient Japanese inn an insomniac artist produces a masterwork from his subconscious and a marathon runner moves out ......
‘This is a comprehensive range of everyday close to the bone poems by Doug Gregory with sensitivity to other people's difficult lives. They are insightful and compelling. His poetry is universal; it is out there commenting most effectively on life's foibles as well as its delights. It is tender sometimes on recollection ......
A Life in Writing charts the evolution of Michael Byrne as an award-winning poet in the Australian Capital Territory. It explores through vignettes his early life the awakening of his desire to become a poet his time as the new kid on the block and his arrival as a mature poet. Along the way examples of his ......
A Life Deserves Nine Cats is a collection of poems and drawings of cats by Sue Schindler and Ron Heard. Tough and tender. Vivid and well observed. Never sentimental. A book for cat lovers and for readers of poetry.
'If you have ever known or loved or mourned a cat these poems and portraits will insinuate themselves into your ......
