Dog follows an Israeli officer returning from service who spirals into heroin addiction under the weight of PTSD. Among Tel Aviv’s marginalised drug community, an unexpected bond with a stray dog offers fragile hope. The novel explores trauma and physical and moral injury, revealing how redemption can emerge from unlikely connections.
Amidst domestic violence and haunted by the horrors of war, a rebellious Hazara girl newly arrived in Merrylands, Australia, grapples with forced marriage, while the ancient wisdom of poet Omar Khayyam fuels her determination to forge her own destiny.
Spanning Nazi Germany and postwar America, this novel tells a gripping story of survival and reckoning. In 1938, young Sarah Frank escapes a deadly SS officer and finds refuge in a traveling circus, discovering courage amid rising terror. In 1957 New York, a shocking discovery inside a zoo lion sparks an investigation that uncovers Sarah’s buried ......
Lennie Lower, Australia's answer to James Thurber and S.J. Perelman, wrote humorous columns for Smith's Weekly and The Women's Weekly and by 1930 was seen as our greatest humorist with his novel Here's Luck. HERE'S LOWER is a selection of the whimsical Lower from his newspaper columns of the 1930s, illustrated by Patrick Cook. These short tales ......
Modern-day Britain in the year 2000 has slid away from a democratic system. Australia remains a penal colony in the UK’s outright possession since 1788. Transportation with hard labour awaits all who transgress even slightly. The penalty for escape is death, yet a small but committed Resistance movement thrives. The plot follows clever, cosseted ......
Insightful stories from the heart about the tears and laughter, the rise and fall, the love and pain felt by women in Malaysia and Singapore. Intimate collection of autobiographical essays every woman should read.
For Will Watson, it was time for a change. Life in England had gone sour for him, so he and his Golden Retriever Mia headed to the other side of the world -- to a small Australian mountain town called Maleny. There, Will tries to navigate through the surprising and sometimes sinister ways of his adopted community while trying to make a living. ......
In March 1917, Book 4 the willing and unwilling participants of the Russian Revolution try to make sense of their next steps amidst unraveling chaos. One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. ......
