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Part prose-poetry, part visual essay, Timelights informs, entertains, questions, philosophises and reminisces as it carries the reader through its exploration of memory, place, and meaning. Follow the narrative from the turning winds blowing through a Maori cemetery, to melting snow in the mountains of Japan, to the gritty sights and smells of Sydney's streets. Timelights leaves the reader feeling oddly melancholic, reflecting on the passage o...

A brief and moving picture by a young New Zealand writer of his father, a man of talent and charm whose later years took a dark and tragic turn. Two sections of the book are told in his father's own words, while others are memories, recent and distant.

Fans of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy will dive into this collection that honors the history of the genre.

In 1984, in the palm grove in Sydney's Botanic Gardens, the artist Colin McCahon went missing. He was found by police early next morning in Centennial Park ... Martin Edmond walks in Colin McCahon's footsteps, past pubs and monuments, art galleries and churches, barracks and parks: to accompany him some way into the darkness of his end"--Back cover.

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Jeff Edmond is back with another collection of stories from The Freakout Zone. Like the original Freakout Zone (Vol. I), Volume II offers more spooky, thought-provoking tales of science fiction that will send a shiver down your spine. Leave the light on tonight! Uncle Alice Thirteen year old Jonathan and his brainy little sister Lynette go to spend a summer with their Uncle Alice, a wealthy, eccentric and reclusive scientist. Lynette is excit...

Originally published: Hindmarsh, S. Aust.: East Street Publications, 2006.

Looking outwards, into the past, and to the natural landscape for inspiration, these masterful essays offer elegant ruminations on the experience of living. Divided into four distinct sections, the collection explores memories of a small-town childhood, examines subjects such as the Rosetta Stone, and investigates the meaning of dreams before delivering its grand finale: a meditation on the mysterious identity of a writer.

In the tradition of Dava Sobel and Longitude, award-winning writer Martin Edmond uses his extraordinary intellectual breadth and imaginative reach to elegantly and lucidly execute his most ambitious project to date - the history of 4, 000 years of the Western imagination and the Antipodes, Great Southern Land, Zone of the Marvellous.