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What protection do females have from the social culture moulding the humans they develop into? The fourteen sharply perceptive tales in A Feminine Perspective celebrate the quiet courage within each woman's heart.

A care worker's unwise interest in a dementia client leads him into a dark labyrinth. A man intent on suicide happens on his doppelganger. An abandoned woman wonders whether her lover's crime might prove his love. Eight new stories to beguile and captivate.

Mark d'Arbon is a retired academic who has spent the greater part of his adult life teaching in a wide range of settings, including a couple of years in Papua New Guinea. He has been writing poetry for many of those forty years, having poems published in a variety of anthologies. The first collection of his own poems was published in 2018, titled Veranda People. This second collection is more reflective and has as its core theme aspects of lif...

Herein, we find poetry replete with eloquence and imagination, with the ages and stages of life, of dreamtime and daytime, heartache and humour. Within this book, we find the work of an artist who loves words, a writer who is in love with Creation itself. Each poem has a sense of story. Each one throbs with life being lived - the deep steady rhythm of our lives going on despite all, the ability of poetry to create light out of darkness, joy ou...

This collection blends candid and personal worlds, short stories, allegories and vignettes. The warmth of "Knight in Shining Chain Mail" moves to the chilling short story "Undertow", with its secrets, to heart-rending "The Broken Windmill". Decima does not shy away from reality, with all its twists and turns of family angst, defiant love, jealousy, betrayal, blackmail and the ache of the road not taken, balanced by the humour of light-hearted ...

In unaffected prose, Barry Revill takes us back to the Australia of his childhood, a time of simple pleasures and caring communities ready to heal each other's wounds. He shows us that, while some of the ties that bind drag us down, others offer liberation through the grace of small mercies.' - Paul Mitchell

Unexpected challenges to my self-confidence and then reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli sent me on an exploration of time and memory. Rovelli took my understanding of time to pieces from a physics perspective and put it back together again from a philosophical one. I've been aware for years of those famous words of Descartes - 'I think, therefore I am.' Rovelli is saying something similar, that it is our memories that make us who we ar...

A love of nature and attention to detail clearly shine through.' - Les Wicks Paul Williamson's earlier poetry collections are Edge of Southern Bright and A Hint of Eden.

Glass Kangaroo will take you across Australia, through time and places, sometimes from within the persona of a kangaroo. This is accessible poetry with a magical touch. Joe Pascoe lives in Ivanhoe, near Melbourne. In this collection, he is seeking to present a large metaphor for life and adventures in Australia, both new and old.

When Luke Pomery was just nine years old, he and his older siblings, his mother and half-sister took an epic bus journey to his new home - a 450, 000-acre sheep station outside Meekatharra, just south of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. There, the achingly hard work of helping to run a sheep station began. When Luke was twelve years old, he was sent to boarding school several hundred kilometres away. At sixteen, Luke was introduced...

The sixteen short stories in Rock and Sea span an extraordinary range of mood and style. There are tales of tragedy, of mischief, of mystery and of gothic horror. Rock and Sea contains stories written by Jeanell Buckley over more than a decade, beginning in the late 1990s.

Brushstrokes of the Mind brings together a collection of poems that spread the colour of nature and the psyche with light and shade, colour and monotone, form and abstract - like an artist's brush. In Barbara Gurney's fourth poetry collection, where hope follows melancholy, 'Roses of the Heart', 'Mellow Glow' and 'In the Moment' remind us that our lives are painted with many hues, and blue can turn to gold.

Light a fire of fear. A young woman stalked and raped by a police officer in a country town. Light a fire of anger. A journalist incensed by injustice on a journey to hunt down a fugitive. Light a fire of desire. One woman's quest to reconnect with a flame from the past. INCANDESCENCE.

Frances Daggar Roberts is an Australian poet who grew up in a remote area where she began to write poetry to capture the love she felt for plants, animals and landscape. She lives with her partner in a bushland setting close to Sydney and now focuses on her art and poetry having retired from her psychology work at the end of 2022. As a psychologist, Frances was treating people with significant anxiety and depression. Compassion for those who s...

Do not expect gentle rambles through the countryside. Beatriz Copello takes us on rough treks - through broken worlds, past "sleepwalkers trained to kill", "banquets of horror / tablecloth tinted in blood", "dolphins wrapped in plastic bags", "bats without trees" - challenging us to read briskly, urgently and breathe often. We are rewarded with times of love and with exquisite encounters with the numinous, we are offered tender hope. There are...

Journal entries, poems, fragments, meditations. Allusions to and critical engagement with philosophers and writers - Chinese, European and Australian - this is what makes Ouyang Yu's Thought is Free a thinker's work, not a "thoughter's" who only has thoughts. Delightfully readable!' - Professor Prem Poddar, Vice-Chancellor of Darjeeling Hills University 'This book is a treasure for those who are already familiar with Ouyang Yu's work spanning ...

This important memoir about growing up brings tears, laughter and goosebumps - sometimes all at the same time. It is utterly compelling. Johanson is a natural storyteller. With unique turns of phrase and a delicious sense of humour, his human generosity and wisdom guide the reader through a most unusual set of life circumstances. Intelligent, sensitive, erudite, fascinating, confronting and subtly hilarious! A pleasure to read.' - Liz Vercoe, ...

Absorbing, empathetic and cerebral all at once. Using ordinary language and often extraordinary turns of phrase, Williams manages to peel back the complex layers of our everyday lives with remarkable grace and clarity.' - Judy Johnson 'Jane Williams has the rare ability to make our ordinary days feel not just vividly real, but also cared for, and precious. In scenes from her own life and the sympathetically observed lives of others, there is a...

A Gradual Grace is Christina's third memoir. In the first, This Place You Know, she tells the story of her childhood on an outback sheep station, told in her mother's voice and her own voice and published by Ginninderra Press in 2019. The second, A Practice of Loss, tells the story of the breakdown of her marriage and the abduction of her three young daughters by their father. A Gradual Grace completes the trilogy.

What some poetry prize judges say about John Bartlett's poetry: 'This impressive poem works delightfully with rhythm, alliteration and imagery throughout. The relatively short lines work as delicate steps, just as fragile and testing as a heron's steps. "Survival' hinges on the word "despite' that concludes with a message of optimism: "the brooding hope...triumphant." In all, a masterly poem. - Judges report, the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize 202...