Life in a seaside suburb on Sydney Harbour appears idyllic from the outside, but cracks are appearing in the lives of five well-heeled but mismatched friends. Brought together by Kristen…
Relatively True, Stories of Truth, Deception, Post-Truth from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia Edited by Meenakshi Bharat & Sharon Rundle Orient BlackSwan, India, 2022 Relatively True is a vibrant collection of…
Co-authored by Anne Stephenson and Jenny Brosnan this book, recently launched by Mayor Michael Regan, is a lively local history of The Randell School of Dance which stood from 1957…
WINNER – MEMBERS’ BOOK AWARDS 2024: POETRY Evocative and playful by turn, Natalie Cooke’s first collection of poetry is preoccupied by Australian landscapes, what we look at in them and…
Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Award (USA) Shortlisted in the International Rubery Book Award (UK) True to its title, the poems in Denise O’Hagan’s second poetry collection, Anamnesis,…
Fijian Shadows. Living through the coup of 2000. Fiji, despite its image of calm blue waters, white sandy beaches, clear sunny skies, palm trees softly swaying in the breeze and…
Sneaking through airport security, two passports burned a hole in his pocket; one allowing him to run, the other never allowing him to escape. Leaving behind a devastated family and the girl…
When Robyn Flemming left Australia to wander the world as a nomadic freelance editor, she was single and nearing sixty. It wasn’t the first time she had shed an old…
It’s July 1943 and the world has been at war for almost four long years. One morning, young widow Emmy Penry-Jones discovers two men washed up on the beach below…