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…
The inspiration for this story was my grandson, Alex who as a little boy had a fascination with fire engines and firefighters. The story which developed in my imagination…
Beyond the Tamar began decades ago with an incident in a flooded tin mine in Cornwall. A small girl listened to the ‘Little People’ the tinners and thus began a…
Poignant, sensual, spiritual, sorrowful, and funny, Pip Griffin’s latest poetry collection The Climb Back encompasses a life richly lived. This book is a hymn to New Zealand, Pip’s homeland, and…