Member Book Releases

Mondays at Eleven

Willoughby Writers

Paperback 2021

Our small, selective band of writers 30 years ago, in 1991, creating an approach and philosophy which we still follow. Some members of that early group, still with us, continue…

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Virginia & Katherine: The Secret Diaries

Pip Griffin

Paperback, September 2021

… K & I had our relationship, & never again shall I have one like it – Virginia Woolf, October 1924 In January 1923, Virginia Woolf noted in her diary…

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Olive Muriel Pink: her radical & idealistic life

Colleen Keating

Paperback 2021

The story of a remarkable Australian woman anthropologist, artist, activist and especially Aboriginal advocate. A trailblazer who lived on the edge, exposed raw truth as witness to the turbulent first…

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Irish Settlers in South Australia: The Hayes and O’Toole Families

Bernadette Thakur

Paperback 2020

Irish Settlers in South Australia is the story of two families. The O’Tooles arrived in South Australia from County Wicklow in 1840 and the Hayes family from County Galway in…

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Borderless: A transnational anthology of feminist poetry

Anne Casey

Paperback 2021

Borderless (Recent Work Press 2021) presents a collection of brand new, specially commissioned poems from a wide range of contemporary poets reflecting on feminism in its broadest sense. The voices…

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Retrospective

Kelly Van Nelson

Paperback 2021

Kelly Van Nelson is the author of six books, including #1 bestsellers Graffiti Lane, Punch and Judy, and Retrospective. Her contemporary poetry has featured in numerous publications and her books are frequently…

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Love, Disappointment and Other Joys of Life

Helen Lyne

Paperback June 2021

An elderly dying woman is taken surfing by her carer. A young Australian traveller receives a marriage proposal at an oasis in Algeria. Disarming a violent student inspires a teacher…

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Breaking through the Pain Barrier

Gabriella Kelly-Davies

Paperback 2021

Breaking through the pain barrier. The extraordinary life of Dr Michael J. Cousins is the biography of Dr Michael J. Cousins AO, a trailblazing Australian pain medicine researcher and clinician…

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the light we cannot see

Anne Casey

Paperback June 2021

the light we cannot see traverses a globe caught in the combined turmoil of the climate crisis, COVID-19 and humanitarian unrest, as seen through the eyes of a mother, worried…

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