Mud larking on the Thames in London can be a dangerous thing … What lies hidden in the mud? What might happen if you look at it too long? And…
Her Sunburnt Country. The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar The biography of Dorothea Mackellar illuminates the life of a poet who gave Australia arguably the best known and most…
What happens when, in the middle of a happy heterosexual marriage, a woman falls in love with another woman? The Swift Dark Tide is a story of selfhood and desire, of…
. . . the immensity of the open space, the depth of the canyon, the light and air all around—unlike the sea, nothing to provide buoyancy, just a void into which a…
Novels traditionally end with a ‘happily ever after’. To carve identity begins with a ‘happily into the future’. In 1949 Ellie Gilmartin returned to her native Glasgow after going to…
When a long-forgotten, apartheid-era arrest record derails Sally’s plans for a Canadian family holiday, she packs her mum’s 1978 travel diary and sets out solo for Greece instead. As she…
Diane Armstrong is a child Holocaust survivor who arrived in Australia in 1948. She is a prizewinning journalist and the author of eight bestselling books . Her historical novel Nocturne won…
These are poems of music, love and memory, written mostly over the last three years when uncertainty and disconnection played such a major role in our lives. Music has the…
Sisters are for life, aren’t they? The Pact is a gripping narrative about winning and losing, and pushing through when you have nothing left to give. Samantha and Annie Callahan…