Her Sunburnt Country
Deborah FitzGerald
Hardcover 2023
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…
the swift dark tide
Katia Ariel
Paperback 2023
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…
To Carve Identity
Susan Steggall
Paperback 2024
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…
Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey
Sally Jane Smith
Paperback 2024
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…
The Wild Date Palm
Diane Armstrong
Paperback 2024
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…
In a Heartbeat
Margaret Zanardo
Chapbook 2024
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…
The Pact: No one knows you better than your sister
Lisa Darcy (Heidke)
Paperback 2024
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…
War is Not Suitable for Children
Judith O’Connor
Paperback 2024
A selection of short stories. Diverse. Funny. Sad. Snapshots of The Depression and the Apartheid protests. In one story a jealous young woman is trapped in remote bushland. Should she…