Some Days The Bird
Heather Bourbeau & Anne Casey
Paperback 2022
Throughout 2021, as COVID and climate change battled for supremacy in the hearts and minds of the world, American poet Heather Bourbeau and Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey engaged in a…
Not Plain Sailing
Lesley Brydon
Paperback 2022
Lesley Brydon helped make history as a member of the first all-girl crew to sail the Sydney to Hobart Race in1975 in the 35-foot sloop Barbarian. Her memoir, Not Plain…
The Poker Protocol
Anne Maria Nicholson
Paperback 2022
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
Sharon Rundle
Paperback 2022
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…
See You at Randell's
Anne Stephenson & Jenny Brosnan
Paperback 2020
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…
Wrestling with Bees
Natalie Cooke
Paperback 2022
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…
Anamnesis
Denise O’Hagan
Paperback 2022
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
Valerie Clifford
Paperback 2021
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…
The Pinstripe Prisoner
Kelly Van Nelson
Paperback June 2022
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…