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…
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…
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…
Envoi, selected poems 1990–2017 by Ted Rutter (1940-2017) Edited by Pip Griffin This book is the fourth collection of Ted Rutter’s poetry. Ted, Pip’s late partner, was a New Zealand…
‘I could have shot Hitler that day.’ So begins the fictionalised memoir of the author’s mother. Born in Berlin in 1913, with a Jewish father, Ursula is a naïve…
These are poems of love, struggle, perseverance and hope, set against the power of the sea and the mystery of the moon. Inspired by the ever-changing nature of the sea…
Survival, desire, disaster; misadventure, murder and magic combine in this unique collection of tales set in locations including old rural Australia, present-day cities and the distant mystical past. Twenty-seven short…
At the heart of my third novel, ‘Tis the Doing Not the Deed (Shooting Star Press, 2019), is a question: What if an artist does something – the ‘doing’ –…
Once upon a time – Tales of Fantasy & Magic After falling out of a hot air balloon as it floats high above the Eiffel Tower, Pierre lands on a…