Slipstream
The sequence of poems in Slipstream registers a parent's shifting interiority during a young adult child's hospitalisation. Its interwoven forms look back through histories of mental healthcare, troubling the everyday, embodied, and institutional edges of its immense present. Through its redactive practice and miscellany of salvaged and imagined moments, Slipstream maps a late season of maternal care, creating an open, generative space for readers to inhabit.
Pomio Way
This is a collection of poems and prose from Pomio in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. It presents local contexts, attitudes, views and observations of issues such as development, culture, etc. The poems and prose are about the author's everyday experiences living in a rural district. He expresses his thoughts and views with passion.
The Artist as an Old Man (Self-Portrait)
After twenty years in London a somewhat notorious artist returns home when his life falls apart as a result of fraud, death and depression. The Artist as an Old Man (Self-Portrait) is a personal hour-by-hour journal of the day of his first New Zealand exhibition.Accustomed to always being busy, the restless artist - eccentric, irritable and ageing - suddenly has nothing to do until the exhibition's evening opening. And so we follow him and his sometimes angry and unreasonable thoughts, including lingering doubts about his own work, through the long day.Having experienced financial relief before the exhibition, an unpleasant encounter at the exhibition, and sadness after it, he returns home at the end of the day ready to face his new life, alone and lonely, in Dunedin.
Gold!
EVERY FAMILY HAS SECRETS-SOME SECRETS ARE MORE DEADLY THAN OTHERS. "Gold mining is a dangerous enterprise. Malcolm Kincaid makes it more treacherous."..." If you enjoy tales of family history, high drama, and intrigue, I recommend GOLD!" - Steven Ramirez, best-selling USA author.In the treacherous world of gold mining, Malcolm Kincaid reigns supreme. He is a man driven by ambition, willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. Beneath his facade of honor, however, dwells a dangerous liar.Over three decades, Malcolm Kincaid uses, abuses, and dominates associates and family alike, crushing all opposition in his pursuit of wealth and power. When he allows the pollution of an Aboriginal settlement's water supply, however, he faces justice of a kind he could never imagine.Set in the vast and rugged landscape of Australia, GOLD!-the first book in the Kincaid Saga series-is a story of greed, betrayal, family conflict, and murder. It is also a story of love and loyalty, and of how one man's pride and prejudice can lead to terrible retribution.GOLD! is a tale as big as the country in which it is set. A sprawling saga with unexpected twists and turns and a villain you'll love to hate. Grab your copy now and hang on. It may be a bumpy ride!
Huon Writes
Ten stories - fiction and non-fiction, in ten distinctive voices - from lutruwita Tasmania's beautiful Huon Valley.Stories of shipwrecks in the wild south, of coming, of leaving, and of camping on the edge. Farming with care. Protest, family, good wine, and always the voice of the Huon.Spend a morning on the farm with Bob Brown; follow Matthew Evans as he settles in the Huon; take flight with Zoe Davidson as she leaves for Melbourne. Kate Kruimink explores the unease of social disconnect at an end-of-year family gathering, while Marjorie Gadd imagines a surprising meeting in a Huonville. Wine journalist Winsor Dobbin offers a historical tour of Huon Valley wineries; Lisa Litjens celebrates the natural beauty of kunanyi; David L Hume writes of wanderers and outsiders in the wild places. Wren Fraser Cameron weaves a layered tale of how history speaks to the present, and Isaac Gee riffs on the otherworldliness of a clear winter's night in the far south.Read them in one go or dip into them on a break, and find out what Huon valley writers are writing about today.
Daughters of the Fatherland
In this griping true-to-life historical novel, Berlin-born Rosa is abandoned as a baby during the height of Germany's Great Depression but rescued by an elderly couple in a passing Gypsy caravan. Ten years later, on the brink of World War II, Rosa is the unwitting cause of her adoptive Romani family being incarcerated: Rosa and her mother are sent to the Women's Gypsy Concentration Camp in Austria, while her father is sent to the Men's Gypsy Camp in Berlin. The women's camp despises her rebellious spirit, so Rosa vows to escape to rescue her beloved father. However, before she can enact her escape plan, Rosa and thirty other Romani children are conscripted to appear in Nazi Director Leni Riefenstahl's ill-fated movie about a Gypsy Queen, Tiefland.Daughters of the Fatherland highlights the plight of the children during World War II with a special focus on the Romani Holocaust, Porajmos (devouring or destruction). Wars tear families apart, with children being left to fend for themselves in a chaotic world. During war, the conflict between and within nations can result in the loss of humanity; however, in Rosa's case, love and peace ultimately restore her community allowing personal redemption for Rosa.
A broken hallelujah
The hospital looked like a monument to a bygone era. Northside Private nestled in bushland in a quiet outer suburb of the city. Built early in the 20th Century it resembled the gracious stately homes of the Deep South in America. An essence of charm permeated the three-storey building, from the corridors to the vast verandas that faced north. White veiled sisters sailed serenely, heels clicking efficiently on the highly polished oak floors. The large windows captured the sun's warm rays. Summer was retreating in a triumphant blaze. Too tired for restlessness, the only movement among us in the West-facing classroom of the Nurse Education building was the occasional desultory glance at the clock on the wall. It was a plain, no-nonsense clock, suitable for classrooms of bored students; and on that day it was an extremely slow clock.Brooks is at her finest in this cunning collection of short stories. Her trademark wit and sharp observation is crafted with depth and compassion, as she once again explores the gamut of human experience with fearless clarity and buoyant optimism. Linda gives us an intimate view into a nursing career, with both fiction and non fiction. It is a world of compassion, patience and intuitive regard for others, but encapsulates the humanity of this challenging and often underrated role in the community.
Raging Grace
When your body-mind is in upheaval, or is deemed troublesome, how do you find a way forward? In the shadow of an ecological and social crisis, whose voices do we need to pay attention to? The poems, essays and artworks in this groundbreaking anthology answer both these questions at the same time. Written collaboratively and in conversation, they harness rage and grace to speak back to unhealthy, alienating systems and experiences. Both prophetic and celebratory, Raging Grace affirms disability and neurodivergence as unique sources of truth telling, and collaboration as a radical model for collective health.
The Crow on the Cross
Steve Evans' new collection, The Crow on the Cross, Wedding Songs & Others, is collection which examines the social and cultural phenomenon of marriage in ways that are equal parts personal and analytical. His poems are both lush and spare. The endless human desire for a partner, an equal, is celebrated and questioned in poems of deep understanding and knowing humour. Evans brings all his formidable skill as a poet to a remarkably diverse examination of the topic, at once deeply thoughtful, comfortingly familiar, and perceptively humorous.This mastery of form is continued in the second part of the collection, a miscellany of subjects united by the skill and insight of an accomplished poet.
An Ocean of Wonder
An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships between peoples, environments, deities, nonhuman relatives, history, dreams, and storytelling. Wonder is activated by curiosity, humility in the face of mystery, and engagement with possibilities. We see wonder and the fantastic as general modes of expression that are not confined to realism. As such, the fantastic encompasses fantasy, science fiction, magic realism, fabulation, horror, fairy tale, utopia, dystopia, and speculative fiction. We include Black, feminist, and queer futurisms, Indigenous wonderworks, Hawaiian moʻolelo kamahaʻo and moʻolelo āiwaiwa, Sāmoan fāgogo, and other non-mimetic genres from specific cultures, because we recognize that their refusal to adopt restrictive Euro-American definitions of reality is what inspires and enables the fantastic to flourish. As artistic, intellectual, and culturally based expressions that encode and embody Indigenous knowledge, the multimodal moʻolelo in this collection upend monolithic, often exoticizing, and demeaning stereotypes of the Pacific and situate themselves in conversation with critical understandings of the global fantastic, Indigenous futurities, social justice, and decolonial and activist storytelling. In this collection, Oceanic ideas and images surround and connect to Hawaiʻi, which is for the three coeditors, a piko (center); at the same time, navigating both juxtaposition and association, the collection seeks to articulate pilina (relationships) across genres, locations, time, and media and to celebrate the multiplicity and relationality of the fantastic in Oceania.
In Defence of Her Honour
In Defence of Her HonourLondon 1800s to Parramatta 1819+Will the real man of quality please stand up?Bill Miller was raised and educated with the family's sons. The younger son, Cuthbert, or Bert, had been his best friend. However, jealousy intervenes when Bill's excellent schoolwork curtails their childhood friendship. He wins scholarships, and he excels. When Bill's father, the old butler, dies unexpectedly, Bert insists that Bill take over the position, but it's more to oppress him.Bert's jealousy festers. Now, looking for a way to rid themselves of the new butler, a ruckus ensues, and Bill is arrested for assaulting Bert. The housekeeper and her daughter Molly vouch for him, but it's too late; Bill has been arrested and sentenced to be transported. With Bill gone, Molly now needs to defend herself from Bert's inappropriate attention. She doesn't succeed, but she, too, is convicted and sent to Sydney. Adventures follow them on their separate journeys.How Molly and Bill ended up running the best Inn in Parramatta can only be called a blessing from above. *****'In Defence of Her Honour' is a colonial convict historical love story in the standalone 'Convict Stain Collection' that takes you back to a simpler time when simply surviving was a battle won. This is a story of enduring love that crosses half the globe during the Convict era in Australia.It is another stand-alone story in the 'Convict Birthstain Collection."Set in convict Parramatta in the Macquarie era, change is occurring while you watch.*****If you love Australian Colonial history, you will love Sara Powter's 'In Defence of Her Honour.' An absorbing tale of love and survival in the face of adversity and a hunt for a future helping others.It is another stand-alone story in the 'Convict Birthstain Collection." A clean Australian Historical story that will make you feel as though you have stepped back in time.Buy 'In Defence of Her Honour' to find out how Bill and Molly survive in a town full of convicts. (Book six in the 'Convict Birthstain Collection' of stand-alone stories)
Silver Linings
Silver Linings is a smorgasbord of rich and varied offerings. The choices include poetry, essay, memoir and fiction. Texture and taste is enhanced by the literary influences of the authors places of origin including Rumania, Malaysia, Vietnam, Scotland, Russia, New Zealand and, of course, Australia. Each nibble will leave you hungry for more. So settle down with a cuppa, or something stronger, and enjoy the meal!
Waiting at the Sliprails
Waiting at the SliprailsSet in the upper Nepean River area of Australia, then on the Bathurst Road of New South WalesSeeking acceptance they discovered love and forgiveness.Will love be found in a marriage of convenience?*****Bea Dawes is a foundling, alone and unloved. Her life seems to be one trauma after the other, ending up as a convict dairy maid in a penal colony half way around the world from where she was born.Jack Barnes is escaping a home filled with hate and constant bickering. He seeks a wife but is not looking for love. He is hired as a drover, and meets Bea.Bea accepts his offer of marriage; then discovers that he could be gone for months, leaving her alone with Billy and Netty. They are part of the tribe of Aborigines who live on his secluded farm. Bea learns to love her husband and also this wonderful aboriginal couple.Then drought ravages the farm, and Jack must hit the long paddock with the flock. In his absence, a visitor arrives, threatening to destroy everything they have worked so hard for.Can Bea touch this woman's heart?Will the drought ever end and when will Jack return? Will they realise feeling of love are stronger than either realised? Does she trust him?*****'Waiting at the Sliprails' is a colonial convict historical fiction story in the standalone 'Convict Birthstain Collection' that takes you back to a time when simply surviving was a battle won. A Clean Historical Fiction StoryIf you love Australian Colonial history, you will love Sara Powter's 'Waiting at the Sliprails' is an absorbing tale of love and survival in the face of adversity.Buy 'Waiting at the Sliprails' to find out what occurs to bring the peace back to the valley. Winner of the Spring 2024 PenCraft Award.
The Vine Weaver
The Vine WeaverLong-listed in 2023 Historical Fiction Company CompetitionSet in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River area of Australia, then Scotland and England.Life handed them heartbreak, and then they discovered hope.Will the vines draw them close together?*****Fran Rea is a foundling, alone and unloved.Her life seems to be one trauma after the other. Hetty Walker grew up in a convict town and knows not all convicts are really bad. She wants to help some of the abused convict girls.Hector Macdougal is a convict worker assigned to Hetty. He stands out from the other men as he helps rather than abuses the girls.His words bring change, but will Fran listen to them? Will she realise he feels far more for her than he should? Does she trust him?*****'The Vine Weaver' is a colonial convict historical fiction story in the standalone 'Convict Birthstain Collection' that takes you back to a simpler time when simply surviving was a battle won. A Clean Historical Fiction StoryIf you love Australian Colonial history, you will love Sara Powter's 'The Vine Weaver, ' an absorbing tale of love and survival in the face of adversity.Buy 'The Vine Weaver' to find out how far the vine reaches and what mystery is revealed to them both.
A Final Reckoning
"A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia" by G. A. Henty is a thrilling adventure novel that takes readers on a captivating journey through the rugged landscapes of Australia during the 19th century. This tale of bush life follows the protagonist, Dick Varley, a young English settler who finds himself in the midst of a gripping conflict. As Dick becomes embroiled in a feud between the settlers and the indigenous tribes, he must navigate treacherous encounters, grapple with moral dilemmas, and ultimately seek justice and reconciliation. The story showcases the challenges faced by early Australian settlers, exploring themes of survival, loyalty, and cultural understanding. Through the twists and turns of the narrative, G. A. Henty delivers a thrilling and thought-provoking story that captivates readers and highlights the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
Hand Upon The Anvil
Lockleys of Parramatta Series Book 1Hands Upon the AnvilIn a town full of convict ruffians, the blacksmiths forge is a place where all are equal, except the worker on the forge.Clean Historical Fiction set in Parramatta, Australian in the early 1800s.*****Eddie Lockley is a convicts second son. He apprenticed himself to a blacksmith when only a child. He had big dreams but can't see a way for them to come to fruition. He dreams of helping his town grow. How can this young man in the making cause such change?A daydreaming, Jenna Turner thrusts herself into his peaceful life and Eddie realises he wants her at his side forever. She too is a convict's daughter, but her feisty attitude to life keeps Eddie on his toes.Adventures and revelations abound and they ruffle the lives of both families.*****'Hands Upon the Anvil' is the first book in a 100 year family saga of Colonial and convict Australia.Set in the convict era Parramatta.*****If you love Australian Colonial history, you will love Sara Powter's 'Hands Upon the Anvil' An absorbing tale of love, big dreams and seeing them come to fruition.Buy 'Hands Upon the Anvil' to find out about the wonderful Lockley family. *****(The convict side this saga is loosely inspired by the author's convict family history.)If you love this book, Wills's story is found in 'Out Where the Brolgas Dance.' Runaways, Gold and PTSD, how can an eighteen year old's question change lives.
Collectanea
We invite you to put up your feet, relax and dip at leisure into this gratifying collection of moods and moments, perceptive pieces from known Chapters writers and newcomers to the group. Within the covers of this anthology, the strong, well-articulated observations of tenacious 'True Grit' writers frame these literary voices. Indeed, we believe you will find an 'eloquent and elegant sufficiency' of insightful observations interpreted perceptively through personal and collective histories, observations and insights. Please join us in experiencing the delight words can deliver. Most of all, we wish you enjoyable reading.
Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback
The first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been so far recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback from the late 1950s onwards. Horwitz was adept at seeking out and exploiting the porous spaces that existed, sometimes only temporarily, between pulp and mainstream publishing: where mainstream literary forms were reconfigured to suit more sensational tastes, authorial reputation was fluid, and government regulation failed to keep pace with shifting reading tastes and social mores. Its dealings were aggressively transnational in scope, moving beyond London, to directly encompass the United States and other overseas fiction markets. And Horwitz continually mined international literary and publishing fashions and successes to create local analogues of popular pulp and mass-market publishing genres, giving them a makeover to align them with Australian cultural sensibilities, tastes and legislative environments. Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback examines the authorship, production, marketing and distribution of Horwitz pulp paperbacks. It includes ground-breaking material on the conditions of creative labour: the writers, artists and editors involved in the production of Horwitz pulp. The book also explores how Horwitz pulp paperbacks acted as a local conduit for the global modern: the ideas, sensations, fascinations, technologies, and people that came crashing into the Australia consciousness in the 1950s and 1960s. This is part of the larger story of Australian pulp fiction's role as an unofficial archive of changing tastes, ideas, controversies and debates about gender, race, class, youth, and economic and social mobility that occurred in 1950s and 1960s Australia.
Vanished
Four passports are found of girls who vanished in Australia. The girl who found them has disappeared too. Who are these girls? Where have they gone?A diary and search in Australia and across the world give tiny glimpses and fragments, but their stories remain elusive. The police search, friends and families search and grieve in alternate measure, but five girls remain gone, their fate unknown.Anne is wracked by guilt at her failure to save her friend, Susan, who vanished one night soon after her release from jail. The evidence suggests she has returned to the place where she and her lover parted, she chose him and the crocodiles over life. She was in advanced pregnancy with twins and so three people are gone.Anne has her friend's story, her voice on a tape is the last fragment left to her of a vanished existence. She must tell this story so that the world can know of this lovely brave girl who seems forever lost. And the families of the other four girls want their stories told too. She has the man's diary, which tells parts, but there is much that makes no sense. It reveals another shadowy girl who may have gone too. She travels to the places from where they have come and were last seen in search of answers. She faithfully records each story, five or even six lost girls, each girl gone, nobody knows where. As she searches patterns emerge which help to explain the why and some of the how, but not where they are now. Almost certainly some are dead, but could some still survive..She is determined not to surrender all hope that at least one or two may yet be found alive. After a year nothing has been found. She must put it behind her and try to get on with her own life, but guilt and hope keep driving her on, searching still.
The Bee Whisperer
The Bee Whisperer's appearance in Barrington has tongues wagging and the small-town rumour mill working overtime.School term begins with a massive bee swarm.Principal Alex Macintosh needs help and Ayla Forrest arrives at just the right time. But what she does next blows him away.Ayla is seeking a sign. An indication the community will accept her, and daughter Skye.Alex is fascinated by the newcomer and keen to know more, but he has his own daughter to consider.Young builder Harry Stewart has his sights set on Ayla too and makes sure she knows it.Will she be drawn to either of them?Settle in for Ayla's journey. With a cast of colourful characters, this story will tug on your heart strings and make you laugh out loud.
Out of the Shadows
It's often this editing process that makes all the difference between a good piece of work and a great one. The thirty pieces or shortlisted work that made it into the anthology, really came down to the elements of good writing working: powerful imagery, strong rhythms, original concepts, and something hard to pin down - a kind of beauty combined with honesty that kept us thinking about the work. These pieces were generally the more ambitious stories and poems that tried to tackle something that can't be said easily, which is why it's such good fodder for creative writing.
Vā
Stories that tell Covid how we REALLY feel, where a Centipede God watches on with wry humour and wrath, where a sexy Samoan goes on a hot Tinder date in Honolulu, where a New Zealand doctor is horrified to be stuck at her cousin's kava drink up in Fiji, where Moana people travel the stars and navigate planets, stories where Ancestors and Atua live and breathe. Stories that defy colonial boundaries, and draw on the storytelling and oratory that is our inheritance. Immerse yourself in the intrigue, fantasy, humour and magic of beautiful strong stories by 38 writers from across the Moana.Chimamanda Adichie speaks about the danger of the single story. In this book you will travel across oceans and meet diverse and deep characters in over 50 rich stories from Cook Island, Chamorro, Erub Island (Torres Strait), Fijian, Hawaiian, Māori, Ni-Vanuatu, Papua New Guinean, Rotuman, Samoan and Tongan writers.Compiled and edited by award-winning writers Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Wendt Young, this anthology is the first of its kind as never before have so many Moana women writers gathered together to share their stories. Includes writing from: Amy Tielu, Arihia Latham, Ashlee Sturme, Audrey Teuki Brown-Pereira, Caroline Matamua, Cassie Hart, Courtney Leigh Sit-Kam Malasi Thierry, Dahlia Malaeulu, Denise Carter-Bennett, Emmaline Pickering Martin, Filifotu Vaai, Gina Cole, Isabella Naiduki, Karlo Mila, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Laura Toailoa, Lauren Keenan, Lehua Parker, Lily Ann Eteuati, Mere Taito, Momoe Malietoa Von Reiche, Nadine Anne Hura, Nafanua PK, Nichole Brown, Nicki Perese, Niusila Faamanatu-Eteuati, Ria Masae, Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, Salote Timuiapaepatele Vaai- Siaosi, Shirley Simmonds, Stacey Kokaua, Steph Matuku, Sylvia Nakachi, Tanya Kang Chargualaf, Tulia Thompson, Vanessa Collins.
Weaving of Worlds
The ferry crossing from Fromentine, on the Bay of Biscay, to ?le d'Yeu is new to me, and yet the island's coastline appears as if it were a remembered shore. Halfway into the eleven-nautical-mile passage through a lazy swell, a faint blur smudges the horizon. In the wind, sea gulls sway and swoop. The blur stretches slowly into a black line that rises between sky and water to embody the reddish-brown, rocky shelf of the island's east coast. I am visiting France from Australia this European summer with my wife Monique. Dominique Turb矇 and his wife also named Dominique Turb矇, n矇e Deschamps, whom we have known for many years, now live in the village of Le Temple de Bretagne near Nantes. We are visiting them from Paris with Monique's sister Edith. I suggested a day excursion to the island. Dominique has family links with the old fishing community on the island, and I am mildly curious about the place to which, in 1945, the French state exiled Marshal P矇tain, the former President of the Vichy Regime. The ferry rounds the breakwater and enters the harbour at the capital Port Joinville. A white fleet sits in the water, and, around the harbour, whitewashed stone buildings stand in an arc that is centred on la mairie where the French tri-colour hangs on a pole angled high above the entrance. We disembark and the eye adjusts on a hazy morning to the confined space in the port. Bands and blocks of colour stand out on the white surfaces of the boats and buildings.
p0sthuman - the evening before
Sensuous, intelligent, energising and dizzyingly fast-paced. Anne KellasElegant, lyrical, often erotic and always intriguing. Amanda LohreyIrrepressible vitality. David MasonIn these poems of love, heartbreak, loss and desire the author reimagines his past to find hints of the beings who could come after us.He identifies in the commonality of human experience the seeds of a posthuman future. But this book is not prophetic. It's about 'the evening before'. Can we read the past as love song, tragedy, or science fiction? What is it to be human? Or to be 'p0sthuman'? And what is it to love, and be loved? Is it the quest for the other, the vulnerable human who in the end sees the sum of their life evaporate?Here are elusive and exhilarating poems about our necessary, vulnerable existence.Wry, heartbreaking, breezy, ecstatic... Peter Jerrim's poems bounce off each other, or appear to suddenly merge as their meaning begins to reveal itself.
A Place to Start Over
Second Edition with five new Bonus Chapters. Can one bad decision change your life? While recuperating from her biggest mistake, Harriet's had time to plan a fresh start, away from the city.With a business plan on her laptop and determination in her heart, she leaves Sydney, heading north. It's a long drive and she's only just beginning to heal, so she's booked a stopover at Barrington Homestead on the way.Harriet meets Drummond Murray on the road to Barrington. He's a cattle farmer and fifth generation local. Impeccable manners but not much warmth. She has no choice but to accept his assistance, but she's not keen to see him again.In contrast, Ben Evans is a local stock and station agent, good humoured, warm and welcoming. Except Harriet isn't looking for romance and she's keen to continue her journey north. Circumstances conspire to keep her in Barrington and after months of feeling helpless, feeling needed strikes a chord.A cast of local characters and new friendships make her wonder if this might just be her place to start over.
Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia
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Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Matchmaker
Match Me If You Can ChloeHappy birthday to me! Chloe can't believe she's a 30-year-old virgin! She's more than ready to lose that title, but she won't settle for just anyone.After bumping into her teenage crush, Theodore Campbell, she knows he's the perfect man to take her V-card. Problem is, he won't sleep with his best friend's sister. Before it's too late, Chloe wants to find a husband and have children, and she convinces Theo to play matchmaker and help her with her dating nerves. Except the dates he sets her up with don't compare to Theo. It's Theo she truly wants. TheoDivorce = failure. I do not like to fail. After his marriage breakdown, Theo's done with relationships. Not interested in one-night stands. Until her. A flash of red on the dancefloor draws him into her magic. Chloe Doyle.His best friend's sister.Untouchable. Chloe's asking for a huge favor. Take her on a fake date and practice making out with her. Being so close to her is making it difficult to keep his distance. He wants her. But he has a secret that will change everything; steal her dreams and make her hate him. So, he walks away. He can't fail again.He's saving them both the heartbreak. Right?
Victim
She holds his diary in her hand. Its contents terrify her, What is the awful tale it tells. She knows she must read it to see what is hidden. Can she bring herself to do so. She hides it away and passes responsibility to another. A fisherman finds a unidentified head in a waterhole in Northern Australia. What appeared to be a crocodile attack turns into murder. Who is this man who no one seems to know. And who was the woman with him in his final days. Her face is glimpsed on CCTV. The search for her narrows. Now the tabloids have a new story - BRAZEN ENGLISH HUSSY, Killed her lover, fed his body to the crocodiles then buried the evidence! This book follows the consequences of the actions in the first book in this series, Visitor. Susan, an English backpacker, comes to Australia, gets caught in a terrifying relationship and barely escapes with her life.She seeks to continue life back in England as if nothing happened. But her past returns to haunt her. Slowly and inexorably the truth of what really happened in Australia emerges. The police have her photo. They are closing in on her identity.
Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures
In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches. Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play--all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation. Seven main themes emerge: "Creation Stories and Genealogies," "Ocean and Waterscapes," "Land and Islands," "Flowers, Plants, and Trees," "Animals and More-than-Human Species," "Climate Change," and "Environmental Justice." This aesthetic diversity embodies the beautiful bio-diversity of the Pacific itself. The urgent voices in this book call us to attention--to action!--at a time of great need. Pacific ecologies and the lives of Pacific Islanders are currently under existential threat due to the legacy of environmental imperialism and the ongoing impacts of climate change. While Pacific writers celebrate the beauty and cultural symbolism of the ocean, islands, trees, and flowers, they also bravely address the frightening realities of rising sea levels, animal extinction, nuclear radiation, military contamination, and pandemics. Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures reminds us that we are not alone; we are always in relation and always ecological. Humans, other species, and nature are interrelated; land and water are central concepts of identity and genealogy; and Earth is the sacred source of all life, and thus should be treated with love and care. With this book as a trusted companion, we are inspired and empowered to reconnect with the world as we navigate towards a precarious yet hopeful future.
Quest
There is something in Quest for everyone, from the hilarious stories, Catsh22 and The Antipodean Pro-Leprechaun Society, to fine nature writing in Hampton, Plants and Sand Castles to social commentary in Upside/Downside or the interface of Nuclear Science and Indian Philosophy in Shiva and Science. So many issues are explored, such as the fact that Holes are Wholes, or the eyes, or the Soul, or sex in Subverting Paradigms and the mystery of identity in Who do I You think I am? Fascinating facts about ordinary old water in Water E=H2O and deep ecological concerns in A Chat with Mother Nature. So there is fun to be had, things to be learnt, opinions challenged and the pure pleasure of reading very original prose that sometimes waxes lyrical or is elevated to verse.
Judith Wright
This first-ever collection of Australian poet Judith Wright's nonfiction is a compelling portrait of a prescient voice on modern Australia.Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of the best-known Australian poets of her generation. Born into a pioneering bush family, her commitments to environmental protection, history writing and obtaining recognition for First Nations people drew her in new directions and assumed a major role in her life. She was the first president of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, a founder of the Australian Conservation Foundation and a member of the Aboriginal Treaty Commission.This selection of her nonfiction, the first of its kind, brings together essays, speeches, family history, correspondence, memoir and criticism to reveal the personal and philosophical threads that bind together her work and life. It makes plain the shifts and transformations in her thinking, and the female friendships - in particular, with writer and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal - that opened her to new perspectives and connections.This addition to the Australian Thinkers series shows what happens when a poet talks about a nation. It reveals a way of thinking about Australia - its land, history and culture - that draws on the best of human possibility.
Paper Talks
Paper Talks is the result of, originally, massive cases of boredom, written during classes we found less than thrilling. The Talks were written in 1983 and 1984 in our last two years of high school as we prepared for our tertiary admissions examinations. In our last three months of high school, when the pressure was beginning to get to us, we gathered as many Talks as we could find and compiled them into a book for our own pleasure. This is the result.
Mysteries
A mother and child missing for thirty yearsAn old stone house with no historySecrets buried below the floorGlimpsed lives from 200 years pastIf only the stones could talkNow a new mystery - the mother's pendant is foundFrom the author of The Old Balmain House this is a story set in early SydneyIts consequences reverberate down through successive generations until todayShe bends forward. A silver pendant falls from her top, swinging free on a chain from her neck.The name 'Cindy' is in silver cursive letters. On its back is a heart symbol and, 'From Jim'.I remember so clearly the day I bought it. I did not have money to buy my Cindy a wedding ring.But, with the twenty dollars I had saved, I bought this. I gave it to her with all my love.She hung it around her neck, where it stayed until she and our baby vanished.Now, after thirty years, it has returned.
In a shadow ii
A collection of modern day poetry, with an extensive use of metaphor, language and imagery, free-verse poetry, award winning poems and rhymes
The Trouble With Him
The trouble with him is he never was supposed to belong to me...Everyone assumes I have the perfect life. And why not? I'm Ava Edwards-daughter of billionaire mogul Lex Edwards.I had everyone fooled until New Year's Eve when my life fell apart.Then he walked into the same bar looking just as devastatingly handsome as I remembered him.A long-lost friend who I considered family-once upon a time.But comfort led to more, and we made a mistake that changed both our lives forever.In my head, I only see the look on my dad's face when I tell him.Chances are the news will destroy my family.And it's all because of one forbidden night...
Diary of a New Chum
Paul Wenz was born in France in 1869, lived in Australia, and wrote stories dealing mainly with his Australian experiences for the French. He wrote ten books from 'Nanima', his homestead in Forbes, New South Wales, including two collections of short stories and four Australian novels. He also translated Jack London and Joseph Conrad, both who came to visit him in Australia.Diary of a New Chum and Other Lost Stories contains many stories never before published in English, and includes correspondence with authors such as Andre Gide, Miles Franklin and Christopher Brennan. Always the very essence of the Australia of Wenz's period, Diary of a New Chum and Other Lost Stories sparkles with irony and psychological insight and represents Paul Wenz at his powerful best.
Reading Like an Australian Writer
All writers begin as readers. This is an ode, a love letter, to the magic of reading. To the spark that's set off when the reader thinks...I can do this too. Some of Australia's top writers take us through these moments of revelation through the dog-eared pages of their favourite Australian books. Ellen van Neerven finds kin on the page with Miles Franklin-winner Tara June Winch. A.S. Patric discovers a dark mirror for our times in David Malouf's retelling of an episode from The Iliad. Ashley Hay pens letters of appreciation and friendship to Charlotte Wood. These and many more writers come together to draw knowledge from the distinctive personal and sensory stories of this country: its thefts and losses, and its imagined futures. Australian fiction shows us what it is possible to say and, perhaps, what still needs to be said. Reading like an Australian Writer is an inspirational and heartfelt collection of essays that will enrich your reading of Australian stories and guide you in your own writing.
Time Will Tell
TIME WILL TELL - SEQUEL TO TWO HEARTBEATSWhen Jess discovered love with Daniel in the tiny outback town of Gowrie it seemed that her previous troubled life had been cast aside. However, differences in their backgrounds, her doubts about real love and the urge to return and support her twin brother Johnno, forced her to make a decision to leave.Her new home in the small community of Tamborine Mountain provides an opportunity to contemplate how she really feels and what is important. Johnno lives nearby and new friends and a romantic encounter give her a fresh start, but is this what she really wants and if it isn't, will Daniel welcome her back with open arms?The tranquil setting of Tamborine Mountain joins forces with the outback of Queensland to continue the story of Two Heartbeats. Will the decision be taken out of Jess's hands, pushing her further away, or will her heart lead her to where she will find true happiness? Time Will Tell - a rural love story, where friendship, romance and hearts entwine.
