This book is written for concerned people whose busy lives allow little access to the natural world. It invites readers to gain more awareness of the ...

Living alone in the Blue Mountains, baby-boomer Kate Ward is estranged from her adult son. Where did it all go wrong? She decides to return to Salt Pan ...

Threading Time is a mixture of memoir, poetry and reflection. It moves from the author’s early life growing up in Sydney in the 1950s, to her ...

Australia’s wool growing industry descended into chaos during the early 1980s when a small group of ‘rebel’ shearers started advocating ...

This is the story of my struggle to bring language to my child, who was born with a severe hearing loss as a result of congenital rubella. It is also ...

Sharon Kernot presents an assortment of short stories that reside and crackle in the tense spaces of suburban Australia. She writes about poverty, addiction ...

An eclectic collection of short stories tackling subjects as varied as psychological mind games, the effects of war on those left behind, the vagaries ...

Claire Laishley wasn't particularly concerned when she found a lump in her breast. She'd had two others removed over the years, both benign, and at the ...

The poet Sylvia Plath wrote in 'Black Rook in Rainy Weather', 'let spotted leaves fall as they fall / without ceremony or portent'. If I think of my stories ...

A Sparrow Splashing is a journey into the heart of the Buddha’s teachings. This book of stories and poetry looks at the life of the author through ...