Books

Inspired by Ollie’s lethal – WOOF! – left foot, the Blues start kicking with confidence and skill, on the way to an impressive victory. The series is designed for primary school-aged readers and centres around popular AFL clubs, including Collingwood,...

Dinesh’s hanger at the Hangar inspires his beloved Bombers to fly UP… UP, to grab a great win and a chance to celebrate. The series is designed for primary school-aged readers and centres around popular AFL clubs, including Collingwood, Hawthorn,...

Alexander reminds his beloved Hawks to play with DASH and DARING… and to CELEBRATE. ‘We’re a happy team at Hawthorn.’ The series is designed for primary school-aged readers and centres around popular AFL clubs, including Collingwood, Hawthorn, Carlton,...

Jenna uses her jumping skills to fix a team banner that just isn’t right. Now the Eagles really are flying high! The series is designed for primary school-aged readers and centres around popular AFL clubs, including Collingwood, Hawthorn, Carlton,...

Zac and Zoe convince Craig McRae to get a favourite player off the bench and onto the ground. A winning move for the Mighty Pies! The series is designed for primary school-aged readers and centres around popular AFL clubs, including Collingwood,...

When the twin moons rises, the night will overtake the day. In a world of shadows, nocturnal creatures have evolved to become the apex predators. Will one knight be able to hold back the monsters that emerge from the darkness? The owlers have taken the...

All it takes is a word. Victoria and friends return from the icy north, back to the Western Nations but trouble isn't too far behind! Learn the true meaning of FAMILY in this steampunk, fantasy adventure.

After more than 2000 years in exile, the Moon Goddess (ChangE) returns to Earth only to face demons from her past. Will she have the strength to save humanity once again?

Evie Walsh obsessively sits beside a garden pond, examining her life and loves and her bouts of deep depression. What is the significance of the men, of the places she returns to in her memories? Of the one man who recurs carrying as he does the terrible...

‘Jangles’, a picture book for toddlers and beginner readers, is about a fun-loving adventurous girl who lives beside the Coral Sea filled with an extraordinary love of the ocean. Jangles inspires our little ones to get outside, enjoy nature and protect...

Art has the capacity to speak to us across time and space. In these eleven letters the writer sets out to reply.Some of the artists she addresses lived long ago and far away, others overlapped her own lifetime and experience. Remembering encounters with...

Chords in the Soundscapes is a full-length collection of nonfiction poetry about sounds and emotions. This collection is divided into two interrelated sections: The Science of Music, which focuses more on the technical side of music and sounds more...

Rivka is an ex-soldier who was augmented in a transhumanism project. After a brutal beating, she is left for dead by the Russian mob. Will she be able to survive the arduous journey of recovery where she has to confront inner demons from her past?

To say former Australia Test wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield lived an extraordinary life would be an understatement: incarcerated in a dungeon in Egypt, working in a venereal disease clinic, surviving a bomb blast which killed his comrades in the First World...

Drawing on cutting-edge research into genre fiction and trauma theory The Trauma-Informed Writer is an essential resource for all fiction writers wanting to explore and include trauma themes.Inside you'll discover how to manage and limit 'trauma...

It's the 1970s and Anne thought a fresh start in a northern town would be the adventure of a lifetime. But her husband Thomas has other plans. While he is busy with his career Anne struggles to adapt to a new culture a growing family and a marriage that...

Cracks in the Path is a reflection of the poet's life in Australia's capital city an environment dominated by imposing national monuments and landmarks. Negotiating the everyday comforts and discomforts Brenda Goggs is interested in the...

In July 1977 as twenty-year-old Sandra Dubs was driving home a car ran a red light smashing into the passenger side of her vehicle. The next day whiplash trauma revealed a lump on her neck. It was diagnosed as Hodgkin lymphoma - cancer.Within days her...

In this beguiling collection of short stories Larry Boyd offers extraordinary insight into the human psyche and the many ways that we experience love and loss. Deceptively simple at times each of the 16 vignettes reveals the intensity of the joy and...

 Oliver Freeman invites readers on an intimate journey through his life love failures and triumphs. Through candid reflection and heartfelt prose Freeman shares his profound experiences with intimacy and the complexities of being a man in today's...

In 'Harbour in Me' acclaimed poet Thérèse Corfiatis lays bare her hopes and dreams.So fine-tuned with nature are the peregrinations of these poems that they become an arboreal odyssey travelling the highways and byways of the author's island state of...

Oliver Freeman invites readers to share the emotional and intellectual journey he has made as a poet from small beginnings when he was a child in London to his adult reflections on love life family and more - initially in England and for the last 40...

This collection is made up of occasional verse which is to say poems written only occasionally. They make no claim on merit as 'high art' from someone centrally engaged in questions of literary craft except in so far as they try to follow Ezra Pound's...

According to Archbishop Mannix, boys like David Kanatopsky were the lucky ones’. Having sustained an acquired brain injury at birth, Davey grew up in a loving Jewish family in Melbourne. At 16, his care was entrusted to the Hospitaller Brothers of St...

 A lake in the smallest state on the North East coast of America becomes a home of security and love for a couple who has wandered the world. It is where they also experience fear pain and grief before they become parents of a tiny daughter...

Dog is a poignant exploration of PTSD, addiction, and redemption, told through an Israeli officer returning from service. Haunted by trauma, he descends into heroin addiction among Tel Aviv’s marginalised drug community—until a stray dog unexpectedly...

This collection is a meditation on the garden that is my woodland sanctuary at the top of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Perched on the side of a ridge it is sheltered by tall silver-top eucalypts with their rough grey bark. Each year the number...

Simon Feldman had everything to live for and as it turns out everything to lose.From co-founding a successful ASX-listed company to embezzling $16.5 million Simon's story is everything but ordinary. His life took a sharp turn when he was sentenced to...

Dr Peter Kraus is a retired obstetrician-gynaecologist. He is a child survivor of the Holocaust who emigrated to Australia with his parents and brother in 1948. Slow Train to Auschwitz (Revised Edition) traces his family history, giving a glimpse of...

In Flights of the Mind Lorraine James brings to life everyday experiences and common memories, with stories straddling the twentieth century up to the present. Seen through the daily struggles of individuals and families, the self-satisfaction of the...

In the beautiful city of Budapest lies Do Not Forget Me Street. Here, a Jewish infant named Erica was born into the maelstrom of WWII, just as the Hungarian regime was implementing Hitler’s Final Solution’. Decades later, Erica returns, determined that...

Cultivating a haiku way of looking at the world opens the door to perceptions that would otherwise almost certainly go unheeded and unrecognised, sometimes fleeting, sometimes deep.As Judith E.P. Johnson astutely notes, behind each haiku is a long story...

Born in Canberra in 1944, Elizabeth grew up under the shadow of her father, Sir Frederick Wheeler, a man destined for one of the highest offices in Australia. To the outside world, her family appeared accomplished and respectable. This perception hid a...

Ring the Bells is a collection of new poetry with an invitation to hear each poem as a bell chime embracing light, dark, life and love - cyclic like the seasons.

The coastal town is not named nor is 'the boy' about whom and by whom this story of 1950's and 1960's rural Australia is written.Much of the narrative revolves around fishing waters fresh and salt in Victoria's Western District. More than that it is a...

Set against the backdrop of war-torn Rhodesia Climbing Trees is a haunting and heartfelt memoir where innocence is fragile and family ties are as complex as the political turmoil unfolding around them.Growing up on a beloved family farm surrounded by her...

This collection of poems is a homage to my grandfather Demetrius (Jim) Fermanis and the island he called home but never returned to. I cannot vouch for these stories.

Flash fiction describes a very short story which should end with a twist a surprise perhaps even a shock.Creating one hundred word flash fiction stories is a passion of mine.If my original story begins with a word count over and above the one hundred...

The matter of these poems has been lifted from a long stretch of time.And from disparate experiences.Light moments. Dark moments. Random encounters sharp observations startling reflections.And of course some fun and games moments of sheer silliness...

Being holed up on an outback sheep station for nearly three years has been one of the best experiences of my life. From the spectacular landscape of the Flinders Ranges to the beauty of the people we came to know I will have lasting memories to make...

After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia the country of her birth at the request of her aging narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered haunting...

Gwen Bitti born with a facial caul in Calcutta India migrates to Australia with her family when she is sixteen. She returns to her birth land for a visit some years later. On her arrival she is jolted into a new perspective and with fresh insight sets...

This book describes highlights and the occasional lowlight of Michael Newman's life. It will make you laugh shudder and reflect. Newman takes you to far-flung places - Jamaica America South Africa France and England - with a witty mind and a...

In the 1980s there was a kind of magic to the mixtape. They could be anything its creator wanted. The mixtape was like a letter but it was also a personal soundtrack. You wanted it to say something about you - to express in some abstract way how you felt...

Composed during Covid-19 these poems reveal the fragility of life and the strength of love in dark times. The poet finds solace in the little things of life: a cup of coffee with a friend a walk by the seashore with her family in the quiet loveliness of...

William 'Bill' Mott came from generations of farmers/graziers who never wanted anything else but to own their own land. Hard work family and the sense of community were pitted against the harsh reality of this ancient land and its climate of drought and...

‘Hildegard of Bingen was a woman of extraordinary creative expression and this book approaches her wisdom through the gift of poetry which allows us to move into a more intuitive space. It is a book to slow us down that invites us to ponder and...

This book contains two complementary stories written by two generations of the one family. It spans three centuries – from the 1860s to the present day 2016. The swagman Sully and Russ Gibson parson were both born in the nineteenth century though...