Unexpected challenges to my self-confidence and then reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli sent me on an exploration of time and memory. Rovelli took my understanding of time to pieces from a physics perspective and put it back together again from a philosophical one. I've been aware for years of those famous words of Descartes - 'I think, therefore I am.' Rovelli is saying something similar, that it is our memories that make us who we are. Rovelli...

A full-length dramatisation of Hill's novel Soldier Boy about the youngest Australian Anzac. Jim Martin is just 14 when he lies about his age, enlists and dies of typhoid after just seven weeks on Gallipoli. Act One is Jim joining up. Compulsory school cadets - the outbreak of war - the emotional blackmail of his parents by threatening to run away if they don't sign a consent letter. A real threat, and like others they give way. Act Two...

Even idyllic lives can take an unexpected turn for the worse. This is a story of a proud young family living a good life whose future falls apart when the fates turn against them.A boy grows up on King Island in Bass Strait with his parents on their farm. His mother is a beautiful hard working member of the community as a senior nurse in the Islands hospital a person loved and admired by all who know her.His father is a successful farmer and lobster...

Winner, IP Rolling Picks 2013, Best Fiction! Drought. Heatwave. Environmental ruin… Do the answers lie in Controlled Waking State, CIQ Sinocorpa's newest stratagem to subdue a restless population? Yellowcake Summer concludes the exciting story begun in Yellowcake Springs.

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Hearts, careers and livelihoods are burning down in the 3rd instalment of the Southgate Trilogy and, being set in 2019, so eventually is the entire east coast of Australia. But what exactly IS the best way to fight these fires...? BROOKE - is still trying desperately to extinguish the rumours about herself and Ryan. But when some incriminating photographs surface, she is forced to decide whether to trust the person she loves most or fight to save...

Michael Lampman lied about his age when he joined the Australian army in 1967. He was 20 years old but he needed the written permission of his parents in order to join the army as he was under the age of 21. That permission was not forthcoming, so he altered the year of birth shown on the back of his Australian Naturalisation Certificate by changing 1947 to 1946. He now found that he was in the army and on his way to the Officer Cadet School at Portsea...

In 1973 the firebombing of the Whiskey Au-Go-Go nightclub grabbed the headlines in Brisbane unlike any other disaster beforehand. 15 people were killed amid the inferno, the worst mass-murder ever in Australia. Rumours were rife. Detectives were forewarned, but was the firebombing part of an implausible notion to embark on an extortion racket? Or was it a scheme for insurance purposes? Perhaps it was the act of a disgruntled customer, a former employee,...

This anthology comprises poems written about the particularities of nature in Australia and Japan, together with the multi-faceted emotions engendered thereby. Japanese people cherish the tanka form as much now as they did in ancient times. And for English-speaking people, this anthology will provide an excellent way of experiencing tanka as English poetry. Composed by poets in Australia and Japanese, the tanka within these pages reveal previously...

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