The best of Brien Cole's work is the story of Morning Parrot Trees. And it is superb. The concreteness and fantasy of Fisher's search for the parrot flower are perfectly poised. This is imaginative writing of a high order. The technique is to take the reader inside the action and never let go. His skill lies in knowing what matters. Perhaps his most impressive characteristic is that he does know what matters and resists wasting words ...
"…this book is different, it's quirky, it's a touching little set of stories." – Bruce Petty Tales from Dalgleish:Missing DotHer Own Worst EnemyIt Had Been that SimpleDotThe Christian Riding CampKingTiaraThe Picture Hat Tales from the Sixties:Mrs DuckYou Wouldn't Read About ItMiss RickardThe Bride DollFitzwilliam Road ...
Part excoriation, part lamentation, 'Young Love' unspools the psyche of a man ill at ease with modernity, "that festering malignancy." Satirical, compulsive and deeply provocative, it announces the arrival of David Roberts, a powerful new literary voice. ...
A portrait-painter discovers a terrifying side-effect of his talent. A professor of medicine finds himself romantically involved with a dying patient. The lives of two young people are changed forever by a performance of the Mozart Requiem. A self-styled Messiah tries desperately to persuade a writer that he alone can avert a catastrophe about to engulf the city.<br /> <br />Serge Liberman's extraordinary characters rise up off ...
Flame Tip is a slim collection of short fictions that explore different realities and perceptions arising from the Tasmanian Black Tuesday bushfires of 1967. The pieces in this collection are as diverse in subject matter (infidelity, love, suicide) as they are in length. Despite the horror of one day of infernal terror, these stories reveal nuances of character and place through resilience, empathy, honesty and humour. February 2017 will mark ...
A collection of stories by Australia's most significant Yiddish writer translated into English, some never before published. Goldhar was the literary voice of his generation, as well as a leading cultural and social commentator. This new collection will ensure that this wonderful writer is not forgotten.<br /> <br />Pinchas Goldhar (1901-1947) arrived in Australia in 1926, escaping growing anti-Semitism in Poland. Here he laid t ...
Shortly before his death in 2014, an elderly man brought his publisher friend a crumpled purple folder filled with type-written pages. <i>Cleaning the Stables</i> he called it: a selection of stories, poems and a recipe that he didn't want left behind. <br /> <br />In this posthumous collection we are given a feast of mostly unpublished treasures from the great literary life of Morris Lurie. Written in the wry and ir ...
In prose that sparkles with wit, shocks with insight, and beguiles with the air of legend, these eight stories take the reader from post-apocalyptic Tasmania to the tragedy of surrogate pregnancy in the 1950s. Loss of species, the whims of publishers, the question of Islam in regional Australia – these are among the subjects Carmel Bird addresses in her characteristic probing style. ...
Temper trantrums, doomed relationships, failed businesses, Magellan's crew and house-hunting… This is, at first glance, a quite disparate collection of stories. The settings range from New York, Texas and San Francisco to Sydney, Lismore and Malaysia. The characters vary in age from three years old in 'Rights of Man' to nonagenarians in 'Shady Oaks.' And yet this varied assemblage of work is unified by core themes that s ...
