The Spin Doctor’s Wife

Set in Sydney, this fast-paced modern-day story outlines problems and lifestyles that have become a familiar part of our world. The spin doctor was once a man ambitious to become a political journalist. Now he manipulates the truth and can put a positive spin on most...

The Sleeper and the Spindle – paperback edition

The team of Neil Gaiman and Neil Riddle are hard to beat when to it come to spinning a fine yarn, all the while twisting together the time old children’s stories of Snow White and the Sleeping Beauty to come up with rollicking good yarn for modern audiences. Released...

The Sleeper and the Spindle

When you set out to fracture a fairy story there is none better than Neil Gaiman to do the job.With this very grown up  fairy story he has managed to combine both the Sleeping Beauty with Snow White and come up with a very, very plausible yarn, which is something...

Spinoza’s Overcoat: Travels with writers and poets

“I hope reading this book will turn its readers into inquisitive explorers ready to open doors and windows to the world of writing other than their own beloved English” Subash Jaireth. Subhash Jaireth’s work Spinoza’s Overcoat is an absolute marvel in the use of...

Where Are Our Boys? How Newsmaps Won the Great War

In this incredibly detailed look at a perspective of World War 1, seldom observed, Martin Woods has presented a complexity of fact hat boggles the mind, creating a journey of war news and maps based in propaganda, giving to the public what the hierarchy felt they...

Slow Fashion: Aesthetics Meets Ethics

Much has being written about ethical fashion over recent years, especially since the collapse of Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh in 2013 killing or maiming more than 1,100 factory workers. The outrage was worldwide that these people, who were lowly paid, suffered...

The Madness of Modern Parenting

A debate, within a debate, within a debate just begins to scratch the surface of this excellent and often comical look at the many and varied issues that go to make up modern parenting, while challenging many of the ‘Must’s’ which have made becoming a parent and...

The Amish Quiltmaker’s Unlikely Match

It all began with a discussion about a new quilt to be made for Great-grandmother Beulah, to celebrate her one hundredth birthday. The ladies are gathering to select the blocks they will make for the new quilt.  Master Quilt Maker Cathy Larsen is invited to the...

Tender Things Shall Die

Riveting and powerful Tender Things Shall Die from Stephen Edward Reid portrays the human psyche from many different perspectives in this murder mystery that keeps the suspense very real until the last page. Set in a Victorian village in 1865, the people who live...

The Furphy Anthology 2023

It is Furphy time again with the annual collection of short stories, The Furphy Anthology 2023 all based in and around Australian life, now available in discerning bookstores Australia wide. The Furphy’s have been run each year since 1992.Each story must have only...

Australia’s Most Infamous Criminals

Graham Seal has written many stories about Australian History. He has written “Bush Yarns, Convict Stories, Australian Mysteries, Great Australian Journeys, and Great Anzac Stories”, to name a few. He has done an enormous amount of research over the years and has a...