Unraveling

Eleven tracks, deep, sombre, reflective graced with, in places a touch of lightness, creates the deeply moving and emotional album Unraveling from pianist Pam Asberry, as she spends time at her beloved piano reflecting back over the year that was 2020. In many people...

The Woman from Uruguay

The longing and yearning and desire that seep out of The Woman from Uruguay are almost palpable. Pedro Mairal describes a day in the life of a man who has become obsessed with a woman he met at a dance. Lucas was drinking at a nightclub when he met Guerra. They...

The Butcherbird Stories

The beauty of reading a book of short stories is the range and scope of people, places and plots that evolve. We move smoothly from a Bangla Jungle, to the Danube River and then to a winter beach scene in Melbourne. Again, the themes vary widely, but in most stories...

The Midsummer Garden

There are so many fascinating aspects to this story that most people will find something to keep them reading, eager to discover solutions. There is a beautiful weaving of stories between a French woman, Artemisia, in1487, and Pip, a Tasmanian woman, in 2014. Both are...