Having grown up by a river in Queensland and having spent many happy hours as a boy exploring this environment, it is no wonder that Simon Cleary felt the call of the water. He realizes that his desire is to walk the length of the river from its source to its mouth,...
Yuwonderie’s wealth is directly attributed to the irrigation of what was dry, arid pastureland. The families, known as The Seven are responsible for the innovative approach to greening this once fickle farming land, amassing great wealth and power. Lording it over...
A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin The subtitle of Dead in the Water states this is a ‘very angry book’, which is totally correct as, by the end of the first three chapters the very real sense of...
Pianist composer Sydney Stevens has captured something very special in her work Waltz of Life made up of tracks created over many years, each piece composed in relation to life events which inspired the need to be written as a tribute and a memory to this event. She...
If you are looking for a game to keep your children occupied in the pool this summer, this is it. Skim n Hoop is a colourful, inflatable, sturdy toy with the ability to be converted into many activities. The dimensions are 150 cm long 144cm high and 86 cm wide. Once...
The music of Scott Cossu fails to fit into any one specific category and so to that end, his works fits squarely to into what could be considered as Orphan Music or music that is fresh, vibrant and is absolutely and without doubt outside standard definitions. This is...
What would a young rural teenager do if he found a body floating in a lake? David Burton spins this scenario into a captivating, page turning teen’s novel. Shaun, the protagonist, lives in a declining rural mining town in Queensland and is the son of a single parent....
Maybe it’s in your DNA, or a learned behaviour, or a Star Sign, but there is definitely a group of people who just love the water and being in it. For those people, The Memory Pool is a dynamic collection of short stories that is so Australian, and so exciting to...
There are very few musicians that can contribute much of their skill to their Aunt Mable, but such is the case for Aleksandra Takala as her Aunt Mable, who took her to see ‘Hair’ back in the day, gave her an old player piano which did not even have the full 88 keys....
