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The Cat who Looked at the Sky
When writer Thea Welsh and her partner agree to share the raising of two new kittens with their constantly traveling friends, Ron and Robin, the idea seems eminently sensible and straightforward. But that's before the cats arrive. Thea captures the personality of each of her very different charges as they grow from kittens to adults and entertainingly describes their intense relationships with one another and their human companions. Full of cat facts, cat drama and wry asides, this witty, engaging and affectionate portrait will appeal to anyone who's ever loved a cat - or a good story.
The President's Wife
The President's wife - is she a victim or a heroine? Is she a victim or a heroine? Beth Wilford Avery is the most famous woman in the world. At twenty-one, she saves the future President of the United States from an assassin's bullet and becomes the perfect candidate for the position of First Lady. Born into a prominent political family, Beth knows how to appear poised in public, how to smile for the cameras and, most importantly, how to keep secrets. Until she meets someone to whom she needs to reveal the truth about her life ... Sharp, witty and insightful, the President's Wife is not only a suspenseful story of a public marriage and private anguish, and a telling account of political spin and manipulation, it also explores the way certain charismatic women become icons who exercise an enduring fascination in the lives of millions.
The Story of the Year of 1912 in the Village of Elza Darzins
It's the 1980s and the Cold War is still under way when the State Film Board acquires a rediscovered film from an obscure Latvian director. It's believed to be a masterpiece. Hired to do the translation thanks to her Latvian background, Erika realises that if she accurately translates what she hears, the film doesn't make any sense. So as she writes the subtitles she makes a few adjustments ... and then has to live with the consequences.A vibrant and witty evocation of the intensity and eccentricities of the Australian film industry in the 1980s, and a meditation on the meaning of authorship.'Highly amusing yet deeply perceptive ... what a marvellous first novel!' --Margaret Pomeranz, The Mo...
Overland
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The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels
This book is an analysis of the textual representation of dance in the Australian novel since the late 1890s. It examines how the act of dance is variously portrayed, how the word 'dance' is used metaphorically to convey actual or imagined movement, and how dance is written in a novelistic form. The author employs a wide range of theoretical approaches including postcolonial studies, theories concerned with class, gender, metaphor and dance and, in particular, Jung's concept of the shadow and theories concerned with vision. Through these variegated approaches, the study critiques the common view that dance is an expression of joie de vivre, liberation, transcendence, order and beauty. This text also probes issues concerned with the enactment of dance in Australia and abroad, and contributes to an understanding of how dance is 'translated' into literature. It makes an important contribution because the study of dance in Australian literature has been minimal, and this despite the reality that dance is prolific in Australian novels.
We Don't Know What We're Doing
A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting sexual encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an unimaginable truth; and a twice-widowed pensioner tries to persuade the lovely Mrs Morgan to be his date at the town's summer festival... Set in Caerphilly, a diminished castle town in South Wales, Thomas Morris' debut collection reveals its treasures in unexpected ways, offering vivid and moving glimpses of the lost, lonely and bemused. By turns poignant, witty, tender and bizarre - these entertaining stories detail the lives of people who know where they are, but don't know what they're doing. This is the work of a young writer with a startlingly fresh voice, an uncanny ear for dialogue and a broad emotional range. We Don't Know What We're Doing is a major launch for the Faber fiction list in 2015.
Refractory Girl
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Unlacing Lady Thea (Mills & Boon Historical)
A JOURNEY INTO PLEASURE... The night before dissolute Lord Denham is about to embark on his Grand Tour he meets an unexpected complication. In boy’s clothes that barely conceal her delectable curves, his childhood friend Lady Althea Curtiss – desperate to escape an arranged marriage – arrives, demanding free passage!
Autumn Laing
Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the 1930s. Now 'old and skeleton gaunt', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship with the abundantly talented Pat Donlon and the effect it had on her husband, on Pat's wife and the body of work which launched Pat's career. A brilliantly alive and insistently energetic story of love, loyalty and creativity.
