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Beginning in Sight
Beginning in Sight is Theodore Ell's first poetry collection. It brings together work written over more than ten years, tapping into the memories, life-stories and mirror-images that resist time and recouple bygone experience to the drifting world of today. The poems branch out from Ell's original home of Sydney into its hinterland, the coast and the Hunter, snatching moments of respite and pleasure in troubled times, before finding new bearings in the Canberra region. Haunted by the presence of vanished lives and histories, these are poems of perseverance, endurance and a past that seems to know what is coming.
Lebanon Days
A captivating memoir that unravels the emotional struggles of a nation the world has long overlooked. Through the eyes of an outsider, this story takes a deep dive into the intimate details of Lebanon's hardships, providing a profound understanding of its people and their journey. 'An astonishing piece of writing.' Helen Garner on Ell's 'Façades of Lebanon', winner of the 2021 Calibre Essay Prize. From 2018 to 2021, writer and researcher Theodore Ell accompanied his wife on her diplomatic posting to Lebanon and unexpectedly found himself a witness to a country on the brink of collapse. In 2019, facing economic meltdown, the people of Lebanon rose up, united in a revolution of hope. With the...
Family Punishment in Nazi Germany
In the Third Reich, political dissidents were not the only ones liable to be punished for their crimes. Their parents, siblings and relatives also risked reprisals. This concept - known as Sippenhaft – was based in ideas of blood and purity. This definitive study surveys the threats, fears and infliction of this part of the Nazi system of terror.
Sparks
A fire kindling. The energy of industry. Sparks combines all this and more, through stories, poems, essays and photographs by twenty-six new writers and artists.
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The Imperfection of Being
Peter Smith sets about his normal daily routine only to find his day, his world and his whole life turned upside down as a series of rather unfortunate events; unravel around him. Unfortunately for them he also drags three relative strangers into it all, as his problems go from bad to worse and Peter goes from being rather annoyed to near insanity. Things all start to go wrong when he has to avoid a meeting at work and gets cajoled into a bar, gets in a fight, gets taken to hospital, gets sacked from his job, promptly arrested, loses his girlfriend gets her back only to lose her again and then dies in a car accident along with his three newly found and quite annoyed, colleagues. Thats just the beginning of his day, as the afterlife has a few other things on offer for him and his new acquaintances. All this and I have not even told you about the gossiping girlfriends, the mad inebriated sailors or even the woodlice and their overall part in the proceedings.
