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All the Missing Children
Ilene, a working-class mother, is struggling to survive and desperate to reconnect with her children, Jack and Lonnie, in the aftermath of a near-fatal tragedy. But her children vanish, setting off a chain reaction within the community. Suspended detective Omar helps out with the investigation, uncovering disquieting clues, but he keeps getting pulled away by a dangerous cold case. Benji, a recovering addict, finds peace by breeding lorikeets and caring for his mother, only to have his clean life upended by a stranger’s menacing threat. Nera, a city lawyer grieving on a country farm, wants to find out who killed one of her animals and is faced with increasingly strange and unsettling answers. In this gripping tale of human frailty and the other-worldly, each character must confront the mystery of what really happened to Jack and Lonnie.
Tincture Journal Issue Twelve (Summer 2015)
Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Sydney, Australia. For Issue Twelve table of contents, visit our website at http://tincture-journal.com/
The Girl From Moscow
Moscow, 1983. Twenty-one-year-old Ella dreams of playing Natasha Rostova in War and Peace at the Moscow Theatre Academy. But when she meets her good friend Vlad at a city square, Ella finds herself in the middle of a protest and attracts the glare of the KGB. Labelled a traitor, she must withdraw from the academy and she soon yearns to escape the cruel and oppressive Soviet regime. However, her hopes of leaving the country are smashed when her husband, Roman, is sentenced to two years' labour camp. As she looks for another way out, Ella is drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a KGB general, who has the power to secure her freedom. Will she risk everything and leave behind those she loves to pursue a life in the West? An absorbing, thrilling and heart-stopping Cold War drama, perfect for fans of The Spy's Wife and The Girl from Munich. 'A unique new voice in historical fiction' Belinda Alexandra 'Embark on an exhilarating Cold War journey with Julia Levitina's brilliant debut, THE GIRL FROM MOSCOW. I was hooked by Ella's story from the very first page. This is a must-read for fans of fast-paced, engrossing historical fiction.' Kelly Rimmer
Pantheon Magazine
Featuring 8 stories and 6 poems inspired by Nyx, Goddess of the night, issue #8 of PANTHEON MAGAZINE brings on the dark.Stories by TIM MAJOR, NIKKI GUERLAIN, EMILY SLANEY, GAYLE TOWELL, and more. Poetry by LUCY GABRIEL, COLLEEN ANDERSON, MATTHEW WILSON among others...
The Second Son
Winner of the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, The Second Son takes readers on a exhilarating ride on the mean streets of Western Sydney
The 40th Anniversary Edition
Welcome to this special anniversary edition of the UTS Writers’ Anthology, showcasing writers from four decades of its prestigious Creative Writing program, one of the oldest in Australia. Introduced by Miles Franklin Award winner, Melissa Lucashenko, this treasury of prose, poetry, scripts and non-fiction affords glimpses of the shifting social and political landscape, and evolving literary trends. Since its first edition, Pink Cakes (1982), the Anthology has fostered some of Australia’s finest new writing. This collection features some of the earliest work of its best-loved writers and emerging voices—Beth Yahp, Alison Whittaker, Toby Fitch, Gillian Mears, MTC Cronin, sydney khoo, Ve...
Everyday Resilience
Are you feeling stressed? Not working to your potential? Are you pushing through to meet unreasonable deadlines? Are you wondering how to cope Everyday Resilience contains answers to your questions and more. Valerie Orton provides practical tools and tips to build your resources to sustain your whole well-being. You will find routines to manage change and stressors that impact you daily. Using personal stories, research and anecdotes from her work, she shows you how to build resilience and ultimately, find inner peace and calm in times of conflict and change. It is clear in Everyday Resilience that Valerie walks the talk when it comes to resilience. This is a book that is worth reading more than once. - Steve Moore, Founder and Coach, The Second Chair Capability Development During my 20 years plus in the HR field...Valerie is right up there with the best I have ever encountered. Valeries caring approach is no act she really does care! This reflects both her personal empathy and her uncanny insight to the needs analysis phase of her work. - Mick Duffy, BlueScope Steel
The Good Captain
Set in the near future – during a time of plummeting fish stocks, toxic algae blooms and jellyfish swarms – The Good Captain follows a group of radical environmentalists committed to a mission of extreme civil disobedience against the powers threatening to destroy the last of the world’s marine life. Led by the wild Rena – born and raised by the ocean – the characterful crew engages in a high seas drama that contains all the thrill of a cat-and-mouse seafaring classic, while at the same time offering a timely warning for the political classes that their negligence will not go unpunished. Evoking a disturbing vision of what the world that might soon become – random, dangerous, surprising and sometimes even miraculous – The Good Captain is a gripping, confronting and truly unique novel. ‘If you care about the ocean, about extinction, about deforestation you’ll find yourself immersed in this novel. With originality and wit, Sean Rabin asks “how far is too far?” when you’re fighting to save the planet.’ — Jane Rawson, author of The History of Dreams and From the Wreck
My Friend Fox
‘Tender, wise, and deeply true.’ – Andrew Denton ‘Do not be deceived by the size of this book. It is big in all the ways that matter.’ – Sydney Morning Herald ‘Blazingly beautiful and devastating. I wept but felt less alone as a human. I want everyone to read this book!’ – Favel Parrett, author of Past the Shallows and There Was Still Love The fox sits on the outer waiting for me to discover him because at the moment, I am on the outer too. He watches me. Can you see him? He’s clever at hiding. Just like fox, Heidi has lived on the outer. The ‘official record’ of her life has been her mental health record: Primary diagnosis – Schizoaffective; Comorbidity – Major d...
When Things Are Alive They Hum
‘Bent’s debut celebrates life and sisterhood in an awe-inspiring way.’ –Harper's Bazaar ‘A tender portrayal of sisterly love and impossible choices that will break your heart.’ – Sydney Morning Herald When Things Are Alive They Hum poses profound questions about the nature of love and existence, the ways grief changes us, and how we confront the hand fate has dealt us. Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. For Marlowe...
