Brenda Berrisford’s book A Web Untangling and other stories is her second book of short stories and poems. She has written for the Writefree Women’s Group anthology for the past 20 years.

If You’re Happy won the Glendower Award at the Queensland Literary Awards in 2020. This story collection is about people who feel lonely or alone, who make mistakes and (sometimes) make amends. There is often wild weather or a natural disaster entwined with the narrative. The theme of happiness, whether elusive or obtained, pervades the stories.

With danger on two fronts, Blackthorn and Grim are faced with a heartbreaking choice—to stand once again by each other’s side or to fight their battles alone...

by Eugen Bacon In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the work of other writers and theorists, to interrogate its various subgenres. Through analysis of writers such as Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling, this book scrutinises the characteristics of speculative fiction, considers the potential of writing cross genre and covers the challenges of targeting young adults.

Every family has secrets that bind them together. A heart-rending story of a guesthouse keeper and his wife who attempt to start over, from devastatingly talented debut author Kali Napier.

Australia, 1914. The world is erupting in war. Jobs are scarce and immigrants unwelcome. For young Catholic Mary O’Donnell, this is not the new life she imagined. But as a shattering betrayal is revealed, Mary must make an impossible choice. Does she embrace the path fate has set for her, or follow the one she longs to take?

Tree With No Leaves is a deeply personal diary account of Sorja’s emotional, mental, spiritual and physical struggles with loss and illness over two decades of her life. From the anguish of infertility and IVF in her thirties to a shattering breast cancer diagnosis in her forties, it is through her enduring sense of humour, sheer will and her I’m not done yet! attitude that Sorja is still here to share her story.

In these thirty-five interviews with verse novelists from Australia and Aotearoa–New Zealand, Linda Weste explores the uniqueness of storytelling through poetry and the genre of the verse novel. Her subjects are notable representatives of a region where verse novels for Adults, Children and Young Adults thrive.

In Barbara Gurney's new novel 'The Promise', we learn of an evolving but lasting friendship between four women: Eleanor, Pam, Jacqui and Rowena. 'The Promise' is a heart-warming story of friendship and loyalty with a touch of romance.

Anna Jacob's 100th novel! Lancashire, 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married, and her youngest following his dreams of becoming a doctor, Gwynneth Harte finds herself with an empty nest - until a fire forces her to move in with Gabriel and his wife Maisie at their home on Daisy Street. Arthur Chapman has been at a low ebb ever since the death of his wife. Turning to drink in his grief, he lost both his job and contact with his grandchild, Beatie...

If you remember 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' you need to discover where 'Road to Hanging Rock' leads.

Josh is a sweet, well-meaning university student with a big heart. After he impulsively steals two research mice from a campus laboratory, he hides them in the basement of the retirement village where he works. The mice are happy and so is Josh, until he discovers that the lab mice could cause a deadly disease.

Not a love story, but about love. Not a romance, but supremely romantic. How to Disappear is a novel in two parts. It links two lost people; it shows how confusion and loss need the hand of chance to develop into discovery and enduring affection. From disappearance into realization and belonging, a heart-felt search brings about all that is hoped for.

"We're all in pain. We try to keep the gates closed by falling in love, travelling, avoiding responsibility, getting drunk, taking drugs...anything to lose ourselves. But the dull ache remains in each of us. These stories are about the gates opening."

A Feast of Sorrows — Angela Slatter’s first U.S. collection — features twelve of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-winning Australian author’s finest, darkest fairy tales, and adds two new novellas to her marvelous cauldron of fiction.

Graffiti Lane looks at life through an unfiltered lens, bringing a personal perspective on the grittiness of urban living in an eclectic mix of traditional, shadow and freeform poetry.

Set in Brisbane, Australia, and told as a series of skilfully linked short first-person narratives, this is an account of the descent into thrills-at-any-cost of the Oxley Creek Boys.

Sadie Starr is obsessed with starting over. A new year, a new diet, a new social media identity. Anything that gives her a chance to be a better version of herself. So when her dad’s job moves the family interstate, Sadie’s excited for a fresh start. It’s also the perfect excuse to leave behind the mess she’s made with her best friend and secret crush Daniel. But at her new school, life gets complicated fast.