Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre

KSP Bookshelf

This new online bookshelf features work from KSP's members, Ambassadors and Writer-in-Residence alumni. Support the KSP family! By buying a book listed here, you are supporting your community. Click on a title to be redirected to the author or publisher website, or other online sales platform, to purchase. All sales profit goes to the author; we do not take a commission for this promotional service. Categories are listed alphabetically. To add a book to the shelf, please email KSP with your name, genre of book (based on the categories we have listed on the bookshelf), cover image, short blub of around 50 words, and a web link to purchase. Limit two books per person.

Anthologies & Collections

Fifty years after her passing, the KSP Writers’ Centre community have banded together to reflect on the life and legacy of noted Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969).

With the conjuring of fictional fancies, poetic reminiscences, and enthralling essays, these pages are filled with evocative tales that bring Katharine back to life.

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.

This anthology features all the best entries from KSP's 2020 Spooky Story Competition. Do you dare to dive BENEATH its covers??

Print book costs $15, plus $5 p/h (Australia only) if you cannot pickup from the Centre. Email or phone KSP to order a copy.

office@kspwriterscentre.com
(08) 9294 1872

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Fantasy, Paranormal & Science Fiction

Rift crossed lovers from very different worlds.
A fairy tale land where humans are the enemy.
Can their love survive two worlds trying to tear them apart?
If you like a thrilling adventure, snarky animal companions, and love worth fighting for, you will find it in this portal fantasy series.

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...

Troy knew his mission, and his loyalty brought everyone's trust around him. A battle-master whose experiences in traveling through parallel dimensions spanned for over a decade. Follow the journey of a long-time dimensional traveler, encountering powerful vampires who discover that he is more than what he appears to be.

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Historical Fiction

Diamonds, Death, and Devonshire tea… in a magical Regency England

Miss Elinor Avely’s proper upbringing cannot prepare her for the tiny, spinster vampire who crashes into her sitting room, demanding to be fed with a sheep.

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.

1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a kind relative leaves her a house in the village of Backshaw Moss, Thomas tries to take it from her, but she defies him, determined to make a new start in Lancashire.

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Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir

Ashley Kalagian Blunt's 'How to Be Australian' is a funny and heartfelt memoir that explores Australian identity & culture through the eyes of a slightly anxious Canadian. A book for everybody, it traverses the realities of adulthood, marriage and how we find our place in the world.

Talent: Awakening in Hyper-Competitive Environments

In his book, Dr Alkesh Vyas, offers a new and proven perspective on how corporations can nurture the knowledge and experience generated amongst its employees to organically harness and grow creative and innovative solutions to sustain competitive and comparative advantage.

Serenity was written for my grand children, to know about their ancestors, and it contains poems and stories of difficulties during the War in Holland, Dad's navy history on war ships, and immigrating to Australia. How hard it was to begin in a new country. The book has 428 pages and is self published to buy a copy call Kitty also known as Catharina. 95712050

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Women's Fiction & Romance

A series of one-night-stands brings Lucy much-needed escape, but it all comes crashing down when the past comes back to haunt her.
Lucy’s head is a mess, and she knows she needs help, but just as she's starting to make some headway, Em convinces her a holiday to the party island of Ibiza is all the respite she needs. Falling back into her former party-girl ways, Lucy soon realises that Em is right. But is Ibiza just a smokescreen?

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.

Belinda is fed up with routine housework – but the future looks monotonous and uninspiring.

A chance encounter at a shop in a small country town turns out to be more than a diversion. She returns home with renewed confidence and the realisation that change is a choice – her choice.

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Crime & Mystery

'According to Luke' takes the reader on a quest for an ancient truth so explosive it attracts violent separatists, angry clerics, and demands a ransom of millions.

Two corpses . . . a woman lying dead on her bed, a man hanging from the ceiling fan.

A suicide note cum murder confession.

And a name . . . Shaunak Sodhi.

Someone's stolen your baby. But no one believes you.

You wake up alone after an emergency caesarean, desperate to see your child. And when you are shown the small infant in the nursery, a terrible thought takes root: this baby is not your baby.

No one believes you. Not the nurses, your father or even your own husband. They say you’re confused and delusional.

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General & Literary Fiction

In 1860s London, Arthur sees his wife, Emily, struck down by a pain for which she can find no words, forced to endure harmful treatments and reliant on him for guidance. In contemporary Perth, Alice and her older husband, Duncan, find their marriage threatened as Alice investigates the history of hysteria, female sexuality and the treatment of the female body – her own and the bodies of those who came before.

A Funeral in Fiesole is a four-fold weave of memories told in turn by Paola, Brod, Suzanna and Nigel. Their youthful dreams are revealed, together with their hopes for the future.

So, who goes to Prague to hide away? Gillian does.

Intent on surviving her grief, in her own way, Gillian ignores the beauty and history of Prague, wallowing in her sadness.

On her daily wanderings, Gillian photographs dozens of doors: elaborate door, ugly doors, old doors, broken doors. People come from behind some of these doors and, over time, befriend her.

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Horror

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.

"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."

There are many grief holes. There's the grief hole you fall into when a loved one dies. There's another grief hole in all of us; small or large, it determines how much we want to live.

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Poetry

With a talent for storytelling and metaphors flowing from the deepest level of her mind, Sabrina's poems are powerful at awakening change within the reader.

The poems within this book are designed to invite communication and reconnection, first and foremost with yourself but also with others.

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.

"Love is a Gift" Poetry collection by Kitty {Catharina} Niemann. 214 page hard cover, published by Rosanna Publications.

$10.00 per copy. Phone 95712050 to purchase.

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Young Adult & Children's Books

In a small town, everyone thinks they know you: Charlie is a hardcore rocker, who's not as tough as he looks. Hammer is a footy jock with big AFL dreams, and an even bigger ego. Zeke is a shy over-achiever, never macho enough for his family. But all three boys hide who they really are. When the truth is revealed, will it set them free or blow them apart?

Fassie is the perkiest joey in her mother’s litter who faces danger bravely, and then, with much enthusiasm, encourages her entire family to follow her ‘up the tree trunks and around the branches, never slipping, never falling … where all night long they can run and jump and climb and hunt!’

Mavis is a normal teenager but with a unique connection with birds. On her 13th birthday her grandmother reveals that like each female in the generations before Mavis, it is her destiny to develop the abilities of the birds she loves. With Grandma's guidance and the help of a cheeky Macaw sidekick called Jervis, Mavis soon has the powers of the birds of the world.

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KSP Bookshelf

Anthologies & Collections

Kaleidoscope

A Web Untangling

Beneath

Fantasy, Paranormal & Science Fiction

Guardians of Wundor

Den of Wolves

Dark Dimensions

Historical Fiction

The Lady Jewel Diviner

The Secrets at Ocean's Edge

A Valley Dream

Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir

How to be Australian

Talent: Awakening in Hyper-Competitive Environments

Serenity

Women's Fiction & Romance

The Sunrise Girl

The Promise

Dusty Heart

Crime & Mystery

According to Luke

3 and a Half Murders

Mine

General & Literary Fiction

Eye of a Rook

A Funeral in Fiesole

Doors of Prague

Horror

A Feast of Sorrows

The Gate Theory

The Grief Hole

Poetry

Mala of Words

Graffiti Lane

Love is a Gift

Young Adult & Children's Books

Invisible Boys

Fassie, The Liveliest Phascogale

Mavis