Rosanne Dingli's sensual poetry focuses on emotion. Her sense of location and occasion explore overlaps of sensation prompted by a lifetime of changes and shifts to different places. The poems imbibe some of the more challenging aspects of life with a tongue-in-cheek defiance. "All the Wrong Places is an engaging collection of verse. Readable, warm and honest, it should help win a wider audience back for poets and their craft." Rod Moran

This is a collection of succulent short stories, featuring various locations, each of which is accompanied by a recipe. Where will this book live: in the kitchen? On the coffee table? The international flavour of the locations and recipes will add distinction and interest to your reading and cooking.

Disillusioned and depressed, Gregory Worthington sets off from Perth in search of inspiration. He arrives in Malta full of resolve to reignite a flagging writing career. Quaint surroundings, the potential of a love affair, and the antics and warm-heartedness of villagers he befriends fuel his imagination, but his writing brings him more disquiet and confusion than it is worth. What is inspiration, and what is the reality behind the disappearance of little Censinu Mifsud, a ten year-old boy who was never found? There is a secret in the village, one Worthington resolves to unravel, to turn into...

At age 55, Maggie is losing the battle with her fear of failure and small designer dogs. At the advice of her psychiatrist, she and her friend Cher embark on a series of ill-conceived hobbies. Whether hunting for a fabled lizard man in the swamps of South Carolina, or panning for gold, their adventures are sure to test the limits of common sense. When archaeology student, Paul Lakeland stumbles too close to a secret goldmine, he becomes a liability to Bear's clandestine mining operation. Bear's attempts to kill Paul before he can leak the mine's location meet with repeated disaster. The...

Did old age sneak up on you? Karla Telega has cobbled together a semi-comprehensive guide for the newly-old (those at that awkward age between hot flashes and the senior menu). If you need glasses to read this book, drop everything and go get your gray roots touched up. The book will still be here when you get back.

A purple bicycle, a broken statuette, doughnuts, and a spur-of-the-moment drive with a virtual stranger take Selby Green away from her grey existence toward real life. She discovers belonging and warmth through the cruel route of heartbreak; the price of impulsiveness. Bohemian glass, the forests of Moravia, escape from behind the Iron Curtain, and a ten-pound assisted passage to Australia bring Edmund Eben from nowhere to here. He designs vases, sells hats, paints pictures, yearns to belong, learns to love. Edmund and Selby are somehow connected. Time, history, pain and the inexorable pull...