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...
View ArticleWork Backwards
Something’s about to break, and if we don’t change direction soon, it’s going to be us. It doesn’t matter in which industry or where: too many of us are overworked, disengaged and apprehensive about...
View ArticleThis Is Where You Have To Go
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced. Proud Dhunghutti woman, laywer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda Holden tells...
View ArticleHuman?
“I am not Aboriginal. I am not Indigenous. I am not First Nations. We never called ourselves this, you did. I am Wik.‘Aborigine’ comes from the Latin words ‘ab’, meaning ‘from’, and ‘origine’, meaning...
View ArticleThe Gallows Bird
London 1838: The cast-out child of an aristocratic mother, Hannah ‘Birdie’ Bird is a laundry maid with a hidden past and a suspicion that the wealthy family she serves is hers. Longing for beauty and...
View ArticleMoons
The spiritual successor to Space is Cool as Fuck, a mind bending information overload or the majesty of our favourite local moons. ALMOST EVERY PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM HAS ONE, SO WHY DO WE KNOW SO...
View ArticleWhat’s Murder Between Friends
‘I think it was one of us,’ Walter says … ‘We had the perfect opportunity. Everyone’s thinking it, I’m just saying it.’ The last thing Hallie and her drama classmates expect to find on a high school...
View ArticleWed by the Wayside
Can marriage be an act of rebellion? This is the story of Wayside Chapel, a quiet revolution from a side street of Kings Cross, Sydney. Alana Valentine’s mother, Janice, was remarried in 1969 at the...
View ArticleTogether We Fall Apart
A beautifully crafted debut novel from a compelling new voice in Australian fiction. For the past seven years, Clare has been living in London. She works for a judge on child protection cases. Her...
View ArticleLost & Found
From Australia’s Dr Happy, this is a guidebook to the power of becoming a bit more lost – to getting out of our own heads and going off the beaten track. Dr Tim Sharp has been researching, writing and...
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