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By Behrouz Boochani, Tara June Winch, SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. 2022
Between Two Worlds brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS…
Emerging Writers’ Competition. Offering a snapshot of contemporary Australia, this diverse collection of stories explores sense of place, family, loss, culture, sexual awakening and the abiding connections to people and place that make us who we are. Told with utterly fresh perspectives and a rich vein of literary talent, these stories are an invitation into the unique worlds of everyday Australians. Featuring stories by thirty emerging writers, each with a unique experience of our world.By Fiona McCallum. 2014
Emily Oliphant has made some drastic changes in her life. She's ditched her abusive husband and embarked on her own…
adventure, renovating a dilapidated property and starting up her own business. Against all odds, she's found a sense of place and purpose, but is still too scarred by her past to form any romantic attachments, regardless of who's vying for her attention. Now she's received an offer from the elderly owners of her beloved rented home to buy the property, land and all. Hopeful and tentative, Emily feels she is taking a step in the right direction, although is unsure how she will raise the money. Except Emily holds a button jar - a gift from her recently deceased Granny Mayfair - which, unbeknownst to her, could contain the solution to all her problems. But just when Emily thought things were beginning to go her way, everything takes a turn. Soon, she's involved in a romance she thought she had no time for and dealing with the shock of two unexpected deaths, forcing her to make some difficult decisions. With her finances, her property, her friendships and her budding relationship now hanging in limbo, Emily is once again drawing on her inner strength to overcome a new set of challenges.By Steven Galloway. 2008
Sarajevo: a city under siege. As the mortars fall and the snipers conduct their deadly business, a cellist sits at…
his window, playing Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. Then a bomb kills twenty-two people waiting in line to buy bread on the street below. For the next twenty-two days he will carry his cello into the cratered street at four each afternoon and play the Adagio in memory of the dead. Those twenty-two days are seen through the eyes of three of the besieged citizens: Kenan who sets out every few days to fetch water for his family; Dragan who longs to be reunited with his wife and son; and Arrow, a crack 'counter-sniper' who is assigned the job of keeping the cellist alive. Exquisite and profoundly moving, The Cellist of Sarajevo gives life to the courage of a broken city. It is a story about survival, about the temptation to hate and the refusal to do so, about the persistence of the human spirit in a time of fear and suffering.By James Porter. 1991
Piya, a young Aboriginal girl manages to survive the wreckage and desolation wrought by a terrifying cyclone and tidal wave…
and is washed up on a tiny island. She is found and cared for by Len Scott, a lone writer who has made the island his home.By F. S Holt. 1983
Retired banker Fred Holt provides a vivid and human account of his service in the Australian Naval Reserve during World…
War Two, from his time as an ordinary seaman on HMS "Panther" to his promotion to Second Lieutenant in 1954.By Carindale Writers Group. 2020
By Jane Harrison. 2007
A play set in the 1950s on the fringe of a country town. This is a thought-provoking and emotionally powerful…
snapshot of a Koori family that dramatises the struggle for decent housing, meaningful education, jobs and community acceptance.By Seamus Heaney, William Wordsworth. 2016
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and…
by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.By John Kinsella, Charmaine Papertalk-Green. 2018
From well-known poets John Kinsella and Charmaine Papertalk-Green comes a tete-a-tete that is powerful, thought provoking, and challenges what we…
think we know about our country, colonisation, and how we understand our land. Striking conversations surrounding childhood, life, love, mining, death, respect, and diversity; imbued by silken Yamatji sensibility and sublimely responded to by the son of a foreman from South Champion Mine. This extraordinary publication weaves two differing points of view together as Papertalk-Green and Kinsella's words traverse this land and reflect back to us all, our many identities and quiet voices.By Nadine Gordimer. 1982
Not all whites in South Africa are outright racists. Some, like Bam and Maureen Smales, are sensitive to the plights…
of blacks during the Apartheid state. So imagine their quandary when the blacks stage a full-scale revolution that sends the Smaleses scampering into isolation. For 15 years, July has been the decently treated black servant in the Smale household. Now, in "the deteriorating situation," the roles must reverse as he becomes the former master's family's host, their savoir - their keeper.By Frank Joseph. 2015
By Hazel Edwards. 2002
With her ship, the Polar Bird, trapped in ice for weeks, Hazel Edwards compiled this e-diary using only the limited…
email resources available following the collapse of her laptop computer. She kept up correspondence with family and friends, fulfilled publishing commitments to newspapers and magazines as well as conducting polar radio interviews. To relieve the inactivity and close confinement of an ice beset ship, she created 'The Lachieberg' a personalised iceberg story which expeditioners could email to their children, started belly dancing classes and even conducted a virtual book launch.By Bronwyn Donaghy. 2006
On 21 October 1995, Anna Wood went to a party and took an ecstasy tablet. Three days later she was…
dead. A life destroyed. A family devastated. She was just fifteen. She was leaving school to start the job of her dreams. She was beautiful, she had a loving family and countless friends. Bronwyn Donaghy interviewed friends, family members and numerous professionals in order to write the story of the circumstances surrounding Anna's death and of her family's decision to try and turn tragedy into a positive force for good.It is a story of our times, a story with powerful resonances for Anna's generation and their parents, for counsellors, doctors and teachers, for anyone who values the sanctity of life.By Diana Gabaldon. 2009
In the wake of a devastating fire in the mountains of North Carolina, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his English wife,…
Claire, find themselves homeless and without family, in the midst of the gathering storm of revolution. And thanks to his time-travelling wife's information, he knows what the coming spring of 1778 will bring. But then Jamie's illegitimate son, William, arrives in North Carolina, a young officer in King George's army. Jamie has sworn two things to himself: his son will never know his true paternity - and he himself will never face his son across the barrel of a gun. The Frasers' daughter and her family have returned safely through the standing stones that guard the passage through time and to Scotland. But something mysterious looms over their new home. Something whose secret may draw them back to what they fled from...By Alfred Hitchcock, John Higginson. 1966
Eleven short stories some humorous, some horrific. In the opening story, Miss Emmeline finds some ointment in a trunk which…
belonged to an ancestress hanged for witchcraft - and takes off.By Christopher Hilton, Drew Tingwell. 1993
Detailed and revealing picture of Alain Prost's career, pursued with single-minded determination and unwavering ambition, resulting in 3 Formula One…
World Championship titles. Also shows Prost's fiery temperament and the conflicts and tensions which have bedevilled his career.By Len Beadell. 1994
Len Beadell's 'Gunbarrel Road Construction Party' built a network of roads stretching 6500 kilometres across almost unknown wilderness in Central…
Australia. Beadell tells the story of his second road - 1600 kilometres from east to west, from South Australia to West Australia through the heart of the Great Victoria Desert. Construction took years, as the road was driven through the almost impenetrable territory which, until Beadell's bulldozer came along, had stopped everything but camels.By Jane Yolen. 1992
It is an old, old tale, the German story of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty. Now one of America's most…
celebrated writers tells it afresh, set this time in the forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. A tale of castles, of mists and thorns, of a beautiful sleeping princess, and an astonishing revelation of death and rebirth.By Ramona Koval. 2015
"I looked up the name in the phone book and rang the number. I tried to imagine the conversation that…
might ensue. ‘Hello? I was wondering if you’re the man who was recently at an auction and asked a woman named Mary if I was married and had children and was happy-and if you are, are you my real father?" Ramona Koval’s parents were Holocaust survivors who fled their homeland and settled in Melbourne. As a child, Koval learned little about their lives - only snippets from traumatic tales of destruction and escape. But she always suspected that the man who raised her was not her biological father. One day in the 1990s, long after her mother’s death, she decides she must know the truth. A phone call leads to a photograph in the mail, then tea with strangers. Before long Koval is interrogating a nursing-home patient, meeting a horse whisperer in tropical Queensland, journeying to rural Poland, learning other languages and dealing with Kafkaesque bureaucracy, all in the hope of finding an answer.