Blogs in August 2016

Smokescreen 27th August 2016

The Plot to Assassinate the Israeli Prime Minister At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran spies plot a covert mission to resolve — once and for all — the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. The pledge: Israel will make...

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Heat and Light 10th August 2016

In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven takes her readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical, and still achingly real. Over three parts, she takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In “Heat,”...

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Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight 10th August 2016

Two weeks in the life of Joel Hedges and Cat Davis… Joel would prefer to get through his final year of high school without Cat Davis or his mother’s faux Spanish boyfriend and just hang out with his best-friend...

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Remembering Babylon 29th July 2016

In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified...

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The Farmer Needs a Wife 28th July 2016

Helen Woodley, editor of Australia’s top magazine, had no idea how successful her new column would be. Who knew that if the country’s lovelorn farmers were profiled each week, readers would queue up to date them? Get ready to...

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