Written in spare yet sensuous prose, Nights in the Asylum is the story of three people seeking shelter: it is also a story of home, of belonging, of leaving one home and trying to make another, where-ever and how-ever...
With themes of love, abandonment one’s responsibility in life towards others, this is set in the small town of ‘Mary Smokes’.
It is 1953 and Harry lives a solitary life as a dairy farmer in the small town of Cohuna, with his whippet Sip and the company of Betty, his neighbour. Harry helps young Michael with his sexual awakening and...
In Monkey Grip, Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving and living – and nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate...
Emigration, emigration, emigration . . . Ruth Travers is leaving Ireland like so many of the Irish Diaspora who have gone before her. But, instead of a coffin ship, she’s travelling business class on a Boeing 777 and will...
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