Lucy Worsley discovers the origins of Agatha Christie's macabre magic.

"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories -- literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...

"What is desire? And what are its rules? In this daring collection, award-winning and emerging female writers share their innermost longings, in turn dismantling both personal and political constructs of what desire is or can be. In the opening essay, Larissa Pham unearths the ache beneath all her wants: time. Rena Priest's desire for a pair of five-hundred-dollar cowboy boots spurs a reckoning with her childhood on the rez and the fraught history...

Compilation Of A Life Of Poetry is a collection of more than 35 unconventional poems that seek to revive the art of poetry. These verses relate the stages of a woman's life, starting with adolescence when she discovers the love for the first time to adulthood when she experiences motherhood, the deception of her partner, and her own revenge after she was betrayed. This collection of poems sometimes take a form of protest, and it gives life to many...

Love is a part of life and without it we cannot live. It slips in and out of our lives in many different forms but always it touches us, leaving us forever altered. Never is it more potent than when it awakens something within us that we did not realize was there. Journey through that first yearning, to drowning in the discovery of it, to the pain felt upon its receding, to the realization of its affect upon us in From A Season of Sleep.

Sour Bitter Sweet Salty' is a collection of poems dealing with themes of romantic feelings, disappointment and sadness. The title words refer to a person who bestow upon us with tart emotions and behavior that hurts us, despite its romanticism.

A children's play, humorous, entertaining.Mums, dads and teachers might also enjoy reading this.Inspired by motifs presented in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear! Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searing account of survival in the urban Melbourne scene. Amidst ravenous addictions, spiralling dead ends and violence on both sides of the law, Oli keeps her wits, and her life, to record this story. On slippery ground all the way, it soon becomes clear why in this world - you have to stay cool.

A selection of original poems about love, struggle, nature and the the lighter side of life. Influenced by Alfred Noyes, Pam Ayres and Australia's Banjo Patterson.

Marian's poetry is generous, intense and beautifully realized. I love her insights and observations, a watcher in life she writes with clarity and passion. Marian has a particular lightness of touch that conceals a deep wisdom that comes from her individual experience of life.– Jo Slade, has published five poetry collections and two chapbooks.Marian O'Rourke's poems can be caustic, outspoken, mythic, observant of both the familiar and the exotic,...