'“This is a tragic case” concludes an article in a scrapbook kept by Jay, a full-time carer to her two sons and the narrator of Al Campbell’s debut novel, The Keepers. It’s one of many stories about neglect, abuse and deaths of people with disabilities that Jay extracts from newspapers and reports – a loosely assembled archive of horror.' (Introduction)
'There are few Australians who would have a better claim to the title of “battler” than the post-gold rush Chinese immigrants and first-generation Australian-born Chinese whose stories are told in South Flows the Pearl. In fact, they tell their own stories, as oral histories are at the heart of this book.' (Introduction)
'Robert Lukins is a Melbourne-based fiction author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Overland, Broadsheet, Crikey, The Big Issue. His 2018 debut novel, The Everlasting Sunday, was set in the freezing English winter of 1962 in a reformatory boys’ school. His second, Loveland, will be released by Allen & Unwin next month.' (Introduction)
