Cirrus@Austlit

'I'm a lucky woman, thinks Susanna Greenfield. And why wouldn't she? Her handsome, successful husband is a loving father to their two teenage children. Her mother is her dearest friend, and her scatty but adored younger sister seems to have finally found some stability in her life. Susanna has a solid career as an art teacher, and if, as she's recently discovered, there's a hole inside her where her creative spirit used to be - is that really such a big price to pay?

'But beneath the carefully maintained surface, seismic forces are at work. Fault lines are forming, not only in Susanna, but within each beloved member of her family. In a single, tragically ill-judged moment, the fabric it has taken a lifetime to construct can be torn apart.

'Human frailties, and the power of the ties that bind us: this is Kate Veitch's territory, explored with characteristic warmth and honesty in her absorbing portrait of a family thrown into crisis.' (From the publisher's website.)

'On Christmas Eve in 1967, a London woman unhappily transplanted to the Australian suburbs makes a decision that will change forever the lives of her four young children.

'Forty years on, those children are adept at concealing their shared pain. Deborah has a demanding political career, James is a successful artist, Robert a respected school principal. Only Meredith, the baby of the family seems struck. But as their father begins to lose his grip on reality, they find themselves floundering in an unfamiliar sea. And their past is about to reach into the present in ways that will shock and challenge them all.' (Publisher's blurb)

'The bestselling erotic classic Quiver is twelve interlinked short stories that explore lust and human sexuality in all their sensual manifestations. Tobsha Learner transports us into a world of love, power and obsession, often blurring the line between reality and fantasy, bringing us face-to-face with delicately observed passion and pain Experience the angry fearlessness of youth, the pleasure of the new, sexual friction at its most primal, and the lingering fingers of a past that refuses to let go. Witty and provocative, Quiver explores desire in all its complexity. 'Taking in the panoply of sexual desire, each tale shudders with full-frontal detail in a style that is both lyrical and forensically accurate.' Vogue 'A deliciously horny read, inventive and sexy.' Linda Jaivin 'Fairy tales for the modern upmarket urban female.' Janine Burke 'Each tale shudders with full-frontal detail in a style that is both lyrical and forensically accurate.' Megan Le Masurier" --Website.'

'Written in mental hospitals, in jail, and while its author was functioning in the community, this book is an intense, intimate portrait of the inner life of a schizophrenic. As soon as Burke finished this autobiographical "novel" in 1985, he took a massive overdose of drugs and ended a life that been plagued by paranoid schizophrenia for more than a decade.' (Publisher)

'By the best-selling author of Schindler's List, the moving story of a man who moves his family from the harsh poverty of British-controlled Ireland at the end of the last century, hoping to find new freedom in Australia. Instead, he discovers a different but equally stifling social order -- and a moral challenge that will force him to transcend the barriers of race and class.'

Source: ABE Books https://bit.ly/3DfbYxt