The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay by Ian W. Shaw – Extract
Chapter 1 The Port of Pearls By the 1940s, Broome had become a nondescript town on a lonely coast, falling into apathy and sunbleached of its colour and rapidly losing traces of its past. – John...
View ArticleThe Art of Belonging by Hugh Mackay – Extract
Community magic The Southwood Community Association’s executive committee is in session, with Councillor Dom Fin in the chair. This used to be called the Southwood Progress Association, until a...
View ArticleMy Bon Scott by Irene Thornton – Extract
PROLOGUE I met a prominent politician a few years ago. At least, I tried to meet him. He was a friend of my friend Andrea, an independent senator who fought for ordinary working people, and I really...
View ArticleMap of Heaven by Doctor Eben Alexander – Extract
Imagine a young couple at their wedding. The ceremony is over, and everyone is crowding around on the church steps for a photo. But the couple, at this particular moment, doesn’t notice them. They’re...
View ArticleMademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History by Rhonda K. Garelick –...
I dressed the universe. — CoCo Chanel, 1947 What is Chanel? what every woman is wearing without knowing it. —l’ExprEss magazine, 1956 Corporate headquarters for the House of Chanel occupies an...
View ArticleGallipoli by Les Carlyon – Extract
The earth abideth forever Spring is coming to the Gallipoli Peninsula, so surely there is a pulse to it. The shepherd bends down, cups his hand under a new lamb, all clanging heart and spongy ribs, and...
View ArticleThe Great War by Les Carlyon – Extract
Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. - A. E. Housman...
View ArticleSilk Road by Eileen Ormsby – Extract
A Word from the Dread Pirate Roberts Greetings and welcome to Silk Road! I know you can’t wait to get to the good stuff, but please take a moment to read this message. It’s been written to help keep...
View ArticleHouse of Karls by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki – Extract
PALEOLITHIC DIET Today there are many diets available to anybody wanting to lose some weight – some might say too many. One current favourite is the so-called “Paleolithic Diet”. In a nutshell, it...
View ArticleGreat White by James Woodford – Extract
PREFACE In May 2010, 250 kilometres offshore from the Queensland city of Mackay on the outside of the Great Barrier Reef, at a reef system known as the Swains, I was diving with a team of researchers...
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