What happens when you keep a secret?

A collection of interwoven stories involving academic life, shifting relationships and romantic intrigue. The stories in this novella are each told in the first person. They offer different perspectives on overlapping events but at the same time move the narrative forward. Each story shows how an incident or condition involving a secret can affect people’s lives, like ripples in a pond. 

A selection of short stories, articles, and poetry written by the author over a period of 30 years, many previously published in newspapers, magazines, and journals, and are here collected in book form for the first time. The stories examine the relationships between often-predatory men and the women they lovelessly and manipulatively use. 

A lucid, honest and deeply searching account of the author’s struggle to come to terms with anxiety and depression. Jenny Stewart shows how, over many years, with considerable help from others, she was able gradually to take control of her depression, not by focusing on its causes, but by understanding how best to fight it. It covers practical advice as well as personal revelations.

The Otherness of Words is a collection of poetry written over a period of forty years. Selected from twelve separate collections as well as more recent poems, they offer an insight into the development of a poet whose voice is strikingly different from that of most other Australian writers. Its central preoccupation is a search for identity and the quest for redemption. 

To hear Manfred in conversation with Richard Fidler on Monday 4 February 2013 click here

Through an immigrant's eyes: Late Night Live with Phillip Adams 5 February 2013 listen here

"One incredible journey, one amazing adventure, one united family, one great read! I travelled all around the world through these pages. Hop on board for the ride of a lifetime." Brian Nankervis – RocKwiz, Pictures of You

Listen to Danny, Sandy, Maddy and Raffy on Life Matters Radio National, 18 March: Life Matters interview

Watch Sunrise to see the family talk about their amazing trip!