Fiction

In this collection of critically acclaimed stories, Alan Collins writes with sharp-eyed observation and his inimitable sense of humour about childhood, identity problems of young adults and married life in the suburbs. (Some of the stories in this collection were published earlier under the title Troubles: 21 short stories.)

'Your life will end on the twentieth of March next year. I cannot tell you how or where. But I can tell you that it will end.'

For an essay on the significance of photography in Davis' book, go to: 

http://www.doubledialogues.com/issue_twelve/TeresaCannon_dedication.html

What happens when the war against global terrorism also destroys individual integrity and personal freedom? This is the bold, disturbing theme of Manfred Jurgensen’s The American Brother. Harry Greene, although a serious-minded intellectual, finds himself at times in absurdly humorous situations.

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Jane Fonda calls for public attention to sexual violence during the Holocaust, read here. The Oscar-winning actress read from And the Rat Laughed at a recent symposium. To watch the symposium see http://sfi.usc.edu/jane_fonda.php It starts about 10 minutes into the video.

And the Rat Laughed is a unique book. Unlike other Holocaust-related books that focus on the historical horrific events, this novel deals with the act of remembering them. It resembles a relay race in which the characters transfer memory from one another, while traveling on the axis of time.

Calloway has followed the script thus far. But that’s all there is. From here on in, it’s anyone’s game in accordance with the players’ contracts. There are three terminals up there signed on to take their chances against Rhinestone’s leading splattie star.

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"John Tully’s Dark Clouds on the Mountain is a finely written detective story that carries its reader along with an intriguing plot, a gallery of memorable characters, and strange presentiments of evil. Through this last quality, Tully reveals the old Hobart Town that still lies behind the modern Hobart. This gives the novel a dimension in time that does not detract from the immediacy of its portrayal of social, family and political disturbance in the contemporary world. Its fast-moving narrative takes us into the heart of a Tasmania as much embroiled in the contemporary globe as in its particular past." John McLaren

Crime fiction: Set in wintry Tasmania in the early 1990s, with flashbacks to post-war Hobart and Europe during World War II, this story deals with dark secrets, crime and Nazi plots, interwoven with familiar domestic tensions of family life and marriage. Tully creates a fictional world strongly embedded in authentic details of real locations and well-conceived characters.

Set in a farming community on Platypus Island somewhere off the South Australian coast, this story of country life, family mysteries and a young girl's dreams of independence gradually unfolds until it reaches a satisfying conclusion.

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. 

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Seen through the eyes of an illiterate twelve-year-old boy, Nava Semel’s moving, at times lyrical fiction explores life in the Palestine of the 1930s – a world where a young Jew is prepared to undertake multiple marriages to threatened East European women for patriotic reasons alone; where a boy’s closest friends are a dog named after his hero Johnny Weissmuller (the screen Tarzan of blessed memory), his brother’s first wife, and the girl next door. Semel weaves a rich evocation of love and pain and promises, written with eloquent humanity and verve.