Showing results by publisher "--Tyson Hanks" in Australia, New Zealand & Oceania

Flloyd Kennedy's first collection of poems, songs, and stories have been gathered together in much the same way as she has lived her life - moving from place to place when the need arises, stopping to take note of the chaos and the kindness she encounters, and sharing her ideas with a dry Aussie sense of the ridiculous. She writes about her personal experience of life, not as memoir but as a means of making some kind of sense of life in general.

“These are poems that go beyond the limits of words. By wrestling with the poems in 3rd I, by engaging with them, the world is more intensely lived. This guy is offering us everything. This is heroic poetry.” (John Marsden)

Australian actress and author Vanessa de Largie is a survivor of domestic violence. Don't Hit Me! is the true diarised account of her time living with an abusive man. The story is conveyed through poems, journal entries, and fragments of lyrical prose. The book is a snapshot of domestic violence in real time. Raw, poignant and brave - it's a tale that will stay with you.

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From teenage memories of staying with a cross-dressing cousin in Sydney, to estranged siblings scattering the ashes of a family member, not to mention perplexing encounters in Jordan, these eight stories reflect on family, friendship, desire, and belonging in a queer world. Ashley Sievwright is the author of the novels The Shallow End (Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Novel) and Walter.

Été 1992, dans une lointaine banlieue de Sydney, en lisière du bush. Un été caniculaire durant lequel une puanteur infecte se dégage du lit de la rivière. Un été que Tikka, onze ans et deux mois, n'a jamais oublié : celui où les sœurs Van Apfel ont disparu. Les trois filles du pasteur - Hannah, l'aînée, Cordelia, la fantasque, somnambule à ses heures, et la petite Ruth avec son bec-de-lièvre - profitent de l'entracte du spectacle de l'école pour se faire la belle et s'évanouir dans la nature. Le corps de la plus jeune sera retrouvé coincé entre deux rochers.

Une comédie romantique, cosmique et drôle. Les fans de "Love Actually" vont être ravis ! Comme tous les Verseau, Nick croit à sa bonne étoile : un jour, il deviendra un comédien célèbre. Il lui suffit, pour cela, de suivre à la lettre les recommandations de son horoscope. Ce qu'il ignore, en revanche, c'est que Justine, son amour d'enfance depuis longtemps perdue de vue, œuvre comme stagiaire au journal L'Étoile.

While We Wait is a collection of poems extracted from the author's blog of the same name and is largely inspired by her work, her faith, and the nature in and around Sydney.

This is is the second of the verse novels by C.J. Dennis and was published in 1916. It describes the adventures of Ginger Mick, a rough and ready associate of Bill, the major character of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. After starting life on the criminal fringes of the dubious neighbourhood of Spadger's Lane, Mick signs up for service in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign, where he dies a hero's death.

L'éblouissant retour de l'auteure de "La Mémoire des embruns". Miki, dix-sept ans, vit coupée du monde depuis l'incendie qui a coûté la vie à ses parents. Sous le joug de son frère Kurt, un chrétien fondamentaliste, elle travaille comme serveuse dans leur restaurant et le soir, se rêve en héroïne de romans. Lors d'une escapade secrète en forêt, elle fait la rencontre de Leon, un garde forestier tout juste installé en Tasmanie. Les deux jeunes gens se donnent alors une mission extraordinaire : sauver les diables de Tasmanie de l'extinction.

This true, soul-baring story of grief, tragedy, and eventual triumph will have you listening intently, alternately laughing and crying. The author, consumed by grief, banished himself to a strange mountain called Mt Bandi Bandi, in the western hills of New South Wales in Australia. When a young man arrived with a strange story to tell, they became a team, building a house using their bare hands and very modest tools. Soon others joined, driven by their own demons. They began to accept the magic of the mountain. The sacred mountain gave, and it took away.

The Little Black Book of Verse is a collection of confessional poetry spanning 15 years. One woman's exploration of desire and sexuality, love and loss, birth and death, betrayal and redemption, as viewed through the lens of mythology, occult imagery, and the natural world.

After the video of his public outburst catapulted him to superstardom, Marcus now has everything he ever wanted. Or so he thought. Be careful what you wish for, his mother always told him.... After spending two years touring the globe, he's growing tired, and that endless line of women has become a sea of blurry and meaningless faces. When he returns home and receives a visit from Naomi, his previous object of affection, he finally starts to look at himself and what he's become. He doesn't like it.

For fans of Lang Leav, beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any Lang Leav collection offer something new to discover.

Debut collection of short stories by indie Australian author Morgan Bell. A cross-section between dreams and reality. An examination of the horrors of life, with plenty of peering, in the form of vignettes, micro fiction, flash fiction, and short stories. Themes include fear, time, aging, anxiety, and jealousy. This collection of 15 stories contains bizarre medical conditions, industrious creatures, conniving cops, killers, dead bodies, a rescue mission, homoeroticism, nonchalant students, a secret garden, and the road to hell.

Une nouvelle, extraite du recueil "Garden Party", qui décrit ou peint à petites touches la journée d'une famille en Nouvelle Zélande dans le bungalow familial, un jour d'été au début des années 1900. L'auteur récrée avec précision et amour la Nouvelle-Zélande de son enfance. Elle écrit son pays, comme si elle ne l'avait jamais quitté.

Laura, une jeune fille de bonne famille, jeune fille très sensible aide à la préparation de la fête qui va avoir lieu dans le jardin...

"Mariage à la mode" est une autre nouvelle de Katherine Mansfield (extraite du recueil "Garden party") qui aborde avec finesse la désunion, la brèche qui se creuse entre deux êtres, et ce dans un cadre idyllique par une belle journée d'été. Avec son stylo-scalpel, elle nous plonge dans les cœurs de William, époux délaissé et de sa jeune femme Isabelle, accaparée par ses nouveaux amis artistes.

Prélude est une nouvelle extraite du recueil "Félicité" de Katherine Mansfield. Une nouvelle, qui aborde à nouveau l'enfance...

When a powerful but unpopular bureaucrat is accused of theft and computer fraud, Sandra is convinced that the charge is false. But how to track down the culprit when almost anyone could be the enemy? In her search for the truth, Sandra finds herself in a battle of wits against an elusive and unscrupulous opponent, a battle in which no one's allegiance can be taken for granted....