Carissa's Law by Misty Boyd begins with eighteen-year-old Carissa Schultz, the protagonist, in the parking lot of the university, pondering on very serious questions. Born with a rare condition known as spina bifida, she’s been through a lot of challenges. But now, on the threshold...

Live Free or Die by Dave Ives is told from the point of view of young Sam Higgins, and a good deal of it is in vivid flashbacks that reveal his relationship with his father. Don-the-Digger, Mr Kenny – the neighbour who doesn’t pay his...

Guardian Angel by Dr Bob Rich imagines Australia in 1850 and what it must be like for Glindi, an aboriginal woman. Glindi was raped by a white man and from that terrible event came a daughter. Maraglindi is a girl who has love in her...

Have you ever thought, ‘I used to look that good,’ or ‘Am I invisible?’ Are you at ‘that age’ where your body seems to do whatever it wants, no matter what? Ever notice how men’s eyes seem to attach themselves to a young woman’s sexy,...

Encore from Australian author Margaret Lynette Sharp is a collection of twenty-five short stories built around the themes of love, betrayal, loss and redemption. From sixteen-year-old Annie in Annie’s Story, that details her attraction to and obsession with her fantasy about Keiran, to middle-aged Caroline...

In Forever Begins (Island Love Volume 2) by Linda Stiles Fox, Cody Wallace was content with life as he knew it. He was successful in business and felt in control. He hadn’t known much of a childhood life with both parents, for reasons you will...

Because It Was Raining by Skyler Worley is a dark story filled with deep and powerful philosophical reflections on life; the journey of a young man who, in order to escape his past, embarks on a perilous path of drugs, sex and violence. Louis has...

The Treehouse by Randi Triant is a gripping novel that explores the themes of love lost, and one woman’s journey to reconquer the very essence of her motherhood — or womanhood. Camilla Thompson has been apart from Nico, her son, for two years now. Now...

Lena Kulkova is a Czech with known socialist connections, a Jewish woman uprooted from her country because of political tensions. When she meets Otto, a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, she follows him to Paris. They have come to Paris to give their support to the...

What is it, really, that defines a woman? Is it her body? Her mind? Does it have something to do with when she comes of age? When her cycles begin and her body changes? Or is it the way that she loves? The way that...