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The the Butterfly Man

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:30:50 +0200

If Lord Lucan escaped his past, what was his future? On 7th November, 1974 a young English nanny named Sandra Rivett was murdered in London's West End. Her employer, Lord Lucan, was named as her attacker. It was widely assumed he had mistaken her for his wife. Lord Lucan disappeared the night Sandra Rivett died and has never been seen since. Henry Kennedy lives on a mountain on the other side of the world. He is not who he says he is. Is he a murderer or a man who can never clear his name? And is he the only one with something to hide? Set in Tasmania, Africa and London's Belgravia, The Butterfly Man is an absorbing novel about transformation and deception, and the lengths to which we will go to protect the ones we love.

Bruny

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:11:50 +0200

How far would your government go?A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcoming election. But this is no simple task. Her brother and sister are on either side of politics, the community is full of conspiracy theories, and her father is quoting Shakespeare. Only on Bruny does the world seem sane.Until Astrid discovers how far the government is willing to go.Bruny is a searing, subversive, brilliant novel about family, love, loyalty and the new world order.Praise for The Museum of Modern Love:'A glorious novel, meditative and special in a way that defies easy articulation.' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites'Audacious and beautiful.' Dominic Smith, author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'I adored it, and...

White Heart

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:21:05 +0200

Heather Rose's radiant debut novel tells the story of Farley Willow and her brother Ambrose as one searches for peace while the other searches the wilds for an ancient animal.

A first novel filled with the magic of childhood and evoking the ancient beauty of Tasmania from sea-shore to mountain wilderness.

Farley Willow and her brother Ambrose grow up on the remote shores of Tasmania with the solitude of beaches, the rise and fall of tides and their remarkable grandfather, Papa Kempsey. But when Papa dies, everything changes.

As an adult, Ambrose becomes a modern-day mountain man living alone in the wilds, determined to prove to himself that an ancient creature is still alive.

Farley juggles love, work and single motherhood in the city, but remains haunted by the past. Her journey takes her far from Australia into the powerful world of Native American ceremonies.

Exploring the fragile landscape of the human heart, White Heart is an unforgettable...

A Great Act of Love

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:08:54 +0200

From the award-winning author of The Museum of Modern Love and Bruny comes an enthralling tale of legacy, love and the making of champagne.

Caroline will tell the story of how she came to Tasmania, when it was still called Van Diemen's Land, many times. She will cast her inventions into the future. Those who carry them on will call it history, but she will call it her life.

A young woman of means arrives in Hobart. Leasing an old cottage next to an abandoned vineyard, Caroline Douglas must navigate an insular colony of exiles and opportunists to create a new life on this island of extreme seasons and wild beauty. But Caroline is carrying a secret of such magnitude, it has led her to cross the world, and it will take all she is made of to bring it into the light.

Soaring from the champagne vineyards of revolutionary France to London and early colonial Australia, A Great Act of Love is a spellbinding novel of legacy, passion and...

The River Wife

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:09:18 +0200

The River Wife is a grave, tender and gentle love story and an environmental fable for our times, a true original. This is the story of a river and the keeping of magic and the making of water and the nature of love. Some would say that any story of water is always a story of magic and other would say that any story of love was the same ... One day love laid down by the river. It slept in a blue patterned shirt and through the afternoon, though I watched, it did not stir but dreamed with the river and when it woke it saw me. Love was not the pattern of leaves and the texture of bark, it was not the underbelly of river or the way of fish, though all that was here was part of it and has gone on beyond it. Love was the passing of the sky across a face, it was the arc of conversation, the yearning to go on and never look back, the desire to be something other than I was ... I never thought to ask what belonging was, nor how I might be free of it, until I loved Wilson James.The River Wife is a simple and subtle fable of love. It tells the story of the river wife - part human, part fish - whose duty is to tend the river, but instead falls in love with a man. Tender and melancholy, it speaks of desire and love, mothers and daughters, kinship and care, duty and sacrifice, water and wisdom. There is a great sternness and sadness here, coupled with gentleness. A love story, an environmental fable, a retelling of the Orpheus myth, The River Wife is grave, tender and otherworldly - a true original.

The Museum of Modern Love

Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:09:19 +0200

This is a weirdly beautiful book.' David Walsh founder and curator, MONA'Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.' Stella Adler'Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless.' From The Museum of Modern LoveShe watched as the final hours of The Artist is Present passed by, sitter after sitter in a gaze with the woman across the table. Jane felt she had witnessed a thing of inexplicable beauty among humans who had been drawn to this art and had found the reflection of a great mystery. What are we? How should we live?If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do.Arky Swann is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has asked him to keep one devastating promise. One day he finds his way to The Atrium at MOMA and sees...