Published...Or Not

Anna Jaquiery has 'Death in the Rainy Season' another Commandant Morel, French detective novel, set in Cambodia. Maria Katsonis documents the challenges of her identity and depression in her autobiography, 'The Good Greek Girl'.

'Captive Prince' is a groundbreaking fantasy by C.S. Pacat that challenges certain sexual taboos. Robert Verlander's 'Of White and Shady' is set in Williamstown. This fun read covering secrets held for 50 years, explains why a grandson would be inheriting a ballet shoe factory.

Wendy Scarfe has written a historically compelling story set between wars involving depression, Communism, Port Adeliade and love.

Black Rock White City is A. S Patric's first published novel. Rich in symbolism, it explores the struggle of a tramatized European couple reestablishing their lives in suburban Melbourne whilst grappling with a new language and their troubled past.

Cenarth Fox takes us to a Europe on the brink of war in 'A Plum Job'.In 'Bad Behaviour', a memoir of bullying and boarding school' Rebecca Starford writes about a time of freindship and joy but also of shame and fear.

Robert Gott's, 'The Port Fairy Murders' is set in 1940's Victoria where social values and attitudes are exposed as wanting and where the body count mounts. James Bradley has set 'Clade' into the future.  The world is facing challenging catastrophies but three generations of an extended family find optimism to go.

"Breaking Beauty" is a collection of short stories that challenge the reader's assumptions of what is beautiful in our lives. In 'Fables Queer and Familiar', Margaret Merrilees writes anecdotes of family, friends and life from lesbian grannies.