Ginninderra Press: 334 books

‘Quizas,’ she said. ‘Perhaps. It takes the subjunctive case.’A light-bulb moment – of course it does. It expresses something uncertain, imagined, unreal with words like possibly, maybe or ‘once upon a time’. While some of the poems in this book were triggered by real events, others...

Where the Hell is Heaven? is another collection of dark-humoured short stories, sometimes whimsical, sometimes passionate, about a variety of relationships set in different times and cultures. The stories tell of someone having it in for you in a foreign country, violence in the education system,...

The concept for this book grew while I was commuting between Sydney and the NSW Central Coast, camera and journal close at hand. Misty reflections and images of the countryside, as in the cover photo, are like dream images in the labyrinthine mind, in half sleep, stirred by the motion of train or...

"The poems in Green Point Bearings traverse much wider geographic, historical and emotional territory that the collection’s title might imply. They exhibit a consistent, coherent voice and sensibility which are alive to beauty, to the natural world, to art, and to the joys and pains of intimate...

When a child with autism is driven to the edge, it is by the accumulation of explosive stimuli to which he cannot otherwise respond. The edge to which he takes you, his family, is, at the time, where he lives. You are being taken, in a crisis, to his world – and it is extremely troubling. To cope...

One summer’s day, thirteen-year-old Kirsty-Lee comes home from school to find her father has left them. This novel explores the ways in which she comes to terms with this and the subsequent changes in her family.  Zenda Vecchio is an award-winning writer whose numerous short stories have...

David Brelsford was born in Nottinghamshire and came to Australia in 1965. He worked for many years as a postman before becoming a library technician. He lived in Sydney, Hawaii, Queanbeyan and Brisbane before retiring to Launceston, Tasmania, in 2007. He is married with three sons and – to date...

Stories of mystery, desire and secret lives. A young woman with a secret walks into the life of an older woman who acts out her own daily pretence. When childhood resentments flare on a fishing trip, a man swims to shore from the boat; his decision changes his life forever. A widow delights in the...

'Simon Stuart writes with a deep understanding of the subtle, extraordinary, pivotal moments to be found in everyday life. With these six wonderfully understated yet moving stories, he invites the reader to join him on a journey through the often chaotic and emotionally harsh everyday worlds of characters...

Wendy Harris, Yankunytjatjara: Wendy Harris traces her life journey from her early years as a bush child in South Australia’s north-west, from being separated from her beloved blind Kami – Grandmother – to her life in the home, to having her own children taken from her as she was forced out...

Cicada Chimes is set over a twenty-four-hour period covering several years in time lapse; it moves from a funeral service in Rookwood, to a honeymoon in Paris, to the morning markets in Serres, Greece, and a church service in Surry Hills. The twenty-four-hour time structure is Helen Koukoutsis’...

On a lonely highway in the middle of the night, two teenage Aboriginal girls are killed in a crash. Like rag dolls, their bodies are thrown from the Toyota Hilux when it rolls at high speed. One suffers massive internal injuries. The other has her ear and scalp torn off. They bleed out in the dirt. A...

Bella was only seventeen when her mother Elie died. Jack and Katie were even younger. Each dealt with the loss in different ways: Bella became the surrogate mother, the responsible one; Katie the arty rebellious eternal wild child; and Jack never settled, changing jobs and girlfriends, looking for...

A collection of intriguing stories reflecting the author's view that life is a wonderful, exciting, sometimes dangerous and often totally boring trip. Rex Jacobs strives to write as honestly and openly as possible, but he will never get drawn into discussing the source of inspiration for any particular tale. They are all true in some way, he says.