Thinking back to a family holiday at Candelo, Ursula recalls a time when the power of place mingled with the impetuousness of youth and the heat of a desolate town. Choices were made without thinking. Young lives came together and would never be the same again. Years on, as Ursula confronts decis...
– – . . . The Surukuku Snake of South America . . . Characteristics. – – To the genius and heroism of Hering the world owes this remedy and many another of which this has been the forerunner. When Hering’s first experiments were made he was botanising and zoologising on the Upper Amazon for the G...
Caitlin could remember it. Down by the river at Sassafrass, she had heard Liam’s footsteps before she saw him. Sitting by the tepid green water, she watched him take Sharn in his arms and then reach out for her too, enfolding both of them in his embrace as he told them that they would leave, toge...
It has been like the heaviness of a late February evening, the oppressive build, a slow gathering of thick clouds, the air low, wet and solid. And he has been anxious, each day half expecting to come home and find the boy sitting in their kitchen, sullen, quiet, with Freya trying to talk to him p...
The sign was up on the street, a large billboard that described the property as: ‘Private waterfront with own jetty. Luxurious residence with five spacious bedrooms, well-appointed kitchen, three bathrooms and plenty of living space. Inspect now.’ It was Sonia who saw it on her way to school. ‘Do...