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'Once: A selection of short short stories' brings together the best of new flash, micro and hybrid fiction in Western Australia. The collection showcases thirty new, rising and established authors who write big ideas in small spaces. Funny, ironic, thoughtful and sharp, these eloquent stories of extreme brevity are sure to have you laughing, thinking and ultimately hooked on this exciting new genre.

Welcome to a Regency Christmas...in these two festive short stories! Captain Treeve Penhaligon must return to Cornwall when he inherits his family’s grand estate. But could his meeting with Emily Faulkner on the wild beaches be even more life-changing? Find out in Marguerite Kaye’s The Captain’s Christmas Proposal. Then, discover what happens when Treeve invites composer Cador Kitto to complete the celebrations, and Cade clashes with local girl Rosenwyn Treleven in Unwrapping His Festive Temptation by Bronwyn Scott.

'Dangerous Waters' is a Children's Book Council of Australia, Notable Book. A log rolled on the fire and the whole clearing lit up. Lying in the bracken was something that looked very much like a body! They'd only gone out sailing, but when the wind died and they had to drag the dingy home along the lake edge, they ended up with more than just a dead wind. Joshua has never met his American cousin, Zoe, before these holidays and he doesn't like her much. But at least she's a good sailor. When the two of them discover a body on the lake shore, Zoe proves that she can handle more than rough weather... Especially when neither their parents nor the police believe the 'tall story'... And even more so when they find a very dangerous character talking to Joshua's little brother. But they know what they've seen and go looking for some answers... or is it just looking for trouble?

"A work of creative non-fiction the events are based on real happenings, but the characters are fictional"--T.p. verso."One ship, a handful of Kiwis, a few more Australians, and sixteen hundred Brits. Seventeen Seas tells their stories as they travel through ten countries, fifteen ports, over forty-six days"--Back cover.

Twenty women share their incredible stories of surviving and thriving in the remote Australian 'Gulf Country', near the Gulf of Carpentaria. Gulf women are self-sufficient, generous, and can cope with almost anything that life and the environment throws at them: floods, drought, sickness, emergencies. Whether they are graziers, fisherwomen, ringers, women in tourism, aviation and education, Indigenous women or descendants from early women settlers, this powerful book gives these women a voice to tell their own stories. There are stories of new mothers on properties isolated and inaccessible for months in the wet season; women giving birth at home with only neighbours to assist; reminiscences from last century and World War II, and accounts of fishing in the Gulf in sometimes unimaginable conditions. From the kids wanting a baby croc for a pet to the terror of a snake bite with a flooded airstrip and impassable roads, these women treat the extraordinary events in their lives as just part of their remote way of life. Set in a world of vast landscapes, distance and merciless climate, Beyond the Outback contains riveting tales of the lives of the women who live, work and raise families in one of Australia's most isolated regions. It will be loved by readers of Sara Henderson, Toni Tapp Coutts and Terry Underwood.

Carrie, a desert child, born and raised in the heart of the Australian continent by her grandparents, meets by chance, Anna, a sea child from Flinders Island, first at Kings Canyon, in Central Australia, then at Kett's cattle station in tropical Northern Territory. Carrie is a fiercely independent girl and a passionate naturalist. After living and searching by herself in the desert surrounding Kings Creek Station, her long exploration ends with the astonishing discovery of a thought-to-be extinct marsupial. Anna, also passionate about the sea and its creatures, is far more at home in a fishing boat, and her small wild island, north of Tasmania, in Bass Strait. A tumultuous, and at times terrifying, friendship between the two girls follows, echoed in the lives of their two mothers and the secrets of their past ... the secrets and shocking events which will both separate and bind Carrie and Anna together forever..