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What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as ‘real’ are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always ‘virtually real’, that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences. Making Sense of Reality offers students and educators a guide to analysing social life. It develops a performance-based perspective (‘doing things with’) that highlights the ever-revised dimension of realities and links this perspective to a focus on object-relations and an ecological model of culture-in-action.

Dishonesty and deceit: consorting with djinn corrupts the truest of hearts. The Three Realms are in turmoil. Amid the chaos of war, the indigo djinn is scheming to raise the dark god. Humanity’s one hope is to find the Eye of Mahktos, an broken relic lost in the mists of time. It alone can suppress the djinn before he unleashes Sothmak’s devastating power on the world. But the royals act alone and unless they unite, the Eye of Mahktos will remain strewn across the land, powerless to do good, a weapon for harm. In Terlaan, Prince Vinsant fights to prevent Majoria Levi usurping the crown. In Myklaan, Lady Jordayne dabbles in black magic to keep the mahktashaan from seizing control. In Verdaan, Princess Kordahla struggles to protect her unborn child from a shah with ambitions to all three thrones. Steeped in magic and mystery, Eternal Eye concludes The Three Realm’s heroic battle against the armies of darkness.

Treachery and treason: a pact with a djinn betrays until time crumbles to dust. The ancient, cultured realm of Myklaan is under threat. Addiction to a devastating drug is spreading, magic is fading from existence, and its powerful neighbour, Terlaan, is poised to wage war over the theft of a mystic crystal its mages cannot spark. With Shah Ordosteen besotted by his scheming bride, and his heir intent on rescuing the Terlaani Princess from patriarchal Verdaan, the criminal underworld is holding addicts to ransom. But Ordosteen’s niece, Lady Jordayne, is not one to sit idle while her people suffer. When a poor man’s djinn-brokered deal goes horribly wrong, she sees beyond the ruined lives to the possibility of salvation. After all, she can manipulate family and stranger as well as any djinn. If she can just bear the very personal cost. From the wild, untapped magic of an abused boy to the dark sorcery of an eastern magician, from the rage of a djinn-cursed ghost to the murderous rampage of a zombie, Grave Ghost continues the sweeping saga of three realms plagued by an evil djinn.

Duplicity and deception: Aid from a djinn is a curse in any guise. Betrothed to a cruel lord, Princess Kordahla drams of fleeing to her decadent neighbour, a journey fraught with danger and no promise of sanctuary at its end. Her one hope is to offer the southern shah a prize so valuable he cannot refuse to harbour her: the secret of the mahktashaan, the soldier magicians sworn to protect her father's realm. But the mahktashaan guard their magic with blooded sword, and in stealing one of their powerful crystals she will risk her life. Unless she accepts the help of a treacherous djinn intent on tricking her into a deal. It's a compact which threatens to shatter the fragile peace in the Three Realms. A gripping tale of realms besieged and honour lost, of blood-ties severed and romance dreamed. Dark Djinn begins an epic quest to save mortals from the schemes of djinn.

In Saga of Yella Girl Turned Blue, the author brings her gift with words to bear on significant passages of a modern life: teen, college, early career, single mother and dating woman, an intensely personal journey that teases out the universal truths that connect and touch each one of us.

Discredited journalist Ella Jerome isn't thrilled about working at Adelaide's fanciful tabloid the Informer. So when zoologist Adam Lowell seeks her help in finding his missing cousin, she's cynical of his claim a monster lurks near the Church of the Resurrection. The trouble is, solving the gruesome case could be her best shot at restoring her reputation. With her old instincts resurfacing, Ella combs the Port for clues. Experience tells her the only monsters are the human variety, and the bloodied stonemason certainly raises her suspicions. But when her investigation turns up everything from petrified remains to the headless carving of a dragon, the truth threatens to steal both her sanity and the man she's falling for. After all, gargoyles can't be anything other than harmless stone. Or can they?

A sequel to On Open Ground.