Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

FICTION … Moses

“As I get older, I admit to becoming a bit set in my ways and my cup of tea made with rainwater is one of life’s little joys.” WE NAMED him Moses because we’d rescued the scraggy scrap of fur and bones from a drain before his eyes had even opened. He quickly won us over, [...]

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Explosive action in Last Cyclo

BOOK TWO of John Pullinger’s trilogy ‘The Last Cyclo to Thanh Da’, set in Vietnam, finds the hero, veteran Steve Conway, on a journey, to find an old wartime friend. The devastated city of Saigon has become a booming free-wheeling metropolis powered by the God, Honda. A romantic interlude engulfs Conway in a cocktail of violence [...]

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Jim Cox’s Krumple is a hit …

Painter Jim Cox’s flight of fancy, The Book of Krumple is now into its second print. Originally written and illustrated for the many children in his life, this increasingly popular book is about an amazing animal that eats cats! – unless none are available and Krumple will eat grass to stay healthy! The book reveals Jim’s [...]

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No man is an island … FICTION – Favel Parrett

Favel Parrett is a Victorian writer who loves to surf in the Southern Ocean. Her short stories have been published in journals such as Wet Ink and Island, and her first novel, Past the Shallows, was published in May 2011 by Hachette Australia. For those looking for the varied tastes of stimulating short stories from [...]

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THE Window a story by Ian Pollock – Witta

I HAVE retired to the country. Who would have thought? I used to hate the country: all those birds and butterflies fluttering about, animal droppings on your shoes. I was always a city man, loving the action, the hustle, the deals, the dives, the doing. My two sons and daughter run the businesses now. I suspect they [...]

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Rosettas host Paul Ham

PAUL HAM is a Sydney-based historian, and the author of Hiroshima Nagasaki, to be published in November 2011. His previous books are Vietnam: The Australian War (2007) and Kokoda (2004). ‘Vietnam’ won the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Prize for Non-Fiction (2008), Since 1998, Paul has been the [...]

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Outspoken guest is Alex Miller

Steven Lang’s October Outspoken author is Alex Miller, who has published ten novels and won the Miles Franklin Literary Award twice. He has in fact, won too many awards to list them all here, although we should mention he was an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for The Ancestor Game and more recently [...]

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40 suburban walking circuits in one handy book

IF YOU LOVE walking but don’t always want to go bush bashing, here’s a book of 40 walking paths on the Sunshine Coast that keep you well within reach of civilisation. Know Where to Walk, by Palmwoods author Julie Doonan, is due out in late September and details interesting walking routes you wouldn’t know about unless [...]

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Christopher Kremmer is Outspoken

CHRISTOPHER KREMMER is the Outspoken guest author in August in discussion with Steven Lang. Christopher first became known as a foreign correspondent for the ABC and then the Sydney Morning Herald. He went on to write the best-selling non-fiction titles, Carpet Wars, Inhaling the Mahatma and Bamboo Palace. His writing has been compared to that [...]

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The Life & Times of Union Jack O’Leary

HISTORY excites me, says author Dale Jacobsen, and she has let that excitement run through Union Jack, a novel that is part history and part personal family memoir. This dramatic political novel features a cast of rogues, opportunists and idealists set against a background of corruption, strikes and union bashing in Queensland. This was in the [...]

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