Love blooms as swiftly as it devours.Pull back the layers to delve into the devotion and longing, the lust and the love, the triumphs and tragedy in this sapphic horror collection.Featuring stories by Rebecca Bennett, Samantha Bryant, JJ Carpenter, Alchemy Dawn, Cat Delani, Wren Handman, Mirella Higuera, Toshiya Kamei, C. A. Larkin, Frey Lylark, Ren Mercer, Kassandra Morgan, Parker M ONeill, Liz Pinto, Lidell Rayne, Chantell Saunders, David M Simon...

"Eerily beautiful, The Haunting of Kenmore Asylum is a trip through time itself showing the echoes of horrors past can be heard even today. A must read." —Tory Favro, author of Piñata"Kenmore Asylum is a powerful novel of ghosts and souls. Over the years, you witness the sorrows, the joys, and the terrors that seep into the place. Characters you care about, scenes that break your heart, and an atmosphere that has you turning on all the lights. This book w...

"This isn't normal. This isn't how it's supposed to be...the knot is coming unraveled."Grief is one of nature's most chaotic forces. It can throw our lives - our very worlds - into turmoil. Charlie White has never felt the depths of despair drag at her so keenly. But Charlie is a Keeper, and it's her duty to maintain the Balance. Can she withstand it, or will this grief be her great undoing?She bent the rules. And now, the laws of purgatory are being broken...

"I've never told you the full story... what happens when a Keeper fails..."Charlie White has felt the ripples of imbalance through the Dream for months now. First, through the traumatised young child, Marie. Then, through the coalescing of frantic spirits on the Great North Road. And most recently, by facing the dangers of imbalanced, betrayed lovers destined for revenge.She is about to discover where these ripples stem from. Who set them in motion. What they've un...

THE MUCH ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE KEEPER IN THE CORNER OF HER EYE SERIES."If you fail...much worse things will happen...much worse things, will come for you."Charlie White thought this was the end. She thought once she accepted her fate as a Keeper of Purgatory, her story would conclude. But she's just scratched the surface; this is only the beginning.As she grapples with an ever-expanding new world beyon...

"I didn't expect to die today..."Everyone dies. But what happens if you're not ready when it's your turn?The first time Charlie White nearly died, there was no light at the end of the tunnel. Her life didn't flash before her eyes. There were no pearly gates. As the sufferer of a rare medical condition, she has lost count of the number of times she's evaded death.Traumatised and afraid, she upends her high-flyer Sydney ...

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that combines previous scholarly work on recognition and the phenomenology of space.The politics of identity occupy the centre of a contested terrain. Marginalised and oppressed peoples continue to seek the transformation of our shared social world and our political institutions required for their lives to be liveable. Public criticism and ac...

Some of the worst things imaginable happen to children, and for many there is little hope of a happy life. These unfortunate souls are caught in a dystopian current from birth, washed into helpless straits and inundated by the many cruelties of life. Robin Gai Smith was one such victim, and this is her story.Pieced together from the fragmented remnants of more than one hundred unfinished letters, Child of None recounts Robin’s great journey, in her own words. From her early years a...

Award-winning Australian horror author, JJ Carpenter, brings real Australian history to life with this gothic, supernatural horror set in Australia's most notoriously haunted asylum.1910The mentally unwell are considered dangerous and a blight to be kept hidden from family and society. The recently opened Kenmore Asylum is bursting at the seams. Amidst the churn, Nurse Harriet tries to make a real impact on her charges. But one of them, Alice, seems beyond ...

Hurt people hurt people.Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the acclaimed author Hilary Mantel explores in forensic detail her loss of dignity, her determination, the concentration of the senses into an animalistic struggle to get through, and the attendant hallucinations she was plagued by during her stay in hospital.Wi...

The loss of a pet can hit us as hard as the loss of any close friend. Yet pet bereavement is so little talked about that, along with their grief and pain, animal lovers may find themselves having to deal with feelings of confusion and even embarrassment at the strength of their reaction.For anyone grieving the loss of a pet, or facing up to having a pet put down, Losing a Pet aims to fill the gap. Warm, direct and compassionate, this short books offers practical guidance, emotional...