"Australia, Land of the FREE, just as long as you do as you're told. "~MggIn the darkest days of Covid, one writer hit the road, traveling from town to town to capture the raw stories of everyday Australians.The cost of this journey was steep. Michael Gray Griffith, not only captured an alternative history to the mainstream narrative but also became one of our country's most censored voices.This is a collection of his 'on the road' essays."Michael Gr...

Do you step into your garden and feel overwhelmed by the task at hand? Or maybe you find yourself baffled by the sheer amount of gardening information and just want to know what needs doing right now?Fear not, Mike Griffiths – @the_mediterranean_gardener – is here to give you some straight-talking advice, month by month.The Easy Garden breaks down the year into jobs for each month, with simple step-by-steps showing you what to do. From how to prune...

Is pain a test for untested men? Can it tap unseen reserves of strength and courage? Such are the raw truths exposed in this short but immensely moving collection of poems.

This book provides an in-depth study of the moral economies emerging from within conditions of precarity in rural communities in contemporary Myanmar.James C. Scott’s seminal work on ‘The Moral Economy of the Peasant’ argued that peasant notions of subsistence and expectations of reciprocity formed the basis for subsequent rebellion as economic conditions changed and new market forces were introduced. Now, nearly a century on, Michael Griffiths argues that the conditions faced by r...

Sometimes life conspires to keep us from the ones we love. While always painful, it can hurt more at Christmas than any other time of the year. Having recently lost his parents, Peter Taylor is especially grateful he’ll be able to spend one final Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in his childhood home, and then Christmas Day with his girlfriend Christine. When everything goes wrong, he still tries to find a way to make this Christmas his best ever.You’ll Be Home For Christmas...

Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun recovering earlier published and unpublished Indigenous works. Writing by Australian Aboriginals is making a decisive impression in fiction, autobiography, biography, poetry, film, drama, and ...

Michael A. Griffith is at his finest when such penetrating poetic verse reaches the present tense by uplifting the spirit and elevating the mind. In the best tradition of literature this passionate work is both accessible and admirable. (The ebook edition is an expanded version of the print copy. Including artwork and additional poems.)

As a 9-5 employee you are trapped. You toil everyday working for someone else making them rich while you settle for the crumbs earning just enough to pay your bills and buy a gadget or two. You are like a hamster running in a wheel going nowhere fast. You realize this and you are seeking a change, not just any type of change, but a monumental one that will enable you to get your life back and will lead to financial freedom. You want to be an entrepreneur because this is the only sensible p...

Bed is where we sleep and dream, where we make love and give ourselves nightmares. The thirteen stories in Wendy Rawlings’s Time for Bed traverse the complicated terrain of bedtime activity, from adulterous couplings to nightmares that come to life, in terms that can feel lurid, unsettling, or disturbingly funny. A college student struggles with her mother leaving her father for a “cafeteria lady” at her high school. A woman loses her only daughter in a mass school shooting and go...

Penelope Lemon is a recent divorcée, closet Metallica fan, and accidental subversive to all the expectations of suburban motherhood. After ending her marriage with James, a woodsy intellectual who favors silky kimonos too short for his knobby knees, Penelope finds herself, at forty, living with her randy mother in her childhood home. Broke and desperate for work, she waitresses at Coonskins, a frontier-themed restaurant where the decor is heavy on stuffed mammals and discarded peanut shell...

Penelope Lemon is back for more madcap mom adventures in Inman Majors’s hilariously unruly Operation Dimwit.It’s summertime, and son Theo is away at camp. Feeling frisky, free, and tired of living vicariously through nighttime trysts with erotic novels, Penelope can begin phase two of her postdivorce life. First on the agenda is a date with the mysterious Fitzwilliam Darcy, who lives in a mansion with his snobbish cat, Algernon, and who spends his spare time painting massi...

From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia, from settler colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and migration debates, ‘free speech’ has been weaponised to target racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule. Unsettled Voices identifies the severe limitations and the violent consequences of ‘free speech debates’ typical of contemporary cultural politics, and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values underpin emboldened ...