I'm following one of my dreams … but do I dare to follow my heart?Cress KennedyOne thing everyone in Grong Grong knows about me: it's always been my dream to play Aussie Rules Football. And now the Sydney Sirens are signing me for the new Women's Aussie Rules competition. I'm headed to Sydney. To stay with my brother's best friend. Quin. But here's one thing no–one in Grong Grong knows about me: how much I want Quin to see me as a woman, and take him for myself…

Move to the country for $1 a week.Dulili is suffering a people drought. Over the years more people have moved away than have arrived to stay in this old New South Wales farming town, and now only a handful of young families and elderly residents are left. The locals put a plan into action to entice newcomers: offering the town's empty houses to newcomers from anywhere in Australia. Who could resist renting a beautiful homestead for a dollar a week?Alicia used to kn...

Discover How You Can Bring Back Good Old Bedtime Stories Into Your Life As An Adult And Fall Asleep Faster Than Ever Before!Do you struggle to get to sleep? Often find yourself tossing and turning for hours on end every night? Wake up feeling like a zombie most mornings?If you answered yes to ANY of those questions, then you could certainly benefit from adding Bedtime Stories back into your nighttime routine.Bedtime Stories aren’t just for children, in fact there’s ...

Introducing Over 20 Hours Of Bedtime Stories & Guided Meditations To Help You Fall Asleep Fast EVERY Single Night!In this tech fueled world, many of us struggle to fall asleep at night, it can be hard going from endless stimulation to having to suddenly relax enough to sleep for 8 hours.That’s where Bedtime Stories & Guided Meditations as a part of your nighttime routine can transform your sleep habits.Simply by using these tools, you are signaling to your body that...

This is a collection of 8 romantic short stories, all mentioning gemstones. They were written for the Romance Writers of Australia's annual short story contest between 2008 and 2014. Each story is a tiny pebble—less than 3000 words.There are no connections between the stories, except for a touch of romance.You may find birds and vampires, cops and crashes, married couples and young love. Some are serious, some amusing, some crazy madness.I hope you may find a story ...

15-year-old Neveah leads a double-life. She lives with her mum, Marie, who works nights and isn't too bothered what Neveah gets up to, as long as it doesn't affect her. When Neveah isn't at school, she's earning good money by moonlighting as a digital freelancer. Giles, her biggest client, is married with a troubled home life. Neveah lies to him about her age, telling him she's twenty-two and he believes her. Caught in a heated affair, Neveah will do just about anything to stop him from fi...

A collection of short stories by Catherine Evans, author of The Wrong'un and All Grown Up. Compelling, funny and acutely observed, each story is uniquely entertaining and holds a mirror up to human frailty and magnificence.All Cats Are Grey In The Dark: a couple of underage drinkers feel the hand of fate at work.Miss Higginbottom: The formidable games mistress of a girls' boarding school is suddenly confronted with an unpalatable truth ab...

Meet the Newells...A big family of good lookers and hard grafters. From their sleepy working class backwater, the siblings break into Oxford academia, London's high life, the glossy world of magazine publishing and the stratospheric riches of New York's hedge funds. Then there's Paddy, the wrong'un in their midst, who prefers life's dark underbelly. He has never fitted in with his siblings, and is the bad apple that can ruin the whole batch. The only person he has ever cared about is his s...

Meet the Newells, a big family of good lookers and hard grafters.From their sleepy working class backwater, the siblings break into Oxford academia, London's high life, the glossy world of magazine publishing and the stratospheric riches of New York's hedge funds.Then there's Paddy, the wrong'un in their midst, who has just been released from prison for dangerous driving.As things fall apart around his sister Bea, is Paddy behind it all? And why does matriarch Edie ...

15-year-old Neveah leads a double-life. She lives with her mum, Marie, who works nights and isn't too bothered what Neveah gets up to, as long as it doesn't affect her. When Neveah isn't at school, she's earning good money by moonlighting as a digital freelancer. Giles, her biggest client, is married with a troubled home life. Neveah lies to him about her age, telling him she's twenty-two and he believes her. Caught in a heated affair, Neveah will do just about anything to stop him from fi...

The book is a collection of the ChipLitFest (Chipping Norton Literary Festival) Short Story Competition Winners from 2016 - 2022, a total of 21 very varied stories which will appeal to any lover of fiction and the much-loved short story form. Some of the authors are well-known and others are talented amateurs. All have produced stories which have impressed the likes of Tessa Hadley, Nicholas Royle, Rachel Sieffert, Sarah Franklin, Martyn Waites, Isobel Dixon and Yasmin Kane.

The sheep that's a good listener. The woman and the ice cream salesman. The young man who falls in love with a washing machine. That age old tale. Funny, macabre, heart-breaking, eerie, disturbing, provocative...the 21 stories in this collection of originals are all winners of the Chipping Norton Literary Festival Short Story Competition Winners from its inception in 2016 to 2022. The stories are hugely varied in style and genre, and will appeal to any lover of fiction and the much-loved s...