Anthology 2026 is a selection of written works, fiction and non-fiction, poetry, prose, short-stories, as presented to Bayside Writers' Group over the course of 2026. This work is meant as a footprint for the various writers who participated and is a fair representation of all the members of this group.

"A way to live" is a black comedy about revenge when there's nothing more to lose**. "Where there's a Will"** is a film about a struggling country jazz band that receives a helping hand from long dead musicians. "The third player" tells the tale of an Australian country football team which discovers a novel way to improve their performance.

Reuben is your archetypal nerd - life is nothing more than work and online computer chess games. He has no friends, least of all girlfriends. The daily grind for him involves analyzing body parts in the DA's office at the Chicago Cook County Morgue. When he unexpectedly discovers he has a most unusual psychic gift, his life takes a new, exciting and dangerous direction. The machinations of the DA's office and the criminal underworld they are dealing with will involve you in a tense journey...

A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who, when only a boy, took part in the struggle against Mussolini's fascist Republic. Since its publication in Italy, Claudio Pavone's masterwork has become indispensable to anyone seeking to understand this period and its continuing importance for the nation's identity.Pavone casts a sober eye on his protagonists' ethical and ideological motivations. He uncovers a multilayered conflict, in...

This story is dedicated to Mark Robinson for his determination as a young boy growing up in the 1980's to never stop giving up on his dreams despite all the setbacks to finally meet his idols after owning the famous radio station numberplates FM1019. As a young boy growing up in the 1980's on the Mornington Peninsula he lived with his parents and other siblings in a small house in Tootgarook. His Mum and Dad worked very hard to feed the family and bring home the bare essentials each week l...

This is the author's memoir of her parents' life, based on letters, old photos, anecdotes, with an extra dollop of fictional interpretation. This is a journey taking us from pre-war England to present-day Australia. One parent in theatre and the other in music, made for turbulent times. The author speculates on how her parents' lives ultimately affect her own life choices.

Anthology 2025 is a selection of written works, fiction and non-fiction, poetry, prose, short-stories, as presented to Bayside Writers' Group over the course of 2025. This work is meant as a footprint for the various writers who participated and is a fair representation of all the members of this group.

This year's regular anthology of poetry from The Bayside Writers' Group. As, in the past, each edition is widely read by the general public as well as having extensive coverage on national radio programmes.

'The Fringe, Poetry Cafe' is an anthology from poets based in the North West of England. Some of this work has appeared in poetry pamphlets distributed in pubs, cafes, libraries, shops, buses and trains. In fact, anywhere the public may have time to read some interesting pieces of writing. There are many prize winning poems here. The pamphlets and ebooks are published by SeaQuake Books. The idea behind the initiative is to bring poetry to a wider audience. The poets included in this partic...

Dear Room is a worthy successor to Billy's Rain (1999), whose preoccupations and occasions it continues and ramifies, charting the 'angles, signals, orders, murmurs, sighs' of love, separation and loss. With grave good humour, ruefully exact timing and a scruple reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, these poems register the goodbye look of things, and ponder the difference between a good memory and an inability to forget. By turns candid, caustic and drastically self-accusing, the...

Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded to Motion's distinctive obliquities in a volume where the idea of marriage governs the architecture of each poem and the book as a whole. The stories of two marriages gradually emerge, like chapters in a narrative, and are themselves bound to more public material, so that each lends ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNERRECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD*One of Goodreads Most Popular Books of the Past Decade*This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelv...