The Women of Troy

Pat Barker

Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls. Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - a...

The Axeman's Carnival

Catherine Chidgey

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now.  Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar...