The Childerens Batch by Helen Garner

The Childerens Batch by Helen GarnerAthena and Dexter Fox are content. They love each other. They are friends. They live with their two young sons in a sparsely furnished house near the Merri Creek: its walls cracking, its floors sloping and its doors hanging loosely in their frames. There is a piano in their kitchen. But then, Dexter runs into Elizabeth, an old friend from his university days. She brings into his world her loose living musician boyfriend, Philip, and her seventeen year

"Existentialism and Humanism" is Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal defence of Existentialism as a doctrine true to Humanism

Alix O'Neill has seen it all - burnt-out buses blocking the route to school

positivity and the precious relationship between a child and her grandad

this is not a collection to be missed

Nick Makoha

Anna too feels the pull of the window

From the multi award-winning picture book maker of A Bit Lost

She decides to take a holiday by the sea

counterpoint the book's exploration both of lost traditions such as keening and how other customs and rituals have been preserved in today's celebrations and communal events

In a few lines

each summoned in different ways by the natural world

that celebrates reading in all its forms