No other occupation, or preoccupation than travel delivers a life lived in the moment, declares the author of Travels with My Hat: A Lifetime on the Road , an insightful summation of everything Australian photojournalist Christine Osborne ever fought for. Running through Travels with My Hat is a contemplative seam on the art of travel, a sometimes lonely act of bravado and risk. The angst behind Osborne’s accomplished professional veneer is unveiled against an ever changing backdrop of Africa and the East. While already an award winning travel writer in Australia, it was her haunting pictures of starving women and children taken during the Ethiopian droughts of the 1970s which brought her renown. But even before becoming an established travel writer, Osborne had lived a packed life, first arriving in Europe in 1964 and hitchhiking through France, Spain and across North Africa to Cairo before working in various restaurants in London’s Chelsea of the swinging si...

FROM THE NEW BOOK JOURNAL: “Model Citizens: Riding for a Fall” by Henry Pepper “Model Citizens: Riding for a Fall” by Henry Pepper is a romantic thriller about two models who blackmail their way to the top in Los Angeles. Model Citizens: Riding for a Fall by Henry Pepper Model Citizens: Riding For A Fall  is a romantic thriller about two models who blackmail their way to the top in Los Angeles. They’ve got it made, until the bad (boy) karma catches up with them. Overnight, France’s Angela Durand and blonde Californian Joanne Hart become Super Models and global celebrities. The LA high life is at their fingertips. Multi-million-dollar modelling contracts with fashion’s biggest names. Rich and famous lovers. Private jet travel. The best manager in the business. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. Including Joanne’s boyfriend, who is the greatest footballer in American history and a psychopath. As Brett Farrell’s life runs right off the rails in the...

The protagonist in the new novella Attack at the Dolphin is caught between an enduring love for her husband and lust for a “toy boy”, a cadet at the newspaper where she works. Set against the backdrop of the high rolling heavy drinking Sydney of the 1990s, this delightful romp is written by former Sydney Morning Herald journalist and woman-about-town Bridget Wilson. Attack at the Dolphin is a sometimes painful, always moving, often funny meditation on marriage and infidelity, love and lust, loyalty and treachery. Having worked for decades as a television and newspaper journalist, Bridget Wilson left Australia to return to her home town of Auckland , New Zealand . She has since established herself as an addictions counselor. Attack is Wilson ’s first book. “When the opportunity came up to join the boutique publishing enterprise A Sense of Place Publishing as one of their stable of writers I jumped at the chance,” Wilson recalls. “Like many an old journalist, I’ve always dre...

Refusing to hide, Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Alastair Nicholson, scheduled to appear before an inquiry into family law and child support, entered Australia's Parliament House in Canberra via the front door on the 10th October 2003.   As Chief Justice of one of the most unpopular courts in the country, Nicholson had become a key figure fuelling discontent with Australia's political, bureaucratic and judicial wings of government. With millions of Australians having gone through the shredder of the country's divorce regime, he had become a focus for community discontent.   So heightened had the debate around Nicholson become that politicians rightly feared the general public were losing faith in the country's governance.   Nicholson was arguably the single most outspoken, certainly the most controversial judge ever to serve in the Australian court system; deeply hated by some, admired by others. Politicians from both sides of politics had r...