Georgia Blain

Too Close To Home
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781864711776
RRP: $32.95

Freya writes uncomfortable domestic dramas. Her friends work in theatre and film, show in galleries, talk politics and are trying new ways of having children with friends. These are the people who are slowly gentrifying the next ring of inner-city suburbs while praising their diversity. As the stultifying heat of summer descends, Shane, an Aboriginal man, moves up the road. He was once close to M...

Darkwater
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781864719833
RRP: $18.95

Amanda Clarke is dead. Her body was found floating facedown by the riverbank, and no one knows what happened. As rumours fly and fear grows, it seems that everyone suspects Lyndon, one of Amanda's friends. He's known for his temper, his cruelty and his criminal family - and now the police want to talk to him. It's the end of summer, 1973, the heat is enough to melt asphalt and a slee...

Births Deaths Marriages
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741667486
RRP: $19.95

It wasn't until years later that I realized the obvious - the difference between us and the mythical normal family I was certain existed, was in fact the fiction. There is always so much more and it swims, shimmering beneath the surface, glittering with all the inherent contradictions of who we are, the changes that time brings and the very elusiveness of a life slipping through our fingers. ...

Blind Eye
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670912223

'I think that you can convince yourself of anything, that nothing is real.' So says Silas, who brings his secrets, scars and troubled memories to the healer Daniel, in the hope of a cure. But the path to cure means revisiting the source of the poison, and Silas's disease is a tangle of paradoxes. For at its heart is the memory of a garden, surreal, luminous, bursting with nature and ye...

Candelo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140272062

Thinking back to a family holiday at Candelo, Ursula recalls a time when the power of place mingled with the impetuousness of youth and the heat of the desolate town. Choices were made without thinking. Young lives came together and would never be the same again. Years on, as Ursula confronts decisions that are not so easy to make, an intriguing mystery unfolds. Revelations collide with memories ...

Closed for Winter
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140272079

Twenty years have passed since that day on the jetty but it is only now that Elise has found the strength to go back and face the events of her past. And so she begins to unravel all that has been tying her up, picking through that day, piece by piece, from beginning to end. Over and over again. But sometimes what you uncover is not what you were searching for, and Elise finds herself face to fac...

Names For Nothingness
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330364881

A Novel. 'Just before she turned eighteen, Caitlin posted Sharn and Liam a note. She was leaving. She wanted no contact with them. They weren't to worry. This was what she wanted. "Listen," Liam said. "This is her choice. We have to respect it." But it was different for him. He had never told her the lies Sharn had told her. He could look back on his past with her and know...

Names For Nothingness
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330421591

Just before she turned eighteen, Caitlin posted Sharn and Liam a note. She was leaving. She wanted no contact with them. They weren't to worry. This was what she wanted. 'Listen,' Liam said. 'This is her choice. We have to respect it.' But it was different for him. He had never told her the lies Sharn had told her. He could look back on his past with her and know that it was ...

The Blind Eye
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143001485

Silas is haunted by the vision of a luminous, surreal garden on the outskirts of Port Tremaine, a desolate country town. In this garden lives Constance, as beautiful as the morning and as blind as the night. They say Constance can see the truth at the heart of things to which others are blind - but where does truth begin and blindness end? When Silas leaves Port Tremaine, he is unable to live wi...