Stories about refugees and asylum seekers from Linda Jaivin, Arnold Zable, Amitav Ghosh, Jamil Ahmad, Abdul Karim Hekmat, Sophie Masson, Anu Kumar, Deepa Agarwal, Michelle Cahill and others. In this collaboration between Indian and Australian writers these stories describe the experiences of refugees in powerful and poignant detail.'

Madeline Wolfe is a mischievous, mutinous, high-rise Aussie redhead, who can open beer bottles with her teeth and is on first name terms with every bartender in Bangkok. So how come she's ended up twelve thousand miles from home, in rainy London, with no friends, her visa about to expire, with no place to live - oh, yes, and pregnant?

Lucinda Ellis has never really mastered the knack for dealing with people. So she usually avoids them. Until her sister, Jayne, takes a sudden trip to America and Lucinda's perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos. With Jayne's husband stranded in a remote Aboriginal community, Lucinda is forced to take charge.

After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up.

A witty, catty tale of ambition, ethics and girls on the go, The Freudian Slip is set in a world of casual political incorrectness, male chauvinism, truly fabulous clothes - and social change. The year is 1962 and the dress code is smart: women wear princess - line dresses, edge - to - edge duster coats, gloves, perfectly matched han...

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The definitive guide to modern manners in Australia.