The Darkness Of Wallis Simpson Storycuts

Repeatedly exhorted by a strange figure to remember unspecified facts about her life, Wallis struggles with a world of random, snapshot memories. Try as she might to remember her third husband, the dull little man with no name, it is deeper remembrances that engulf her on her death bed, blotting out the inconsequential details of her life. Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection The Darkness of Wallis Simpson.

McCreedy is forty-six and it's his birthday. His family are there to help him celebrate. Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection The Darkness of Wallis Simpson.

Badger is enduring his dull retirement but a chance letter from a wildlife sanctuary offers him the chance to lay some painful memories to rest. Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection The Darkness of Wallis Simpson.

Wallis Simpson was a gold-digger or prospector of the evening, who never used a fossicking dish or pick to pan her pay dirt. This title features the fictionalized diary of Wallis Simpson.

From the author of The Gustav Sonata Fat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis. Her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home after a stroke that has left him paralysed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indian girlhood - Sister Benedicta. Gradually the events leading up to Leon's stroke are revealed and a woman emerges whose capacity to love, hope and understand are far greater than she realises. Over a million Rose Tremain books sold ‘A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion’ Independent I ‘There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain’ Irish Times ‘Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect’ The Times 'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie ‘Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness’ Marcel Theroux, Guardian

‘One of the great imaginative creations in English literature’ Daily Telegraph A dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England. The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off for the French court in search of a fresh start. But royal life at the Palace of Versailles – all glitter in front and squalor behind – leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with the seductive Madame de Flamanville, allows him to dream of a different future. But will that future ever be his? Summoned home urgently to attend to the ailing King, Merivel finds his loyalty and skill tested to their limits. Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books. PRAISE FOR MERIVEL ‘This book is richly marbled with intelligence, compassion and compelling characters’ The Times 'Magnificent story-teller' Independent on Sunday ‘Wonderfully entertaining’ Michael Holroyd, Guardian Books of the Year

In a series of entertaining essays, this wide-ranging book looks at the impact of the media on Australian life and politics, and anlyses key images and stories that shape our perceptions at century's end. Topics include Americanisation, feminism, pop, pay TV, the Internet, political correctness, Mabo, and the republican convention.