It’s easy to get stuck in a rut. What binds the characters in Two Steps Forward is an indomitable desire to climb their way out.
Located in familiar Australian settings, this collection of stories brilliantly weaves together authentic characters and adverse scenarios. You’ll encounter battlers, underdogs and people who are doing it tough. Folks to applaud and causes to cheer. In this moving, assured debut, Irma Gold celebrates courage and challenges our notions of what it takes to be happy.
The Most Underrated Book Award 2012
The Cook
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
At seventeen Zac is given a choice: either go to a young offenders' institute, or enrol in a rehabilitation scheme - a course that teaches juveniles how to cook. He makes his choice. He chooses to cook. He also chooses to succeed.... Buy or find out more→
Two Steps Forward
$24.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
It's easy to get stuck in a rut. What binds the characters in Two Steps Forward is an indomitable desire to climb their way out. Buy or find out more→
The Dark Wet
$26.95 – Paperback / Giramondo Publishing Co
The Dark Wet is the first collection of short stories by Jess Huon. Rich, lyrical and deeply felt, it explores the struggle towards a sense of self and belonging, expressed in three sequences of stories: that of Jed Harp, his... Buy or find out more→
I Hate Martin Amis Et Al
$29.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing
It is 1995. Milan Zorec, an aspiring yet rejected novelist, travels from England to Bosnia to join the Serbian forces as a sniper in Sarajevo, in the final months of the longest siege in history. Hes determined to find a story... Buy or find out more→
