Indie Book Program

In Witchcraft, the real trials of women branded as witch are remembered; and the lineage of women's witchcraft is restored through reconnection with craft, kin, and deep roots in myth and folklore.

Witchcraft presents short fiction and poetry by Morag Anderson, Linda Atkins, Jeany Bee, Sue Burge, Anne M Carson, Anne Casey, A C Clarke, Aloma Davis, Mari Ellis Dunning, Marian Griffin, Siobhan Harvey, Christina Hennemann, Vasiliki Kyriakakis, Eithne Lannon, KT Major, Rachael Mead, Suzi Mezei, Jill Taylor Neal, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Stephanie O'Connor, Elizabeth Oxley, Helen Patrice, Kerrie Penney, Di Slaney, Karen Throssell, Alex Toms, Maggie Veness, Anne Walsh Miller and Gail Willems. Edited by Sarah Nicholson.

A daughter’s tribute. A father’s legacy. A love that memory loss couldn’t erase.

When Jack Irving Edwardes was diagnosed with dementia, he began filling his days and his diaries with sketches, lotto numbers, tender notes about his beloved wife Babs, and glimpses into a mind navigating change.

In Still a Bit Wonky his daughter Pat curates these diary entries and pairs them with her own reflections, creating a moving portrait of a man whose humour, warmth and optimism shone through, even as words sometimes slipped away. Heartbreaking and heart-warming in equal measure, Jack’s story offers a rare and uplifting view of dementia – one where joy, connection, and love remain, even when memories fade.

At her Sydney café Shannon struggles with the loss of her marriage. A close friendship develops between her and Colin, an Indigenous elder, and Rafael, a Nicaraguan immigrant. When a worker plunges to his death on the building site opposite, journalist Vesna covers the story. But as their secrets are exposed all hell breaks loose and they discover they’re more connected than they ever imagined.

150 years before Captain Cook arrives with the first fleet in 1788 at Botany Bay, Dutch settlers began populating the other side of the Australian continent. The first of these was Wouter Loos, a young Dutch soldier put ashore in 1629 at Hutt River in Western Australia, for his part in the mutiny of The Batavia. There the history ends. No one knows what became of him.

This story tell of Wouter's life among the indigenous community where he fathers a son. He is joined by other Dutch who have come ashore from shipwrecks. Wouter's story weaves its way through Australian history, meeting up with historic characters and events. Finally, in the modern age, an attempt is made to find him.

This is not a relationship advice book.

It won’t teach you how to communicate better, love harder, or find the “right” partner.

It’s a book about why you keep repeating the same relationship patterns — even when you know better.

Written by a clinical psychotherapist who’s lived it, not just studied it, this book is about self-awareness in relationships, not self-help fluff. It cuts through therapy jargon, spiritual bypassing, and modern relationship myths to get to the real issue underneath most relationship problems: unconscious behaviour.