There are places where the world you know, and the worlds you don't, swap, or merge, or disappear entirely. These are the soft places, the transparent moments. The ghosts of World War One will steal your future. Masons will carve the date of your death before your gaze. Those versions of yourself from every universe there is will meet, and haunt you for the rest of days. You will find no safe footing, and the ice beneath you is cracking . . . Lee Battersby is one of Australia's fastest rising speculative writing stars, and here, for the first time, are collected twenty-five journeys into the pop-culture melting pot he calls a mind.

There are many places we can go to enjoy time with friends, to have an action-packed vacation, or to enjoy a little solitude, but none of them have the same ability to soothe our souls as the beach. Perhaps it's the magic portrayed by children building sand castles or the gentle sounds of lapping waves on the shore.

This set reissues 28 books on Romanticism originally published between 1940 and 2006. Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism provides an outstanding collection of scholarship which explores not only Romantic literature but the Romantic Movement as a whole, including art, philosophy and science.

Kasi Senge Senghor, the master craftsman, weaves an intricate and finely constructed tapestry with his array of poems, moving from one theme to the next with the utmost ease and dexterity. Safiya Baksh-Hosein [poet] The images he evokes causes his readers to look within themselves for answers to some of life's mysteries. Gerard Le Gendre (Okera Osayande) [teacher] It’s such beautiful poetry...deep, imaginative, soulful, fresh, full of passion; full of imagery...a wonderful collection. Ann Elizabeth King [writer]