Whether cosy and warm-hearted or hard-edged and troubling: my stories have in common a love of place. The places in question are to be found around Southeastern Australia: its beaches and bushland, its small towns and its city streets. My characters must renegotiate relationships with themselves and others at tumultuous times of life: adolescence, first love, mid-life and second career, old age.
What regular readers say:
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Ray, May 5, 2022
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“I love your stories, Steve. You are an exceptional writer!”
Adelia R, Jul 26, 2022
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Acheron
Winery manager Pan looks back across the decades to his schooldays. Love’s true path had many a twist and turn with Áine Doyle, the ‘weird kid’ in his class.
✨New (January 2023)✨
Astrid
A woman on holiday in Port Fairy falls in love with a tall, handsome stranger: 95 years old, 75 tonnes. It’s not your usual seaside romance. Join Astrid on a voyage spanning half the globe and half a lifetime.
Forked Creek
A charismatic stranger causes tensions to surface in a tight-knit farm community in the Blue Mountains. Must farmer and ex-barrister Marg Jansen take sides?
✨New (February 2023)✨
Lethe
On a dilapidated rural property, an aged couple deals with the challenges of failing memory, a predatory son and a sinister visitor. A darkly humorous tale of love, forgetting – and cups of tea.
✨New (June 2023)✨
Naming Calls
In Victoria’s rugged High Country, sculptor Tom embarks on a monumental wood carving. Slowly the realisation dawns that he has invoked his nemesis.
✨Peter Carey Short Story Awards 2022 longlist✨
Writer’s Retreat
A struggling novelist moves into an isolated seaside cottage. She soon discovers that she has more company than she bargained for. A tale of the supernatural from South Australia’s remote Limestone Coast.
Which e-book format?
All of my stories can be read in 📕 pdf and 📗 epub formats. They are compatible with e-book readers and apps including Kindle.
📕 pdf – Fixed layout. If you make the page bigger or smaller, the text does not reflow. You can zoom in and out, but you cannot change the type style. Not suitable for small devices such as phones.
📗 epub – ‘Liquid’ layout. It reflows the text when you change the appearance and size to your liking. Kindle now uses epub as its default file type.
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