The Books
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Tess is experienced and erotic.
Gretl wilful and illusive.
Vicky perverse, vulgar and wounded.
Julie a tantalising trickster...
A provocative and disarmingly honest memoir of a young Australian’s romantic misadventures in 1960s London at the beginning of the Permissive Age. A beguiling and powerful story of love, infatuation, folly, despair and guilt.
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‘The most you can expect,’ Uncle Stan said, ‘is for things to almost make sense.’
A Saucepan in the Sky is the story of a boy who thinks anything can be explained if you have the right word − hence his quest for a really big dictionary. But through his family he gets an inkling that a thing called paradox plays a great part in the workings of the world.
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Two lost children
A man in search of himself
An unforgiving land
An unlikely romance
A murder...
Matt Hudson is an emotionally damaged homicide detective who has dented his code of honour and lost a clear purpose in life.
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A Journey Among Heroes in Search of Final Things.
On a plane bound for London George Brent reveals to a stranger-confidant a plan that is calculated and rational yet filled with poetic imagination. He becomes a knight-errant believing his death is the last remarkable thing that will happen to him.
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About ClarrieMay Publishing
The ClarrieMay Publishing photo-logo shows Brian’s father Clarence George Nicholls (1915-2004) and mother Eileen May Nicholls (nee Hudson) (1919-1989) on their honeymoon at Luna Park, Sydney in 1935.
They were married for over fifty years. They survived many set-backs and difficult years including the Great Depression of 1929-1933, and long separations during the Second World War.
They are major influences in Brian’s childhood memoir A Saucepan in the Sky.