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Books published by FAW Members.

Following the Grand Tour

Anya Nielsen

In 2012 Anya Nielsen of Wyong Writers FAW spent a month in Italy, with visits to churches, museums and art galleries. She travelled through the north and South of Italy including Sicily. Everywhere she went she tasted the bounties of the region. Similarly, she spent three weeks in France even attended a cooking school.

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Babushka’s Feast

Anya Nielsen

This book is a collection of family recipes enjoyed over the years by friends at Anya’s parties. 

For more information contact Wyong Writers www.wyongwriters.org 

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Mending Hearts at Crystal Cove

José F Nodar

In this exciting and humorous novel we continue where we left off in Books, Pens, and Larceny

Alicia Vassallo broke Danny Monk’s heart when he asked her to marry him and all she said was; “Well…” 

His best friend Albert Matthew Guzman got him involved in a new hair salon venture in Northport New South Wales but Danny,

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Stories to Share with My Partner Book 5

José F Nodar

A collection of short stories and poems written in 2024 as thoughts and ideas came to me. Writing has become a passion, and that passion has generated over 25 stories and poems in this book that will give the reader an opportunity to spend some time reading to their partner,

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Quick Stories & Poems

José F Nodar

A collection of short stories and poems written in 2024 by thirteen diverse and talented authors from around the world, including Australia. Dive into a captivating world of emotion, imagination, and profound insight with this extraordinary collection of short stories and poetry. Each page invites you on a journey through the depths of human experience,

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Final Flight of the Ranegr

Craig Cooper 

Three friends, lost in space, captured by a captain with conquest on his mind, drifting aimlessly toward an ancient mystery lurking in the cosmos. 

A deepening crisis aboard a deep-space colonisation vessel has forced most of its crew to evacuate to the nearest planet.

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Fortuna

Vera Zegarac

FORTUNA is a story of a woman’s journey searching for herself and true love.

Carla, a twenty-seven-year-old archaeologist drifts through life under the stern gaze of her ever-controlling mother. She is lonely and fears she will never find love. Then she meets Eric,

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With or Without Trust

Karen Lieversz 

Detective Sergeant Greg Anderson has never been one for following the rules. But even he knows it would be a mistake to give in to the fiery chemistry between him and the cute, young intelligence analyst, Emily Saunders. That is until Greg finds himself caring for a homeless man’s dog.

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Tomorrow We May Walk on Clouds

WENDELL WATT

This is a collection of poems which take inspiration from the natural world and reflect on a range of life experiences and the humorous absurdities that crop up along the way. 

Published by Ginninderra Press, recommended retail price $22.50. Available online from Ginninderra Press,

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Faces, Places and Spaces

Canberra and Region FAW

The genesis of this Anthology was the excitement FAW members in Canberra expressed as they listened to the homework and writing exercises completed by their fellow members in the years 2021and 2022 at our regular monthly meeting. Many shared works were very readable and enjoyable;

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Is Anybody There?

Poems of Faith.

Faye W Owen 

Faye Owen, writer, artist violinist and long-time resident of the Camden Haven, has just published her long-awaited first book of poetry. Faye has written well over 500 poems in many styles and genres, and had many included in compendiums of the best work from competitions.

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Web of Words

Mavis Gunter

If you enjoy short stories, poetry and thought-provoking bits and pieces, humour, sadness, happiness, haiku and limericks, you will enjoy this compilation in the Web of Words.

A few hours of pleasant entertainment. Edited and published by Colleen Parker.

Available for $10 from the author Mavis Gunter Phone 02 43 581 353. 

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Out of the Shadows

New anthology from Lake Macquarie FAW

The Lake Macquarie Branch of FAW NSW has published another great anthology of writing. The anthology’s thirty-three pieces, both short stories and poems, were the top-ranked entries in last year’s Alice Sinclair Memorial Writing Competition, as selected by the competition’s judges Magdalena Ball and Jenny Blackford.

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Alice’s Shoe

Julie Thorndyke

Illustrated by Jennifer Harrison. A country child, Alice ran barefoot. On smooth waxed floorboards, over dusty clay in the yard, through icy water in the creek…she refused to wear shoes. After losing her sight and hearing through illness, Alice found her way to language through tactile signing,

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Footprints in the Valley

Mudgee Valley Writers

Footprints in the Valley showcases the lives and achievements of local residents. Mudgee is known as ‘the nest in the hills’. The surrounding areas are home to many folk with stories to tell. In this book nineteen locals have their stories told through interviews with Pamela Meredith and Connie Eales.

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Out Of My Head

Brian Haydon

A large collection (227 poems, 325 pages) of original poems by a member of FAW Southern Highlands. Greg Tome wrote “Whatever the topic or the style, Haydon’s poetry is marked by an energy, a verve, an originality that the reader can’t help being struck by.” Mostly whimsical rhyming couplets,

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