But is there truly room for another memoir in this field? What else can be said about widowhood and the tragic absence of a ...

Native oysters grow on reefs containing other shellfish such as razorfish. Photo B Martin (Flinders University)When you slurp ...

Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks is a memoir about grief by a writer at the top of her form, published by Hachette.

There was cash splashed about for a CBD revitalisation in Devonport, a theatre renovation in Launceston, an airport upgrade on Flinders Island and ... He said the cost of living would easily ...

“He’s way too busy living,” Brooks remembers thinking ... when Brooks travels to remote Flinders Island in her native Australia, where “I can think about him undistracted.” ...

“This much-needed funding for Flinders Island Airport will ensure its long ... the Devonport City Council $6m for stage three of its Living City project. The project is an initiative by the ...

After Geraldine Brooks’ husband, Tony Horwitz, died on a Washington D.C. footpath, she did a good approximation of being OK.

Beach shacks have long been isolated and precarious. What we find charming today was once considered ‘fringe-dwelling’, separated from cities along racial and economic lines.

He’s way too busy living. He cannot possibly be dead ... I am headed to a shack on the farthest end of Flinders Island to do the unfinished work of grieving. I have come to realise that what ...

Back to history For thousands of generations, the isolated land of Port Arthur was inhabited by Paredarerme, the Tasmanian Aborigines, before they were taken to Flinders Island in the early 1800s ...

Conditions are starting to ease across north Queensland but authorities have warned the risk of dangerous flooding remains.

I remember a night of inconsolable mourning when I played records way too loud, drank too much and scribbled pages into my ...