Kirjahaku

The adventures of "Top Hat" that magic hat, who can change his look, his style his brim, with just a wink, a flick, a grin. He has been a turban, beret, fez, even a crown on the head (I can't say whose). Told by ace reporter Minnie Joan Briggs-Kent for the magazine "Hat & Cap". Hat-napping, thieves, pirates and Holymen, this adventure has it all. I am telling you, you really should, "Read All About It".

The postcard from Madeira read: "When all is lostFar out at seaReach for a Madeira"It was written in sparkling gold "Texta" and posted to Mathew & Flinders Wine Merchants, Fairhaven, Victoria by Georgia Best (attorney at law.) Thus beginning the private joke which would become the less than private "Lost Wines Degustation Society."Also featuring the customers, staff, and family and friends of the shop, Mathew & Flinders Wine Merchants. Wine folk all, with tales to tell. Tales of places sun drenched in wine. Beach side cafes and Languedoc hills. A novel about friendship, love and longing, exploring the concept of belonging in this country, in this town and in the "Lost Wines Degustation Society."Brien Cole is a winemaker from the Mornington Peninsula.

"The best of Brien Cole's work is the story Morning Parrot Trees. And it is superb. The concreteness and fantasy of Fisher's search for the parrot flower are perfectly poised. This is imaginative writing of a high order. The technique is to take the reader inside the action and never let go. His skill lies in knowing what matters. Perhaps his most impressive characteristic is that he does know what matters and resists wasting words on unnecessary explanations. The best of these stories are mulled over and mature, every detail lovingly placed." - Rodney Hall, Sydney Morning Herald"Brien Cole has the rare ability in a prose writer of handling flamboyant metaphors with credible panache, and rhythm avoiding the ponderous... We experience the casual interchange between fantasy and reality that distinguishes the best of Peter Carey's work - the insinuating reasonableness of the fable rather than simply gawking at the bizarre. Brien Cole's characters are impossible to place socially - blue collar fringe dwellers, bourgeois drop-outs... They communicate only haphazardly with their fellows, yet feel betrayed by nature. A fascinating collection both of characters and of stories. The most original I have encountered for some time." - Bill Turner, Imprint

Nothing is quite what it seems in this tall tale; dubious science meets equally dubious myth making. The myth of the Tiger-wolf (Thylacine alpine) is it, as they say, a fraud? The fantastic adventures of the "Green Avenger" cartoon, drawn by Nat Klein, just one of his inventions of improbable worth. Welcome to the Society of the Wolf, the re-creation of Tasmania's Great Western Tiers within a vast snow-jar constructed in the Victorian Museum. A tale of love and redemption, deep ecology and the dreams we live by. Join Nat and Rosslyn, Eugene, Nadia, Mary and the Green Avenger on this romp through the snow bound world of the Tiers.