Diary of a Bad YearAn eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East,it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in an immoral war on terror, a war that involves the use of torture? Then in the laundry room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. He

As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to the patients

Jenna and Septimus find Nicko's notes from the past and discover that he knows of the House of Foryxx as well and has been creating a map to plot the house's hidden location

When his childhood friend

In “Uncle Ernest

orchestrated by her own husband

their mutilated bodies laid with arms outstretched

from utilitarian hub-points to rich

But where will it end

infanticide

wife of Agamemnon - her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris

but you are a poet

lay in ignoring many things completely