Uwa Publishing: 4 books

What’s life really like on a fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) mine? In 2012, after touring his comedy shows through Europe, stand-up comedian Xavier Toby was broke and decided to take a job on a minesite to pay the bills. In his memoir, Mining My Own Business, Xavier Toby is onsite somewhere in Australia working...

On 17 November 2007, Kate Campbell suffered life-threatening injuries when the boat she was a passenger on crashed into a pylon on the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia. She beat the odds and woke from a coma only to face horrendous injuries, bouts of depression, multiple surgeries and physical...

A sweeper discovers a cache of black money and escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress. An untouchable races to reclaim his life stolen by an upper-caste identity thief. A slum baby’s head gets bigger and bigger as he gets smarter and smarter, while his family tries to find a cure....

This collection of short fiction explores what lies beneath the apparently normal, even mundane, surfaces of people’s lives. Desire in its many manifestations is the unifying theme of these stories. This exploration of interior lives, from the young to the old and all in between, reveals some surprising insights.