Claire and Dorotea are best friends and beautiful women. Their affable rivalry turns serious in a game that has been played out over two hundred thousand years. It's a competition that has shaped the very course of human culture, and created a penis of a size disproportionate to its function. Claire is well educated and highly intelligent. She knows what she wants and how to get it. She lectures in anthropology. Studying for her PhD, her thesis is The Role of the Clitoris in the Evolution of Love. She quotes Shakespeare and feminist interpretations of Darwinian theory. Dorotea is an independent, professional photographer. Although she studied the same things with Claire in high school, she's now an artist, not a scientist and she has two things that Claire wants. One is a photo album, the existence of which she only accidentally reveals to Claire. It is locked and hidden in a darkroom. No one else has ever seen it. Inside are photos like no other. The second is something Dorotea will take to the other side of the planet to avoid losing. But when she gets there, the same forces that drive Claire will nearly kill her and make her lose what she's found ... until someone special intervenes.

The Family Caught is a mesmeric expose of what is normally hidden from public scrutiny: what happens when a family self-destructs and ends up in the Family Court. Although a piece of fiction, this story of three children's experiences of separation, divorce and the dreadful after-effects has been played out many times in real life. It is a confronting story and not for the faint hearted. It follows the lives of first the parents and then the children as their worlds fall apart. How do children cope during separation? What do their parents do about it? What do the authorities do about it? There is laughter, there are tears, there are little heroes who don't deserve the traumas they are put through but who manage to cope anyway. If you like courtroom drama, if you like to see a family in microcosm, if you like to see the struggles of ordinary people for justice, then this book will remain on your mind for years after reading it.

Claire and Dorotea are best friends and beautiful women. Their affable rivalry turns serious in a game that has been played out over two hundred thousand years. It's a competition that has shaped the very course of human culture, and created a penis of a size disproportionate to its function. Claire is well educated and highly intelligent. She knows what she wants and how to get it. She lectures in anthropology. Studying for her PhD, her thesis is The Role of the Clitoris in the Evolution of Love. She quotes Shakespeare and feminist interpretations of Darwinian theory. Dorotea is an independent, professional photographer. Although she studied the same things with Claire in high school, she's now an artist, not a scientist and she has two things that Claire wants. One is a photo album, the existence of which she only accidentally reveals to Claire. It is locked and hidden in a darkroom. No one else has ever seen it. Inside are photos like no other. The second is something Dorotea will take to the other side of the planet to avoid losing. But when she gets there, the same forces that drive Claire will nearly kill her and make her lose what she's found ... until someone special intervenes.

The Wanderer was written to show the different sides of human nature when society breaks down. It also shows man's persistence to create different classes and form segregation, even when mankind is on the brink of extinction. This is the story of not one person or class but the different people and classes that now reside in a dying world, drawn together to fight against a tyranny that threatens their very existence. After a nuclear war that almost wiped all life from the planet, one country remained habitable for the last remaining life on Earth, were humans are placed into two classes, those that are privileged are known as 'Vault Dwellers' and are given the opportunity to live in the city sized vaults deep underground were life continues as it did before the holocaust. The Uplanders are those that were deemed unworthy of Earth's last remaining haven and left to walk the scorched earth were only the strong survive. Two people now hold the fate of the Uplanders in their hands, one fights to create a single society and bring the cursed down into the vaults and the other fights to leave them to their fate and through his quenchless thirst for power gain total control the vaults. It is a battle that will bring together in unison every class to fight for mans right to exist. This is the story of that battle, this is the story of 'The Wanderer'.

The Wanderer was written to show the different sides of human nature when society breaks down. It also shows man's persistence to create different classes and form segregation, even when mankind is on the brink of extinction. This is the story of not one person or class but the different people and classes that now reside in a dying world, drawn together to fight against a tyranny that threatens their very existence. After a nuclear war that almost wiped all life from the planet, one country remained habitable for the last remaining life on Earth, were humans are placed into two classes, those that are privileged are known as 'Vault Dwellers' and are given the opportunity to live in the city sized vaults deep underground were life continues as it did before the holocaust. The Uplanders are those that were deemed unworthy of Earth's last remaining haven and left to walk the scorched earth were only the strong survive. Two people now hold the fate of the Uplanders in their hands, one fights to create a single society and bring the cursed down into the vaults and the other fights to leave them to their fate and through his quenchless thirst for power gain total control the vaults. It is a battle that will bring together in unison every class to fight for mans right to exist. This is the story of that battle, this is the story of 'The Wanderer'.

Death haunts the pages of Natural Causes, but so does compassion and love. There is little darkness here, and less despair, despite the abundance of cemeteries, loss, and ghosts - both real and imagined. Mark Cox's youthful bravado has given way in these poems to an assured sense of understatement. The weight of fatherhood, the loss of a grandmother, the fear of loneliness - these are the details around which Cox plumbs the depths of mortality and memory. Fully comfortable with the domestic tableau from which he writes, this is a poet never complacent. The penchants for metaphor and the resonant turn of phrase that informed Cox's earlier work remain as vibrant as ever, indeed are heightened, as he masterfully affirms and celebrates the range of familial complexity and human connectedness.