Mantle Lathamus carrying the stories of its

carrying the stories of its First People

from our suburban homes to expansive wild landscapes

Written and illustrated Kathleen McLaren

The life and times of people whose names should be familiar to us are bought to life: Fanny Cochrane Smith

At the home of Quoll and Quill

Mantle Lathamus carrying the stories of itsMantle By Romy Ash Ultimo Press Publishing 2026 Softcover Nature has another evolution in store for us I think about how the earth likes to cough things up. Bones, fossils, slivers of rock, like an interior self. How it likes to spew gas, lava, smoke. How the earth under our feet is anything but solid. How in fact, the surface itself is constantly in movement, teeming. And inside, inside, in the mantle, we can only guess. Ursula is a self possessed