Derek Mortimer: 4 books

A Seagull Stole My Bellybutton Derek Mortimer Leanne’s day at the beach with her mother and father is going fine, until she lays down to rest in the sun after building a sandcastle. Then (it is hard to believe) but a seagull steals her bellybutton. Leanne, however, is not the sort of girl to let...

Meridian is about time. Time, the past. Time, the present. Time, the future.A woman sits in a cafe which has a clock with only one hand and reflects how she tried to cheat time to save the life of her daughter and son-in-law.Two young brothers test each others’ courage as they stand by a flickering...

Lexie Love, is eighteen, ambitious, living in a share house in Sydney, and doing what she loves most, writing. She is in her first year at uni and has just won a prize in a short story writing comp – a secret she is about to announce on her blog.She works in a fast-food joint where she has befriended...

These fifteen stories range in time from contemporary Australia to sixties Britain, in location from Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to France. In the title story, a woman sits each day at the bedside of her comatose former lover as he clings to life, her only consolation in the long hours of watching...