Below is a collection of ships… but these ones aren’t at sea. They’re on the dock getting built, or fixed. They’re anchored in a harbour, or about to be. This emphasises their size.
Gloucester Harbor, Hayley Lever (American, 1876-1958)Amédée-Julien Marcel-Clément (French, 1873 – 1937) Fishing Boats, SunsetEdward Seago (1910-1974) Norwich, England, Snow on the Beach, Great YarmouthWalter Farndon (USA, 1876-1964) Moonlight on Shore1933 June, cover by Paolo GarrettoPhilip Richard Morris – The Nancy Lee of Great Yarmouth shipLawrence Beall Smith, c 1935, for a Readers’ Digest coverPhilip Mendoza (British, 1898-1973) Katie the country mouse and her barrel riverside home, 1964Claude Monet. Boats on the Beach at Etretat, 1883From ‘The Little Red Engine gets a name’ by Diana Rosswith illustrations by Lewitt-Him. First published by Faber in 1942, this reprint, 1969Suzanne Müller, 1957Albert Sebill. c.19301884 North German Lloyd New York and BremenWillem van Hasselt (Dutch 1882-1963) La Garonne à Bordeaux, oil on canvasJohn Brett – Entrance to Yarmouth HarbourMarkey Robinson (1918-1999, Ireland) FOUR SHAWLIES & BOATSRudolf Kremlicka (1886 – 1932) Port, 1930George Shepherd for a Timkens roller bearings advertisement 1946. This is actually a plane but is clearly influenced by ships. (I’m no physicist but this doesn’t look like it’ll ever be airborne!)The Carnaval A Book Of Poems by Sef Roman Semenovich 1994Ilonka Karasz (1896-1981) 1959Adolph K. KronengoldAdolph K. KronengoldAdolph K. KronengoldNew York, city on many waters, illustrations by Fritz Busse, 1956Atkinson Grimshaw – WhitbyOkamoto Kiichi from the illustrated magazine Kodomo no kuni (Children’s Land), 1922–30Curaçao, Original illustration for a poster for the Grace Line Travel company by Carl G. EVERS (1907-2000) shipPaul Nash Harbour and Room 19321931 July, cover by Ernest Hamlin BakerEdward Hopper The Dories, Ogunquit
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project: