Header art: Railroad Magazine cover of March 1943.
This illustration of The Railway Children by Ji-hyuk Kim emphasises the powerlessness of the girl.Frederick Bacon Barwell – Parting Words, Fenchurch Street StationLondon, a pilgrimage, Gustave Doré, 1869Walter Crane 1845 – 1915 London Town Train Station First Class 1883Walter Crane 1845 – 1915 London Town The Underground Railway 1883An early illustration showing the proliferation of advertising posters targeting rail passengers. C 1852Queens Road station (now Bayswater station) 1916, Walter Sickert The Terminus (Penzance Station) Oil painting by Alexander Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947) Stanhope Forbes (1857 – 1947) The terminus Penzance station (detail)Orient Express by Austrian artist Alexander Pawlowitz (1884-1955)Railroad Magazine May 1943Liverpool Street Station by Marjorie Sherlock 1917David Halliwell ‘Lamplight’Maurer Sascha, 1939 Pennsylvania RailroadArthur Getz The New Yorker cover October 7, 1967William Powell Frith – The Railway StationRay Prohaska, (1901 – 1981) – 20th Century Limited, New York To Chicago Overnight – New York Central System (1941) underground train‘American Locomotive’ illustration by Edward Hopper 1944Subway Tokyo poster by Sugiura Hisui, ca.1927Yasui Koyata (1905-1985) 1932 illustration The Subway for the Japanese children’s magazine Kodomo No Kun In The Train with Uncle Mac a Ladybird Book illustrated by WC Watson Adolph K. Kronengold (1900-1986) 1929 New Yorker coverby Christian Robinson for ‘Milo Imagines the World’ by Matt de la PeñaMorning Noises by Alain Grée, Wonder Books, Inc. 1962Perry Barlow (American, 1892-1977) leaving for summer camp train platformPeter Arno The New Yorker, September 12, 1942Arthur Getz (1913-1996) Arthur Getz, 1967 1936 May, Fortune Magazine cover by John A. Cook Railroad Magazine January 1945 1942 November, cover by Francis Criss train WW2 Railroad Magazine cover artRailroad Magazine cover art‘Waiting for a Train’ 1955 by Thornton UtzRomantic Adventure Library No. 781 train platformJames DownieKevin Walsh Helen Oxenbury – Through the Looking Glass Kon and AkiNorman Rockwell CRESTWOOD TRAIN STATION Saturday Evening Post November 16, 1946Hell Train, by Bob Staake New Yorker Magazine August 2017Jeff Rowland (1964-2018)Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett (Australian artist and a key member of the Australian tonalist movement) 1887-1935Union Train Station, Chicago, Christmas shopping, 1944, Norman RockwellCampaign Train by Arthur Getz (1913-1996) for New Yorker cover 1948 but not used
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:
