Böcker av Hannah Collins

My name is Hannah Collins and I'm an alcoholic and drug addict. . . 'From personal experience, I know alcoholics and drug addicts lie, cheat steal, and manipulate. And without sobriety end up in one of three places prison, hospital or a wooden box.' This is how Hannah Collins begins her remarkable story, healing and recovery from childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, addiction, the loss of her two sons, being homeless and living on the side of the road in an old leaky van. Hannah is upfront and brutally honest in telling her four-week stay in rehab, the foundation step to her twenty-year sobriety. Soul Connection is a story of hope, forgiveness and reconciliation with her family, children and grandchildren. It's a story of compassion and love.

In Bussiness Together is the inside story about two women who after meeting online and falling-in-love bought a pet business, dog walking and pet sitting, and with no previous small business experience, with determination and perseverance, became the leading pet business for ten years in Sydney''s Inner West. At the height of their business, they employed five dog walkers and a pet carer. 

What?s a tomango? Why are there stars in the sky? What do you do with an old house you?ve just inherited? Find out about things like a forest of werewolves, an invisible dragon, an ominous tower, a girl with a jaguar companion, being lost in a book and more in this creative collection of stories and poems written entirely by eight story-loving 10-14 year old girls. Who knows, maybe you?ll be inspired to write too! What are you waiting for? Your canvas is blank. What color to use first? Just use your imagination, and go paint something amazing.

Though born in Snow Hill, Alabama in 1917, Noah Purifoy lived most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California, where he died in 2004. The exhibition of his work, Junk Dada, at LACMA in 2015 as well as the recent publication by Steidl of his notebooks and essays in High Desert, have contributed to the legacy of this long-overlooked artist who first came to prominence with sculpture assembled from the debris of the Watts Rebellion of 1965.In the last fifteen years of his life Purifoy lived in the Mojave Desert where he created large-scale sculptures spread over ten acres. On visiting this site Hannah Collins made a series of exquisite black-andwhite photographic studies of Purifoy's work. Her rigorous aesthetic stance is unwittingly reminiscent of the formality of Walker Evans, who would have greatly appreciated Purifoy's transformation of discarded materials into grand yet vernacular forms.Message from the Interior, Walker Evans' photographic study of 1966, which through the selection of a handful of pictures of interiors suggests a wide and disparate landscape, became a model for the publication of Collins' work from Purifoy's site. Her 18 photographs are presented here in a format that exactly echoes Evans' publication, both typographically and spatially. The intention is not imitative, but refers to the grandeur and scale achieved by Purifoy. Cumulatively his work becomes a transitory monument inevitably destined to decay into the desert itself.