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Flight is an historical romance set in World War II by Melbourne author Anne Vines. In 1942, American servicemen appear on the streets of wartime Melbourne. Though Australians enjoy American films and music, some Melburnians find it confronting to meet real Americans, even though the Yanks have come to protect Australia from a feared Japanese invasion. American flyer Peter can barely remember a time when he didn't need to fight. His life is still a flicker away from nightmare; he only feels at home in a fighter plane. When he comes to Melbourne, the girl he wants is Faye, but he's not in the race. He'll never be the marrying kind. Yet Faye is the first woman he's going to miss, more than his other friend, Tivoli dancer, Iris. Faye finds herself engaged to Melbourne's most eligible man. But he never looks at her as if there is no one else in the world. Then Peter gives her just that look. She must decide what she wants, and learn how to fight for it. Snobs and moralists in Melbourne say that nice girls don't go out with Yanks. Faye and Iris face new choices and dangers in a time of change. And then the war intervenes, with life-changing consequences for Peter and Faye. Anne's first novel with Glass House Books was The Ship Wife.
Anne Vines' first novel, The Ship Wife, was published in 2023 by Glass House Books. A feminist historical account, The Ship Wife is based on a true story and a real woman from Australia's colonial past. Anne's short fiction is published in Word U Up (2014), Award Winning Australian Writing 2015, Wasafiri Online Magazine (2016), Ring of Words (2018) and Boroondara Literary Awards Anthology 2020. Anne won the Boroondara Prize in 2014 and the Keith Carroll Award in 2020 for short stories. She was shortlisted for the Alan Marshall Short Story Award, The Age Short Story Award and the international Wasafiri New Writing Prize. She was commended in the Varuna Harper-Collins Award in 2007 and in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, 2008. Anne has worked on her novels with writers Toni Jordan, Lee Kofman, Sydney Smith and Janey Runci, and with Peter Bishop and Helen Barnes Bulley at Varuna Writers' Centre. Anne completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne, concentrating on Literature and History. She taught at secondary schools in Ballarat, Melbourne and London and at the Council for Adult Education, Melbourne. She co-wrote the VCE English and English Literature courses and was a State assessor in those subjects. Anne has lived in England and Germany, and travelled extensively in Ireland, Spain, Italy and France. In the UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, South America and Asia, she carried out research in libraries, archives and communities for her novels.
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