Insightful stories from the heart about the tears and laughter, the rise and fall, the love and pain felt by women in Malaysia and Singapore. Intimate collection of autobiographical essays every woman should read.
Inspired by stories passed down through the author's family, Willie Sawgrass takes place in the wilderness of Southwest Florida in the early 1900s, when the cattle and fishing industry were strong but rum running was more lucrative. Willie isn't sure how old he is when his ignorant and abusive Pa sends him away to live with a young Miccosukee ......
''Relates to the joys, troubles and fears, the unavoidable questions people have today.''Written between the ages of 10 and 12, Barbro Karlén's two short fiction works are a remarkable literary and visionary feat. The young Barbro writes with the prophetic gifts and maturity of a seer, warning humanity of the dire consequences of ignoring the ......
This anthology takes its theme, Unprecedented Times, from the state of the world in 2020, though not all stories are set in this point in time. There are historical, mysteries, poetry, science fiction, literary and other stories.
Underground is the 3rd book in the Master of The Ghost Dreaming quartet, beautifully and insistently portrays the enduring reality of Aboriginal Dreaming in a fascinating story of initiation, maternal longing, and colonial violence.
Abandoned by his father, orphaned by his drug-addled mother, and devastated by the murder of his sister, Michael McKeon was once a hardened "street dog who learned to play in traffic." Years later, Michael is now a Bowdoin College professor with a wife and adopted daughter. When he creates a microbe that instantly cleans up any oil spill, no ......
Trueman Bradley is a genius detective with a difference, he hasAsperger's Syndrome (AS).Trueman leaves his hometown of Heartville, Illinois, and arrivesin New York City, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming aprivate detective, like his comic book heroes. He is soon toldthat a guy with AS could not possibly succeed as a detective.Undeterred, ......
“All I need is three days of fog,” Napoleon told his admirals, and they would have his greatest enemy at their mercy and the world at his feet.
It is 1803, and Britain and France are on the eve of war. Captain Nathan Peake, still in command of the sloop Falaise, is recruited to coordinate a secret operation to land agents and weapons ......
How a journey through three contintents, with a kayak, changed a climatewarrior
“It echoed around my head. The carbon wing blade flexed in the water as I thrust like a man possessed. Past the point of no return, I was above the log jam. A broken blade, maybe even a missed stroke and that could be my last. The river was rough, it was ugly and I was bouncing like a cork.” Lovers of adventure will thrill at the task Steve ......
With a failed relationship behind him, and no career to speak of, Essington Holt is only too happy to answer his rich aunt’s summons and leave Sydney for the south of France. Holt finds himself mixed up in the complex world of art forgery and deception, where brute force and nerves of steel are the only things that can help him. The first of four ......
Nothing is quite what it seems in this tall tale; dubious science meets equally dubious myth making. Welcome to the Society of the Wolf, the re-creation of Tasmania’s Great Western Tiers within a vast snow-jar constructed in the Victorian Museum. A tale of love and redemption, deep ecology and the dreams we live by.
Dave Allenson, a security guard, stops Peter Hore from tearing down the net of the Iranian goal in the 1997 play-off against Australia, setting off an alternate timeline of Australian football. This book traces the course of "what if".
Considered the greatest western of all time— "When you call me that, smile!" finds its origins in the book—this classic tells the story of the Wyoming ranch foreman known only as the Virginian, his courtship of school teacher Molly Wood, and his encounters with the murdering cattle rustler, Trampas.
A daring and thrilling journey into a fantastical world of shamans and vampires where Aboriginal dreaming and Gothic horror are woven together in early Australian colonial history.
The Punjabi migration provides the material for the first Indo-Australian literary work, first published in 1965. Set in northern New South Wales this is something of a rural idyll, recording a cross-communal marriage and settling in to life on a sheep farm with a cast of typical bush characters.
Hugh Watson draws on experience of Federal politics to weave a gripping political thriller, against the backdrop of rural NSW. The residents of Gwydir and an intuitive detective, Susan Swift, must deal with a troubling series of murders. Barry Kingscliff, a power broker from the city, appears to be at the centre of it all.
The book contains the final Chapter of Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, removed before publication, despite it giving the reader knowledge of what happened to the schoolgirls lost at the St Valentine's Day picnic in 1900. First illustrated edition.
This is the seventh novel in the Nathan Peake series of nautical historical fiction set during the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. The war moves to the Americas as Captain Nathan Peake, freed from service in the Royal Navy, is secretly commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to command a naval operation in the Caribbean Sea and ......
