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.
Melbourne , Australia, it is 1955. A four-year old child, Isla, is seated at a piano. She digs out her scrunched sheet music from her school bag, flattens it out and places it before her. She looks about an unfamiliar room, where windows frame the wild unforgiving
landscape of the Orkney Islands, before resting her tiny fingers on the old upright ......
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 ......
As Freddy gazes at the majestic river gushing past him in the depths of a Scottish winter, hes ready to jump in and end his life. But what happens next is not what Freddy expects.
The infection is just the beginning of this new world. This adrenaline-pumping page-turner is set in Australia. An unknown flu-like infection creates an apocalyptic crisis. This isn’t your usual apocalyptic book – the ‘Infected’ begin to rapidly develop in intellect, becoming strategic in hunting the main characters, Jackson and his tight-knit ......
In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex - from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themself into relationships and experiencing anxiety and OCD - before coming to understand and embrace their asexual identity.
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 ......
Essington Holt, in his second adventure, finds himself caught up in the complexities of Balkan nationalist groups, the French police and the ASIO while investigating the murder of an old Yugoslav lady. His investigations take him from the south of France to Venice and the Australian outback. The second in the Essington Holt Mystery series dealing ......
Book 1 in the ‘Lockley’s of Parramatta’ series:- The small town of Parramatta in New South Wales, is a rough place in the early 1830s. Convicts and ruffians galore.
Ex convicts Annie and Sam, ave their lives turned upside down when late in life their famiy history is finally revealed.Finally, they end up back in England, facing their ghosts and discover they are not whom they think they are.
In Mudrooroo's unforgettable novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece, the author evokes with fullest irony the bewilderment and frailty of the last native Tasmanians, as they come face to face with the clumsy but inexorable power of their white destroyers.
Jim Stovall, author of the award-winning book-turned-film The Ultimate Gift, and Greg S. Reid, author of the international bestseller Three Feet from Gold, bring you a powerful story about the importance of taking action on your dreams to fulfill your potential.
Set during the gold rush days, The Promised Landconcludes Mudrooroos fantastical voyage through the history of Australia around the time of its colonisation by the British. This is satire at its most cutting, and entertaining. Sir George Augustus returns to the Great South Land with his young wife, Lady Lucy...
The infection is continuing to spread in this uncertain, ever-changing world. This adrenaline-pumping page-turner is set in Australia. An unknown flu-like infection creates an apocalyptic crisis. The ‘Infected’ have developed intellect, becoming strategic in hunting the main character, Jackson. Jackson is marked by them and they want him dead.
Smart, idealistic and motivated, Jen the law student intends to make a big splash as a criminal lawyer. A bit of upmarket prostitution pays her way through University and leads her to Harry, cannabis dealer and playboy who turns her world upside down.
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".
In 1943 on Bougainville Island, New Guinea, a Japanese officer beheads Hugh Rand, an Australian spy—a coast watcher. Spectators at the execution include villagers Rand terrorised as his mind frayed under the stress of pursuit by Japanese soldiers and their hounds.
What happens when a young boy lets his sister pack his lunch for him? Is a mysteriously rich uncle too good to be true? What do you need to throw the ultimate party? With all stories and illustrations penned by Aaryan himself, this book is bound to delight, intrigue and inspire us.