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.
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 ......
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 ......
“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 ......
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, ......
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 ......
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.
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.
''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 ......
