One ordinary mother of two reads Robyn Davidson's 'Tracks'; then emboldened, embarks on a solo bike ride across the Nullarbor. An unlikely stroke of fate leads her to a crazy Frenchman. A love story begins between two headstrong people who rarely spend much time together. And then years later marry. It is also a love story of two distant lands: France and Australia. A contemplation of loss. A thank you letter to two families. And ...
Harry Kollatz Junior’s debut novel. A debut Carlisle Montgomery, that “Six-foot-five, redheaded, pigtailed, gap-and-bucktoothed, nine-fingered, guitar playing freak.” Smoking, slugging Whisky, arm wrestling, entangled with women and men as well as her hard-touring band, ‘The Live Wires,’ A bluegrass band with a Honkey Tonk problem they’re not trying to fix: Purebred American Mongrel music. It’s the 1990’s; the world is divided between Grunge and ...
David’s girlfriend dumped him, he writes about bars for a shrinking newspaper, and he’s desperately searching for meaning amongst Sydney’s shallow social and dating scene.<br /> <br />Then he meets a young woman at a party who just might be the answer to his life’s meaninglessness. However, she’s only 19 – and one of his journalism student’s friends.<br /> <br /><b><i>Drowning in the Shallows</i></b&g ...
PTSD has been documented throughout history since man first began clubbing each other with rocks. Our understanding of this debilitation has only increased or become more visible in our digital age. In the past it was seen as a source of shame and embarrassment, not just for those suffering PTSD, but also their families and loved ones. The dark ages are gone we hope. We now strive to understand the effects of war on the minds of our men, women a ...
"Dragon's Gate is a superb book, a fascinating story written from the heart and woven into a complex cultural and historical tapestry – a modern classic in the making." – Robert Macklin, author of Dragon and Kangaroo Shi Ding is seventeen. In an attempt to impress a girl, he joins a local Red Guard unit and succeeds in having a nine-year-old boy arrested and a widowed professor of foreign literature driven to a shameful ...
In this 7th book of the highly acclaimed Grafton Everest Series, our indolent hero, Professor Dr Everest (former lecturer in Lifestyles and Wellbeing at the University of Mangoland) is surprised to find himself President of the newly minted Republic of Australia. Luckily he manages to avoid any actual work or duties, save heading the newly created Department of Wellbeing, and leaves on a goodwill tour of the US.<br /> <br />H ...
Walter Kovak – insurance worker, early forties, unhappily married, no children, memorably invisible – is the sole survivor of a devastating suburban train crash. But Walter has no memory of the tragedy.<br /> <br />One year on he starts to receive mysterious random warnings from strangers – warnings that could again save his life. And his memory of the fateful day begins to return.<br /> <br />Ashley Sievwright lives, wor ...
An extraordinary story telling of a man raised in New Zealand, Thomas McCallum, the woman he falls in love with while at university, Rose, and the adventure they couldn’t have predicted while journeying Turkey; which has them saving a small 5-year-old boy who is threatened with dire consequences. This is a glass half full story involving strong but differing views on evolution and creation, with opposing philosophies coming together in a practic ...
A young Australian travelling for academic purposes in Europe visits a monastery in Spain and is waylaid by an old man selling his produce by the roadside at a nearby war cemetery. He innocently asks about the massive eucalypt trees in the monastery grounds and is then entranced by the old man and the story he tells of their history which weaves together the secret 16th-century exploration of Terra Australis, the Emperor Charles V, the dedicatio ...
