Adventure Action<br />Danger Derring-do<br /> <br />Rip-snorting action adventures of the What If… What Next… and, most importantly, the And Then… kind.<br /> <br />A cohort of Australia's best genre fictioneers, and one bold Kiwi, present a fabulous and strange collection of action-packed adventure stories – each featuring two heroes.<br /> <br />The two-volume <i>And Then…</i> anth ...
ABOUT 2011, when I was working on the novel Blood and Dust, the first of my Vampires in the Sunburnt Country duology, I found my former police detective Phillip Reece musing about the fateful day that he stumbled into the shadow world of Maximilian von Schiller's vampire organisation: 'The moment he'd faced Mira in West End and said yes.' But what was that moment? I had half an idea that his role as a Special Branch detective ...
Growing old may at times seem cruel but Bernadette Smallwood offers a tender alternative view, of enduring love and friendship even when the mind is not what it once was. Her story, Around the Corner, is a collection of vignettes set in an aged care home. It focuses on two residents and the visiting husband of one who is an aged movie star plagued with dementia. Each vignette can be read separately or as a connected series. This is a gentle stor ...
Thwarted ambition, talent turned sour, supernatural encounters, last chances for redemption. The characters of these stories all face crucial turning points in their lives that reveal their true colours.<br /> <br />From Emilie Collyer – the author of A Clean Job and other stories – comes a collection of speculative fiction with a darkly humorous flavour, that will put a twist in how you see the world.<br /> <br />Autopsy ...
Bare Bones<br />Pixie Silvester looks on her psychic powers as a curse. She sees things, senses things – usually dead things – and sometimes she manages to solve crimes. When a child unearths human bones at a summer barbeque, Pixie experiences sensory overload and gets pitch-forked into a macabre case of missing women, some of whom have been buried alive.<br /> <br />Killing Kindness<br />When Cuddles, a wannabe fashion d ...
Q: The Queermance Anthology – celebrates the best of queer Australian romance writing.<br /> <br />Commissioned to celebrate Melbourne's inaugural Queermance Literary Festival this is an anthology of erotically-charged romances from famous, emerging and aspiring writers.<br /> <br />Volume 1 features fabulous tales of love and lust by Kerry Greenwood, Matthew Lang, NM Harris, Julie A Pollard, Susan Beck, Alison Evans ...
A Clean Job – In a world where the neutralisation of emotions is compulsory, an enforcement officer risks everything when she starts to succumb to her feelings.<br /> <br />From the Shadows – An intimate friendship between two women, one an actress and one a therapist, turns sour, resulting in an unsettling and predatory sequence of events.<br /> <br />The Boys – A loving father is moved to an extreme act when the safety ...
