Sue and Roger attempt to resolve family conflicts and improve their living standards by migrating with their two small children from England to the warmer Great Southern Land to become 'fair dinkum Aussies'.<br /> <br />Set from the 1970s, buckle up for a bittersweet roller-coast ride as they encounter the British Australia House, a homicidal charter flight to Australia, an immigration hostel, and befriend true blue Aussies ...
Based on events surrounding the infamous, billion-dollar BRE-X gold fraud, and the determined few who recklessly destroyed so many lives with their all-consuming quest for gold, in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.<br /> <br />When Canadian miner Borneo Gold Corporation announces the discovery of gold reserves in excess of twenty million ounces, pundits drive the worthless stock to giddying heights as the rich and powerful in three coun ...
Seen through the eyes of an illiterate twelve-year-old boy, Nava Semel's moving, at times lyrical fiction explores life in the Palestine of the 1930s – a world where a young Jew is prepared to undertake multiple marriages to threatened East European women for patriotic reasons alone; where a boy's closest friends are a dog named after his hero Johnny Weissmuller (the screen Tarzan of blessed memory), his brother's first wife, and ...
It's 1988 and Germany is a country still at war with its own recent history.<br /> <br />Australian expat journalist Caroline James, sexually entranced by her German lover, goes to live with him near Stuttgart.<br /> <br />But Caroline soon misses the job and London life she gave up to be with Karl, and discovers the darker side of romance with an obsessive man.<br /> <br />It also doesn't take long ...
Jenny Tomlinson has complex feelings about her unusual childhood in England. She is teaching at a school in Australia, when memories of traumatic events, also concerning a dear friend Terry, surface, become intrusive and begin to threaten her emotional well-being. She knows she needs to examine them further and, on returning home, her subsequent quest to prove Terry innocent has unexpected repercussions.<br /> <br />This authentic an ...
Sexy Erotic Romantic Queer Australian Writing<br /> <br />Q: the Queermance Anthology – vol 2<br /> <br />This second volume of fabulous, erotically-charged romances from well-known, emerging and aspiring writers coincides with Melbourne's second Queermance Literary Festival.<br /> <br />Q2 features moving, inspiring, sad, funny, dark and light-hearted tales of love and lust by:<br />NM Harr ...
The charismatic Barry Kant hosts a TV reality show in which contestants who have suffered horrific events in their lives share their stories. A ravenous and voyeuristic audience votes for the one who's suffered the worst life experience, the winner receiving the grand prize of $100,000.<br /> <br />Increasingly jaded and still grieving the loss of his beloved wife, Kant meets a new woman whom he believes he can allow himself to ...
Three short stories of rural romance that will take you on journeys of heartbreak, terror and and a woman's tentative struggles to reclaim her identity.<br /> <br />Playing With Fire<br />Lisa is forced to revisit a tortured love affair when she recognises her companions on an outback train journey – an ill-fated family from her past.<br /> <br />Bushwhacked<br />Brittany's quest for adventure on an ...
A young boy, Luke Whelan, lies dying in hospital from terminal cancer, an old woman and Luke's young father by his side. Luke is about to be saved but to do so the woman will give him a precious gift – or is it a curse?<br /> <br />As Luke grows into a young man he finds out about the deadly curse that saved his life. He can save people's lives by touching them, but in turn he ages. He must now embark on a perilous journey ...
