Books

Author Jack Brislee, novel is a must read for the person who loves an old Wild West Cowboy story with a twist. It is funny and entertaining, and will keep the reader guessing throughout. When the Stranger, an enigmatic trail-dirty, wind-swept, lip-cracked relatively unsuccessful bounty hunter rides into Morgan’s Crossing he finds a settlement in disarray. Spanish Peter and his band of outlaws are terrorising the town and the Sheriff, who has issues with his imported Swedish office furniture, cannot stop them. The town turns to [read more...]

Dennis J. McTaggart, in his fourth book of short stories, once again throws you into a whirlpool of danger and intrigue as Teddy and his team plunder the reefs for abalone. Tom, Curly, and the new diver Bluey, all work together as a successful team, with their eyes peeled for the ever present Fisheries Officers. Barry has to make a confession to Hilda and runs the risk of displeasing Teddy. There is danger about for the beautiful Leckie, and of course, the team goes in head first to assist her. They hit the New Zealand Star Bank [read more...]

Cold Gold 2 has nine stories and an epilogue. The first story (Teddy from then to when) is about my hero Teddy, and gives a brief outline of his life up to when he puts together his team of abalone poachers. The second story (Whale of a tale) introduces two ‘down and outs’ Louie and Gazza. They’re also poachers, and they set an illegal net and a young whale swims into it and becomes entangled. The third story (Teddy and the Japanese submarine) is about two Japanese brothers trying to find out if their father died a hero or not and [read more...]

Dennis J. McTaggart started life on a farm in the Gippsland Lakes area. He left school at 16 and moved to Traralgon where he worked in electrical retail. His thirst for adventure saw him join the local “skin diving club” where he was offered a job on an abalone boat out of Mallacoota. Dennis soon took advantage of the affordable abalone licenses in New South Wales and started diving out of Eden. Dennis spent the next years working in under water construction and on building sites all over Australia, eventually ending up in [read more...]

Bernie loves games, one day at the supermarket he decides to play a skill tester and meets a lost arien that needs to get back to his home on the moon. Bernie decides to help him find his way back to the moon where a magical adventure awaits. Join Bernie on another Adventure where he travels, to the moon and stumbles across a Space carnival.

John’s Gospel and the Formula behind the Myth of Jesus is about a set of ideas that largely dictated the form and content of John’s Gospel, and profoundly influenced the three Synoptic Gospels. Far from the simple narrative it seems to be, John’s Gospel is a highly complex work geared to the depiction of Jesus as a type of cosmic figure. To this end its author draws on astrology, the annual cycle of Jewish festivals, symbolism taken from the Qabalah, and a section of Genesis. The book examines clues that Qabalah and Hellenestic [read more...]

This book gives insight as to how to deal with the many different challenges that presents to parents and caregivers as their young person moves into the adolescent phase of development. Such challenges include self-image, peer group pressure, sibling rivalry, self-worth, teenage defiance, teenage anger, cyber bullying, drug and alcohol, and mental instability. The aim of this book is to reconsider a different way of relating that promotes meaningful connections, family harmony, setting healthy boundaries and limitations, promoting [read more...]

Life's a gamble. It certainly is for former jockey, Roy Gilbert as he takes the wrong line to the finishing post. His premature death comes to the attention of D.I. John Mahoney and the Serious Crimes Squad. The subsequent investigation very soon becomes intertwined with the gruesome slaying of a retired bookmaker. As Mahoney and his team attempt to make headway they encounter unexpected opposition from their Federal counterparts. Suspects are thin on the ground but the investigators doggedly press on in their quest to make [read more...]

A young man, who has recently joined a highly respectable real estate firm in Double Bay, has his carefree lifestyle turned upside down when he finds himself entangled in a murder investigation involving his employers. When an old fellow goes missing after an Open Inspection at a gated property that he’s selling in the Southern Highlands, the young man suspects his boss’s wife of foul play. Society heavyweights, his principal Bruce Lawton and wife Claire are smart successful and gregarious, often throwing Gatsby-esque parties, [read more...]