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Zaven

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In a world of unrestricted freedom, fun can be had... Just ensure you are well equipped... Don't become a Zombie... Become Death's Cheat... Detention on your first day of High School is one thing, but your teacher trying to eat you is a bit over the top... Set in Florida, America, Tyler Graham and his friends must band together and survive a zombie pandemic where lawlessness and violence becomes a new means of morality. Written by Jed Cullen, Zaven is a witty thriller that indulges psychological aspects of power and hardship and its [read more...]

Undercover Mage

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Kaaren Sutcliffe delivers a richly layered fantasy tale with intrigue, romance and compelling characters. The trilogy weaves together a young spy mage on a covert mission, a rogue half-mage, an alluring bird caller with uncanny abilities. A fiercely competitive dragon boat teams and river dragons with a hidden past seeking amends from a Mages' Guild founded on deception. A grumpy river dragon withholds rain. Their crops wilting in unrelenting sunlight, the provinces plan a festival of dragon boat races to appease the dragon. [read more...]

Matt Galanos on the “Dane Thorburn” Series

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Matt will be exhibiting at Oz Comic-Con Sydney, at Sydney Showground, on 24th-25th September! See you there! Matt Galanos has a busy day job as chief financial officer of the Australian Turf Club, which owns and runs a number of racing and entertainment facilities across Sydney. He turned to writing—a personal passion of his—during the Covid-19 lockdowns, penning several fantasy fiction novels about a young knight called Dane Thorburn. The third and most recent book in the ‘Dan Thorburn’ series is Dane Thornburn and Nature’s [read more...]

Burnt Sienna Sky

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Burnt Sienna Sky explores the passage of time, and how it shapes one’s existence. It’s about acceptance and being comfortable in your own skin. But most of all Burnt Sienna Sky is about finding the courage of resilience and speaking up when you think something needs to change, even if you think no one will listen. The thing I love most about Jackie's work is her use of colour, and remember that light and shadow are just colour and the absence thereof. "After the camera flashes, / I want to be the one standing beside you in / [read more...]

Masterly Misled

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In 1999, a Parliamentary (Senate) Inquiry in Australia had found that "a strong case can be made that the Kormoran's underwater torpedo played a major role in the defeat of the Sydney", whereas in 2009 the Commission of Inquiry had found that "the Sydney had been struck by a torpedo from the above-water tubes of the raider Kormoran while both vessels were sailing along at close quarters at a speed of some 14 knots". These diverse rulings mean one or both are not correct. In fact, the latest inquiry has been eroded by more [read more...]

[Author Testimonial] Peter Preuss

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I have been away for a week and upon my return home, there were a couple of boxes on my porch... What a great service... The books have already arrived (you have no idea how hard my place can be to find, which is why I expected a note in my Australia Post Box... Your system works).

[Book Review] Connect with Nature

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BY JOSH GROSS The type of nature I'd like to connect with right now. Image found on Pixabay. When you think about nature, does it feel like something "out there," or more like a close friend? This might seem like an odd question, but as Dr. Les Higgins explains in his new book – Connect with Nature – maintaining a close relationship with the natural world is, "One of the best things you can do for yourself, others, and planet Earth." However, Higgins doesn’t just preach to you about holding hands and wearing flowers. He [read more...]

Warkon

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Sydney 1986, and Devlin's life is music, madness and a vivid dream of another life. Another place. A place he's seen and can't forget. A place of heat and dust and silence, and endless blue. Time to think. And to kill. And forgive. A place he calls Warkon. Warkon is part psychological, part bildungsroman, part crime mystery fiction, helped largely by the clever interweaving of storylines and the author's fine feel for language and tone that is quintessentially Australian. It manages to blend stark existential horror with [read more...]

My Adventurous Times in Antarctica

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Leaving Macquarie Island and the 1979 expeditioners was a mixed bag of emotions. I witnessed the grieving of some of the expeditioners from losing one of their mates, a biologist. I felt for them and wondered what wintering on the Island was going to be like for them. I was pleased to finally go home Aboard the Danish ice breaker, Thala Dan. 15 Months was a long time away from home on an isolated Australian Scientific Research Station. I boarded the ship after she serviced the other Australian Stations in Antarctica. Seeing [read more...]