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The privileged daughter of a prominent village chief challenges age-long traditions. This is much to the chagrin of the ruling class and her family. This sets up a cataclysmic set of events that forever change their thoughts about women and the place of traditional beliefs in an ever-changing world. About the author Wole Akosile is a psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist based on the Gold coast. He is also an Afro-Australian author, novelist, and playwright. His works have been performed in several sold-out stage [read more...]

When Jerry returns to Ireland for the first time in many decades, he takes with him a long forgotten diary to remind him of his past. The diary is detailed and musical, a ringing reminder of Australia in the 1970s. But the diary also floods Jerry with guilt as it reveals violence, betrayal and the loss of a unique friendship. Can an individual ever forgive himself for murder? When is redemption possible? Jerry struggled with the realisation that if he left the sins of the past behind, attributing those sins to a long lost youth, [read more...]

In Dane Thorburn and the Brindabeare Knights, Matt Galanos takes you on an enthralling, fast-paced fantasy adventure, into a mystical world of knights and magic. Sixteen year-old Dane Thorburn’s dream was to become a knight in the Brindabeare army. Little did he know as he entered knight training that the fate of the King and all Valentaland would soon rest in his hands. In the dark recesses of the land, evil Firelord Raegan and his Black Knights are plotting the downfall of the King, with the help of rebel city [read more...]

Tyranny of Fortune completes Don Hoult’s trilogy of Eye of the Rainbow Serpent, and Cliffs of Ochre, where Chloe Boyce resists the relentless pursuit of predators trying to take control of her vast cattle holdings and iron-ore deposits in the Kimberley and Pilbara wilderness of Western Australia. Aided by her partner, Andrew Hanna, she builds on an inheritance, the result of the desperate criminal activities of her father. Hanna is a lawyer with a past that starts to catch up with him, a past he hides from Chloe. Neither of [read more...]

This Story reflects the real-life sequences and incidents of my life and how it led my life to where I am now. It is a heart-warming tale of love, lies, betrayal and emotions. I have tried to be in the present and re-live the memories from the past. This journey of my life has been the best and I hope I take you along with me while you read it. This strange but true love story is written by heart with pain, but at the end of the story I am satisfied that I experienced the most beautiful thing in the world, LOVE from her and [read more...]

This book is the story of South Sudanese Australians, told in their own voices. At one level, it’s a single story: a story of war, of loss, of violent displacement, of the rupturing of ordinary life for these people. It tells of years in refugee camps, of the journeys that brought them to Australia, and of the new life they’re forging for themselves and their families here. But this story has been experienced by individuals, by ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events, events that have become all too common in our present [read more...]

Elle Florence, mother to young Mai, unappreciated partner to Toby, comes from a curious bloodline known as The Florence Women whome have the ability to slip. She lives a life of perpetual boredom and melancholy. When the everyday pressures of life begin to drown her, she begins slipping into vivid dreams of another life. A life where she has a purpose and a destiny. Feeling at home in a utopian world. She is at peace, happy and adored by Torian, a godlike barista sent to her from Frin. She wakes from her dreams to find she’s lost [read more...]

David Watts continues his powerful epic saga in Sub-Heroes Boombox. Oscar Hammond is ambitious, Powered and a Hero in almost all ways that matter. He yearns to be recognised by the elite crime fighters of his world, the Ultra Heroes. On his journey to be noticed, Oscar is faced with unexpected choices that are laced with perils and the promise of glory. However, in a world where Powered villains such as Killervolt exist, the danger for any new Hero has never been greater. If Heroes are measured by their challenges, then [read more...]

Bronwyn Trotter's "The Trappers Promise" is a hard hitting Novel set in the wilds of the Rockies: where only the toughest of women can surive. Born on a mountain in the Rockies where wolves are hunted for their valuable skins, Sarah Cole has to contend with trapping wolves and nineteen trappers. Four of whom have made a promise to her father to look out for her if he should be killed. When her father dies during a card game, she loses her winter home Mountain View Lodge and is thrust into the care of the trappers. Finding that [read more...]

Dennis J McTaggart, in his sixth books of tales plunges the reader headfirst into a world so different from the readers that it's almost impossible to believe it is out there. But it is and the author knows all about it. In fact he's rubbed shoulders with all sorts of villains, abalone poachers, Bikers, bank robbers, and almost every other type of criminal there is. This book of tales starts off with a new baby joining the crew. Brian is relocated to Tasmania, leaving Piggy to tackle the ever increasing numbers of poachers [read more...]