Books

While researching my ancestry I discovered that my great-grandfather had been widowed twice and married three times with three children before the age of 26 Intrigued, the first Covid lockdown gave me the opportunity to write a book based on facts known. I have changed the names, except for William, and fleshed out the characters. William was born in Somerset in 1828, one of generations going back to 1722 and beyond skilled with woodcarving and model making. He was a great inventor, engineer and designer, and adventurous, too. He [read more...]

The novel is Australian fiction, set in the early 2000's, with three main characters: A young doctor who takes on a contract in an outback town in WA, escaping career and relationship disappointments, an Indigenous young man coping with too many assessments and no understanding, and a boy who sees the people and nature through a different lens. Each has to deal with their own role when two deaths occur, and everyone in the community their responsibility. Against a savagely intruding landscape, the novel is a homage to the [read more...]

Sergeant David Hunter Webster served in the AIF Royal Park Convalescent Unit from 1940 to 1945. In February 1941, he was one of thousands of Australians imprisoned by the Japanese in "Changi" until liberation in September 1945. He kept a diary of activities that went on within the camp. This is his story as he wrote it.

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. Casey Station, 1981 was a unique year for all the expeditioners who served there for the 12 months in such an inhospitable, isolated, frozen, and barren environment found only in Antarctica. A special bond was formed within this year between the expeditioners, and [read more...]

Amy and Ginger, fraternal twins, realise how much different they are from the average human. During a journey on meeting different covens, the biggest truth that was kept from them is presented at the most inconvenient time. How do Amy and Ginger know the truth from the lies? How do Amy and Ginger survive their lives of not knowing who and what their father is? What about the maternal figure of both Amy and Ginger? There might not be a direct answer to what Amy and Ginger will face.

Finding My Invisible Sun is a moving, intensely thought-provoking and courageous memoir that illuminates an individual's capacity for, and path to, recovery and transformation from cumulative trauma. The rich use of imagery and language invites the reader to witness, connect with, and share the author's experiences of growing up, trauma, mental illness, love, discrimination and healing via literary devices that masterfully synthesise science and art, excruciatingly poignant realism and the special magic realism that the surreal [read more...]

In 1839 the Runnymede was engaged to carry 190 boy convicts from England to Tasmania (then Van Diemens Land). John Gell was the only paying passenger aboard and a meticulous diary writer. His daily entries give the modern reader a valuable insight into life aboard a 19th century convict ship; its routines, punishments, special occsaions and even lighter moments. A bonus for the reader is his reporting of the backgrounds of some of the boys. He was a servant of God and planned to become an educator. His diary Reflects this with some [read more...]

A simple mission... with twists and meanders that capture his heart and divert his destiny. Just when Mage Everand thought his mission was concluded and he could follow his heart to be with Lamiya, she is kidnapped. He must save Lamiya - and find out exactly who the rogue half-mage is. Forced to continue Malach's training in magic, Everand is confronted by his past actions as the apprentice to Malach's father. Unexpectedly, the Guild mages forcibly translocate him home! Obliged to report on his mission, he reluctantly reveals [read more...]

Dyslexia and growing up in the bush as one of seven kids never stopped Stephen Oxley from writing stories and poems about everything he saw. Always a larrikin, from working on the railway, to cotton farms, bush servos, and farm work, he eventually became a linesman for PMG and Telstra. His story takes us on a winding journey from 1952 to 2022, in Brewarrina, Boorowa, Gerringong, Warilla, WeeWaa, Jerilderie, Gunning, Cootamundra, Wagga Wagga, Balgowlah, Balranald, Mosman, Binalong, Goulburn, Barham, and Orange. Every life's a story, [read more...]

After the Nuclear Holocaust, Dick, Patch and their close friends are fighting for their lives against unbelievable odds. The only inhabitable places left are Taswegia and New Haka. Two ex-Navy Clearance Divers, an ex-Army Sapper and their partners fight to reach a place where they can make contact with others who are hopefully still alive, and who can help them rid their land of the Alliance! A danger-fraught week of travel began, with Sarge, Patch, April and Annie on horseback, and Dick and Jack travelling by road and [read more...]