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Down by the River two stories by Joe Jeney
These two stories are inspired by the history of the magnificent but dangerous Hawkesbury River.Joe is also the author of Adrian & Gabriel or Drugs, Sex and the Sunrise.
The King is Coming! two stories by Georgina Scillio
In a Maltese village, school children make everything spic and span for the visit of King George VI. And Lieni's life is turned upside down when her husband comes home from Australia.Georgina is also the author of A Dandelion on the Roof and other stories
Those Teeth: a tale for teachers in four cautionary parts by John Biggs
Mike Stephens finds himself caught in a male teacher's worse nightmare.
John is also the author of Project Integrens, Tin Dragons, The Girl in the Golden House and Disguises (as Sally Leigh)
Gerald's Great Escape by Penny Garnsworthy
Gerald shows the other geckos at school that being different is okay.
Penny is also the author of Across the Line and Cyber Riddles
Percy's Big Dive by Penny Garnsworthy
Percy the penguin can win the Dive Fest, but are there more important things in life?
Penny is also the author of Across the Line and Cyber Riddles
Ever the Bridesmaid by Pauline Montagna
Helen has made the mistake of being a bridesmaid three times. But on this, her first trip overseas, is it finally her turn to be the bride?
Pauline is also the author of Suburban Terrors and The Slave.
Out of the Ashes by Pauline MontagnaCan a new love be born out of the ashes of an old love gone wrong? This is the dilemma Marian must face when Russell comes back into her life after abandoning her for a job in New York.
Pauline is also the author of Suburban Terrors and The Slave.
Fiction & Literature
Dreamkill by Michael Davies
When Dan Bailey starts to have bizarre dreams of a weird and frightening childhood, he soon discovers that he is a ‘Manchurian Candidate’, a mind-conditioned and unwilling servant of an ex-KGB General who is using Dan as his own personal weapon. As Dan’s ancient conditioning breaks down, he regains all his memories of a Russian childhood, his training at a secret Soviet camp and the murders he has committed for his controller. He determines to break free of his slavery, but the dangerous process leaves him not knowing who is friend and who is foe. Read More
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Doctor Zed (All available formats)
The Janus Conspiracy by Michael Davies
A conspiracy has been in process for sixty years to take over the USA. A powerful group of men, funded by the two richest men in America and with powerful influences in the country, has been planning the coup for decades and only a small, dedicated group of intelligence specialists has learned about it. But nobody, not the agents and not even the members of The New America Council knows the full extent of the murderous and ruthless plans of the Council's founders and just how much at risk is the safety and security of the entire world. Read More
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Doctor Zed (All available formats)
The Nightmares of God by Michael Davies
A new presence is reaching Earth, an ‘Infinite Soul’, a spiritual force far greater than has ever been seen before. It is coming because the entire spiritual entity that is humanity has developed a sickness that could cause the end of all creation. The Supreme Being is starting to emerge, and soon God will again waken from the millions of years of unconsciousness. But unless Humanity is healed, God cannot awaken. That is the mission of the approaching Infinite Soul, to bring about God’s return. But at the same time, massively evil forces arise to fight the final great war, the battle for the throne of Heaven itself. Read More
Sprawl edited by Alisa Krasnostein
Sprawl is an exciting new original anthology, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and published by Twelfth Planet Press, that will give readers from around the world a unique glimpse into the strange, dark, and often wondrous magics that fill the days and nights of Australia’s dreaming cities and towns, homes and parks, and most of all, its endlessly stretching suburbs.Read More
New Ceres Nights edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Tehani Wessely
New Ceres, a planet in the outer colonies, embraced the Age of Enlightenment nearly two hundred years ago and refused to let go. Refugees and opportunists come to New Ceres in search of new lives, escaping the conflicts of the interstellar war that has already destroyed Earth.
New Ceres Nights presents thirteen exciting stories of rebellion, debauchery, decadence, subterfuge and murder set against the backdrop of powdered wigs, coffee houses, duels and balls. Read More
Angel Rising by Dirk Flinthart
The New Ceres planetary charter forbids the use of all modern technology. Law confines the people to the ways of 18th Century Earth. But beneath the surface, rebellion and revolution simmer constantly.
Proctor George Gordon, a hidden protector of New Ceres, knows all too well how easily these can bubble over, but nothing can prepare him for interstellar warfare in his own technologically challenged backyard.Read More
Siren Beat by Tansy Rayner Roberts
This is a paranormal romance sans vampires or werewolves but featuring a very sexy sea pony. A minor group of man-eating sirens on the docks of Hobart would not normally pose much of a challenge for Nancy, but she is distracted by the reappearance of Nick Cadmus, the man she blames for her sister’s death.Read More
The Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity by K Overman-Edmiston
On a ferociously cold Moscow night, a man drives to the car park of a hotel near Red Square, takes off his hat and coat and lies down in the snow as if going to bed to sleep. In the arctic conditions, he dies. From a window high up in the Hotel Rossiya, a couple looks down upon the figure lying in the snow. The Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity interweaves the stories of two couples: Pyotr and Yuliya, living in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and Hannah and Luke travelling the trans-Siberian railway to Moscow in the early years of the new millennium. Their paths collide during the festive season in Moscow 2002. This novel traces two deeply founded relationships that provide insights into love's tenuous beginnings to its rewards and complexities, and its potential for tragedy.Read More
Adrian & Gabriel or Drugs, Sex and the Sunrise by Joe Jeney
Cops, Junkies, dealers, lawyers, teachers, lovers, friends and enemies, artists, angels, ghosts and thieves – who will you meet on your journey?
Adrian wanders inner city streets searching for not just a better life or the right life but his life. Along the way he meets druggie girl Gabriel. He’s sure that she is strong where he is weak and that she can see where he is blind. But she just wants her drugs back. Read More
Aurelia Rubbini, the only child of a rich merchant in fourteenth century Italy, has been raised to be a dutiful daughter, wife and mother. Then one day, her father brings home from a buying trip an Asian slave boy, Batu, who will reshape Aurelia’s destiny. Aurelia and Batu are inexorably drawn to each other, but Aurelia is destined for an arranged marriage to further her father’s political ambitions. When Aurelia marries Lorenzo de Graziano, a nobleman with a dangerous reputation, Batu goes with her for her protection. But Batu’s presence arouses violent passions that Aurelia, in her innocence, can never understand. Read More
‘Your Darling, Em’ by Brian Ridden
Your Darling, Em tells a beautiful, inspiring love story, passionate, tender and tough. Washington Roebling knew that without his Emily he could never complete the Brooklyn Bridge. She knew that his sustained illness gave her the opportunity to use her talents in exciting work. But Emily kept secrets to preserve his reputation and because her actions often flouted society’s rules for educated, married women. Your darling, Em explores the intimate story of love and marriage behind the building of the famous bridge. Emily tells her story as it has never been revealed before. Read More
To Care for Lisbet by Brian Ridden
When slavery was outlawed, plantation owners turned to the exploitive trade in contract labour to work the sugar cane fields of Australia. South Sea Islander, Orrani, is contracted to care for Lizzie after her mother's death. In a climate of wide cultural difference and racial discord, mutual understanding and respect develop over three decades. Then their lives are shattered by treachery as the government launches deportation of Island labourers who have brought it prosperity.
‘Beautiful, enduring... evocative, engaging characters, a brilliant picture of rural colonial life.’ Read More
Suburban Terrors by Pauline Montagna
Do we really know what secrets lurk behind the tall fences and locked doors of our city’s suburbs? Here are twelve stories that delve into that mysterious realm. You’ll find a few thrills, a touch of horror, a ghost or two… and much more. Read More
Doctor Zed (All available formats)
Love Falls in Love with Love Words by Mocco Wollert, Images by Glenise Clelland
This is a book for lovers – those that are loved, those that have loved and those that dream of love.It combines the creative talent of an accessible poet and an engaging visual artist. The words evoke pure emotion and the sensitive images are diverse visions of the human form drawn from life. Read More
Of Loving and Sensualities Words by Mocco Wollert, Images by Glenise Clelland
This is a book for lovers – those that are loved, those that have loved and those that dream of love.
It combines the creative talent of an accessible poet and an engaging visual artist. The words evoke pure emotion and the sensitive images are diverse visions of the human form drawn from life. Read More
Non-Fiction
The Business School Approach to Writing Your Novel by Michael Davies (Second Edition)
Four out of five people believe they have a book inside them but fewer than one in ten thousand actually get to write one. Getting started is terrifying enough, but overcoming the hurdles of plot and character development and constructing a coherent, intriguing story usually proves impossible. But by adopting tried and proven business techniques of problem resolution, the barriers can be broken. Read More
One More Minute: The Human Connection by Terrie Anderson
This book is about much more than just communication. This book is about personal confidence that allows you to feel unafraid to communicate in the first place, in fact you will even enjoy it! This is a fabulous book for anyone in business or government, as it is a practical guide in how to reach customers, peers, leaders and colleagues, and connect with them. Read More
Yenni: A Life Between Worlds by Eugenia Jenny Williams
The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the growing tension in Eastern Europe ruptured into World War II in 1939, unleashing a succession of disasters that would redefine the borders, ideologies and cultures of this region for years to come. Against this backdrop, Jenny Williams tells us a story of survival that is vivid, almost cinematic – a child’s experience of war, through teenage years and the early days of Soviet control in Czechoslovakia; of socialist youth rallies; to optimism, disillusion and fear of The Prague Spring, Dubcek’s reforms and the Soviet invasion of 1968, which led to her emigration to Australia.
Yenni: A Life Between Worlds was voted one of Tasmania’s 15 Favourite Books in 2006 Read More
Doctor Zed (All available formats)
Road Wench – It’s a Tour Not a Holiday by Shannon Meadows
Have you ever done a tour of Europe? Shannon Meadows has – about fifty times! No, she wasn’t a crazed tourist, it’s worse than that – she was a tour manager for ‘18 to 35’ coach tours.
For anyone who has ever travelled and thought that the tour manager had the best job in the world, this is for you… Read More
Café d'Afrique by Tineke Van der Eecken
At the age of 24 Tineke Van der Eecken decides to broaden her horizon. Full of ideals, she takes the plunge: she is going to work in Africa. After more challenges than she bargained for, but still eager to absorb all African culture has to offer, she finds herself in Zambia where this headstrong woman cooks up the somewhat peculiar idea of an African cultural restaurant where locals and tourists alike can sample authentic Zambian cuisine, music and dance. Despite trials and tribulations with swindlers, bureaucrats and battles with ‘African time’, Tineke’s dream of Café d’Afrique becomes a reality. Read More
Young Adult
Worlds Next Door edited by Tehani Wessely
There are worlds where ships take travellers through space like taxis. Worlds where your worst nightmare destroys your greatest dreams. Worlds where magic makes the rules.
Dive inside and visit worlds of fantasy, sci-fi and scary stuff in these 25 stories of wonder and imagination. With monsters, moon boys and golden goat poo, space-faring dogs, ghosts, dragons and more, there’s a story here for everyone, even YOU! Read More
The Many Worlds of Mickie Dalton by Michael Davies
When twelve-year-old Mickie Dalton meets a young couple in the park, he learns some astonishing facts. The two have come from a distant planet to seek out Mickie, because he’s not a human and more than that, nobody knows what he is, where he came from, how he came to Earth, or what happened to the rest of his species. Mickie joins them on a massive spaceship that travels all over the known Universe and he gradually picks up hints about his ancestors, the Pfafth once the most powerful species in the Universe who vanished a million years ago after ruling over 40 galaxies. As he grows and develops extraordinary power, he encounters the ancient Enemy, dedicated to hunting down the last of Mickie’s people. A million year-old war has started again, and Mickie must find where the Pfafth have been hiding. Read More
The Many Galaxies of Mickie Dalton by Michael Davies
Nearly a year has passed since Mickie Dalton began the search for his origins and the answers to the great mystery of how his species, the Pfafth disappeared a million years ago, and how they could be hiding from even the universal telepaths, the Speakers. As he matures, Mickie develops more and more of the astounding powers of the Pfafth, but not only are his own powers growing, so too are those of the ancient Enemy, the Sillaron. Then the Pfafth start to reveal their existence and he learns more of the great war between the Pfafth and the Sillaron, Mickie is confronted by the truth of what happened to his people and how and why they fled out of Space and Time. Now he must contact the Pfafth and save the entire species from destruction by the Sillaron. Read More
The Many Universes of Mickie Dalton by Michael Davies
At fifteen, Mickie has become a young man of astonishing and sometimes lethal powers with the entire genetic memory of Markel, once the leader of the Pfafth. Mickie learns where the Pfafth have locked themselves away behind a barrier beyond Space and Time. When they make contact, Mickie finally meets his own species and learns of the role for which he has been bred over a million-year program, a reality for which he has never prepared himself. The task is far worse than he could have dreamed, for if the Pfafth Galaxy is not returned to normal Time and Space, the entire Universe could become unstable and break apart. Mickie is faced with the ultimate choice between his own life and that of his entire race. Read More
The Mystery of the Third Seal by Margaret Pearce
James Tadworthy lives in a post holocaust society. It is an ideal society where there are no wars, no crime, no pollution, and no work.
But when Tadworthy discovers his world’s shocking and closely guarded secret, he is launched on a quest through a dark labyrinth of underground passageways to discover what really waits behind the mysterious Third Seal. Read More
Writers Exchange (various formats)
The Santa Files I: The Tale of Dash by Linda Bell-Smith
Santa has an overzealous telemarketer to thank for the employment of his new foreman. An elf from the fascist eastern chapter of elves, Dash immediately gets busy with his plans to improve Santa’s operation, beginning with a strict adherence to Rule One: Naughty Children do not get Presents. Will Christmas ever be the same again? Read More
The Santa Files II: The Elves Go East by Linda Bell-Smith
Dash is back and he’s not happy! It’s too hot, Santa keeps mysteriously disappearing and the workshop is in Summer mode, and annoyingly relaxed. The letter from his father couldn’t come at a better time, requesting his presence in the Freedom of Choice Society of Eastern Elfland. He has no idea that his absence provides Long Tooth with the perfect opportunity to take over the workshop, or that The Secret Society of Monarchists are looking forward to his arrival in the east… Read More
Children
Lancelot: The One Armed Kangaroo by Adrian Plitzco
Lancelot is a joey. Having grown up on a farm, he has no idea who he is and where he comes from. One day Lancelot comes across a kangaroo mob, and realizes that he is not a human but a kangaroo! Desperate to join the mob, Lancelot escapes from home, but he injures his arm so badly that it has to be amputated. When he is left alone in the bush, he has to overcome many dangerous situations, but luckily a girl kangaroo from the mob is curious about him and becomes his friend. Read about the audio book
Pirate: The barking kookaburra by Adrian Plitzco
Pirate is a lost baby kookaburra. He befriends a colourful bunch of dogs and a cat. His sense of fun turns their life upside down. But at the same time, the dogs' survival skills and the cat's wisdom take Pirate on a journey that changes his life forever. Pirate grows up. He learns to stand up for himself, to overcome fear and to care for his loved ones. Pirate is available as an Audio Book and as a Paperback
Miss Minnie, The Frantic Poodle by Lorna Gregory Illustrated by Rebecca Hughes
This is the story of a little poodle called Miss Minnie who is left behind when her family move abroad. She makes a desperate bid to find a new home, having amazing adventures on the way.
This is just the first in a series of stories about Miss Minnie. Read More
Flatulent Tales by Michael Davies (Illustrated by Holly Cox)
When Gilbert discovers the amazing power of his flatulence he embarks on a series of adventures. He flies into orbit, travels to Tasmania, saves a house from burglars, rescues a trapped man in a building, defeats a plague of rats at the Coffs Harbour market and saves the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race, among others. Gilbert is truly a local hero in Coffs Harbour. Read More
Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island
by Karen Guinn Robertson (Illustrated by Victor Guiza)
Kai dreams of finding gold! When he suddenly finds himself on Shark Island, he knows the treasure is there, but he doesn’t have the clues he needs to find it! That’s where you join the treasure hunt. Each treasure chest on this book hides a toy. Each toy is a clue to finding the treasure. And inside one chest is the gold of Kai’s dreams. You choose which chest to open, so you choose the adventure! How many clues will it take you to help Kai find the gold? Read More
Ping-Ping the Panda by Jan Latta
Jan Latta travelled to China, then up the mountains to photograph giant pandas. Through photographs you can see what pandas eat, their habitat and how they survive. The pandas talk to children about their lives in a true to life adventure. You can also see 12 little baby pandas and their funny antics. Read More
Gerry the Giraffe by Jan Latta
Come on a true to life adventure with Gerry the giraffe. He talks to children about what he eats, where he lives and how he survives in the wild. The fabulous photographs were taken by Jan Latta in Africa. Read More
Mia the Meerkat by Jan Latta
Jan Latta spent many weeks taking photographs of a meerkat family. The tiny babies were adorable. The meerkats say hello to children and show what they eat, where they live and their life together as a family. Read More