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In the cops, Jim Walker thinks he has seen it all. Until he confronts the unexpected, hideous activities on the island where he grew up. International syndicates are at play. Law and crime share a shady line. Ricco, a double-crossing killer, unleashes his inner torment, figuring it is the only way. The city is close, it has secrets, too. A dark underbelly of criminals emerges from the highest floors and government.Nothing can prepare Jim for the dark world he is about to enter. A lawmaker has motives; only he knows the person controlling everything. Finally, the truth is uncovered. But it is not what Jim and Edmonds have been counting on.
For Bluey and Molly Turner, 1901 brings a big change: a baby on the way and the purchase of the Trafalgar Hotel in the tiny mining town of Trafalgar in the Western Australian goldfields. They find themselves thrust into the lifestyle of a rapidly growing mining town of diverse personalities and politics amidst learning how to run a new business. Overlooking them all is the painting of Admiral Nelson, both loved and detested. This is a heartwarming story about friendship and family, set in the turbulent times of a fast developing gold mining industry when the town of Trafalgar was in its heyday. The three families of the Turners, O'Connells and Primroses, core to the Trafalagar Hotel, face the challenges of daily life, clashes of culture, a devastating war, and the inlfuenza pandemic, whilst watching their own children grow up to a rapidly changing world.Based on the historical events which affected Trafalgar from 1900-1925, Nod to the Admiral brings the tiny town and its inhabitants to life with empathy and a touch of humour.
Rufus Enterprise chooses Seal Island in King George Sound in the Southern Ocean of Western Australia as the site for his sealing operation. He appoints Tom Elder as his leader with four ex-convicts, Bob Beater, Dick Dental, Harry Heeler, and Sam Scullion to assist him. A group of boys are shanghaied, press-ganged, and purchased to make up the unpaid workforce on Seal Island. The boys are worked hard and treated badly, but some learn invaluable skills under the tutelage of Harry Heeler and Sam Scullion.A sudden fierce storm sees an East Indiaman ship flounder and founder near Seal Island, but efforts to get a line out to her prove futile. The ship sinks, but there is one survivor, a 'boy in fancy togs' called Adam. Adam is a problem for Rufus Enterprise. He might be worth a ransom or reward, but he also may have seen enough to bring the operation on Seal Island undone. Adam befriends Benjamin and shares with him the dream for a better life. When Rufus Enterprises hears of this so-called dream, he is furious and decides to deal the problem in a wicked way, through a ritual castaway. He retells the terrifying tales and legends of 'Old John' Sullivan to frighten the boys into submission and stamp out all talk of dreams and dreamers.Benjamin shares the dream with six others who become 'outcasts', when a 'snitch' called Jake, brings them undone. Rufus Enterprise, now infused with a black miasma, is teetering on the edge of madness, and his unstable state explodes into death and destruction. How all this is resolved is the story of the Seal Island band.
An Alpha is the heart of the Pack.It is hard work being a young, single mum. Ridley Wade-Kohan believes herself to be failing in life. With a past that haunts her and a family who has rejected her for the decisions she has made, Ridley has no choice but to find a job - any job. When she lands herself a position as an assistant with the successful Farrow Group; a company owned by the most powerful pack of wolf shifters in the country, and its leader, the Alpha of Farrowline, Tobias Farrow, Ridley's life changes forever. There is nowhere to escape when the Alpha of Farrowline has you in his sights. But as hard as Ridley tries to run from her past, the more it torments her. With her heart telling her one thing and her mind another, will Ridley be able to find the happiness she craves in the strange new world among a Pack of wolves and their Alpha? Or will she just bring danger to Farrowline?
In the quiet villages of Greater Horrewick, gem of the Southern Regions, those peaceful farming and fishing communities struggle under the yoke of Aaellionia. Once again forced to appease the city Selection they must pay with their own son's lives. Marching on the villages, the soldiers have made one fateful mistake, this year, they have unwittingly selected a girl. A violet eyed girl the ancient one deems prophecy.With the followers, a band of hastily selected village folk, wanting their children back, travel through the forests, native jungles, sweltering deserts, pirate filled oceans and nightmare fuelled deep ravines throughout Aaellionia. Via blue tones flying men, floating crystal powered barges, unsuspecting megarean beasts, train driving trolls, pack driven werewolves and fighting forces of a struggling wizard nation driven by a maddened and ageing emperor, to a narcissistic King wanting nothing more than the sport of those subjugated children.Who will survive?Who can survive?
Nipa is the inspirational story of a self-reliant and determined female freedom fighter who actively helps fight the war of liberation for her country, Bangladesh - which in 1971 was East Pakistan - against the occupying forces of West Pakistan. Nipa, a medical student at Dhaka Medical College, takes up arms in the fight and is martyred just before Bangladesh is declared a sovereign state. In this biographical novel, the author describes the breathtaking events of 1971 through the eyes of Nipa and her compatriots. Accompanied by her co-warriors and disguised as a man, Nipa travels to East Pakistan's Kaliganj sector, where members of the Gomez family shelter and nurse her, and join her liberation fight. She trains the villagers to engage in armed guerrilla warfare and is later killed during an air raid.This story of Nipa and the Bangladeshi war of independence was originally published in Bengali. Following translation for the wider English-speaking public, it was edited by Deb Doyle and re-set in the present tense so both the narrative and the dialogue are immediate and palpable.Anyone interested in war literature, the role of women in warfare and/or freedom fighters, especially female warriors, will find inspiration in this testimonial account of the suffering entailed in both loss and victory. Its spirit of patriotism and of valuing the human spirit in the quest for liberty will be motivational for all readers, irrespective of their gender, race, ethnicity or nationality.
Escape into a rich world of family intrigue and self-discovery that reaches across three centuries and across cultures. This unique tale draws us gently into itself but it also stimulates discussion about other important issues that remain current.At a time when Australia had its back turned on Asia and when White Australia buried its origins, a curious girl refused to accept the stuffy options on offer and reached out beyond the confines of her known world in search of love and something more. It began as an escape but became a much deeper quest. Her adventures took her from Australia to Bougainville, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Bangladesh and Thailand as she collided with love, betrayal, political flashpoints and destiny in a journey of metamorphosis.Given a pack of cards that dictate our gender, place of birth, time of birth, that can spell poverty, revolution, persecution or comfort, love and ease, how do each of us manage these and what chance is there of rising above them through the choices we make? Is our fate written? Do we let our shadows lead us to repeat our mistakes? What power do we have to create our own destiny? What is it that all human beings want most despite culture and so-called accidents of birth? Is it just to eat, pray and love or to give something more to the world around them?
As a young Friar I was fortunate to spend some time on my own in reflection and meditation, as I wandered in the Holy Land, including Jerusalem and elsewhere, Dorset in the United Kingdom, and Assisi in Italy. I see this an important moment of pilgrimage in my life. This volume was crafted at that time. Moments of beauty, lucidity and exploration are reproduced for you here, in the hope that you might also make some sense of what can only ever be, your own deeply personal journeys.
Jayden Harnett returns in this sequel to Directed by McCardle O'Hanlon. The young star, and emerging ballet dancer, who turned his back on a movie making career to study for a teaching degree, is lured back into the theatrical world. His story is a sprawling saga that covers four continents, two new films, and the revival of a classic play. For more than a year Jayden shoots films on location in Tasmania, and Norfolk Island in Australia, and Kankara Town and Katsina State in Nigeria. He returns to the stage in a revival of a challenging play that opens in London and has seasons in New York and Los Angeles.Jayden is involved in events that are heroic, harrowing, and heartbreaking. All is revealed in Jayden Harnett's story.
The Eldovian Empire covers an ancient land that has seen the rise and fall of many a dynasty. Now word has begun to spread in the most secret parts of the country that the current Imperial bloodline has little time left...In the rural north, eleven-year-old Rassa is burdened with a secret nature he would do anything to be rid of. His desire to be normal like all his friends seems like a dream most days, and an impossible reality when the gluttonous hunger within him is unleashed at night. His excitement at even the mildest of solutions makes him careless, and the slightest mistake proves fatal for more reasons than one.In the mightiest Ducal House of the Empire, thirteen-year-old Aegin trains to be the perfect servant, spy and assassin, just like his father. But his curiosity holds him back at the best of times even when his physical skills are a bar above the rest. When given a mission despite his youth, he knows that he needs to prove himself, or lose the faith of those he looks up to.When the two boys meet, their individual masks are beginning to slip, but can the two recognise the similarities in each other's plights before their masks crumble for all to see the monsters within?
Turn it Up! is part-memoir of my time as a musician and journalist, and part-pop history, examining some of the unsung or more interesting bands which I have connected with in some way since I began listening to the radio as a kid.It begins with my first concert experience as a thirteen-year-old watching Ike and Tina Turner. I then revisit the records that impacted on me as a young teenager and the music that spurred me on to play myself when I was older. I weave in and out of my chequered progress in music, while pausing now and then to shine a light on the way rock music evolved in the eighties and nineties. The mood is studious and knowledgeable but also light and comedic as I revisit some of my more eventful interviews I conducted with acts such as Bjork, Nirvana and Pulp. Throughout the book I detail the way my own bands became successful, but not quite successful enough, and detail the various catastrophes which may have contributed to that. I introduce the reader to some of the more eccentric characters I have met through music, from Lenny the Launceston punk, who burned down his own shop accidentally, to Kevin Shields from the band My Bloody Valentine who took 55 minutes to answer one question I'd put to him. The book is not dissimilar to Giles Smith's Lost In Music, but that book is very much of the UK in the '80s, and doesn't examine the strange dynamic between the interviewer and the interviewee, which can veer between both parties wishing they were doing something else, to a more edgy encounter where the possibility of a 'scoop' gets the blood rushing. The book ends with some reflections on why music can be the most constant and loved companion in our lives. Turn It Up! is 55 000 words long.
After experiencing the Great Barrier Reef on his last trip to Australia, Ozzy decides he wants to explore some of Australia's capital cities, starting with Sydney.During his holiday in Sydney, Ozzy meets the Linn family and stays with them in their harbourside home. The Linn children, Jade, Chen and Mei, really enjoy taking Ozzy around Sydney.In just a little over a week Ozzy experiences the fun of Bondi Beach, the glamour of the QVB, the joy of Taronga Zoo, the awe of the Sydney Opera House and the many attractions of Darling Harbour.Join Ozzy and his new friends as he explores Sydney and many of the experiences it has to offer.
Have you ever wondered if you have magical powers? Have you ever met anyone with magical powers?If not, today's your lucky day. Meet Magic Max - a young penguin who will thrill you with his amazing abilities.Exploring his powers Max quickly learns it's not always what it's cracked up to be. He learns the hard way that he needs to be careful what he wishes for.
The 2 tomes, Infinity of Zeitgeist Doppelgangers and The Compleat OWL: The Forever Zeitgeist 1950-2050, have been created primarily for a reader-market who hasn't been born yet. Through the lens of satire they will read about the thoughts, beliefs and aspirations of those who lived in our 'Century of Insanity', 1950-2050. But current generations might also be interested in learning what all 'our' thoughts are 'now' according to the psychologist author. Hubris, (individual and species) will take a back seat to enlightenment as ordinary characters wrestle with intuitive realisations of infinite cosmic evolution to 'perfect intelligence.'It's also a literary phenomenon which places Australia, the little big country, in the global headlight. The two books, a combined sixteen hundred plus pages, are not created to just facilitate further thought and discussion but to galvanise real action to address obvious global social injustices and resource imbalances.For readers alive in our current epoch, in this Century of Insanity, the target reader market is Baby Boomers; especially those who might be feeling guilty about the way civilisation has ended up under their watch.Infinity of Zeitgeist Doppelgangers - Volume OneHere are four cosmic tales where names, time, places, characters, genders and plots are, in one sense, arbitrary. They are just shadows of the doppelgängers that inhabit an infinite number of universes where chronology is meaningless.Yet they share the constancy of the cosmic zeitgeist. In this case the Century of Insanity 1950-2050. Alien TouchThe Vampire Club has tentacles around the world, holding key business and political members in a fatal lock. The mysterious, secretly held happenings of the Sydney 2000 Olympics are finally revealed.Greenwars: The End of MankindAnimal Farm for the 21st century. Animals are the sole survivors of Mankind's annihilation, and take over the remnants of human civilization. Anything can happen in an infinite cosmos.Pie SquarePie Square is the benign exploitation of youth through an addictive, technically sophisticated fast food chain ... Awareness is building of an invisible 'Cosmic unity'. Coming of Age: Near End of the BeginningIn the 1960s-70s, young Adam struggles to find his place in contemporary society. He brings the self-help concept to fruition, experiences the rigours of capitalism and the responsibility of playing with nuclear power; all the while unknowingly monitored by a cosmic entity.This literary phenomenon starts the Australian journey from 'good ideas' to Global leadership ... and far beyond!
"I swear to God it was Willoughby. My brother stood not two feet away from me, called me Lina to my face, and pulled Harley into his arms, saying he was sorry, sobbing, and calling him his boy."An apparition in Sydney's fruit and vegetable market leaves the mother of one of Clyde's best friends believing that her brother, hanged for murder twenty-four years beforehand, has somehow risen from the grave and confronted her.She is adamant that the visitation was real and visits Clyde asking him to investigate the mass murder her brother was supposed to have committed. She believes he was either set up or was covering for someone else's crime.Could this vision have been a folie à deux, a delusional vision shared by both mother or son? As Clyde investigates, clues lead him to one of Australia's most famous silent screen actors, a man who, together with his murdered father, becomes intrinsically linked to the mass murder, known as The Killing at Candal Creek.Wheels within wheels, lies, extortion, and coverups lead Clyde to a bloody confrontation on a deserted beach in the tropics. This time, it's not only his own life at risk but also that of one of his most valued and closest friends.
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