20 Ergebnisse.

Mitch Kuiper works in the parks for Newtown Council and the bane of his life is asparagus grass - a tough spiky weed that will conquer entire suburbs if not ripped out wherever it takes root. Mitch is a man of simple tastes. He loves drinking beer and watching sport but, as the story opens, becomes involved with two quirky young women. Lisa is a permanent uni student engaged in some very arcane research. The other (Marty Mindshadow) has an e...

When the body of a young heiress is found and her baby, ripped from the still warm corpse, is taken, the woman's half-brother swears to bring those responsible to justice. It is a task that appears almost impossible until years later when he discovers the child's name, Raven. Now, in a post-apoplectic world, Raven lives on the edge of society, earning her living immersed in the electronic chatter and detritus of a future, drowned world. And ...

Imre is a Dancer of the White Pavilion. As a follower of Aurelia, the Whore, one of the seven companions who accompanied la Relojero (the clock maker) to Tierra Mejór, she is also a courtesan in training. When Imre falls when performing the Dance of a Thousand Steps, a dance that has been performed every year for the past five hundred years, she believes she has disrupted the will of the Pattern and is now responsible for the disasters befalli...

Cassidy Heights is still recovering from the freak snowstorm that wreaked so much havoc two months before, but Mikhal has his own problems. He's failing at pretty much everything, and the fact that he just punched his best friend in the face is just the icing on the cake. Now, geeky Sharna Devon has been assigned to tutor him, and Mikhal couldn't think of anything worse. Can't everyone just leave him alone? All he wants to do is to learn to pl...

Some things cannot be mended with baling twine.' Drought has turned the paddocks of Paddle Creek Station to dust. Now the death of Clayton's older brother has shaken his family to its core and left a gaping hole in Clayton's memory. A hole his parents won't even discuss. When Waringa, in the shape of a fox-spirit, tells Clayton it's up to him to save his family and to free the rain spirits held prisoner by the demonic Red King, Clayton must fi...

Welcome to the time travelling world of L.I.E.U. A future world where nothing is quite as it seems.A world where a young girl is saved from certain death when an enormous library building suddenly appears in her back yard. A world where the chocolatiers of Bruges halve the world's population without spilling a drop of blood. A world where a 3D printed rogue and his girlfriend help to steal some of the world's most valuable books, and an ageing...

Stephanie Anders is facing her hardest task yet: saving the soul of an enemy.To do this she must make deals with demons, argue with reapers, and sneak into hell. It's the getting back out again safely that might be a bit tricky.

On a night of frost and ice, Cari falls from the sky, cast out of her world and into ours - and Australia's Cassidy Heights will never be the same. For the secrets she bears are more dangerous than Jake, Keira, and Mikhal could possibly imagine. It's an unusually cold winter, but 15-year-old Jake is more concerned with the ice forming in his dad's new relationship and the fact the girl he likes is dating his best friend. And now his elderl...

Ten years ago Rab learned the secret of the planet he calls home - and lost the young girl he'd vowed to protect, traded for a sweater, a set of gloves and a second-hand pair of boots. Since then, he's wandered the barren surface alone, searching for her. If he could rely on the constancy of the seasons and had the means to eke out an existence top-side, Rab would never return to the tunnel city where his frequent absences make him little more...

In the early 1800's, in an English country lane, gentry meets gypsy and far reaching events are set in train that resonates down through the years. Love, betrayal, deceit and death leave a mystery to be solved, a mystery that finds a new home in post WW2 England, before finally reaching its conclusion in Australia's South West.

When Kazari answers the Lady's call to serve, she never expects to take the amethyst of the Hunter, one of the select few who defend Albatar from the gorgones - demons brought from Beyond by the Second King. After all, at fifteen, she's short and stocky, and not made of the stuff of legends. But the Lady, (she who created Albatar as a sanctuary for the faithful following the Gorgone War) has other ideas. And now rumours of gorgone attacks hera...

A long time ago, Rab learned the secret of the planet he calls home. Now, after years of enslavement under the Feathers, Rab considers an escape with Cloud, hoping to find refuge with the few surviving Top-Siders who still live free in the west. But there have been dire warnings of a new breed of predator in the skies and the Kun, leader of the Feathers, has deployed his human captives to fortify the settlement's defences.When the child of Rab...

Too late to save her sister's life, Stephanie Anders must now try to save her soul from the vampire who has possessed her, Branwyre, eighteenth vampire Lord of the Aegean. With only the aid of the ghost of a pissed-off Buddhist monk with a potty mouth and the modern day Priestess of Isis, Stephanie must take on demons and other denizens of a world she knows nothing about if she is to succeed in banishing Branwyre. But even more difficult than ...

When strange lights appear in the sky over the creek at the bottom of her father's property, 16 year old paraplegic, Lucy Wright is catapulted into a parallel universe. A universe connected to our own by means of resonance and sound. A universe where a newly emerging world trembles on the edge of disaster. As realities divide, Lucy's mission in this new world is revealed.

A protracted volcanic winter has devastated Earth, leaving only isolated pockets of survivors. With food becoming scarcer and the air growing toxic, Rab sees just one chance for survival: a perilous journey north in search of a fabled city where ships were rumoured to have been launched, ferrying the people of Earth to a salvation planet. But Rab didn't count on being forced into taking the last three children from his dying village, or on com...

The main rule is simple. You are to be seen only in public with the lady. You are not to try to spend time alone with her. If you agree, you will have a beautiful woman for all of the right functions and be the envy of your peers." Peter Mortimer agreed to Emily Washburn's main rule….then broke it.Now Scott Mawson, an itinerate mathematics teacher and amateur investigator has been hired to find out why Peter Mortimer, an Australian film direct...

The new-found alliance of Starlyne and human has fought back, but the Garsal invaders are relentless in their desire to conquer Frontier. Once again, Shanna, her fellow cadets, and their starcats find themselves on the front-line. But even as she and the other cadets begin to master their new skills tragedy strikes, and all of Shanna's resolve is tested as she discovers there is even more at stake than she'd ever believed possible. As Gars...

It's BLADE RUNNER meets Paolo Bacigalupi's THE WINDUP GIRL OneWorld is a planet orbited by thousands of satellite cities, and home to 23 billion humans. A place where governments, police forces and law courts compete for business within a wholly privatised system, where murder, rape and torture are merely extra items on your insurance policy, where a corporation owns the license for time, and where scientific fact has been replaced by 'con...

The Garsal have landed and Frontier has changed forever. Even as Shanna and her friends struggle to master their new gifts before the Garsal enslave them all, Council infighting threatens the new alliance. But only by uniting do the Scouts, their starcats, and the Starlyne have any chance of surviving, and time is running out for the people of Frontier.

For Shanna, joining the Scout Corps had been a dream come true. The Scouts were charged with expanding their knowledge of Frontier, a hostile planet their ancestors had crashlanded on 300 years before. As the youngest in her class, Shanna struggles to find acceptance and respect amongst her older peers - a task made more difficult by the fact that she has not just one, but two of the colonists' huge feline companions, their starcats. On a rou...