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Leonora Gaerth was a foster child, and her younger brother, Landor, was adopted. They grew up in the coalmining town of Collie in the southwest of Western Australia. Leonora showed exceptional talent and skills as a dressmaker before winning a scholarship to Modern School in Perth where she matriculated and went on to study law at the University of Western Australia. Landor was often used as a tailor's dummy for Leonora's projects. His big sis...

Shannon failed to save the earth colony of N'arth. Back on earth her life is a disaster. Her twin, Raylene, has alienated all her friends. Nan has disappeared. The police suspect Shannon of murder. Shannon makes two new friends, Zharu and Mungo, but one will betray her. Enhanced night vision, superhuman hearing, hardly sleeping and a strange marker on her DNA-What is Shannon morphing into? Whatever it is, she's terrified of being captured, int...

Bhòid grasped Sulaire's hand. 'Stay behind me. Whatever happens.' She shook her head, her face a wild mask of red and shadows in the firelight, and stayed where she was. The wolves slipped out of the woods, moving over the snow in a loose pack of shadows... Thousands of years ago in Stone-age Scotland... ...twin brother and sister, thrall born, but with dreams beyond the Custom of the Beaver Clan. Bhòid can only become a Hunter if he shows ou...

A friend said writing poetry is part of your healing. My stay in hospital was a long period of isolation and solitude and every day I got up to write with the vista of the city before me, I was engaging with healing of body and mind and as a period this offered me significant reflection and redeemed my style of writing with reflections on nature. So many of the poems were a response to kindness and care of those around me.

Jenny Kroonstuiver has lived and worked in most states of Australia, predominantly in remote areas, from the pastoral industry in Western Australia, to Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, to the mining towns of Mt Isa and Kalgoorlie. The final stages of her working life saw her working Australia-wide. In The Water Bag she recalls stories from her relatively unusual childhood and many varied careers.In many ways, her life has been a serie...

After recovering two pieces of the powerful Ayerstone, Bruce and his mates discover a third piece is located somewhere in the outback. Walter the common wombat is more concerned with finding the hairy-nosed wombats of the Nullarbor and studying the ancient art of Mortal Wombat. Along with Outback Jack and their platypus, koala and kangaroo mates, they travel into South Australia, finding that powerful Megalania-sized goannas are in control fro...

This anthology covers some of the many conflicts during the 20th century, beginning with the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900 and the fate awaiting European missionaries. The book culminates with celebrations in Paris on New Year's Eve, 2000. Not all the stories depict military conflict - others cover the efforts and experiences of environmentalists, freedom fighters and factory workers. I outlined the trials and tribulations of women in the w...

Tales of a life well lived. Rewind 60 plus years, to an era devoid of social media and mobile phones. Where one was fully engaged in the here and now, and personal events were witnessed by those who were present. An era where life was looked at through a different lens ... that of our own eyes, and to savour, ponder and grow from those catalyst moments and events that shape us into who we are. How does a young, middle-class man from the east...

After losing two yachts, the first off the coast of Africa and the second on a reef in New Guinea, many friends encouraged Jan and John to write a book of their adventures. So they have ... However, the loss of two boats was only a small part of their adventurous life story. John first met Jan in 1966, when John was building a trimaran, with the intent of sailing it back to England. The boat was only 29-feet long and, unfortunately, he was una...

One of the big challenges facing parents today is how to nurture emotional wellbeing in their children as they learn to live in our rapidly growing technological world. This heart-touching issue about raising lifetime values is at the core of Musical Island, wherein author Natalie Mitz, a passionate musician and theatre practitioner for more than 20 years, envisages music as a powerful means of instilling emotional wellbeing and a positive mi...

Reeling from the fallout of a terrorist attack in Hyde Park, Sydney, Lucas Bonham is haunted by the ghostly visions of a woman he can't remember, suffering escalating depression and anxiety, and is conflicted about who he was before he lost his memory. As he battles decaying mental health and monstrous visions of a giant Behemoth that seeks to consume him, Lucas fights against mounting pressure on all sides, unsure of whether he's alive or dea...

Two years after finishing his tour of duty in the Occupational Forces in Japan, Damson O'Reilly arrives in Siena, Italy. Sight-unseen at a local auction, he buys an abandoned Tuscan farmhouse in which he aims to write, paint, and start a new life. The house, passed over at auction, becomes an impulse buy when it's put up for a final time. He's prepared for a semi-ruin, happy to turn his hand to renovating the house - however, what he's totally...

Elsie wants to ride a rollercoaster. Thomas has an embarrassing secret. Frank and Douglas find love. Shirley launches her stand-up career. Millie organises a protest. Alexander wants them to get his name right. Not Dead Yet is an eclectic collection of fiction about nursing home life for those often forgotten. Laugh and cry as they run, stumble, fall, get up and live at this last stop. Dried fruit gives me the runsBoiled lollies hurt my gum...

THE AZZIL TERRITORIES - The second major power to be found on the world of Perencore and traditional enemy of the Hamaforth Kingdoms. THE CITY OF TERRIMORTER - The capital city of the Azzil Territories. RULER JOM AZZER - The man who rules the Azzil Territories with absolute authority. A major military conflict now brews between the two powers of the Hamaforth Kingdoms and their dreaded enemy the Azzil Territories. These authorities are current...

Ben knows your house is empty. And that's not all. He knows his partner's left him for a man with chunks of pop-tart in his hair, he knows his boss has been fired, and his use of controlled substances is no longer under control. He knows his biggest customer is putting her business with the competition, writing off Ben, and the newspaper he works for, as irrelevant. He knows there's a general election which is boring everyone - including him....

A poetry anthology to carry with you through times of growth and pain, This Feeling has Fangs and a Heartbeat is a war cry for young women and girls in a world that so often makes us feel small. It is a collection of vulnerable, raw poems that both break open the fragility of self-worth and sew it back together, stronger. These words are for anyone who struggles to feel seen when their emotions feel too big, or too different.

Did you know there was a piano on the First Fleet? That the first convict artist was hanged for his trouble? That the first female author here started writing under a man's name? That the King owns the painting of our Federation? And did you know that there was a convict who wrote a dictionary of Australian slang? A man who was transported to Australia a record three times? And what about the world's first full-length feature film? Made in Aus...

With recently discovered information coming to light, the author revisits and presents new stories and pictures illustrating his family's complex genealogy in this reworked edition of the 1992 manuscript 'Life's Race Well Run'. The original concept of 'A Diary of Discovery' has been maintained and the book is now published for the first time. There is a dynasty established by a Foundry owner and his eleven sons who were draftsmen, fitters and ...

Storm is having difficulty at cadet school. As Bushytail's daughter, everyone expects her to be the best cadet but she knows that she is far from it. As time goes on, and she still can't master the three rules, she becomes discouraged. It is not until the clowder is under threat and she is forced to make a journey to the city that she finds the skills within herself to lead others. When the guardians charge her with a mission to help the lead...

Geoff Kanofski is not a qualified psychologist. He was encumbered by symptoms of OCD, ADHD, and Tourette Syndrome. At age 33, he discovered how his disorders were functionally linked. This was the beginning of his understanding. Geoff then began to overcome his OCD, which increased his understanding. At 35, he no longer suffered with severe OCD. He then began full-time study. Hard work and tutoring allowed him to complete two years of pre-tert...