In this much requested sequel to 'Sit Down Time', the tale of gifted young musician Alan Cameron's coming-of-age continues into adolescence.What he wants to do on leaving school is go back into the hotel business, but failing that follow in his Uncle Ken's footsteps and study Geology, while his elders and mentors want him to teach music.But first he has to get into university. With girlfriends also coming into womanhood, life wasn't meant to be so easy.On top of it all...

A popular and important master list of hundreds economically useful native plants for northern Australia and other such tropical regions intended for human habitation, catalogued as wet areas and aquatic plants, ground storey grass and shrubs, middle storey bushes and trees, and upper storey trees.

An only child and gifted musician growing up in a big city hotel managed by his hard-working parents, who relocate at short notice out onto the edge of the vast Central Desert where nothing is as he expects.On the cusp of puberty he meets the girl of his dreams and her vigilante, protective brother and family, but in the midst of conflict with corrupt police over the hotel license he loses his father.The shock of transition throws him off-balance. What is to become of him?

An only child and gifted musician growing up in a big city hotel managed by his hard-working parents, who relocate at short notice out onto the edge of the vast Central Desert where nothing is as he expects. On the cusp of puberty he meets the girl of his dreams and her vigilante, protective brother and family, but in the midst of conflict with corrupt police over the hotel license he loses his father. The shock of transition throws him off-balance. What is to become of him?

A short fun-fantasy of a boy being hunted down by the Egyptian God Anubis and his baying hounds while out skateboarding.After making a foolish wager with Osiris that he could beat them in a set time or be mummified for all eternity, he has his work cut out.He is wearing his warp suit so he can jump through shimmers in time and space to escape but that may not be enough, until aided by winged Horus he escapes through a violent cyclone and wins his bet.

The three-part Podwarp series is a coming-of-age story initially set in a great techno-dystopian city enclosed in a protective energy shield, in contrast with the rough outside life of gaucho villagers who work to feed the place.One podling boy, solxv98fg6, nicknamed Sola, learns to turn his brain implant down and assert his own thoughts. He forgets to log into the System and the Pod thinks he's been processed.Head gaucho, Henri Babineau, finds him lost, disoriented and con...

This intriguing tale opens with an anthropologist working among traditional Aboriginal people of the vast Central Desert, when a white boy arrives suddenly in a truck with a dead body in the back and a fortune in gems stashed under the chassis.He can't remember who he is but the elders think he is clever. They are gathered for their initiation ceremonies so they decide to include him.Back in the city, in 'civilisation', in the meantime, there is a nationwide search underway...

The far distant future beyond 2150, beyond the climate apocalypse, beyond dystopian aftershock, in a decayed world stagnating from boredom and corruption, far out beyond civilisation the Crop Masters work incessantly to maintain food supplies.The protective high wall around the metropolis, built to protect the crops not the people, has been undermined by weather and lack of repairs. Holes begin to appear beneath it as the foundations wash away, and children start crawling out to pla...

A taboo story of hauntingly brutal awakening for a part native boy with a scheming avaricious white mother determined to hold onto the land she inherited, mistaken in the belief that she can do so by marrying a local Aboriginal man.Without reckoning on her lonely misfit son Will's wider kinship obligations, she alienates and confuses him until an old man arrives one day to take him on his coming-of-age journey.Old Will is a magic man, who walks him back through time to meet...

The far distant future beyond 2150, beyond the climate apocalypse, beyond dystopian aftershock, in a decayed world stagnating from boredom and corruption, far out beyond civilisation the Crop Masters work incessantly to maintain food supplies.The protective high wall around the metropolis, built to protect the crops not the people, has been undermined by weather and lack of repairs. Holes begin to appear beneath it as the foundations wash away, and children start crawling out to pla...

After his two closest cousins die mysteriously, dreamy young Ned finds himself the last remaining heir to a vast outback cattle empire. He has to learn quickly to stand on his feet. Ambitious relatives are staking their own claim on his land.Yet he is not alone. Using Aboriginal magic and strength of character his family maintain the status quo and restore their lineage, but at great personal cost. Ned Collins inherits far more than property and wealth.

A easy, straightforward guide for Permaculturists and hobbyists on converting animal skins to useful leather products using traditional recipes and methods at home.