Merv Ryan was called-up and sent to the Vietnam war as an infantry rifleman and has drawn on his experience and knowledge from his personal diary to present a fictional story of one woman and two young men - one militant and aggressive, the other a pacifist, who are conscripted and sent to fight in the jungle. A finely written account of Australian army life on active service and the devastating effect this war had on many who took part in it. The last section of the book, dealing with pos...

Acclaimed crime writer Tony Cavanaugh is back with a gripping new novel featuring Australia's answer to Michael Connelly's Hieronymus Bosch - Darian Richards.Darian Richards is an ex-cop, a good one. He did whatever it took to solve a crime and stop the bad guy. Whatever it took! But after sixteen years as the head of Victoria's Homicide Squad, he'd had enough of promising victims' families he'd find the answers they needed. He had to walk away to save his sanity.

She holds his diary in her hand. Its contents terrify her, What is the awful tale it tells. She knows she must read it to see what is hidden. Can she bring herself to do so. She hides it away and passes responsibility to another.A fisherman finds a unidentified head in a waterhole in Northern Australia. What first appeared to be a crocodile attack turns into murder. Who is this man who no one seems to know.Susan returns to England, pregnant.after her escape, now engaged to ...

Life in the saddle - from wild brumbies of the high country to trusty stock horses of the outback and from drovers to dressage riders - a collection of heart-warming tales for horse-lovers.Great Australian Horse Stories brings to life the exploits--funny, poignant and sometimes dramatic--of horses from all over the nation. Outback legends, loyal carthorses, spectacular high jumpers and trusty stock horses. Among them animals that have defied the odds to wi...

The sample story, "An Artist's Freedom", is merely to give an appetizer from the collection of 13 stories in "Short Shorts & Longer Tales." The sample story tells of an aboriginal deaf mute who loses a canvas on which he has painted his life. Though he knows where it is, and he can see it, he can't touch or reclaim it. But his ancestral upbringing means he can't leave it behind, so he remains in the vicinity to be near it, passing his time waiting for an opportunity to reclaim it. The stor...

An angel appears on a refrigerator. An accountant boxes a colleague at work. A woman having an affair finds herself underneath the marital bed. A game show host blows it. A graphic designer reflects on his life. A fired executive tries to revive a Vietnamese man on the air bridge at Toronto International. A financier flies from New York to New Zealand. Nothing happens; everything does. 12 stories.

What are other things to see in Australia besides kangaroos and aborigines? Find out the answer in this exciting picture book. Learn about Australia's landscapes, best places to visit, as well as the people's culture and tradition too. This is a book that will take you from the beaches to the deserts of Australia in less than an hour. Grab your copy today!

'Chevalier is a new voice in Australian fiction, wry, gritty, knowing and true.' Fiona McGregor, Indelible Ink'Compact phrasing, pinpoint imagery and a wicked sense of humour are hallmarks of Chevalier’s writing.' Mark Vendor, Famous Reporter.Permission To Lie provides, as Vendor says, 'a broad sweep of ordinary life in modern-day Sydney, not-so-ordinary life in NSW jails and correctional facilities, and some pieces set on the east coast of America in the ...

An immigrant’s tale of an untamed countryAlexander Gibson, my father, was a young Englishman who with his brother settled in Australiain the 1920s. The brothers each married one of the Solomon sisters just prior to the Great Depression.The Taciturn Man begins just after the Second World War when Alexander took up a roughbush sheep-grazing block in isolation among the tall trees of New England (New South Wales).I was born in 1937, and so I was just three years...

First published in 1905, The Toll of the Bush is widely regarded as William Satchell's best work. Set in the Hokianga district in the early twentieth century, it is an engaging portrayal of pioneer farming and trading on that lonely margin between sea and bush, where jealousies and intrigues punctuate the lives of the heroes and heroines. Above all, the brooding forest watches and waits to exact its toll on those who have sought to tame it. Kendrick Smithyman's introduction brings...

Forget what your parents, teachers, and doctors told you…Sure, smoking is bad for you. Everyone knows that. It makes your breath stink and it gives you cancer. But it's still cool. Cool enough, in fact, to become an Olympic sport…The Art of Cigarette Smoking is a joyful story about a man's abiding passion for a disgusting habit. If you like flights of fancy, playful language, and eccentric characters, then you'll l...

In 1951, just days before her scheduled lobotomy after years in a mental hospital, New Zealand author Janet Frame's first collection of short stories unexpectedly won the Hubert Church Memorial Award, one of the country's most prestigious honors. The procedure was cancelled, and Frame would go on to become one of the seminal authors of contemporary New Zealand literature.During her time at the MacDowell artist's colony in New Hampshire, Frame met painter William Theophilus Brown, a...