15 Stories. 15 Australian authors. One theme: Journeys.What games do the dead play?Can the ambassador negotiate peace with a hostile alien race?Why is Rae so terrified of a letter from the 'Next Chapter' Department of Lebensqualitat?Read about living mannequins, prison ships, pandemics and more in the second anthology from Aussie Speculative Fiction.

Melur is a bored, frustrated teenager living in the tropics, fighting with her family, dissatisfied with life. Only difference - she's mer. When she rescues a drowning human man from his capsized sailing dinghy, two worlds that should have been separate, combine and conflict. Like the girl in Hans Christian Andersen's original story, Melur pays a price, with consequences she doesn't fully understand. This is a story about love, betrayal, and reality.

What are you afraid of? Fire? Spiders? Or just people?True horror isn't some fanged guy floating in through your window at night, or the flesh-eating zombie battering down your door. True horror is deeper than that, more visceral. True horror is what we're all afraid of, and afraid to think of. Until we're alone, in the dead of night, and those fears come creeping in...What Are You Afraid Of? is a collection of horror stories expl...

This horse can talk. Only problem is, he doesn't say anything nice...Kim is the world's best parent pesterer. So when she pesters for a pony, she gets a pony. What she doesn't know is that she's just adopted an Evil Genius with only two things on his mind - hay, and World Domination. Having a horrible beast of a brother doesn't help. Soon Kim realises the awful truth. There's only room for one Boss in the paddock. Who is it going to be?

What is a well-brought up young lady to do when she finds herself becoming a vampyre? On the one hand, Lady Charlotte Chalmers has always loved her Mama, read her Bible and obeyed society's rules. On the other hand, a girl needs to eat. And that is Lady Charlotte's dilemma.Lady Charlotte's Dilemma is a not-so-serious Regency Vampyre novel about two very different women. Lady Charlotte wants nothing more than to fit in - until she's bitten by Bess, an Elizabethan harlot with a lust f...

Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid, this is no fairytale. Deeper tells the story of a mer woman's obsession with becoming human, so that she can live with the man she loves. When two cultures - the sea and dry land - collide, brutal reality replaces the dream. But when you've sacrificed everything for love, there's no going back.

Houdini’s the baddest dog on the block. He jumps fences, chases cows and rolls in cowpats. But now, just maybe, he's met his match. The Sicilian might look like just another feral cat, but she rules the neighbourhood with an iron paw. Nothing happens without her say so. For a while, even Houdini toes the line - until The Sicilian makes an offer he can't refuse.Bad Dog and The Sicilian - the sequel to Fallacious Rose's Bad Dog - is a mischievous romp of a book that will appeal to ki...

16 stories. 16 Australian authors. One theme. Beginnings.Esmeralda is trapped in a nightmare, unable to wake and escape from the darkness.A simple bus trip turns into a fight for survival.Alone in a strange place with no memories of who she is or how she got there, Alora's world changes forever.These are just some of the stories that you will find in this thrilling collection of speculative tales.

The adventure continues in this fifth book in the New York Times bestselling series.The sun is shining in the Hundred Isles, and yet the path forward seems crowded with shadows. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have traveled across the world, seeking a set of powerful talismans in order to keep them from enemy hands. Throughout their journey the young heroes have been hounded by pursuers, who always seem to know just where to find them. Now they know why. One of them is a traitor. ...

Peter Allison was only nineteen when he left Australia for Africa, thinking he might travel around and see a bit of the country before going home to a 'proper job'. But Africa worked its magic, and Peter ended up falling, quickly and completely, in love with the country and its wildlife. Landing in a game reserve in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta, he became a safari guide and, some twelve years later, his short holiday in Africa isn't over yet.Whatever You Do, Don't Run is his gu...

Bestselling author John Davidson presents "Big Cats For Kids – Amazing Animal Books For Young Readers". Beautiful Pictures and easy reading format will help children fall in love with big cats. This is one of over 20 books in the Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers Series. http://AmazingAnimalBooks.comThe series is known as one of the most beautiful for digital books. The pictures look great even in black and white and are excellent on the full color tablets.Lots of fact...

Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales.'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of those five years, where I lived and how I lived. It is the story of what it means to live in a place so remote that you may not see another soul for weeks on end. And it is the story of the hidden places that I came to call my own, and the wild crea...