They say Provisional Paul once killed a man by injecting him with air, and he really doesn't like James, not even a bit …James lives in the small English town of Bunley. He'd always been a fixer by nature - but now James has teamed up with the magic scooter, Misty, and they've both gone postal about righting the town's wrongs.But the demon, Basil Devlin, who disguises himself as a fat, human businessman and Member of Parliament, has no intention of letting James and Misty g...

This is a collection of 25 poems by James Bickle. The poetry discusses profound issues with insight, James does not shy away from brutally honest social commentary. Poems included are: The Ego, The Manager, Those who win, Seven Billion, Why does God allow suffering, Local Countryside, New Year, Cool, Escapism, You're not allowed, Social Housing, Christmas Day, The Entrepreneur, A week in the life, The Conversation, Fairground Day, Requiem, World War 2 Pilot, Resident Patient, The Garden, W...

Mothers' Day has always been a special day for Sandi, because her beloved kids spoil her rotten. But this year won't be the same. Her daughter, Gracie, has joined her brother Jack at boarding school and Sandi dreads waking up to a quiet house. Even her husband, Paul, seems distant and preoccupied with farm work. So she never could have guessed what the day has in store ...The Empty Nest includes an exclusive preview from Fiona Palmer's novel, The Sunnyvale Girls.

Carter writes as if he has ADD, careering through his life on oil rigs in exotic locations. He won't win the Booker, but his yarns burn with anarchic energy ... in a word, irrepressible.' - Herald SunHe's back on the rigs and back in trouble.Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Starting with action and mayhem galore This Is Not A Drill sets an unrelenting ...

The next eagerly awaited, high octane, seat-of-your-pants adventure from the author of the bestselling Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse) sees (the surely a bit bonkers) Paul Carter circumnavigating Australia on a bio-diesel motorcycle.At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul Carter happily nestled in the cotton wool of suburban life enj...

TV series starring Ella Purnell now on Sky Atlantic!The last person who called me ‘Sweetpea’ ended up dead…Rhiannon is your average girl next door, settled with her boyfriend and little dog…but she’s got a killer secret.By day her job as an editorial assistant is demeaning and unsatisfying. By evening she dutifully listens to her friend’s plans for marriage and babies whilst secretly making a list.A kill list.

'A twisty small-town PI mystery with a protagonist I didn't want to let go' IAN RANKIN'The pay-off is criminally good . . . As always, Pomare keeps the best surprises until last. Prepare for a late night' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDIT WAS A TRAGIC ACCIDENT. WASN'T IT? A private investigator returning to the hometown he fled years ago becomes entangled in the disappearance of two teenage girls in this stunning literary crime thril...

Two elderly blokes. One missing mayor. And a mystery that really messes with their travel plans.They’re meant to be organising a heritage trip to Ireland — not chasing after a vanished ex-mayor they never liked. James Northan was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and now claims he’s descended from Shakespeare. So when he disappears, the two old fellas from Windy Mountain are hardly heartbroken… at first.But then local landmarks start vanishing. Demoliti...

A bumper collection of yarns from motorcyclist enthusiasts around Australia.Get out on the highway and into this new collection of all-Australian motorcycle stories - the latest addition to ABC Books' bestselling Great Australian series. Edited by John Bryant and full of laconic Aussie humour, the collection features 40 stories that capture the freedom, fun, independence and adventure that comes with having a bike - no matter how big or small. Meet tex and his blue heeler Bundy who ...

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the 1954 Redex Trial, a weeks-long endurance contest of a car race that circles the entire continent. With them is their lanky, fair-haired navigator: deposed quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher Willie Bachhuber. If they win the Redex, the Bobs name alone will get them a dealership, and Willie will have recharged a life currently ground to a halt. But before any of tha...

**“[A] perfectly orchestrated girl-who-cried-wolf thriller.”—**The New York Times Book ReviewA dark, utterly compulsive novel about what happens when the warped imagination of a teenage girl turns into reality…When fifteen-year-old Yasmin—obese, obsessive and deemed a freak by her peers—sees a sinister man watching Alice Taylor from the school fence, she becomes convinced he’s planning to take her. After all, who wouldn’t ...

The world is a confusing place, especially for children, and their innocent observations and questions can be side-splittingly hilarious. They can also be a tiny bit embarrassing if you're, say, behind an elderly gentleman at a busy checkout and your little angel asks you...'is that man all wrinkly because he's been in the bath too long?'