From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention.Shortlist Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2025Shortlist ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2025'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its way from the city to Richmond. T...

For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad– comedian John Clarke– and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser on the ghosts that inhabit St Kilda, twenty-one writers enter the Paul Kelly songbook and let their minds go walking.

This thoroughly revised 2013 edition of one of Bennet Wong and Jock McKeen's best-selling books offers perspectives and tools that will help you transform your life and relationships. Alongside Joining: The Relationship Garden, this book outlines the essentials of Wong and McKeen's approach. Based on more than 40 years of living and working together, it includes provocative and insightful chapters on communication, the development of self-compassion, and the cultivation of inner strength. ...

Temple Garden is Jock Stein's tenth book of poetry, but the first collection of its type. It has five sections: Nature, Scotland, In Response to Bible Texts, Questions, and Poems of Time and Season. Faber poet Harry Smart, in his introduction, writes: "The title poem of Jock Stein's collection is a natural doorway into the whole. 'Temple Garden' points to faith, but not a single faith. We find ourselves in synagogue, mosque, and Christian church in these poems." Just as the good life invol...

When studying the planning behind the Combined Operations cross-Channel raids that harassed the Germans along the coast of Occupied France during the Second World War, one name appears repeatedly – that of Captain John 'Jock' Hughes-Hallett. Hughes-Hallett was Deputy Director of the Local defense Division at the Admiralty in 1940 and 1941, before becoming Naval Adviser at Combined Operations Headquarters. Along with the head of Combined Operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Hughes-Hallett or...

My Husband Stole My Heart" is a gripping story of love, betrayal, and redemption. Follow Claire and Matthew as they negotiate the treacherous terrain of marital strife, finding secrets that threaten to rip their relationship apart. However, in the face of heartache, their road of healing and forgiving sheds light on the enduring power of love. This emotionally charged tale will captivate your heart and refuse to let go.Dive into a story that will inspire you to believe in second ch...

This book is the life story of John 'Jock' Findlay, rediscovered by his grandson Neil Findlay MSP after finding Jock's writing on the back of a plywood bath panel. Pumpherston village in Scotland, built by Pumpherston Oil Company in 1884, was home to the brave shale oil workers who faced life threatening conditions. In Life in the Raws the life of 'a proud, good, clever working class man' is revealed from 1919 to 1994 spanning almost a whole century of Scottish history. It presents the sto...

Join Jock Murray to look back over an extraordinary and varied life in this entertaining autobiography.From humble beginnings on a croft in the Outer Hebrides, at the age of fifteen he went on to work in the Hydro tunnels on the mainland as the Hydro-Electric board embarked on some of the most ambitious civil engineering projects of the century. By seventeen he had sailed several times round the world and spent two years as a whaler in the Antarctic. And over a long career in the M...

Authored by award-winning historian Jock Phillips, The History of New Zealand in 100 Objects is gripping, inclusive, often revelatory and deeply human. A colourful and characterful retelling of our shared past, relevant to today, particular to all of us. The sewing kete of an unknown 18th-century Maori woman; the Endeavour cannons that fired on waka in 1769; the bagpipes of an Irish publican Paddy Galvin; the school uniform of Harold Pond, a Napier Tech p...

In Scotland, the Highway Code dictates that traffic must drive on the left side of the road. And drivers comply with this law because they know exactly what the consequences of non-compliance will be i.e., wounding, suffering and perhaps death.Many years ago, Scotland respected God's Life Code - The Ten Commandments - and recognised that compliance with them led to peace and safety on life's highways.But the people of Scotland have, for some time, rejected God's Life Code -...

This is a new genre of literature: “Personalized, Illustrated, gorgeous pornography. Jock is a loving BDSM Master. His girlfriend Kat is sexy and loves sex and flogging. In the digital version of the book, the purchasers name is substituted for Kat. So the 18 stories are about say, “Hanna” and Jock. (name of purchaser) At the web site, if the purchaser has a significant other, (male or female), she can input the name and now the book is about her and her lover. Every Jock Longwood book is ...

"It 's fabulous. A triumph. " -Stephen King "The most terrifying comic you 've ever read. " -MTV NewsWhen the Rooks family moves to the remote town of Litchfield, NH to escape a haunting trauma, they 're hopeful about starting over. But something evil is waiting for them in the woods just beyond town. Watching from the trees. Ancient...and hungry. Collects WYTCHES #1-6.More praise for WYTCHES: "Dark and brutal, Wytches are like nothing horror fans have ever seen " -USA Today "In Wytches, t...