The annual Classics Dinner is in full swing. Professor Hadley MacNamara — formidable, silver-haired, sixty-five, the kind of man rooms arrange themselves around — is holding court on the veranda of the Scholar's Table above the Swan. His toast is is genuinely brilliant. It moves from Homer to the geography of joy, and the room gives him exactly the silence he deserves.Then, after the silence, something is different.He begins a sentence he does not finish. He reaches for a c...

When the prestigious Italian Bellini Foundation arrives at the Swan River Festival of Voices with a previously unknown Vivaldi manuscript, Dr Alex Moreton notices three things before the opening reception is half over.The provenance chain leads from a Swiss estate sale, through a Zurich auction house, through eighteen months of preliminary authentication in Rome, and arrives in Perth wearing the imprimatur of the Bellini FoundationBy the following morning, the manuscript wa...

Book Three: Mikado Murder — A man is dead behind a painted Japanese stage set in a Subiaco theatre. The orchestra plays on for three more minutes.Four hundred people in the house do not yet know what has happened, and Dr Alex Moreton, classics lecturer and reluctant Yum-Yum, has ninety seconds to her cue."Alex Moreton is the detective I have been looking for. Not damaged. Not haunted. Not in recovery from anything. Simply very good at what she does and quietly at home in he...

The boarding house stood on the edge of Boulder, itscorrugated iron roof catching the last rays of sunlightlike copper pennies. It was a place of openness andhonesty in a hard world, an island sanctuary amongstthe poppet heads and rusty iron that defined the gold‐fields. Here, the Butler family kept their doors open tominers, drifters, and dreamers—anyone who needed abed and a warm meal in the unforgiving desert land‐scape of ...

Arthur Templar and his close-knit group of psychic twelve year olds must defeat a gang of evil Nibiruan secret agents attempting to mine 'the core'- a quantum power source. The gang and their leader deceive the children with one challenge after another.The children must grow and develop their psychic abilities while they try to protect Elderberry Valley and the star people who live there.

Professor Hadley MacNamara arrives in Perth from Oxford carrying a private ledger and a plan to make things right. By the following morning, he is dead.Classics lecturer Alex Moreton noticed something wrong in a wine glass she was not supposed to notice.Working alongside Detective Sergeant Rachel Quinn, Alex begins to read the evening as a text: the practised ease of a senior administrator's conversation at the bar, the calculated stillness of a doctoral candidate during th...

When a small, ancient Irishman appears on a school fence post eating a cheese sandwich, entirely invisible to almost everyone — fifteen-year-old Immie Whitfield is not entirely surprised. She has always been able to draw characters who step off the page and speak to her. She has always known the world was stranger than it appeared.She doesn't know her estranged grandfather is a magician. She doesn't know that an organisation called the Collectors has been watching her fami...

The Timethreader Chronicles blend fantasy, YA, sci-fi, and supernatural and offer a fresh narrative canvas that stands out from most typical genre conventions. Arthur's personal journey intertwined with family secrets and ancient powers, positions him as both a victim and a chosen one, adding depth to his character. An unexpected twist reveals ties to Arthur's ancestry and infuses the narrative with a captivating duality in motivations. This element of family legacy, paired with advanced t...

Three former Special Forces operatives have built quiet lives operating a commuter airline—anchored by family, a little romance and the hope that old battles would never find them again.But the squad is forced back into a world of deception and ruthless operations. Old scars are reopened and old skills learned in the fire of close combat are called on when an Interpol field operations unit uncovers a multilayered criminal conspiracy stretching from Perth to the capitals of the East...

High-reliability management is a set of practices and competencies that help Organisations operating in high-hazard environments maintain a low risk of accidents. These Organisations recognise the inherent risks associated with their operations and actively work to minimise them, even in complex and challenging circumstances.Clear and understandable core management competencies are needed to prevent 'preventable' accidents.Dr Maher's research provides valuable insights into...

The Swan River Festival of Voices drew choirs from six universities across Australia and New Zealand, and in its twelfth year had achieved the kind of reputation that attracts corporate support, civic pride, and — this year — an Italian foundation bearing what its press release described as a significant and previously unknown Vivaldi manuscript, to be authenticated and performed for the first time in modern history. The Vivaldi manuscript goes missing and the festival's brilliant, volatil...

A doctoral student lies dead at the foot of a Collie fire trail in the pre-dawn cold. The wallet in his pocket says one name. The body says another. When the body in the bag is the wrong body, the case becomes the case.Two hours north, Dr Alex Moreton — Classics lecturer, mezzo-soprano, friend to the owner of the Scholar's Table and a wise silver grey tabby cat called Virgil — opens an encrypted message from a campus librarian who has been counting. Seventy-three papers. One primar...