Publish your book! Learn how
Australian Authors Store - Australian Books by Australian Authors for a Global Audience

DUTSCHKE, Richard

Aug 9, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, History, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government
Get the book

ISBN 978-0-6483239-1-4
PAPERBACK
ISBN 978-0-6481379-9-3
EBOOK

The Towitta Tradgedy

This story recounts the inquest into the murder of Bertha Schippan on 1 January 1902. Her elder sister, Mary, was charged with the murder, but she was found not guilty. At the time, the news surrounding the murder and trial captivated the nation.

On New Year’s Night 1902, in a lonely farmhouse at Towitta, 13 year old Bertha Schippan was brutally murdered. She suffered over 40 stab wounds and the walls and floor of the house were covered in blood. She had fought her attacker ferociously before succumbing to deep cuts to her neck. Her 24 year old sister, Mary Schippan, went to trial for her murder two months later, but was found not guilty. The murder was a sensation at the time with unprecedented media coverage throughout Australia. Mary’s relationship with Gustav Nitschke provided the press with much to write about and the police with an apparent motive. The crime remains officially unsolved. Ron Nitschke, a nephew of Gustav Nitschke, researched the case for over 50 years. He spoke to many people who lived in the district and knew the family well, including his own family. Ron tells the story of the murder in great detail. We learn why the murder was committed and by whom. The vast majority of people in the Murray Flats and the Barossa Valley knew who murdered Bertha. It seems the only people who didn’t were the police…

From the Author

To come.

HUTCHISON, Anne

Aug 1, 2023 | *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biography, Family History, History, Military, New South Wales
Get the book

ISBN 978-1-922722-10-2
PAPERBACK 

AVAILABLE THROUGH
TITLE PAGE  (for booksellers) or DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR (for readers)

No Ordinary Life

No Ordinary Life tells the story of a young couple’s experience of World War II and its influence on their lives.

It’s a story of love and its resilience during extraordinarily difficult times, the time before, during and just after World War II. Their participation took them from war-torn Glasgow and the battlefields in France, North Africa and a small Greek Island in the Aegean, to life in a German POW Camp and a timber camp in the Highlands of Scotland.

When the war finally ended, they left Scotland as ‘Ten Pound Poms’ and established a new life in Australia, far away from memories that were best left behind. This book is as much about the times in which they lived as it is about them.

Anne Hutchison self-published author Private CRL Smith book cover
Get the book

ISBN 978-1-922890-56-6
PAPERBACK 

AVAILABLE THROUGH
TITLE PAGE  (for booksellers) or DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR (for readers)

Private CRL Smith

A digger’s story from the Western Front

“Just at dawn, he began to shell us. I thought the end had come, as four chaps that were in the same room as I was got killed. A shell landed in the street, only a few yards off.”

During World War I, the diggers were rarely safe, even when they were miles away from the front line.

This book provides a glimpse into a private’s experience on the frontline. It is  based on the war diary of Private Charles Robert Lumsden Smith but is set within the broader context of World War I: the events that led up to the outbreak of war, the battles in which Private Smith fought, and others that influenced him or the outcome of the war.

It is the story of one man, amongst the hundreds of thousands of young Australians, who fought in a war that changed the face of Europe and spawned the nationalism that set the foundations for the next world war.

About the Author

Anne is a retired science teacher who started her working life as a medical scientist. She followed a passion to become a teacher and taught Science in the western suburbs of Sydney before taking up a position at a large independent school in the city where she taught for thirty years.

Retirement brought time to write, first about her children and the remarkable journey they shared in The Gift of Adoption, and then about her parents’ experience of World War I, No Ordinary Life. Her latest book, Private CRL Smith, tells another family wartime story; this time about a young Aussie on the Western Front during World I. Anne states: “You won’t find his name amongst the heroes written about in the history books, but he was one of the many unsung heroes of a war too willing to sacrifice young lives.”

Title Page logo

Novella Distribution

McNEILL, Debbie

Jul 28, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Animals \ Pets Fiction, Australian, Children's Books, Design, Earth \ Nature, Painting & Illustration

Debbie McNeill self-published author Derek the Waste Warrior children's book cover
Get the book

ISBN 978-1-922957-96-2
PAPERBACK

Derek the Waste Warrior

Derek is very hungry, but all he can find to eat is RUBBISH!

Join Derek and his friends on their mission to learn about the harmful effects of littering.

YOU CAN BE A WASTE WARRIOR TOO!

Debbie McNeill author photo

About the Author

Debbie McNeill grew up in East Maitland in New South Wales. After studying teaching at the University of New England in Armidale, she worked as a primary school teacher. Her first teaching job was at a small school in Singleton.

Debbie is currently working as a teacher in a private school in Canberra with her husband and her fun-loving pug. Passionate about all things healthy and environmental, she has been inspired to be a waste warrior herself by teaching children about recycling.

For more information, visit her Instagram profile @derek_the_waste_warrior

Bridget Acreman illustrator photo

About the Illustrator

Bridget Acreman believes that creating art makes her a better person. She adores making fun, bright, and happy illustrations that bring people joy!

Bridget grew up in Bundanoon NSW. Living only a short walk to the national park made her childhood full of outdoor adventure and nature appreciation which is a large inspiration for her work. Her stationery and gift brand Stray Leaves is named after her childhood home. Now based in the Central Coast NSW, she is constantly inspired by the beautiful bushland and ocean that surrounds her.

ROBERTS, Phil

Jul 25, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Family History, Fiction \ Novel, Relationships

Little Book of Big Book Marketing Tips book cover
Get The Book (Paperback)
Get The Book (eBook)

ISBN 978-1-923443-75-4
PAPERBACK

ISBN 978-1-923443-76-1
HARDCOVER

ISBN 978-1-923523-26-5
EBOOK

The Loss We Leave Behind

Burdened by personal tragedy and estranged from his grieving partner Fae, London-based architect Boyd Petersen has lost sight of his purpose and dreams. When an echo from his abandoned, secret past takes him back home to Australia, he is confronted by a series of shocking revelations that challenge his beliefs about the past and hopes for the future.

About the Author

 

Phil Roberts was born in Kenya and has lived and worked in various places throughout Australia. He began writing poetry and short stories in the 2000s and contributed to the former publications Yellow Moon and Dissent. The Loss We Leave Behind is his first novel. It emerged from his studies in creative writing and draws on a lifetime of personal impressions and the ideas that shape our world.

Phil is the author of and contributor to many scientific and interpretive documents. Apart from tending a large garden near Hobart, his current interests lie in investigating the shared mysteries of human experience and how they can be expressed through fiction and poetic forms.

CHRISTIAN, Fabian

Jul 25, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Thriller Fiction, Victoria

Fabian Christian self-published author Bandit or Priest book cover
Get the book

ISBN 978-1-922957-76-4
PAPERBACK

ISBN 978-1-923088-20-7
HARDBACK

ISBN 978-1-923088-64-1
EBOOK AVAILBLE SOON

Bandit or Priest

The mean streets of St Kilda, Victoria. The 1980s. Vice rules.

Moving to Melbourne after a youth of small-time crime, James quickly finds himself heading up his own criminal operation: the Locust Gang. Scourge of the city, the gang executes a series of robberies that bring them notoriety – and unwelcome attention from the bent cops, callous drug dealers and violent pimps who control the city’s vice.

But James soon finds a higher calling: he wants to rid the city of the vile heroin trade that has decimated a generation of kids and taken the lives of people close to him.

As he careers through the criminal underworld, meeting its villains and its victims, James will stop at nothing when it comes to delivering vengeance.

With a vivid cast of characters, Bandit or Priest pulls no punches as it uncovers the brutal, treacherous and seedy world of corruption, violence and organised crime in a city that is constantly on the verge of boiling over. Inspired by true events, it is an unputdownable story – and not for the faint-hearted.

Fabian Christian author photo

About the Author

Fabian Christian lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife and fellow writer Adriana.

ANDERSON, Gae

Jul 6, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biography, History, Language \ Culture \ Linguistics, New South Wales

gae anderson self-published author monarchy of the mob cover
Get the book

ISBN 978-1-922957-58-0
PAPERBACK

Monarch of the Mob

Story of Roy Rene Mo Comedian

Harry Van der Sluice, an Adelaide boy, performed circus acts at home on Saturdays.

When the family decided to move to Melbourne, Harry, now known as Roy, establishes himself as a singer and dancer.

After the entrepreneur Ben Fuller sees Roy’s act, he signs him for tours around Australia and New Zealand.

Recognising Roy’s exceptional talent, the Fuller management team him with Nathan Phillips. This marks the beginning of Roy’s remarkable career on the Australian variety stage.

Gae Anderson author

About the Author

Gae Anderson, born and educated in Wagga Wagga, NSW, worked there as a stenographer for three years. With her sights set on an acting career, Gae moved to Sydney to live and work. An actor friend encouraged her to audition for NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) a two-year acting course at the time. Taking his advice, she was accepted. Gae remained a theatre performer for almost twenty years.

Her decision to move to Melbourne to live and work precipitated a change of direction toward university study and teaching.

In 1989, Gae returned to Sydney to live permanently. She gained her MA in Theatre Studies at the UNSW and PhD in Arts at Sydney University.

Professor Webby, Gae’s supervisor, encouraged her to convert her two-volume doctoral thesis into a book.

Tivoli King: The Life of Harry Rickards Vaudeville Showman was published in 2009. Wielding the Brush: Esther Paterson A lifetime in Australian Art followed in 2016.