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BICKNELL, John

Dec 6, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, History, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Queensland, True Crime
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ISBN 978-1-922722-86-7
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Fact, Conjecture, Speculation

and the Unsolved Murders of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock

On 11 January 1965, 15-year-old best friends, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock were overwhelmed and slaughtered in the sandhills behind Sydney’s Wanda Beach. Not only had the killer struck in a public area and during the summer school holiday break, but he’d done it in broad daylight. Despite the brazenness of the act, several police investigations and their ostensibly ongoing inquiries have failed to bring the killer to justice.
 
Why did Marianne and Christine walk into the sandhills that ill-fated day? Why were they killed? How did their killer, who was almost certainly blood soaked, leave the area unseen? Why have the various police investigations failed to identify the killer? Were Marianne and Christine early victims of a ‘True Crime Anti-Hero’ like the vile Derek Percy, or the sadistic Christopher Wilder? Were they victims of a sexual assault gone awry, or were they the ‘gateway’ victims of a short-lived ‘ripper-esque’ killing spree in the Sydney-Wollongong corridor?
 
In a search for the truth about the Wanda outrage, these vexed questions are examined through the lenses of fact, conjecture and speculation.

About the Author

John Bicknell is a licensed private investigator. He does not like questions without answers, but is learning to live with them.

LABBAD, Edward

Dec 2, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Poetry
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ISBN 978-1-922629-78-4
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Enter the Poet

NEW AGE POET

Welcome to my second title. The first was more inspirational, these are words of survival. Coming head on, they side swipe you, inducing the suicidal. At times deep, dark, and disturbed. As I lurk in the dark, I treat hearts that have been hurt. I blurt words that make you think I’m berserk, but in reality, I’m revealing the truth. Don’t be believing in proof, cause proof can be created.

Read between the lines, so you can tell the difference between the real and the animated. Black and white in front of you. Don’t be fooled by the colour pages; if you don’t believe me, just look at mother nature’s stance on machine gunner wages. Your mind races, but stop! Come on in. I give you the full picture with no fancy software to crop it. Follow me if you dare. To see where I’m going, sometimes you just gotta close your eyes, put your foot forward and…

Enter
The
Poet

CRONIN, Bruce

Dec 2, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography
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ISBN 978-1-922629-80-7
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The Man From Fiddler’s Green

Bedtime stories of soldiers, seafarers, adventurers, of heroes and villains. The Artful Dodger – a good kid, and Fagin – just a teacher. I never wanted the highwaymen to be caught, I grew up wanting the Indians to beat the Cowboys.

Between the ages of two and three, I remember being taken to the air-raid shelter to escape possible death from the German V1 or V2 rockets which caused 30,000 civilian casualties. I remember Churchill’s voice booming defiance and encouragement to the nation on the wireless. Later I was entranced by the program Desert Island Discs and the introduction line ‘faraway places with strange-sounding names’.

Is it any wonder I grew up a dreamer, a romantic, a lover of books, good stories, poets, adventurers and stories of Australia? Some kids grew up wanting to be a train driver. I grew up wanting to be a swagman.

I followed my dreams. Better than that I found a girl to share those dreams. Trish was to become a wonderful lover, wife, mother and lifelong friend. This is her story as much as mine.

About the Author

Tinker, tailor, poor man, beggar man, thief,
Doctor, baker, fine shoe maker,
Wise man, mad man, taxman, please,
How did I know just what to be?
Good people stopped and gave advice to me.
Who told me what to do?
Will you say that I’ve been true?
Maybe
Maybe
Perhaps I’ve been a great success,
Or possibly a dreadful mess.
Maybe
Maybe
My life has been a little game.

THOMSON, Stanley

Dec 2, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction, Queensland

356 by self-published author Stanley Thomson
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ISBN 978-1-922722-15-7
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356

Recall the Truth – Fear the Perception

356 Easter Road Leith is the birthplace of Craig Erskine. He had migrated to Australia as a young man and now returns at the age of 70. Standing in front of the building, he recalls his close call with death there as a child. Also he had witnessed the unbelievable attempt to have Nazism resurface in Europe within 5 years of the end of the Second World War. Pain stabs at his heart as he remembers the betrayal that took place within his family.

Alenti Pawloswski, a Polish soldier returns from the war after contributing to the Allied victory, but finds little gratitude and certainly no assistance to repatriate and join British society.

It was a violent incident outside Number 356 that introduced these two men to each other and saw the beginning of a mysterious relationship. The story weaves its way from the German invasion of Poland to D Day and perhaps the biggest battle of them all, Truth versus Perception.

About the Author

Stanley McGill Thomson was born at 356 Easter Road Leith in Scotland where he lived for the first two years of life with parents Bill and Janet and beloved brother David. His father was a Congregational minister and among Stan’s earliest memories was sitting on a windy hill outside the Scalloway Church, on the Shetland Islands.The family moved to Cumnock then to Dunfermline from where they emigrated to South Australia in 1958.
Education was at Salisbury North and King’s College in South Australia. He left school at Wentworth in NSW to commence a career within the PMG (now Australia Post)
For several years he and his first wife Pamela ran the General Store in Hepburn Springs Victoria where they had moved from Melbourne with their sons Christopher and Paul. It was from there that he made his foray into Radio at stations such as 3CV, 5PI (Port Pirie) 5SE (Mt.Gambier) and then to a 30 year career with the ABC proudly based in the South East of South Australia but broadcasting regularly interstate and nationally. Carole and Stan joined their lives in 1988 and they lovingly share 6 children, enjoy many grandchildren and are proud of being great grandparents. Stan is an ardent supporter of the Arts and was a long serving Trustee of Country Arts SA and board member of the Riddoch Art Gallery in Mt. Gambier.

HARRIS, Craig

Dec 1, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Justice \ Law \ Crime, South Australia
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ISBN 978-0-6483693-0-1
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Blue Water Warriors

Blue Water Warriors tells the story to the early Sydney to Hobart yacht races. Drawing on log books and memories of the navigator on a legendary competing yacht, a living part of Australia’s maritime history.

The Mistral II’s crew encountered dangers and hazards not generally faced by today’s competitors, without life rafts, radios and no propeller that was deliberately removed. At one point there were death-defying moments where Mistral II came terrifyingly close to being smashed against the tremendous cliffs of Tasman Island.

Blue Water Warriors chronicles the fierce rivalry between Mistral II and Morna, at that time the most famous yachts in Australia, and tells of more relaxed times on the return voyages to Sydney.

The KGB's Genius of Illusion
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ISBN 978-1-922629-75-3
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The KGB’s Genius of Illusion

The space race started just after World War 11. It was to be an epic battle between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. World dominance and superiority was the coveted prize.
Espionage was rife.

Soviet Dimitri Azorov infiltrated into the USA. He mingled into society and influential circles with high success whilst despatching vital information on metallurgy.

Simultaneously a disgruntled former Japanese soldier attempts to sabotage several metal foundries producing exotic alloys for rocket components.

About the Author

I have learned so much about this race, the yachts and the people of the era and for that I am better educated and wiser. I hope some of this rubs off onto you, the reader.

I was fortunate enough to sit on the balcony of a cruise ship for a few days while working on this book. I would often gaze out to sea and contemplate the vastness of the ocean and the braveness and tenacity of the sailors in the early days. They truly were ‘blue water warriors’.

ANDERSON, Anthony

Dec 1, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Animals \ Pets Fiction, Australian, Children's Books, New South Wales, Sydney

Surfa Saurus by self-published author Anthony Andersoned
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ISBN 978-1-922722-12-6
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Surfa Saurus

Surfa Saurus on the move surfing to the big–wave groove!

Sid Surfa Saurus and his best friend Dally are not your usual dinosaurs – they surf. But they didn’t always.

Thousands of years ago, while being chased by meat-eaters, they ran into the ocean to escape danger and discovered the coolest lifestyle imaginable – surfing. Sid and Dally were the very first surfers on planet Earth.

What happened next, was unimaginable. The climate changed – not once, but twice!

First of all, the ice age came and their world froze. They were caught, mid-wave, inside icebergs for millions of years … One day, the world began to warm up and the icebergs melted. Sid and Dally then found themselves in a modern world full of sun, sand and yes; surfing!