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LIVESY JONES, Bethney

Nov 9, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-47-4 PAPERBACK

Brutal Beginnings

‘To be hanged by the neck, until dead…’ was Thomas Cheshire’s sentence for highway robbery in England. On appeal, the punishment reduced to transportation for life; destination, the penal colony of Sydney Town, New South Wales.

Thomas Cheshire, one of four-hundred-and-twenty-one male felons, boarded the notorious second fleet vessel Neptune departing from England. Each shackled male convict remained in irons for the journey of just over five months and suffered deplorable, crowded conditions, deprivation, starvation and murderous floggings.

In a maimed, diseased state, Thomas Cheshire arrived at Sydney Cove.

During his years of servitude, he laboured alongside other fatigued, miserable wretches, who shared a pitiful existence of demonic proportions.

After completion of a decreased sentence, Cheshire joined the controversial New South Wales Corps, serving in part on infamous Norfolk Island.

Characteristically, Cheshire was an aggressive spouse, cunning manipulator, liar and thief who by sheer will and self determination, coped with adversity, recurrent loss and hard labour.

Throughout his bleak life he experienced little recompense. Broken relationships were punctuated with miserable, soul destroying situations of woebegone measures that rarely righted themselves.

ANONYMOUS

Nov 9, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Justice \ Law \ Crime

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922457-17-2 PAPERBACK

The Originalist

THE NOVEL IS A COVIDCREATIVE PROJECT BY MEMBERS OF THE GILBERT + TOBIN CENTRE OF PUBLIC LAW AT UNSW.

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO UNSW EMERGENCY FUND 

VERA JOYCE, brilliant and controversial member of the High battle to the death? Court of Australia is dead – her body found in the shallows of Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin. Was her death simply an accident? A mugging of an early morning jogger gone wrong? Or is there something more sinister behind the tragic death? Detective Gina Hughes, of the Australian Federal Police, has been called in to investigate, and has her suspicions about the family and friends of the late Justice. Vera’s nephew has a longstanding problem with addiction and stands to inherit a great deal upon Vera’s death – but only, he has recently found out, if he follows Vera’s plan to force him to into rehab. Vera’s ex-boyfriend, Gary Lowell, appears to have good reason to be angry: Vera recently broke off their relationship pending a hearing before the Court in which he was due to appear. Constable Rory Lee is less sure about Hughes’ theory: he thinks the Judge’s nephew was already on the way to recovery, and simply cannot believe that a leading Sydney lawyer would murder a member of the High Court. Instead, his suspicions are focused on Gary’s wife, who has become increasingly irate about the affair with Vera and has been threatening her own form of revenge.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE, meanwhile, has her own suspicions: Vera Joyce was one of the most polarizing justices ever to sit on the Court. Her ‘originalist’ ideas about the Constitution provoked enormous opposition as well as admiration in the legal community, and the Chief Justice fears that perhaps one of the other justices may finally have lost their cool – and let legal disagreements spill over into life. If not, she fears that her own oversight of the Court has been too lax – and there has been a serious lapse in Court security. She therefore asks an old friend, retired Chief Justice Milton, to investigate – and to do so fast, before Detective Hughes comes to her own, less salutary conclusions.

COOPER, David

Nov 9, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Science Fiction, Western Australia

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-71-9 PAPERBACK

Nova Sapiens

Kasih is a robotic child drawn into a project to discover her secrets, and into a war that threatens all humanity, including her own.

The murder of her family by Union troops in Bandung leaves the rebels’ robotics experts, Losana Maraiwai and Wei Dingxiang, with nobody to explain Kasih’s design but Kasih herself.

She is not what anyone expected. In Darwin, Dingxiang suspects a magic trick may explain away her human-like artificial intelligence. In Beijing, Union politician Gabriel da Costa fears an extinction-level technology. Both sides of the war see a weapon that might win it. But Kasih is not strong, fast, or even particularly coordinated. She tries in vain to make sense of her father’s death, and of a world ready to dismantle her and repurpose her technology. And she cannot escape the Union’s plans.

The rebels, including Kasih’s original rescuers, Paul Kanner and Debra Hall, are powerless in the face of a new army of robotic soldiers based on her design. The Union has created monsters, whose cold efficiency unleashes wholesale destruction. They threaten the world’s only chance for freedom, and perhaps its very survival.

Neither Kasih nor Dingxiang understand why Kasih herself is not like them. Kasih must fight back against the fate others have determined for her, and for the world, and Dingxiang needs her ingenuity to solve the very conundrum that her existence represents. For Kasih to save her human friends, she must help them destroy her own kind.

MARKHAM, Elizabeth

Nov 6, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Melbourne, Victoria

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-69-6 PAPERBACK

Surprise Packet

For the second time Gillian Porter is facing a tragic event in her life, and this time she’s on her own.

When her world was first turned upside down at the age of twenty, Liam Dempsey was by her side, but he doesn’t occupy that place anymore. After twenty-two years together they have been forced apart by a heartbreaking situation and a powerful enemy.

Essentially alone, Gillian moves to country Victoria and begins teaching again after a long absence from the classroom. With only her cavalier puppy Sybil for company, she vows to make the best of things as she begins her new life. However, it seems both life and Liam have other plans for her, when she meets an endearing little girl and her family who offer her everything she’s ever wanted.

Would it be a betrayal of Liam to accept?

And why is he encouraging her to do just that?

Can life knock you down and pick you up at the same time?

Elizabeth Markham self-published author of 'Surprise Packet'

About the Author

ELIZABETH MARKHAM is retired and lives with her husband and their cavalier, Abby in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia. She has two adult children and one very special grandson. Liz is a former teacher, who has also worked in Recruitment and Training, Human Resources and Aged Care. She developed a love of reading from an early age, and remembers always having books on her birthday list for her parents when she was growing up. Liz was encouraged to write by a well known author of children’s and young adult fiction, and she remains grateful to Robin Klein for giving her the push she needed. Liz completed a number of creative writing courses in 2014 before beginning her first novel in 2015. She describes Surprise Packet as having a lot of her heart and soul in it, and being truly a labour of love.

EATTS, Steve

Nov 5, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Business, Comedy \ Humour Fiction, Design, Fiction \ Novel, South Australia, Technology \ Computer \ Internet

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ISBN 978-1-922452-52-8
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StupIT People

StupIT People is a tongue in cheek exposé of the world of modern big technology business. It’s a world where corporate madness and self-interest rules. One in which clients and employees simply don’t matter, as senior executives (aka company psychopaths) pursue short-term personal profit and internal point-scoring at absolutely any cost.

The story revolves around Michael Mansfield, a loyal and hard-working IT Sales Executive who strives to do the right thing by his company. For Michael, saving stupid people from themselves, navigating the constant back-stabbing within the business, and dealing with corporate political correctness gone mad has become a way of life.

This light-hearted tale of redemption will resonate with anyone who has experienced the sheer head-scratching absurdity that often exists within the modern business bubble.

About the Author

Born and raised in Adelaide, Steve Eatts worked in the field of Information Technology for more than 30 years, in many different roles across both public and private sector organisations. Throughout his career his work has taken him on business assignments in the United Kingdom, USA, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines and across all states of Australia.

After a hectic career involving far too much time away from family and friends, Steve decided to step off the corporate treadmill of IT and big business to pursue some other interests including writing his debut novel.  He now describes himself as semi-retired, and is a widower who lives in South Australia with his two sons.

BARKER, Janelle

Oct 21, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Mystery Fiction, Poetry, Self-help \ Personal Development

Sounds of the World
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ISBN 978-1-922452-44-3
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Sounds of The World 

My vision, inspirational, empowering.

Janelle is a wife, mother and nana who loves the closeness of family.

She found her inspiration to write again once she moved from the city to the country. Janelle prefers to work from behind the scenes rather than be in the spotlight.

Her writing begins on the surface, before delving effortlessly down into a far more thought-provoking place, taking you with her.

She is grounded in experiences and perceptions with all human mysteries, taking you to a deeper, circumstantial place of events in her work.

 

No One is Safe at Night by self-published author Janelle Barker
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No One is Safe at Night

A serial killer is on the loose and terrorising Melbourne…

Best friends Ava, Ally and Ivy are young and carefree. Friends since high school, the girls can’t imagine a life without each other. Whilst working as adult dancers the girls are focused on their friendship and the men in their lives.

But mutilated bodies of young women just like them are piling up and fear is engulfing the city.

When it all becomes too much the girls make the choice to escape to Lake Eildon for a camping trip – triggering events that will change the girls’ lives forever…