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JONES, Bethney

Apr 28, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Family History, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction
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ISBN 978-1-922337-84-9
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A Stone’s Throw

Filth, and sickness proliferate in Stepney, England, in the 1830’s, where Robert Stone and his family lived.

For the husband and father, the ability to make a living and feed his family was shrinking rapidly. Then, by chance came hope, emigration to Van Diemen’s Land. It would take every ounce of bold courage, grit and determination to make the journey. Were they, Robert, Elizabeth and their off spring resourceful enough to defy the elements and challenge the unexpected in a gamble to forge a new life in a distant, desolate land? Elizabeth, embroiled in circumstances of an unforeseen, tragic loss had reservations. Finally, in desperation, the wrenched family left everyone near and dear, to join forty-six other emigrants on a long perilous journey.

KENNEDY, Marcus

Apr 28, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Melbourne, Thriller Fiction, Victoria
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ISBN 978-1-922337-73-3
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The Cut

arex pressSaving lives is meant to be above politics. In a troubled health system, where patient outcomes and personal gain are intertwined, Harvey Pearce discovers a disturbing and dangerous truth.

In The Cut, Dr Harvey Pearce is an emergency specialist who has spent a career looking after the sickest patients and improving emergency care. When he uncovers politically orchestrated activities that kill patients, harm staff, hide deficiencies and hinder progress, he becomes determined to find a solution.

Across the city, episodes of patient injury and preventable deaths continue despite Harvey’s struggles with bureaucracy. He drives to investigate these events, and their sinister connections, whilst the establishment resists his efforts and its leaders continue to tolerate catastrophes.

Harvey finds a grounding for his efforts through his podcasts. They fuel his aspirations as he struggles to put things right. The podcasts propose a pragmatic approach, offering a view that life could be better navigated with a closer focus on what really matters.

But Harvey is quickly confronted with desperate and ruthless players who turn his efforts at reform into a perilous game with critical stakes.

About the Author

Marcus Kennedy is a retired specialist medical practitioner (Emergency Medicine) and service leader, who now spends part of his time as a consultant, writer and in advisory and coaching roles.

He was a physician health manager and director with broad experience in health systems management, clinical governance, emergency care, retrieval medicine and critical care. As an expert in emergency systems design, development and improvement, he has had a successful career in management, consulting and administration.

His absorbing and provocative book The Cut, provides a unique expert perspective on some of the key challenges in today’s health systems – while providing a pragmatic view of what really matters in the way we tackle improvement.

DOWNES, Michael

Apr 3, 2020 | *, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Melbourne, Victoria
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ISBN 978-1-922337-80-1
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Jumbo and the Calcutta woman

In 1825, after a vicious attack on their tribe a young aboriginal mother and her teenage daughter are kidnapped by sealers and taken to the Furneaux Islands of Van Diemen’s Land.

The mother finds herself trapped in an abusive relationship whilst the daughter, called Jumbo, is left in much better circumstances with a white trader named Macleod with whom she has a child.

Rhamain, an Indian servant girl, sails with her English employer from Calcutta to Sydney Town. Accused of theft, she jumps ship at Preservation Island. A sealer Long Jack Little claims her and gives her the nickname “Calcutta woman”. They are a strange couple living together in a unique and caring relationship on Gun Carriage Island. However, Rhamain is appalled by the violence of other sealers towards their aboriginal women.

In an attempt to end the “black wars” and save the aboriginal population, Governor Arthur commissions George Augustus Robinson to round up all the aboriginals and settle them in the Furneaux Islands. In doing so, Robinson forces the sealers to give up their wives and abandon their homes.

The Calcutta woman and the young aboriginal Jumbo choose to stay with their “husbands” but, threatened with sexual assault by other dangerous sealers, they escape into the bush. Both women struggle to decide whether or not to stay with their men.

This story, though a work of fi ction, is set in historical context of the decade to 1835 and explains some of the very human issues that led to the extinction of the full blood Tasmanian aboriginals.

From the author

 

Way back in mid-1989 I discovered Flinders Island when I flew down from Phillip Island in a single-engine aeroplane to collect three bags of live crayfish. I was absolutely in awe of the wonderful scenery so in December of that year I flew back bought some land on Vinegar Hill, Lady Barron and commissioned a local to build our house.

During the nineties, I lived on Flinders Island and with my wife Kimberly we brought home two babies to Lady Barron. We were able to work from there at our international consulting business and because I was a private pilot and owned a twin- engine plane we could easily come and go. We loved the island and its beauty. I became absorbed by the history and particularly moved by the sacred site that is Wybalenna. The disaster that respiratory illness caused our indigenous people there was even greater than what is happening today.

I started writing this novel in 1990… I wanted to tell a story about the sealers and their women. It is pure fiction with the two main characters being an aboriginal teenage girl and an Indian woman. There are some real historical characters like Governor Arthur, George Augustus Robinson mentioned to set the context. And I have quoted from some articles from the Colonial Times.

So here is my book published 30 years later. It’s not that I am a slow writer but with my real work, all the research and many lapses along the way, that is how it has turned out. Seems late in life to be 78 years old and publishing a debut novel.

Michael G. Downes

ASHWORTH, Julie

Mar 27, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, New South Wales, Romance Fiction, Sydney
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ISBN 978-0-6484408-4-0
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Out of Control

She witnessed her mother murdered when she was only ten. Judith Sommers’ fight for mental stability takes her on a journey to the west coast of America, far from her native England. Yet the real key to her sanity lies with a man who battles demons of his own.

Intimate Conversations by J.E. Ashworth
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ISBN 978-0-6485614-7-7
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Intimate Conversations

Judith Sommers and Michael Raynal are now married and living an idyllic life… or are they? Ghosts from the past re-appear, to wreak havoc with their happiness. Then a new danger emerges, which could totally destroy Judith’s mental stability.

Anniversary Waltzing by self-published author Julie Ashworth
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ISBN 978-1-922337-86-3
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Anniversary Waltzing

Still in mourning for the loss of her beloved father, Judith Sommers’ world is completely shattered when her husband, Michael Raynal, walks out on her, just three weeks before their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Now living in New York, with her two sons having moved out of home, a very lonely Judith is forced to face up to the fact she may have driven Michael into another woman’s arms.
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ISBN 978-1-922452-74-0
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Open House

Judith Sommers Raynal, anxiously awaiting the birth of her first grand-child, has a chance encounter with a young woman at the airport, which surprisingly develops into a new and special relationship. In Michael’s absence, she holds an open house party, to which she invites all her friends and family. The day ends dramatically, with a surprise addition to the guest list.

Those absent years book j. e. Ashworth author Julie Ashworth Author
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ISBN 978-1-922803-51-1
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Those Absent Years

John Jackson Grant travels to Australia to hopefully reconcile with the woman he left, eleven years before, only to find she has been keeping a secret from him during that time. Alexis Virginia Reed is now a successful businesswoman, with a new life which doesn’t necessitate the inclusion of John Grant. Then fate steps in and the two are inexplicably drawn into a renewed relationship, with possible dire consequences.

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ISBN 978-1-922629-94-4
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Five Days

A successful author moves into an old cottage located on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean, in northern California, hoping to finish her new book. She hires a young gardener to help trim several trees on the property, then finds herself in need of his services in a more personal way.

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ISBN 978-1-922957-61-0
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Seven Days

The sequel to Five Days

Six years after the death of Mitch McKinley, Diana Lyndsay Brown still mourns her lover and continues to write popular books of fiction. On a research holiday to Hawaii, she encounters Adam Blake, the owner of the hotel in which she is staying, whose new assistant just happens to be Porter, the former secretary to the McKinley family. She finds herself being unwillingly persued by the determined Mr Blake, until she is left with only one recourse to rid herself of his attentions.

About the Author

J. E. Ashworth is an author based in Sydney New South Wales. Intimate Conversations is her second book, following her success with Out of Control.

FOOKES, Andrew

Mar 16, 2020 | *listed, Fiction \ Novel
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ISBN 978-0-6485111-6-8
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ISBN 978-0-6486785-1-9
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In Body, In Mind

Sam Kane is an academic psychologist, his life and work expressing the capabilities of his mind. Sam’s wife Rachel is a veteran athlete who has celebrated the prowess of her body in sports played at the highest levels. They’re an odd couple, with differing abilities, passions and world views, yet happy together and still very much in love.

Different challenges prompt them to finish their careers and settle into lives characterised by declining health, loss, dependence and uncertainty. Ever defiant, Rachel attempts to rebuild her sense of self-worth and her faith in God, and to atone for her self-centred and imperfect life. Sam is forced down a path of increasing isolation and despair, towards a final act of great scholarship through which he tries to recover his faith in love.

Sam and Rachel are surrounded by family and close friends who are likewise tested by careers, relationships, temptations and tragedies. They are confronted by ideas that inspire them, memories that terrify them, secrets that suffocate them, and choices that shape them.

In Body, In Mind is a philosophical novel thirty years in the making which explores the contrasts that colour the Australian landscape: blackness and whiteness, city and country, joy and despair, knowledge and faith, being and becoming, selfishness and sacrifice, fear and grace, body and mind. It challenges us to be aware of our choices, and to accept responsibility for the self we become.

BRADSHAW, Ian

Mar 5, 2020 | *listed, Fiction \ Novel
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ISBN 978-0-9946431-8-6
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Greymoon River Road

After their rather acrimonious separation, Alexis Smythe and her ex-partner Martin Thompson find themselves in both the Lonsdale Magistrates Court and the Family Law Court in Lansborough, attempting to resolve the issues surrounding their eight year old twins. 

Alexis’s mother Danielle is in a partnership with the owners of the Foster Real Estate Agency in the future development of a retirement village in Greymoon River Road, near Austenville.

Martin’s brother Justin owns the Thompson Real Estate Agency in Austenville, after taking over the business from his parents Denis and Jean.

Tensions have always simmered between the Foster and Thompson families since a disputed land deal two generations ago. The very same land that the planned retirement village is to be built on.

While Alexis and Martin are battling it out in the Courts, Denis Thompson takes one of his grandsons, Jeremy, out to Greymoon River Road to explore the disputed bushland. They use old maps from the local museum, where Denis is a volunteer guide, and discover something that now draws Alexis and Danielle into the ongoing feud between the two warring families.

About the Author

IAN has spent a large part of his working life in facility management roles in various tele-communications and data centres. He has been an active investor in real estate for many years, and has recently been involved in a Family Law dispute. Drawing on these experiences, he has written the novel, Greymoon River Road. He is married with four children, and lives in Melbourne, Australia.