ISBN 978-0-9876204-1-5
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Solomon Trent is a chronic underachiever, still looking for the first big break in his career. As fate (or dumb luck) would have it, a life-threatening situation provides the means for Trent to go from undetected to detective. Trent may be perceptive, but he lacks social confidence and that all-important professional know-how. Will his natural ability be enough to get him through?
ISBN 978-0-6481379-4-8
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“Delilah’s Secret is one of the most powerful books I’ve gotten my hands on in a long time. I loved and hated the characters so intensely, they were beautifully brought to life by M. L Martin. I was left thinking about them all long after each chapter. An important read, one that will leave an imprint on women especially.” – Lauren Shuttleworth, CEO & Founder of Words With Heart
Delilah is a small girl with a small secret—or so she thinks until her secret grows to control almost every aspect of her life. Silence ensnared her, silence keeps her trapped—yet silence may ultimately be her way out. Will Delilah ever find her voice?
It is the late 1980s, when Delilah’s mother walks out on their family. With her older brother at school, Delilah spends her days alongside her dad working the farm, mustering cattle, fencing and learning to track through the forest backing onto their property. Life for Delilah is perfect.
That is until her mother files for custody and wins. Now Delilah finds herself in a completely volatile living situation. Driven by a fiery determination to prove she isn’t a ‘nothing’, Delilah sets her goals on becoming a sporting champion. Just as she is finding her rhythm, making new friends, discovering childhood romance and feeling like she is somebody, Delilah is faced with life changing adversity.
It is a hard lesson to learn, but at eleven years old Delilah realises the only way to escape her living nightmare, is to become her own hero.
Delilah’s Secret is the story of an ordinary girl with extraordinary strength. It is a tale of love, friendship and a young girl’s courage to face her biggest fears.
Sharing a love of horses with her mother, she handed Melissa a copy of The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans. Exceeding 600 pages in length, her mother was not truly expecting her to finish reading it. At eleven years old, it was the first novel Melissa read from start to finish. Her love of reading and writing blossomed from there. By the age of twelve, Melissa had written several short stories, poems and a new alphabet – a secret code invented to write letters to her friends.
In 2010, Melissa graduated from Southern Cross University with a Bachelor of Education. She became a teacher to ensure that no matter how good or bad a child’s home life was, they could come to school and feel safe, loved and valued. However, year after year she was witnessing signs of children suffering from various degrees of abuse and neglect. She could not sit idle while these children desperately needed a voice. Hence the birth of Delilah’s Secret.
ISBN 978-0-6486785-7-1
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ISBN 978-1-922337-22-1
EBOOK
Obnoxious Alex Mule was raised in lavish Royal Ludlet, known for its fame and fortune. Free-spirited Indiana was raised in desolate Lower Ludlet, known for its poverty and hardships. Neither have met one another until one fateful day on their joint seventeenth birthday, when they find themselves caught up in a top-secret prophecy dating back from before they were born.
They are given one mission: find a way out of their enchanted bonds by solving a mystical riddle while trying not to get killed by terrifying beasts and dangerous plants that have remained hidden from civilisation in Ludlet Forest. They have one week to crack the brainteaser or their lives as they know it will be changed forever.
A coming-of-age tale sees Alex and Indiana form the unlikeliest of connections as they try desperately to get away from each other and back to the happy simple lives they are used to.
My name is Breanna Loveday and I’ve always lived in Adelaide, South Australia. I am currently 26 years old. My debut novel Time Does Not Stop was published in 2019.
ISBN 978-0-6480268-2-2
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Wendy’s friend, Kate, didn’t choose to be an only child, but she did choose a loyal group of friends who go a long way to fill that void.
Now raising their own children, the sisterhood that exists between these women still helps each of them to navigate their way through life and forge out their path. A girls’ weekend away will see events un-fold that take Kate on a journey to ultimately reveal the foundations of not only her own existence within a fragile family, but also the identity of the girl in the garden.
ISBN 978-0-6484130-9-7
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ISBN 978-0-9876426-1-5
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Iris is a teenage girl in Boulder Kalgoorlie Western Australia when her father returns from the Light Horse. She faces hardship and poverty but has a valiant desire to be a writer. Her mother struggles with her returned serviceman husband’s drinking and lack of employment.
A new Australian novel about the return of the Light Horse in 1918.
100 years since the tumultuous return!
This in Julie Janson’s second novel and is based on the family stories from West Australia.
It is 100 years since the return and time for a story about the women and families who struggled to survive back home.
Women had to care for their children and manage a tiny income while many returned servicemen had Post Traumatic Distress Syndrome. We recognise the bravery of the men and women of this era.
Julie Janson is a playwright and novelist of Aboriginal descent, belonging to the Burruberongal clan of the Darug Nation of the Hawkesbury River, NSW.
Julie has had plays produced professionally in Australia, Indonesia and the United States of America. Her debut novel, The Crocodile Hotel was published in 2015.
Julie is also a senior researcher on the website A history of Aboriginal Sydney which was first published by the University of Sydney in 2014.
ISBN 978-0-6485544-4-8
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A collection of poems and short stories from the Mt Isa region.
The Cancer Unit in Mount Isa provides Chemotherapy and other Cancer Treatments to patients from Mount Isa and surrounding areas. Having this service helps locals to stay at home with their family and friends instead of having to travel 1000’s of kilometres. All proceeds from Give me a Yarn will be donated to this charity.
I hope you enjoy reading these Yarns as much as I loved compiling. A special Thank You to the Yarn writers, without you we wouldn’t be able to share these amazing Yarns that make the outback the unique lifestyle it is.
Thank You for supporting 2019 Isa Rodeo Queen Quest Entrant Bron Myers, Raising Funds for Mount Isa Base Hospital Auxiliary Inc Cancer Unit.
