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HUSSEIN, Tymur

Nov 6, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Comedy \ Humour Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Fiction \ Novel, Science Fiction, Victoria

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Requiem For A Pandemic

A Post Apocalyptic Christmas Tale

A perfect balance between silliness and profound emotional depth, making it a truly unique and heartwarming experience.

The spirit of Christmas is facing its greatest challenge. After the apocalyptic COVID-19 Zeta strain devastated humanity, Kris, once known as Santa, wanders a desolate world. Depressed and aimless, he stumbles upon a struggling settlement on Coode Island and sees a glimmer of hope.

Determined to revive the joy and unity of Christmas, Kris seeks the help of his wife, Martha, and his old friends, April, the Tooth Fairy, and Harry, the Easter Bunny.

Together, they must confront the dangers of this new world and the divisions and deceptions threatening to tear them apart. As Kris battles to restore the traditions that once brought people together, he discovers his greatest fight is against hopelessness and despair.

Requiem for a Pandemic is a poignant post-apocalyptic Christmas tale of redemption, resilience, and the enduring power of hope.

NICKLIN, Jim

Oct 28, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Science Fiction

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ISBN 978-1-923333-53-6
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U

Rachel, a brilliant organic chemist and Sam, her husband find themselves ensnared in a web of ambition, addiction, and dangerous secrets. When they strike a Faustian deal with the enigmatic Massey Mancuso to create the ultimate recreational drug, their lives take a perilous turn. As they journey deep into this capricious world, they face betrayals, violence and startling revelations that confront their reality.

U explores the seductive power of science and hedonism and the morally ambiguous world of drug development in the overlap between Big Pharma and the criminal underworld.

About the Author

 

JIM NICKLIN is a semi-retired Professor of Gynaecological Oncology, still active in teaching, research, mentoring and medical aid work.

He has written 130 papers in peer reviewed medical journals and 15 book chapters and invited reviews. He has co-written and produced a short film, and has dabbled in writing poetry, screenplays and a novella. This is his first novel.

JOCUMSEN, Graham

Sep 25, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel

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Outback Odyssey

 

A Quest for Change

A troubled family and school life in a big city in the early 1960s leads Brad to crime and imprisonment. However, fate presents him with a lifeline. This exposes him to the rigours of outback life and work, new friendships and close relationships. Serious injury forces him into an indigenous community for several months. His eventual return to the city sees him come to terms with himself and his past.

About the Author

Graham is a retired academic who has written extensively in academic circles, including the completion of a PhD thesis. However, he has always harboured the wish to write creatively and has published two books previously. After a suggestion by a friend and encouragement from fellow writing group members, Graham embarked on the ambitious task of writing a novel.

‘Outback Odyssey’ is the final result of three years work, study, research, rewrites and editing.

RANKIN, Matt

Sep 12, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Action Adventure, Animals \ Pets Fiction, Australian, Brisbane, Children's Books, Fiction \ Novel, Queensland

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Sapphire Millie

 

And the Quest for the Unknown Destiny

Set amongst the spectacular Australian Bush, Sapphire Millie and the Quest for the Unknown Destiny is a heartwarming tale of love, loss,
sacrifice and friendship between a group of young animal friends.

Follow their journey through the bush with all its challenges as they face its dangers, excitement and raw beauty and see whether friendship can ultimately pass the test and help them reach their destiny, Sapphire Falls.

Matt Rankin

About the Author

 

Born and raised in Sydney, first time author Matt Rankin lived a childhood that was dominated by a love of sport, going on to excel in Rugby League and Cricket. Matt discovered his passion for writing in his late 30s after being inspired while watching animated movies with his young family, believing his creative mind, along with being young at heart, was the perfect recipe for creating his own characters for many a generation to love.

CROSS, Mary Talbot

Aug 27, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction, Romance Fiction, South Australia

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The Foundling

A tale of the Burra Burra Mine

With Fortune’s Fool: The road beyond Eureka

Re-published as a single volume, The Foundling and Fortune’s Fool paint an authentic picture of South Australia and Victoria in the formative years of European settlement, and describe a young woman’s compelling journey of self-discovery from the social injustices of the Burra Burra to the challenges of Ballaarat and beyond.

THE FOUNDLING. Abandoned as a baby, taunted as a child, Julia Stephen – the Foundling of the title – learns to survive in the West Country of England until her adoptive Methodist family sets sail for South Australia in the earliest years of European settlement, in search of a better life.

Necessity takes them north, to work for the South Australian Mining Association of the Burra Burra, whose regime rates the workforce far below the appeal of profi ts. When Julia settles in the Company township called Kooringa, her past returns to haunt her.

Who is the mysterious packman from Julia’s Devon childhood who follows her through the streets of Kooringa township? What is the grim secret she uncovers in the dank squalor of a dugout in the Burra Burra Creek?

FORTUNE’S FOOL. Ballaarat in the goldrush of the early 1850s. A place of glittering promise and deep despair; where hidden resentments will swell into open rebellion against the colonial government in December 1854.

Into this male-dominated sex-starved shantytown comes Miss Julia Stephen, seeking her Cornish lover. Quick-witted, resourceful – and unscrupulous – she becomes one of the most successful women on the Victorian diggings. When tensions erupt into bloody rebellion at Eureka, Julia Stephen’s life is transformed beyond her wildest dreams.

About the Author

Mary Talbot Cross was born in Devon, England, and is a graduate of Scotland’s Aberdeen University. She has written four novels set in historical times; in addition to The Foundling and Fortune’s Fool, Fate Knows No Tears tells the story of the Edwardian poet ‘Laurence Hope,’ while Resurgence is the author’s tribute to South-west France. Mary Talbot Cross is the pseudonym of the historian Jennifer M.T. Carter. She lives in Burra.

TAYLOR, Bill

Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Comedy \ Humour Fiction, Fiction \ Novel, South Australia, Travel \ Tourism \ Adventure

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From Bali Bliss to Darwin Danger: Albert Driver ’s Back in the Pilot’s Seat and Flying into Trouble.

 

Albert Driver has briefly left his Bali tourist venture to visit Darwin to meet Roger Casey, a member of his original tour group. Roger proposes a business association and tells Albert about a helicopter tragedy which has killed Ian Steele, the husband of the lovely Bethleen, the daughter of Kev Clancy the car man now Sir Kevin.

At a Darwin café later that day Roger introduces Albert to Boots, a pilot who is about to fly to Indonesia in a stolen plane.

On his return to Bali, Albert finds that his wife has left him and that Bethleen and her family will be coming to Bali for a holiday. Later, they met Tjokorda Agung, a charming Balinese prince who gets on famously with Kev, and Kev and Albert decide to go into business together.

Albert meets Boots again who agrees to fly some of Kev’s purchases back to Australia. To his surprise Albert becomes a passenger on the plane back along with an unconventional air crew.

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Driver’s Holiday

Entertaining, fun and light hearted

Tourism in Bali in the 70s was in its infancy as was Albert Driver’s employment as a tour leader.

After a confidence boost stemming from his time with lovely Bethleen Steele, and the help of Sudi (his beautiful Balinese assistant), Albert led a motley group of Australian salesman on a life-changing tour.

 

A beautiful but mysterious island, the group had to overcome disease, unhappy deities and bursts of undisciplined behaviour from some members to finish the tour.

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About the Author

 

Bill Taylor has lived most of his life in South Australia, either in Adelaide or on Kangaroo Island. He has also spent extended times away from Australia, including in France, where this tale was first written, and in Indonesia, particularly Bali, the location of most of the action.

He first went to Bali when tourists were a novelty and children would line up to cheer motor cyclists passing through their village. Certainly not the case now. He practised as a lawyer for much of his adult life and is now retired.

He has been married for more than fifty years to Caroline, who surely must be a saint. They have two adult children and five grandchildren.