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HUNTER, Katrina

Aug 29, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Historical Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Thriller Fiction

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22 TRICKS

 

How cunning trickery achieved victory over brute force and violence

A wandering troubadour. A secret hidden in plain sight. A murder that changed history.

When author Katrina Hunter visits the Abbey of Fontfroide in the South of France, she stumbles upon a startling connection – The Fool from The Tarot of Marseille depicted in a medieval statue. What if this is no coincidence? What if the Tarot was never meant for fortune telling, but for something far more dangerous?

In 22 Tricks, history and mystery intertwine as Katrina deciphers secret messages hidden within the Tarot’s Major Arcana. Through allegory, iconography, deception, and trickery, 13th-century troubadour Peire Vidal encodes an epic tale of war into 22 cards, evading the Inquisition’s grasp. But what forbidden knowledge did he hide? And what secrets and lost philosophies have remained buried for centuries?

A gripping historical murder mystery, 22 Tricks unravels a world of coded messages, lost philosophies, and a battle for the soul of Occitania. Who truly holds the power—the conqueror, or the one who writes history?

The game is set. The cards are in play. Will you decipher the trick?

STARK, Amaria

Mar 26, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Earth \ Nature, Historical Fiction, Painting & Illustration

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ISBN 978-1-923386-80-8
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ISBN 978-1-923386-02-0
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Silent Sentinel

 

The Story of a Redgum

A gnarled old redgum stands by the creek. It has witnessed many changes since it first sprouted among the ancient basalt stones more than three centuries ago.

This book is an artist’s impression of the stories it could tell; of the Wurundjeri people who followed the rhythm of the seasons to the arrivel of strangers who settled and made their new home among the gumtrees.

It tell of change that came as both the tree and the city continued to grow, and the grasslands disappeared. It is a story of human impact on the land, but ends on anote of hope for the future as people become aware of the tree, standing as a silent sentinel on the land which is our legacy.

About the Author

 

Amaria was born in country Victoria, spent her early years in remote Arnhem Land, and now lives in Melbourne. Her parents migrated to Australia from the Netherlands, and she was the first of nine children. They grew up speaking two languages, without a TV, but surrounded by books and opportunities to use their imagination. Amaria’s childhood ambition was to become an artist or an author… instead she became a primary school teacher and has especially enjoyed teaching Visual Art. She never stopped drawing or writing, however, and as her teaching years drew to a close, her first book, Silent Sentinel was finally published.

COCKS, Jon

Feb 24, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Historical Fiction, South Australia, War Fiction

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ISBN 978-1-923386-86-0
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Angel Of Aleppo

 

Can faith survive the Armenian Genocide?

SOLDIERS MURDER HER MOTHER. THEY FORCE HER FROM THE FAMILY HOME.

Anoush must endure a death march through unforgiving desert, as Armenian refugees perish all about her, some of the million-plus whose blood forever stains the hands of the Ottoman Turks and the souls of their descendants.

Courageously keeping her small group of neighbourhood women together, Anoush endures the brutish guards driving a massive column of women, children, and old men south from Anatolia through Aleppo to the Mesopotamian desert. She learns to nurse against all odds in a city overfl owing with diseased and starving refugees. She becomes the Angel of Aleppo.

In the years that follow, can she fi nd the will to be the woman her mama raised her to be? Can she summon the strength to care?

From Anatolia to Aleppo and beyond, through the outrages and injustices of the Armenian Genocide, Angel of Aleppo is about losing everything but the healing power of love.

‘Angel of Aleppo is an emotionally charged historical fi ction novel that feels like it’s a true story… Jon Cocks manages to draw the historical parallels between the Armenian genocide and the Shoah without making it feel forced or out of the narrative… riveting historical drama that captures the essence of a dark moment in history and shows how love can still be pulled out of the rubble of our past.’ Literary Titan

FINN, Greta Lily

Jan 30, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction

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Freddie

 

Taken From A String Of Golden Threads

Freddie is a poignant tale set in early 20th century rural Australia, capturing the life of a boy born into a family expecting a girl. Delicate and beautiful, Freddie stood out from his two older brothers, not just for his appearance but for the silent struggles he would come to face. Growing up at a time when society held rigid views on gender and sexuality, Freddie navigates life in a close-minded community, where his differences are met with confusion, judgment, and silence.
 
Written by Greta Lily Finn in the 1970s, Freddie was never published during her lifetime. The manuscript, tucked away in a drawer, was discovered by her granddaughter years after Finn’s death. Honoring her grandmother’s legacy, she brought Freddie’s story to light, offering readers a heart-wrenching journey through the eyes of a man shaped by societal norms that offered little room for love or understanding.
 
The novel opens with an older Freddie, disheveled and homeless, barely scraping by. His fragile existence belies a life of resilience and quiet defiance. Freddie is a powerful narrative of identity, isolation, and survival, set against the backdrop of a world unwilling to accept difference.

A Note From The Publisher

GRETA LILY FINN, affectionately known as Lil and orphaned at the tender age of six, was a compassionate, open-minded, resourceful and talented woman. Raised by her grandmother in Orange, NSW, Lil possessed the gift of storytelling, something inherited from her estranged father.
Lil had seven children, who filled her heart with love and purpose, but only after they left home did she turn her hand to writing, and the idea of the ‘Freddie Story’ was born.
 
Lil’s children, including my mother, knew about the ‘Freddie Story’, but surprisingly none of them felt inclined to read it.
During the Covid lockdown of 2020, I decided to transcribe her elegantly handwritten pages to give them the new life that they deserved. I was determined to share it with you all.
 
I want to acknowledge my Aunty Jenny, who lovingly preserved the manuscript and introduced me to the treasures it held within. I am forever grateful for her ongoing support, kindness and unwavering love throughout this journey.
 
My deepest appreciation to my cousin Ian Brown, my advisor, editor and biggest supporter since the idea first came to light.
 
Michelle Thompson
Granddaughter of Lil
Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2024

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.

LACKEY, Clive

Apr 18, 2024 | *Featured books, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction

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ISBN 978-1-923156-75-3
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Shepory Crossing: Jim’s Story

When the Shepherd family and the Gregory family pool their resources and talents the results are impressive and have repercussions far beyond the confines of the Kirconnell Valley.

Jim’s Story traces the growth of an Australian community from the 1890s through the global influences of two world wars and an economic depression. The story parallels the development of the Australian nation as it grew from a colonial outpost that rode on the sheep’s back toward the cosmopolitan society we know today.

Shepory Crossing’s characters experience floods, bushfires, economic growth and depression, the cannon-fodder controversies of WW1, the bitter divisiveness of conscription, the fall of Singapore and the horrors of Changi and the Burma railway. The story examines the effects of tariff protectionism in the 50s and the opening up of the outback by the motor car and the aeroplane.

Written in the first person by Jim Gregory, Shepory Crossing contains believable characters, historically accurate events and deeply moving romances.

Historical figures such as Breaker Morant and Henry Lawson stroll through its pages and touch on real episodes from my own family history.

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Shepory Crossing: Christopher’s Story

This book continues the Shepory Crossing trilogy, commenced in Jim’s Story. It centres on the life of Christopher Gregory, son of Jim and Elise. It follows him as he joins the Australian war effort against the Japanese onslaught in 1941 and his subsequent incarceration as a prisoner of war in Changi and on the Burma Railway. Post-war he tries to settle down back home at Shepory Crossing. He marries Anne from Tarenvale and they eventually have a daughter, Jennifer.

The young family moves to the city and is soon swept up in the social, youth and sexual revolution of the 1960s and 70s. Christopher’s world is turned upside down when Jennifer sinks into a sexual morass of her own making. But more traumas are to come. He discovers the older daughter he’d unknowingly fathered during the panics of pre-invasion Singapore then faces the challenge of keeping his two families satisfied without compromising his marriage to Anne or his ongoing support to Jennifer. Anne’s growing feminism and the sexual revolution raging around them add more layers of confusion to Christopher’s life and add to the pressure he already feels from so many directions.

Like so many men of his generation Christopher is claimed by a sudden cardiac arrest, laying the foundation for Jennifer’s own story which forms the third book of the trilogy.

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Shepory Crossing: Jennifer’s Story

Jennifer Gregory is the daughter of Christopher and Anne.

Inspired by her Auntie Gloria but brilliantly talented in her own right, Jennifer’s story picks up where Book Two of the Shepory Crossing trilogy left off. Jennifer and her family move to the northern beaches of Sydney where her over-active hormones run riot. Through her high school years her sole intellectual stimulus comes from the school’s brilliant gardener Simon Taylor. Despite the difference in their ages, Jennifer and Simon spark off each other and manage to keep each other sane.

A decade or so later they meet again, and resume their friendship. In the process the two of them re-write the political scene of the entire country.