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CHAMBERS, Michael

Nov 11, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Historical Fiction, Indigenous Fiction, Melbourne, Victoria

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-55-9 PAPERBACK

Walking Among the Stars
In a celebration of the Australian Outback, Michael Chambers draws on his own experiences, and a hundred and fifty
years of his wife’s family as graziers. He weaves the stories of the Ngiyampaa people, as recounted by his friend and their Elder, Roy Kennedy, into one epic tale, brimming with the sheer vastness and rugged beauty of the Outback.

An historical novel of European settlement set in the arid Willandra and Mungo Lakes District of western New South Wales.

But the real story begins long before that.

Time passes. People come to the dry country, between the rivers; the first peoples, the Ngiyampaa mob. They learn to live where others could not. They find plenty, not poverty. They live there a long, long time, happy and content.

Others come; Europeans, Afghans, Chinese, from across the world they come. The land changes. It no longer gives up its bush
tucker. Many Ngiyampaa die. Some survive, and they learn to live with the settlers, as they had lived with the desert.

They become many again. A town emerges from the dusty plains, phoenix-like, appearing from nowhere, shining brightly for a while.

A story spanning twenty thousand years. Barak, the one-legged warrior, challenges Thylacoleo the feared Marsupial Lion; Mundawal, forced to leave his island home and the woman he loves. Beaufort Harris survives the battlefields of Crimea to vanquish the vast waterless Outback.
Kathleen O’Hara travels the world to marry and founds a global dynasty. Billy Christmas, blackfella, searches for his culture and his heritage.

Tom Duncan is a Jackaroo, from New Zealand. He transitions from youth to man. He learns hard work and values that will define
his future. Suddenly, he finds love. The love of his life!

These are stories of the Outback, of two peoples, one ancient, one modern. There is a Treaty; can either man understand what is promised? Can there be harmony? Here is a story of the ancient land: its fertility,its degradation, and its powers of recovery. And redemption.

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.

PATTERSON, Neil

Sep 28, 2020 | *Featured books, *listed, Action Adventure, Design, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction, Military, New South Wales

Jeffrey's Beach Box by self-published author Noni Bousfield
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ISBN 978-1-922452-75-7
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Becoming Alfie 

Alfe Norrington was born into poverty in London’s East End in the first minute of the twentieth century. His life was a battle. From the Brick Lane markets where young Alfie pilfered and pickpocketed, to the trenches of Flanders, Alfe fought every step of the way.

Almost killed by a trench bomb he battled to recover and while in a military hospital Alfie made a promise that dramatically changes his life. A true East End hero, Alfie begins his journey away from poverty armed with a robust moral compass and an open heart.

Becoming Alfie is the first in the Alfie Norrington series. It follows the life of a man who positively influenced thousands of people. The world needs more individuals like Alfie Norrington, that give much more than they take.

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.

JANSON, Julie

Jan 29, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction, New South Wales
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ISBN 978-0-6484130-9-7
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ISBN 978-0-9876426-1-5
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The Light Horse Ghost

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.

About the Author

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.