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examines the naval role, particularly that of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), during the British Atomic tests conducted in the Monte Bello Islands in the 1950s.
From a deprived childhood within a family history of mental illness, suicide and addictions, Greg Wilson has attained unexpected heights as an ultramarathoner.
Joining the Australian Army at seventeen was the catalyst for an athletics care...
Ellen Starck, a young South Australian from a privileged background, shares the prejudices of her society about native peoples. Her initial experience of the newly ?discovered' New Guinea highlands, in which she arrives in 1937 as the wife ...
Eighteen veterans inhabit these pages. Each voice their story directly to the reader without intervention. One describes having breast milk squirted in his face, another tells of having his hands held behind his back as a knife put to his t...
With the arrival of the Twentieth Century, Holland had control over all but the south of Bali, where rajas continued to resist foreign rule. The Dutch believed they could remove the last obstacle in the south with just one more major push.
Former journalist Bill Poulos delves deep into Australia's turbulent and lawless past with this collection of stories recalling crimes, murders and tragedies that once made headlines around the nation.
They are the ?Birdies' - the proud members of a unique fighting force unknown to the majority of Australians whose land and lives they have long protected.
The year is 1990, and for twenty-something Tom O'Connor, life is good. Descended from a family of Queensland pioneers, he runs a newspaper at Airlie Beach.
This is a true-life story told by a man who believes that despite his start in life he succeeded in reaching the almost impossible goals he set for himself.
A matriarch is murdered, and detectives are faced with a tangled web of family secrets?
Join Australian soldiers, Stan and Billy, in their stubborn resistance against an overwhelming World War II Japanese force in Papua New Guinea as the Australians fight a tactical withdrawal along the Kokoda Track.
This book has been written about the struggles for survival of three generations of an extended Tatar family who lived through the most turbulent periods of Russian, as well as Chinese, history. It also contains the first chapter explaining...
In 1973, facing prosecution for dangerous driving following a high-speed motorcycle collision, a young civil engineer accepted a short-term job offer in Singapore. That twist of fate catapulted him into a global oil and gas industry fuelled...
A Surgeon journeys into the confronting world of military surgery in war zones distressed by civil war, humanitarian disasters and battlefield conflict.
Young boys and girls are sexually abused by Father O'Halloran at a parish church choir in Melbourne. A secret self-help society, The Apocrypha, is organised by victims Ashley and Keith at their school.
As the world turns to war in 1914, three brothers and an aboriginal stockman have a decision to make - join the conflict or remain within their rural idyll.
When Carmella meets the charming Shaun, she thinks she's hit the jackpot. Recovering from a rocky first date, the relationship develops into a promising connection, but then degenerates, in stages, into a manipulative and abusive disaster. ...
In January 2016, Christina's life is turned upside down when a mysterious white envelope is placed inside her hand by Julian, her husband of twenty-one years.
The Silk Roads created a vast trading empire which made China the wealthiest of nations. This also made China the prize other nations strived to plunder.
“Shafts of memory like light from thunderclouds before a storm swept over them. There had been another time and another place when they had walked this path together.”
Rick Hore-Lacy, law-student-turned-horse-trainer who became an Aussie legend in the sport of horse racing. The outspoken larrikin caused a furor in the Elite horse racing industry by breaking conventions with his vociferous opinions and infamous a...
In 1961, and one month following the disappearance of Michael C. Rockefeller off the southern coast of what was then known as Dutch Western New Guinea, Indonesia invaded and annexed the territory and commenced the systematic slaughter of indigenou...
David's two teenage sons won't do their homework and don't like the bolognaise sauce he has cooked, his bicycle tyre is flat, the current subject of romantic interest hasn't phoned back and a school pullover has been lost.
A journey to the realm of displaced first nation people?
In this concluding chapter of The Veiled Thread Series, Harry has changed, the journey has been long. From a brief association with his grandfather just before he died, and a meeting...
Without warning, Elise was grabbed from behind, arms pinned to her side. She struggled, knocking over the coffee table. The wine glass shattered on the floor. Prawn salad and phone went flying.
Surely each of us asks ourselves in the depths of the night, "Who am I?" "How did I get here?" "What am I to do about it?" Whatever our answers, they are going to be grounded in our gender, ethnicity, culture and life experience.
This book is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the peacetime naval tragedy that occurred 10 February 1964 in Jervis Bay NSW 60 years ago.
Christine went to the kitchen to get a sleeping tablet. She swallowed the whole bottle. Why? Christine had been strong all her life.
Butcher's boy Jimmy D'Aubin went willingly to war when duty called in 1916. Excited, thrilled to be part of a big adventure and determined to play his part in fighting the enemy.
Like so many of those fortunate to return, this son of a lov...
Professor Arif Ahmed steps warily into a seedy massage parlour in suburban Melbourne, uncertain what he will find beyond the beaded curtain.
The 1960s was a decade of social and political upheaval that reshaped every facet of American culture, from civil rights, through feminism, to gay liberation and the anti-Vietnam War movement.
True to her word, Angelina Lorenzo sets out to exact her revenge on those next on her list. But police are closing in, and she is running out of places to hide.
Damengin is a country town in Queensland weighed down by the worst drought in living memory and its inhabitants are all desperately waiting
for government drought relief.
Most travel writing flatters destinations and how to get there - but not this book. While Fraser Beath McEwing loves travel, he has a wicked eye for absurdities, stuff-ups and grim realities, all narrated by a supreme humorist.
Many war veterans and their families have endured years of debilitating physical and emotional problems, and as a result they and their families have arguably suffered as much or more that those who have died during all conflicts in which A...
Go into the trenches with the Australian troops of the 9th Battalion. Follow the exploits of Lieutenant Peter Bowen and Sergeant Craig Williams during the major battles of 1917 and 1918.
Australia has five million baby boomers. Seventy-one-year-old Michael Thornton is one of them. He is so pissed off about the state of things, he's listed 3,300 gripes.
Nothing is as it seems among passengers on the New Zealand Star. Colonel Newton's impotency resides in another when portraying to enigmatic widow, Nancyng Jenkins, his role as emissary to a dying woman...
An engaging account of an Australian naval aviator's life, of lifelong friendships and dangers shared, and adventures on the high seas, in the skies, and in foreign ports.
Excited for the start of school life, Kiya was eager to make new friends. Hopeful to belong, she strived to fit in and yet she found herself an outcast, which threw her into an unlikely friendship with another outcast: a boy named Dorian. ...
After being forced out of his previous livelihood, Warren Hill recovers a wrecked vessel considered to be near-unsalvageable, intending to transform it into a vessel tailor-made for collecting trochus shells off the Queensland coast.
WHY ME?!
Have you ever wondered that?
What if I was to tell you that all the crap stuff you go through, consider bad, sucky and downright shit is actually doing you good?!
Although you may not see it now, every negative has a positi...
In the mid-sixties Therrie receives a letter from an unknown soldier serving overseas. Falling hopelessly in love, she is catapulted on a course of love and adventure, unprepared for heartache and pain long after the Vietnam War is over.
A few months after her arrival in Australia, eighteen year old Chris Baxter reads a letter addressed to her boyfriend's mother that sets the course for the rest of her life.
In The Longest Journey: finding the true self, Amanda Stuart describes how clients, men and women, addressed a range of difficulties, including anxiety and depression.
Can a person living in the present dare to go back through time to another era?
A contract killing on a remote coastal track.
A deadly boat explosion occurs in nearby waters soon afterwards.
Are the two connected?
Paul Arnold, CSIRO scientist, pays $1000 for sex with Rachel Doyle, a prostitute from Northern Ireland who has a technique no other prostitute can match. Rachel escapes from Derry to Brisbane after a client threatens an acid attack.
Queen Charlotte, the Queen of Falconia and her husband King Philip have just had triplets. It should be a time of celebration, but old enemies have reappeared and two of the babies are magically interfered with.
Joe Burnett was living the dream; retired young from the corporate world and volunteering with his local fire brigade.
It didn't last.
Felix Schmidt is backpacking on the Camino de Santiago when he meets the love of his life, the beautiful French Pascaline. He brings her back to Australia where he joins a new firm of management consultants.
This is a simple non-technical book about how a Board of Directors works and what they do. It is ideal for new Directors or University business of finance graduates or business executives
A story of military service and courage - a brave man and his big, fearless horse.
What happened to young mum-to-be Krystal Fraser on 20 June 2009 after she checked herself out of hospital to go to a party rather than await the birth of her first child?
In late 1969 the 12th Field Regiment was warned to prepare for active service in South Vietnam in 1971-72. 'A' Field Battery replaced 102 Field Battery in the regiment and moved to Townsville in late 1969.
After his parents die, John Summers grows up on his relatives' sheep grazing property situated in central western New South Wales. Although treated as an outcast by his adoptive family, John has a close relationship with his grandmother, wh...
A young New Zealand nursing student is lunching in her college café in 1974 when an unknown ?Black man with a halo of corkscrew curls' sits uninvited next to her. Within a year, she marries the stranger in a traditional Solomon Islands' cer...
Three young members of a Chinese commune risk all when they decide to flee the cultural revolution and make the treacherous swim to Hong Kong. For one, their desperate bid for prosperity and freedom comes to a tragic end.
When a father returns from the war to his farm in remote NSW, he must struggle to restore a sense of ?home'.
The story of a brave surf lifesaving rescue boat and how he survived the spills and mishaps of his first day on the job and in doing so earned his name.
Holly has been keeping a low profile at school to avoid situations where the class bully can make unkind comments about her single sex parents and exclude her.
The following book outlines, from lived experience, the true account of a riot situation in a prison facility. The opening pages describe ?business as usual' - the routines, procedures and protocols surrounding work in the prison arena - al...
The author's wide experience working in four Australian states, the United Kingdom, Vietnam and Central America has seen him encounter a variety of unusual events and accumulate a trove of funny stories, most of which are true.
Someone amongst Jennifer's family harbours a dark secret and will stop at nothing to achieve their ends. Even if it means killing. As the unimaginable truth unfolds, Jennifer finds herself in a race against time to protect the ones she love...
Journalist, novelist, music critic, pianist, sportsman - it has taken Fraser Beath McEwing the experience of a lifetime to answer this question: What is it that directs all living creatures to behave the way they do?
Almost sixteen years: ago twin girls were born to the powerful witch Queen Katerina in the Castle of Falconia. One of the girls disappeared that day and the queen trusted she would never be heard of again.
Having married her childhood sweetheart, Princess Alia?s world begins to disintegrate. Her nine-year-old relationship with her husband, self-made engineering genius Alex Glandore is failing.
This is the story of pirate treasure that people have been looking for in Australia for over 150 years.
Noel Braun commenced his working career as a country school teacher, then moved into a corporate career, which took him from Melbourne to Perth and Sydney. He has had a lifelong passion for writing and wrote the first words of his novels ov...
In no bed of roses, Teo speaks his story of being taken from his Polish village and forced into labour in Germany during World War II. He recalls the hardship, longing for home and perplexity of having his life turned upside down.
Susan Hutchinson wrote her first poem at age 10 and has been writing poems intermittently since. She is inspired by the challenge of different styles and variety of subject matter.
Beverley Buckley did not realise that information she accessed during a meditation session held on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Sydney early in the 1990's would transform her life and the lives of hundreds of others.
Cold Deep Waters on the shores of Botany Bay Australia becomes the setting and sympathetic home for the secret Hanover line. A family cast adrift, torn between two vastly different worlds.
Bindi only has three legs and cannot play, nor chase, nor climb with her brothers — or can she? Find out what happens after she meets a seagull with only one leg!
Kaha is overweight and doesn't have the energy to chase chooks, play catch or jump through hoops with his brothers and sisters. Will he achieve his goal of becoming healthy and happy?
Once upon a time there was a young frog who was dissatisfied with his lot in life. He yearned to fly around the world and do exciting things. Much to his surprise a good fairy drops by his pond and grants him his wish.
Dumper is faced with changing times. Moved aside for newer and younger boats Dumper is given one last challenge and one last opportunity.
The Great Fire of London in 1666 was devastating for a young woman called Anonasai, and her brother, Constantine. They mysteriously become immortal, and from this time on, she is known as the wandering assassin, and Hunting Bird.
Mama Zebra looked down at her baby and was surprised to see that something was different.
Jess was not meant to be, but her tenacity to overcome adversities moulded a personality determined to survive. In a twist of fate, Jess is forced to leave Sydney as a young teenager without a legal identity to make her home in a remote Kim...
Henry's Empire, an historical novel, is the story of the life and times of Ernest Henry, an English adventurer who, at the height of England's empire days, sought his fortune in Australia.
There are hearts throughout most of the book - some more hidden than others. The last line in the story is an invitation to find all the hearts (not just on the back page)....
This book provides practical guidance to all people who are on the path to becoming leaders. The author focuses on the foundations of leadership - trust and care.
At almost fifteen, Jess exists alone in a life which has known few luxuries.
A desperate attempt one night to free herself from her past is only the beginning of a new roller coaster ride of abuse and betrayal. She is thrust among stra...
Dad's Animals is a fun, quirky book based on a true story…
This book was first written for the author's grandchildren. Kate watched Australian noisy miner birds build a nest in her garden and began taking photographs of the nest being built, the baby birds in the nest, how other birds from the floc...
The Kenyan bush is breathtakingly beautiful but potentially deadly without the honed skills of a highly trained marksman and experienced "white hunter".
The old Chinese curse - may you live in interesting times - certainly applies to the space traveller Zan Kovac. The Aclasers, Earth's ruling elite, faced with revolts had genetically engineered a warrior species, the Krarls, to terrorise th...
From that moment, everything goes wrong when Squirrel and Sandgroper start their adventures along the beaches of the Indian Ocean.
The animals at Australasia Zoo are trying their best to stay awake to meet Santa Claus and ask him lots of questions? but will they be able to stay awake long enough to get the answers they want?
On a supposedly flat Earth most people live within two large bubbles, which are effectively worlds in their own right. Bubble Perfect encompasses a huge area that encloses everything from tropical forest to alpine pasture and the provincial...
An irreverent look at surviving PTSD and depression, remembering a lost Australia and its values and a celebration of perseverance and optimism.
A funny and sensitive memoir about growing up on the semi-rural outskirts of Brisbane in the 1960s and 1970 and living and working in the Queensland Outback. From there to the opposite end of the spectrum and to urban Japan.
The New Total War of the 21st Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, by Gregory R. Copley, AM (Melbourne, 2020: Sid Harta Publishers) is a work of philosophy and analysis on the transformed nature of human society and the way it goes...
How did a runt from an impoverished U.S. farm family come to be a sensitive, but highly-trained, killer?
In the 1860's in the Colony of Victoria, Tabu an aborigine goes 'walkabout' after a violent tribal fight during which his brother is killed. He rescues the wife of a drover/farmer - Michael, who is an escaped Convict.
The Australian outback is a vast emptiness most people never get the chance to visit. Many that do are overcome by the isolation, the incredible distances and for the most part its deafening silence. However, those lucky ones who live there love the
A light-hearted, ironic account of a lifetime's addiction. It is one person's story, but it may strike familiar sparks among many others.
In this fictional story, Jeff Greenstains, born in late-13th century England, tells the story of his life. He was born in the village of Lower Stint in the Pennine Hills, the son of Brother Stonefyus, a hermit monk, and Sister Ann, an exile...
"They were desperate times but the Depression created a certain breed of people who economised, ?made-do', and ?got-by' without spending much money, eventually surviving those difficult times."
On a lonely, gravel road, Traffic Policeman James Cook is found dead. Along with his motorcycle, Cook is horrifically mutilated and crushed, then left to the elements beside the road.
Would you like to come with me on my trip to The End of the World?' she asked him.
This real-life journey started when a small brown toy bear was taken by the author as a keepsake for a loved one unable to accompanying her on the journey, another soft-toy-human bond in operation again.
I was in London for work and my wife and children were back in Australia. I was missing them so much I started to write a poem about cooking as I cooked all the time for my kids and would turn it into a theme and a feast.
From the age of two, Georgina experienced the vilest abuse and cruelty, unimaginable for the average person. It seemed that everywhere she turned, every man who came into her life had just one purpose in mind.
There are many books about human struggles and achievements. This book offers the reader a captivating and inspirational account on how to build a live against diversity and many obstacles.
For Whom the River Runs is a novel set in a small country town in 1954. It is a tragic tale of power and prejudice and the trials and tribulations of two boys whose innocence is tested by an environment jaundiced by the harsh realities of m...
In Valerie's lifelong search for her identity, and her sense of belonging, she will discover not only her parentage, but also her family history. What she uncovers is a wealth of true ancestral stories of pioneering and determination.
Since the suicide of Maris, his beloved wife of forty-two years, Noel Braun struggled to find himself. All his life assumptions were overturned and he lost his sense of identity. Endeavouring to find some anchorage, he embarked on a spiritu...
“The truth must be found out and it must be told. Otherwise the people of Australia will repudiate this parliament forever.” —John Jess, 1967
Noel Braun yearns to walk the Camino, the ancient pilgrimage route that leads across France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Since the suicide of Maris, his beloved wife of forty-two years, he has struggled to find himself.
Rosie Franklin is an enthusiastic teacher and sports coach who, through her desire for adventure, cements a teenage school friendship into a loving relationship with Chas Anderson.
Dieter Paesano exploits the greed of small business "entrepreneurs" operating on the fringes of the gold industry in Africa. They are attracted by any proposition, risky or not, which leverages their investment stake.
The time: 1999. The location: The mountainous district of Ermera, East Timor. The Participants: Locals from the various Timorese factions; Indonesian Police and Military; International Electoral Observers; United Nations personnel, paid...
Nineteen-year-old Darryl Bishop was away droving when his birth-date was drawn from the Tenth National Service Ballot, 1969. On the 13th May 1971, Private Bishop departed Australia on HMAS Sydney, having earned his place in the Fourth Royal...
The story is set in the 1850s and begins in County Clare, Ireland. A young Irishman Michael Keogh, a shipwright, returns home to assist Edmund, father in his small farm. Simultaneously, a wealthy British Army Officer, John Hall, arrives at a posti...
It's not everyone's idea of a honeymoon - a 12000 mile flight from Scotland to Australia in a single engine, canvas covered plane. Even less idyllic if the pilot has only 44 hours flying experience and the navigator learned her job via a do-it-yo...
I've got your release papers on my desk.' The superintendent had cheerfully stated.
'I think there has been some sort of mistake,' said Sorrowful, confused. 'I have at least ten years to go.'
National serviceman, Tom Duncan, was a changed man when he returned from the Vietnam conflict. His pompous father, a successful New England fine wool producer, stating that he'd not have the family's good name tarnished any more, banishes h...
2001. East Timor remains a dangerous place. Memories of pro‑Indonesian savagery linger, a resurgent militia threatens, and a secret war rages between Indonesia and Australia.
An evaluation of Australia's water market as a new global standard for managing water resources.
A collection of letters and photographs exchanged between students from the tsunami devastated Aceh province, and children from international destinations.
The foreword has been written by the Indonesian President, Dr Susilo Bambang Yu...
In his twilight years, John Summers reflects on his significant collection of assets, mostly centred on his extensive grazing enterprises in New South Wales. But his wealth is the product of a vile theft as a young man, which he has not div...
From growing up in the Channel Islands post World War II, to running sheep and cattle stations in Australia, Memoirs of a Jersey Girl is the story of a life filled with adventure, achievement, and at times, tragedy.
Short Eternities is not one poetry collection, but eight — a sequence that sums up the calculated insight and undying optimism of poet James Martin.
In 1946, a devastated and defeated Japan was occupied by Australian forces based in the prefecture of Hiroshima.
George Hutchinson grew up in western Sydney, Australia in the 1930s and 1940s - a time of great local and global change.
Experience the collision of two very different worlds. The first, as seen through the eyes of Rod, a fighter pilot and Hydie, a teenage girl, is one of titanic spaceships, hibernation, time travel, super computers and eerie outcomes from rampant g...
The Australian Wrestling Tradition
An exploration of the origin and history of the world’s oldest sport