Sid Harta Publishers

SID HARTA
Publishers

Book Publishers

New Releases

Shadows and Light – Journeying Through Cancer

'Cancer' is a word that frightens most of us, but for some it can also take them on a personal and spiritual journey where they are able to once again find the joy in life and a passion to experience it to the fullest.

Sandra Slatter

Taekwondo Bongsul

Sport

Taekwondo Bongsul is easy to learn for women, men and children of all ages.

Yong Dai Cho

Letters from Holman's Find

Australian Fiction

Holman’s Find hit its peak in the early 1900s. A thriving gold-mining town in the middle of nowhere, it was bursting with energy with a bank on every corner, a town hall, post office, pubs and bar brawls. Then things changed

Ian Hummerston

Glimpses of Purgatory

General

It is the 1960s and the world is changing rapidly, socially, morally and politically.

Robert Menzies

Love and Other Noxious Needs

Self Help

This book is about finding love and peace, through an understanding of our individual self responding to others.

Sandra Clough

Tivoli King

Biographic

Harry Rickards is recognised as one of the most colourful and dynamic showmen to appear on the Australian variety theatre stage.

Gae Anderson

The Breeze

Fiction

On the surface, the author was living a carefree life when along came several life challenges that would transform her entire way of life.

Felix

Competitions The Book

General

Craig Seitam doesn't enter competitions, he creates them!

Craig Seitam

Earth Reborn

Sci Fi

Two advanced souls are sent to Earth by the elders of the Golden Realm on a challenging and momentous mission: to create peace

Michael Morel

Come In Spinner

Memoir
Australian History

With the memories of heavy German Air raids over England, a traumatic and troubled family background, with virtually no fatherly guidance, an eleven year old migrant boy leaves for Australia to start a new life.

Barry Wilkes

Ghost Whisperer

Spirituality
Biographic

An intriguing journey into the world of Spirit. The impact of the Spirit Realm on the physical world comes alive with the documenting of psychic attacks and demonic interference.

Caterina Ligato

Wasp Season

Thriller
Action

This contemporary Australian thriller is on one level a story of family disintegration and social alienation. It concerns Beth, her estranged husband Mark, and his beautiful young girlfriend, Helen.

Jennifer Scoullar

Goulburn’s Deliverance

Young Aussie, Michael Fitzpatrick, is an intelligent lad with a promising future at the Sydney General Post Office.

Grant Rodwell

Vanishing Point

General

The Australian Outback is a vast and empty place, hiding many secrets.

Alan Moore

Baibi and Boangun

To Domarli the ship was of all things the most utterly real.

Allan Skerman

Webs of Deception

Fiction
Thriller

Dr James Ulrich, Headmaster of Sydney Boys’ Christian College, has been harbouring a terrible secret for twenty-eight years and he has lived with the guilt and shame for all of his adult life.

Robert Menzies

Dickheads and Witches

General

Men! Do you really understand women?
Women! Do you truly believe that you understand your male counterparts?

Michael Morel

Double Deception

Fiction
Thriller

When establishing the identity of the victim of a near fatal automobile accident proves puzzling, determining the motives behind his strange activities is even harder.

Stephen May

The Undesirable Immigrant

Fiction
Historical

Georgina Lock’s only apparent sin was that she wanted to marry an Australian who already had a wife.

Ian Marshall

Beside the River

Fiction
Thriller

Celia, a young English immigrant, finds life in a remote Australian township lonely and dull. Then she becomes caught up in local affairs and finds that beneath the surface, things are not all what they seem.

Sally Graham

Escape to Van Diemen’s Land

Historical
Australian Fiction

Martin Maynard is born into an English country family in the “hungry twenties” of the 1800’s, a period of depression, unrest and hopelessness.Fortunate to have a secure life because of his father’s position as bailiff of the g

Bob Mainwaring

…regards, some girl with words

Biographic

Articulate, perceptive, sensitive, quirky, and often hauntingly beautiful, Genevieve Ryan’s writing explores the innermost experiences of a young woman growing up in an exhilarating and confusing world.

Elizabeth Ryan

Whistler Street

Action
Thriller

After a childhood in the surf of Western Australia, Vince Kelly is enthused with a burning desire to save mankind and enters the Catholic priesthood. In contrast, his lifelong mate from the beaches, Jamie Griffiths.

Noel Braun

Into Your Dreams

Thriller
Fiction

Sam’s dreams are somehow linked to reality. Although he cannot explain it, his dreams actually play out around him to the exact minute detail.

Bradley Marshall

Labyrinth in the Snow

Fiction

Two human babies from the village of Cluney are abducted by the female Wizard Mirabel.

Lindsay B. Rochcouste

My Brother Tom

As far back as he could remember, Malcolm Henderson had always been living in the shadow of his perfect, older brother Tom.

Richard Stubbs

Tangwystl

Here Beginneth
The Gwarchan Of Adebon…
The apple will not fall far from the apple-tree,
The diligent cannot prosper with the prodigal

Gwennifyr Jackson

Tight in the Bud

Australian Fiction

Available from Amazon When Katrina’s daughters travel overseas, she is overwhelmed by a deluge of loneliness. To revive her ailing social life, she joins a scrapbooking class where an old photograph unleashes buried regrets for her long-ago compani

Cassandra Jose

The Light of the World

Religion

After teaching religious education in Sunday schools and public schools for forty years, Win and Tom Wise had an idea.

Win Wise

Top to Toe Pamper Guide

General

What does a woman do when she has a few hours to herself and needs to unwind? She pampers herself with beauty treatments from this Top-To-Toe Pamper Guide. The instructions are easy to follow and the procedures are simple, yet effective.

Carmel Veronica Locaso

Despite Pain

Medical
Biographic

This book is written for people who are living with chronic pain, their family and their friends.

Peta Price

Tree of Life From Nemi to Global Warning

Spirituality
New Age

Mythology, environmental destruction, journeys in India, Europe and Australia, spirituality, especially the connection between the Great Goddess...

Jennifer Talbot

A Look Through My Window

Memoir

A Look Through My Window is more than a look, rather it is a roller-coaster ride of humour, love, tragedy and hope, interspersed with historical events that should not be forgotten, all whilst sharing the author’s life from the early 1930s

Peter Ginman

To Russia for Love

Memoir
Biographic

Tina Morris dreamt a handsome prince would come and take her away to live happily ever after, but the reality was that her father was an alcoholic and her siblings called her ‘the little bitch’.

Tina Morris

Watching

Fiction

How does a young woman of wealthy parents and high birth become the owner of one of the most famous bordellos in London?

Jeff Edwards

Flight of the Fauvette

Arlette Guedonís life started in France, happily, despite the post-war era, but within a few short years, catastrophic events would catapult her into harsh and sometimes most difficult situations.

Arlette Ravard Guedon

Faith, Hope and Prayer

Spirituality

Most of my married life I took it for granted that I had found a special someone out there for me, no questions asked

Rita Megale

Flower of Fortune

Romance

The Flower of Fortune flourishes in even the most ravaged of landscapes. But can Mick and Eva's blossoming romance survive the pain of separation and the uncertainty of war?

Glenda Bahy

One Man's Journey

Historical
Biographic

Running from the agony of betrayal, John McDouall Stuart sails across the globe to search for solace in the arms of a foreign, undiscovered land.

Guy Sigley

Escape to Death

Thriller
Action

In 1947 Marcel, Peter and Gerda, working for a special branch of the secret service, run an escape route from Germany, through France and Spain, to their castle on the Portuguese coast.

Richard Le Normand

Behind The Pub Door

Biographic
Historical

From growing up after the Second World War in Western Australia where the chooks were psychotic and the dunny was dangerous, to serving beers to the miners from the Kalgoorlie goldfields,

Dorothy Dickhart Clarke

The Morutau Affair

Thriller
Action

In the steamy jungle of Southern Papua in the early 1950s, a white plantation owner is murdered. An exciting and compelling story from start to finish.

Vernon H. Baker

Managers Behaving Badly

Self Help
Educational

This book demonstrates there is scope for educational institutions to research the link between workplace stress and organizational performance.

Harro Drexler

The Arms of Compassion Hold the Truth

Spirituality

The arms of compassion hold the truth is a compelling book about how man-kind has disconnected from the spirit of Nature's matter and all she has to teach us.

Sue Osborne

A Wee Bit of Tartan

Biographic

I sincerely hope you will gain some knowledge into people like myself. We can live and love and enjoy a full, deserving life in spite of all the diverse obstacles we learn to overcome and, keep in mind, genuine true love knows no barriers.

Thomas George Jnr

Sex is for Sinners

Fiction

Mick Malone has inherited the naivety and wit of the Irish along with a dash of French spice, a portion of English prudishness and a generous Germanic love of good beer.

Michael Morel

The Triumph of Tragedy

Biographic

The Triumph of Tragedy is the story of Vakkina and her struggle to achieve her dreams to be a painter and to own her own business.

Vakkina Panagiotidis

The Calvanni

Sci Fi
Fantasy

The time is Storm Season on the world of Yos, when the twin suns eclipse and the planet is plunged into bitter cold.

Chris McMahon

The Tinderbox

Fiction
Action

The mysterious Tinderbox Penisula harbours a terrible secret… The evidence from the press clippings is indisputable - a pattern of crime spanning more than a decade and not a single arrest.

Mark Whitelaw

Thunderbang

British & Australian Fiction

Jack and Paul sought the cool shade under the gum trees, the cattle rested around the waterhole, recovering from their trip across the hot, treeless plain.

Iris Foster

One Woman’s Empty Nest

Fiction

What do you do … when life throws you into a new phase, and you aren’t quite ready to change?

Kate Seaton

Celebrating Life

Medical

The year 2006 commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, but marks 20 years of triumph, friendship and even sorrow in the lives of those involved with this world renowned treatment cure.

Sandra Slatter

Seige of Karabulduk

Fiction
Action

Life ‘outside the law’ is exciting for Oya, Kenon and her band of Kurdish rebels, who spend their days smuggling money to various Turkish prisons in order to assist in the fight for independence.

Harold Waller

A Killer at Large

Thriller
Action

A sixteen-year old boy is brutally raped by German soldiers and deported to France where he escapes, and becomes obsessed with revenge.

Richard Le Normand

Silences and Empty Spaces

Biographic
Memoir

Silences and Empty Spaces is the story of a maverick redhead who refuses to do the socially expected and chooses to run with the feeling that something special waits for those willing to chase will-o’-the-wisps.

Barbara Fitzgibbon

The Last Druid

Fantasy

As a group of student archeologists is uncovering an ancient castle in Cornwall, so a professor of information technology is uncovering an ancient Truth in Brisbane, Australia.

Michael Lawrence

The Durham Relics

Fiction
Action

In 1539 a group of monks hide valuable church relics in an underground tunnel in order to avoid King Henry the Eighth’s plundering henchmen.

Harold Waller

Jackanapes

British & Australian Fiction
General

The future looks bleak for the ‘Artful Dodger’ as he languishes in Newgate Prison awaiting transportation.

T. John Ward

Walking into the Light

Biographic

People in all ages take different lessons from life. Some choose to learn distrust;some never learn to contribute to society, nor learn the joy of selflessness. In todays abundant society, it would be easy to forget that sacrifice for the greater goo

Majorie Lindsay Copley

And I all Undressed

Poetry

Sonnets, a pantoum and triolets are some of the forms of poetry in this collection that tell about lost love, war and the beauty of the sunrise.

Elvira Davis

The Lighthouse Keeper

Poetry

My Imagination
My Words of Wisdom
Sharing a part of my Life with you.
Just Words put together by my Feeling
Read them,
Enjoy them.

Sonia F. Stevens

Missing

Thriller
General

An heart-wrenching story of a woman whose husband disapperars on a ski-trip and the devastating impact this has on her family.

Alison Lewis

Dandelion in the Wind

Biographic

Sometimes the wind pushes us along paths we don’t expect to take, yet Nature appears to understand human frailty.

Geraldine Fennell

Mankind's Sacred Journey into Light The Welcoming of the Sacred

This sacred journey is a spiritual awakening to a new way of being, to an awareness that will fill the emptiness in your soul with love, light, knowledge and fulfilment.

Brenda Joy Showers

Arrest the Silent Killer

Medical
Biographic

Arrest the Silent Killer is the author's personal account of her courageous battle with ovarian cancer, from the frustrating search to final diagnosis in 1997, then up to the present day.

Marion Seferth

The Little Pond

Short Story
Detective

Norton Tees is a sleepy little village in rural England, the residents of which seem to be rather wealthy, yet rather idle. Or are they . . .

Harold Waller

North Queensland Fishing Eldorado

Memoir
Biographic

The North Queensland Fishing Eldorado began when a dramatic change came over the commercial fishing industry in North Queensland during the late 1960?s.

Ralph De Lacey

Nuclear Islam and Other Stories

General
Historical

The threat of nuclear war or serious nuclear accident remains with us. Tom Law argues that these risks are increasing to a chilling degree with the continued proliferation of nuclear facilities, particularly in the emerging economies of Asia.

Tom Law

Orestes: Greece to Australia

European Fiction
Romance

The story of a young Greek man who migrates to Australia in the 1980s.

Ann Tregenza

The Intelligent Spy

Thriller

Superintendent Lachlan Lanzini sets out to investigate the brutal mutilation murder of a Senior Intelligence Officer, Brigadier Caspar Laslo Woolfe, known as “Cash.”

Jeanine D Lloyd

Senses of Being

Poetry
Philosophy

The mind can be a frightening or comforting place. Some people may be scared of what they may find there;

Annette Hansen

Superfund The Dodgy Investment

General
Biographic

The story of “a country lad who was foolishly willing to believe that the information supplied on a tax invoice was going to be true and correct.”

Peter Jans

Hunters and Gatherers

Fiction
Fantasy

The hatred between two brothers, Huyuk and Krot, leads to a split among the people in Uro’s village. Along with a group of other hunters and gatherers,

Joe Deriu

The Flight of the Raven - Vol 1 The Star Fire Saga

Sci Fi

In the new millennium 3001, humans have adjusted to a huge change of living conditions after the devastating nuclear wars of 2902.

SK Ashley

Merino Murder

Fiction
Thriller

In an outback area of Australia, Merino rams are dying, suddenly, violently and unaccountably, and a nearby agricultural research station is called upon to study the problem. The investigation is barely underway before a technician is found dead in a

R. Casey

Raging Hormones

Fiction
Self Help

Beauty, wealth and the right sense of occasion have long been considered as the building blocks of love and relationships.

Masao Usui

Stumped

Fiction
Action

woman’s body washes up on a beautiful deserted beach as the Australian Cricket Team undertakes a three test-match-tour of India. Was she known to the touring party?

Ken Spargo

Time to Time

History - New Age

As history progresses, a soul’s journey through time evolves in parallel, at times advancing and at times regressing, as does the course of collective humanity.

Ruth O'Reilly

A Single Rose

Fiction
Thriller

Tim seeks the truth behind his father’s attempted murder with the help of his girlfriend, Casey, but is thwarted at every turn by hostile relatives and strangely connected events.

Rob Aalders

Frawd and Other Species of Thought

Fantasy
Mystery

Frawd is one of thirty surreal tales which contrive to expose the psychological insecurity of the living being (not necessarily human) by leading it, her or him to question all that there could be to question:

Kevin Vodden

Shapes of Meaning

Poetry

Award winning poetry by South Australian, Ann Tregenza

Ann Tregenza

Global Sites

 

Featured Releases

New Releases

Previously Published Books

Web Design

Our Authors