Jason is a loner who wakes up penniless on a deserted railway station somewhere in Outback Australia. In a lonely cafe he spies a woman whom he recognises from many years ago - as the girl he grew up with, whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years. He discovers that Doreen has a daughter named Shirley who was taken off her by the authorities ten years ago when she and her partner were both drug addicts. They rescue Shirley from an orphanage in Sydney. She is now a 'troubled teenager'. As a means of rehabilitation, Jason and Doreen take Shirley back to their home town of Casterson to revive some...
Jason is a loner who wakes up penniless on a deserted railway station somewhere in Outback Australia. In a lonely cafe he spies a woman whom he recogn...
Geoff is on the run. He finds himself somewhere on the Island of Phuket in Thailand, penniless, hungry and desperately in need of a bed and a bath. He comes across a young woman in the jungle who takes him in, feeds him, washes his clothes and lets him use her primitive shower. Before Geoff can leave however, her father appears unexpectedly and finds Geoff, a foreigner, dressed in his clothes. He draws odious conclusions about Geoff's motives with his daughter and tries to kill him. The daughter intervenes and shoots her father dead with his own gun. What follows is a frenzied cat and mouse...
Geoff is on the run. He finds himself somewhere on the Island of Phuket in Thailand, penniless, hungry and desperately in need of a bed and a bath. He...
As a child growing up, Darlene Simpkins does not know who her father is. She grows up in poverty with a drunken, loose-moralled mother, who finds a wealthy young man, Harold Murdoch, to blame for her daughter's conception. Fifty years later Darlene is now Matron-in-Charge of a retirement home called Sunshine Gardens, where Harold, now a lonely old man, is a resident. He is being robbed, neglected and abused by the 'daughter' whose maintenance he financed for the first sixteen years of her life. Ted Nelson and a young care worker, Cindy, attempt to help Harold escape from Darlene's clutches,...
As a child growing up, Darlene Simpkins does not know who her father is. She grows up in poverty with a drunken, loose-moralled mother, who finds a we...
Jerry and his twin sister Tammy have both been born with the gift of clairvoyance. As children and adolescents they experiment with their gift, with some frightening consequences. Jerry develops an ardent fascination for the paranormal and learns a great deal about how to use his psychic powers. As he grows older he discovers he possesses some more paranormal abilities that he doesn't quite know how to handle. His preoccupation leads him into some very dark places as he discovers more and more about himself and the awesome powers he possesses. He goes to university and completes an Honours...
Jerry and his twin sister Tammy have both been born with the gift of clairvoyance. As children and adolescents they experiment with their gift, with s...
Dr James Ulrich has been out of prison for just on a year. He has been reunited with June, his wife of 28 years and life is pretty good. A chance phone call from his old nemesis, Al Hancock, reveals the existence of an invaluable gold nugget that has been kept concealed in the cellar of a waterfront mansion in Sydney Harbour for over a century. Al plans to steal it and blackmails James into joining him in the venture. The aftermath of the theft leads James on a frenzied trail of retribution, kidnapping, bloodshed and murder as he desperately tries to escape the evil tentacles of Al Hancock....
Dr James Ulrich has been out of prison for just on a year. He has been reunited with June, his wife of 28 years and life is pretty good. A chance phon...
John and Shirley Peters are two ordinary Australian white teenagers who are thrust into a black environment against their wishes. When their father buys a pub in a place called 'Djargunya' in tropical north Queensland, the twins have no idea what dramas lie ahead of them. 'Djargunya' turns out to be a remote Aboriginal settlement hundreds of kilometres from the nearest town, and hundreds of kilometres from any other white people. What starts out as a nightmare, turns into a unique adventure and some spell-binding discoveries of native Aboriginal beliefs and practices. But the twins' joy is...
John and Shirley Peters are two ordinary Australian white teenagers who are thrust into a black environment against their wishes. When their father bu...
This is a book for adults. It contains a plethora of wily one-liners, pithy paraprosdokians, some quirky quotes and a choice selection of aphoristic anecdotes. Amidst all this you will find some tantalising trivia, some nauseating names, and finally some wacky word-games. This is the sort of book that would be an excellent companion on a plane, a train, a ship or a trip to the lavatory
This is a book for adults. It contains a plethora of wily one-liners, pithy paraprosdokians, some quirky quotes and a choice selection of aphoristic a...
