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And Then... Vol 1
The Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales
Ruth Wykes; Kylie Fox
9780995439429
2016-12-31
A$4.99
Clan Destine Press

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Adventure ~ Action
Danger ~ Derring-do
Rip-snorting action adventures of the What If... What Next... and, most importantly, the And Then... kind.
A cohort of Australia's best genre fictioneers, and one bold Kiwi, present a fabulous and strange collection of action-packed adventure stories - each featuring two heroes.
The two-volume And Then... anthology features page-turning and genre-bending stories by 32 award-winning, established and emerging Australian writers of crime and speculative fiction. The settings are historical, futuristic and contemporary; the heroes are human, animal, alien and mythical; and their adventures are real-world, far-out, speculative, horror, mystery, science fiction and fantasy.
Welcome to And Then... Volume One in which 15 authors travel in time and space from Australia of the Gold Rush to an all-too possible dystopian future, from the Outback to Europe in the 1950s and the 21st Century, and from an apocalyptic New Zealand to worlds of steampunk fantastic and outer space exotic. Their heroes are flawed and fabulous, brave and humble; and their tales are enriched with panthers and budgies and demons and dragons - all manner of creatures real and endangered, ridiculous and heroic.
And Then... the Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales Volume 1 features:
an introduction by Janeen Webb and stories by: Sulari Gentill, Jason Nahrung, Alan Baxter, Jason Franks, Lucy Sussex, Amanda Wrangles, Evelyn Tsitas, Peter M Ball, Narrelle M Harris, Dan Rabarts, Kat Clay, Sophie Masson, Tor Roxburgh, Emilie Collyer Tansy Rayner Roberts.


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And Then... Vol 2
The Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales
Ruth Wykes; Kylie Fox
9780995439436
2017-12-31
A$4.99
Clan Destine Press

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Once upon a time, in a land Down Under, from the depths of the Clan cave, Clan Destine Press issued a challenge to Australian and Kiwi authors to write cliff-hanging, Australian-flavoured, action-packed adventure stories for two protagonists; stories of the What If, What Now, And Then... kind.
This was a catnip call, an irresistible lure, a kid-in-a-candy-store kind of a challenge: what writer wouldn't want to take a crack at that?
To make it that little bit more intriguing, the editors decreed the stories could be contemporary, historical, realistic, far-out, spec-fic, horror, SF, or urban fantasy; and, in a spirit of mischief, that at least one of the two protagonists must be human. You'd think that would cover all bases.
But writers are a contrary bunch: they pushed these very broad boundaries even further. The result is not one, but two volumes of kick-arse, action-packed stories: And Then... The Great Big Book of Adventure Tales.
This is Volume 2: a fascinating collection of genre-bending adventure stories garnered from a mix of sf, fantasy and crime writers, happily encroaching upon each other's territories, and then some.


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Aramaya

Jane Routley
9780987160409
2014-11-01
A$4.99
Clan Destine Press

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The conclusion to The Dion Chronicles takes the Dion across the ocean to Aramaya, the centre of civilisation, in search of her missing niece, Syndal.
Dion and Kitten survive shipwreck to reach Akieva, the glorious capital of decadent Aramaya, where they find Syndal caught in a thrall of necromancy within the magnificent Winter Palace.
At the centre of this web lurks Dion's arch enemy Bedazzer, the ruthless demon who has vowed to possess her - no matter the cost. In the ensuing deadly conflict, Dion must confront the dark secrets of her own heart and the mighty evil concealed in those around her.


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Around the Corner
(A series of vignettes)
Bernadette Smallwood; Chantel de Sousa
9780994275462
2015-06-01
A$7.99
Woodslane Press

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Growing old may at times seem cruel but Bernadette Smallwood offers a tender alternative view, of enduring love and friendship even when the mind is not what it once was. Her story, Around the Corner, is a collection of vignettes set in an aged care home. It focuses on two residents and the visiting husband of one who is an aged movie star plagued with dementia. Each vignette can be read separately or as a connected series. This is a gentle story which will surely resonate with those that are aged, who have aged family and friends, or those who work as carers for the aged.


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Arrabella Candellarbra
& the Questy Thing to End All Questy Things
A.K. Wrox
9780987160355
2014-11-01
A$3.99
Clan Destine Press

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Arrabella Candellarbra is like no one you've ever met before, even though her questy thing is the stuff of legend. Okay, the hilarious epic-fantasy spoofery adult fairy-tale kind of legend.
Arrabella, a beautiful, flaxen-haired maiden trained in all things warrior-like by the most famous warriors of all - The Reginas - embarks on a quest to claim her birthright and to wield the power of all the lands.
Arrabella joins forces with Lord Langley Kilkenny - the perfect specimen of manliness; icicle-bearded Gary - the wisest of all Wizards; and Prince Jim - the very-fey fairy Regent.
The Four Adventurers soon find themselves pitted against the Evil Betty-Sue - the meanest of evil beings in all of the lands - and her scary minions. Yes, our heroes must defeat Sawtoothed Bunnies, Viscous-Tongued Frogs and the Barella Monkeys to rescue The Reginas from... something!
Nothing could possibly go wrong on a quest like this, could it?
Featuring heroic heroes and a host of characters and creatures never before assembled in one story, this epic fairy tale for grown-ups delivers love and lust, action and inaction, battles, incantations, sexual shenanigans and high-kicking sing-a-longs. It promises that all those epic questy things will never be the same again. Seriously!


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Artemisia & the Man of Tarentum

Ian S. Collins
9781925706253
2018-09-30
A$7.99
The Svengali Press

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This book is about Lysias. A Greek boy who refused to learn geometry, but became a doctor and had many adventures. He worked for Pyrrhus who fought against the Roman Republic and had many Pyrrhic victories. After Lysias is seduced early in life by the mysterious, alluring Artemisia, their fates are intertwined off-and-on for the rest of their lives, interrupted by Lysiai's involvement in ferocious battles alongside, Pyrrhus. After many adventures, Lysias and Artemisia travelled to Egypt, to the colourful world of the Ptolemys.


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Assassinations
The Collected Stories of Renate Yates
Renate Yates
9781925706109
2017-10-01
A$7.99
ETT Imprint

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The stories of Renate Yates are admired for their exploration of the foibles, frailties and expectations of people. They are beautifully crafted and perceptive.
Renate Yates is also the author of three novels and the translation of an account written by her father Ernst Raubitschek of his journey to and imprisonment in the Dachau Concentration camp: By Train To Dachau.
Her short stories have been published in many literary journals and compilations, and this updated collection contains many new stories, which are most welcome.


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Australian Legendary Tales

K Langloh Parker
9781922698797
2023-07-01
A$9.99
ETT Imprint

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Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Piccaninnies was first published in 1896. The 30 tales are supplemented by a glossary and the first tale transliterated from the original language and are set in a 'no-time' where animal spirits, supernatural beings and humans interact, often alluding to ideas of creation.
Langloh Parker is probably right in her surmise that this is the first attempt to collect the tribal tales of any particular native tribe, or to exploit this special field of distinctively Australian literature in this particular form. Australian children may read here for the first time about Yki the sun, and Baloo the moon, how the gay Galah came to be a bald headed bird, and why Oolab the lizard is coloured a reddish brown and is covered with pikes like bindeah prickles, why Dinewan the emu cannot fly, and how it was that Goomblegubbon the bustard came to lay only two eggs in a season... The legend of Wirreenun, the rain-making magician, is one that can hardly fail to appeal to all who know what an Australian drought is; and those who would like to know what the blacks thought of Cookoo-burrah the laughing-jackass, or Gooloo the magpie, or Moodai the possum, or any of the other familiar denizens of the bush, may be confidently recommended to these delightful pages. Mrs Langloh Parker has told all these stories with a full appreciation of their value as folk-lore as well as of their interest as legendary tales. She has striven, and not unsuccessfully, to do in this way for Australian folk-lore what Longfellow did in "Hiawatha" for the North American tribes, and Mr. Andrew Lang's introduction has some warm words of commendation for the interest of the volume from his special point of view. The book has a further claim to attention in that it is the first ever illustrated by an aboriginal artist (Tommy McRae)... - Sydney Morning Herald, 1896


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Autopsy of a Comedian
and Other Stories
Emilie Collyer
9780992492571
2015-02-25
A$3.99
Clan Destine Press

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Thwarted ambition, talent turned sour, supernatural encounters, last chances for redemption. The characters of these stories all face crucial turning points in their lives that reveal their true colours.
From Emilie Collyer - the author of A Clean Job and other stories - comes a collection of speculative fiction with a darkly humorous flavour, that will put a twist in how you see the world.
Autopsy of a Comedian
A forensic pathologist is confronted with a case that gets under his skin and inside his mind.
Fifteen Minutes
A private detective - down on his luck, whose daughter is missing - has an unexpected encounter with the living dead.
Glisten
They're the perfect couple with the perfect life, until one day when the mysterious pods start arriving.
Masterpiece
For a hasbeen artist, now teacher, one final chance for artistic glory comes at a price.


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Bad Habits

Sarah Evans
9780645042658
2021-10-01
A$6.99
Clan Destine Press

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A freezer full of body parts is the tip of the criminal iceberg for Perth cop Eve Rock.
The festive season has spawned a spate of murders, robberies and abductions, which actually reassures Eve that others' bad habits far exceed her own. It also gives her a watertight excuse to avoid hanging out with her dysfunctional family while spending time with her two gorgeous colleagues and would-be lovers, Quinn Fox and his son Adam. A win-win situation.
Butchered bodies used for questionable purposes, a murdered man in a skip, a brazen multi-million dollar haul from a high-end jewellers and posh art gallery are all in a day's work for Eve and her team.
Now usually Eve relishes getting stuck into solving crimes, but she's not so keen when she's the target and the boundaries between work and home become nastily blurred.
But who is trying to kill her this time? And why? And who are the strange people wandering around her temporary digs late at night? And why is her mum the nun acting more weird than usual?
And why is she such a pushover when it comes to the men in her life?
All will be revealed - but only if Eve can survive to work everything out.


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Bait and Switch
& Other Stories
Ashley Sievwright
9780648746928
2020-05-27
A$4.99
Clouds of Magellan

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Eight stories of love, friendship, and indifference.
 
Ashley Sievwright is the author of The Shallow End, and Walter
 
'An impressively fresh voice in Australian fiction' ... 'evocative prose and cynical humour are Sievwight's strengths' ... 'droll observations about life, presented at a gentle pace' ... 'Well that was unexpected. Not sure if I loved it or hated it' ... 'witty and easy to read' ... Sievwright is a great wordsmith' ... 'gently poetic' .…


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Balga Boy Jackson

Mudrooroo
9781925706048
2017-09-01
A$9.99
ETT Imprint

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'... a boy born long ago in 1938 who was named Balga or Black Boy. He had an Aboriginal mother and an African-American father who bequeathed to him the spiky mop of hair which gave him his name. So it is said. Now read on.'
Balga Boy Jackson is the long awaited new novel of Mudrooroo. He returns to his roots to give us a vivid life story of an Australian Black Boy - naturally with a pun, Balga is the Australian grass tree called in Western Australia, the Black Boy. Mudrooroo, who hails from Cuballing in the West, takes us on Balga Boy's journey to Fitzroy and Kings Cross. The late fifties and early sixties comes alive through Balga's own Blues and musical journey, and he says: "This is how it was, for a lot of us."
Old readers of Mudrooroo who enjoyed Wild Cat Falling, Dr. Wooreddy and the Master of the Ghost Dreaming series, will enjoy this book and new readers will begin to understand Australia from a black and blues perspective.


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Beyond Berggasse
A Novel
Joe Reich
9781925736960
2023-07-25
A$9.99
Hybrid Publishers

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Beyond Berggasse is a story that takes the reader deep into the heady world of war, Zionism, salons, writers, artists, sexual awakening and the randomness of tragedy and redemption that follow.
In late nineteenth century Vienna, Moritz, a young man from a well-to-do Jewish family, lives in the shadow of his older brother. Afflicted by a birthmark which in ancient times would have seen him left out for the wolves, he tries to retreat into a world of reading and writing. But unable to escape the ‘target on his face’, as his father calls it, Moritz is forced by his impatient nation into war.
Beyond Berggasse has a dual structure. It starts in 1898 in Vienna and continues until the end of the First World War before jumping to the modern day, when we meet the grandchildren of the brothers from Vienna.
Full of rich details about a time of profound change and upheaval in Vienna’s cultural life, we meet such luminaries as Klimt, Mahler, Zweig, Herzl, Schiele and many more in a blend of historical fact and imaginative recreation.


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Billings Better Bookstore & Brasserie

Fin J Ross
9780648848721
2020-07-01
A$6.99
Clan Destine Press

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Young Fidelia Knight arrives in Melbourne in 1874, alone except for her treasured companion, Samuel Johnson; well, half of him.
 
To escape servitude, Fidelia hides each night in Bourke-street's renowned Coles Book Arcade. She loves words, you see, and wants to know them all.
 
What she overhears in Coles sets her on a path that will change the lives of everyone she meets, starting with Jasper Godwin, the hopelessly underqualified manager of the new Billings Better Bookstore.
 
Fidelia's thirst for knowledge is contagious. She tutors two orphan boys and two illiterate women, inspiring them to unlock their creativity; and her exploration of colonial Melbourne takes her to some unusual places.
 
Nothing daunts this diminutive genius, except the mystery of what really happened to her parents on the voyage from England.


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Bird of Paradise

Rosemary Esmonde Peterswald
9781742980669
2011-06-01
A$4.99
Ballynastragh Pty Ltd

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When Merryn O'Neill's fiance, Jake Hawkins, an officer with the Pacific Islands Regiment in Port Moresby, breaks off their engagement, so he can marry the daughter of his commanding officer, her world is torn apart.
 
Arriving reluctantly in Port Moresby to take up a prearranged flying position, Merryn doesn't envisage the magical spell this strange and seductive land, particularly one of its own people, will cast over her. But Merryn and Jake share a secret from the past Merryn can't forget. No matter how much she tries.
 
Set during the period of the Vietnam War, against a backdrop of evocative tropical heat, menace, and intrigue, Bird of Paradise explores the tangled emotions of love, loss, and betrayal, climaxing in dramatic and unexpected consequences.

 

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