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Mage Heart is the first in The Dion Chronicles

Provincial and naive - and the most powerful mage in the realm - young Dion Holyhands is an innocent adrift in a world of intrigues and treacheries; a world where foul, hungry demons lurking just beyond its borders.

And now she has been called upon to serve her Duke's favourite mistress: the extraordinary Kitten Avignon, Our Lady of Roses. The mesmerising courtesan is a woman in dire jeopardy, stalked by a fearsome necromancer who will not sleep until his beautiful prey suffers horribly and is destroyed.

And with Evil's night approaching, shielding the Lady and herself from harm will require every ounce of a power Dion is only beginning to recognise and fear; a great gift suddenly imperiled by blossoming womanhood and dangerous desire.

The Dion Chronicles: Mage Heart, Fire Angels and Aramaya

Myra Thomas, apparently dressed only in nightgown and slippers, has walked off the train somewhere along the 650 kilometres of track that crosses the Nullarbor Plain. With two camels and a dog, Bony begins to search the desert in search of her. He finds more than he bargins for - only to find a group of people imprisoned in the extensive limestone caves beneath the desert plain...

 

This is surely one of the two or three strongest of Upfield's novels. It is an eerie mixture of Aboriginal folk customs and white man's greed and lust for revenge. Something of a study of abnormal psychology, it nevertheless turns on people's very natural and nasty feelings... This book is a splendid combination of plot, setting and development. - from The Spirit of Australia by Ray Browne.

Dao Ba Khang has left war-ravaged Vietnam and settles in Australia with an Australian wife and family. One day he discovers that his skin has turned black. He thinks to hide among tribal Aborigines in the Australian outback, but finds as he progresses on his journey that they too have been made victims of a tragic fate - annihilated by British nuclear testing and deprived of their land.

Written in the 1970s, Manhunt is the first novel of B. Wongar's Nuclear cycle.

Lost is the way to the skyland. Our souls wander forlornly in the land of ghosts. Our spirits become their play things; our bodies their food, to be ripped apart, and our gnawed bones are scattered. We are in despair; we are sickening unto death; we call to be healed. Anxiously we wait for our mapan, the Master of the Ghost Dreaming to deliver us.

In the first years of the 19th century a small Aboriginal tribe reels under the threat of white invasion of their ancestral lands. Fada, a missionary from London, is attempting to impose a Christian God over their ancient beliefs. Fada and his wife Mada bring with them disease and despair, along with a message of hope - the result of their own Cockney dreaming.

This novel by Mudrooroo, author of the acclaimed Wild Cat Falling, is a story of survival - physical, metaphysical and magical. It is also the story of Jangamuttuk, the custodian of the Ghost Dreaming, and his shamanistic efforts to will his tribe back to its own promised land.

This is the first of the completed quartet known as his Vampyre Novels...

Sorceress, Princess of Colchis, Securer of the Golden Fleece.

Her very name is a byword for infamy.

Legend has it that she murdered her own children for revenge.

But love in Ancient Greece was often a dangerous game; and legends are not always what they seem.

Medea, devoted wife of Jason, was also a loving mother, a loyal friend of Herakles and a brave adventurer with the Argonauts.

A woman both betrayer and betrayed, the real story of Medea is strange, sensual and heroic.

Medea - first in the Delphic Women trilogy - followed by Cassandra and Electra

Tense, intelligent and gripping, Merdeka Square presents a rich portrayal of the terrifying crisis which brought General Suharto to power, and the deadly aftermath which claimed more than one million lives throughout the Indonesian Archipelago.

 

Was 'the coup' the work of communists, President Sukarno's own sympathisers, the US backed Council of Generals, or simply a master-stroke by the ambitions General Suharto?

 

Merdeka Square explores an exotic, shadowy world, mixing undoubted fact and exciting fiction in an intoxicating form that will fascinate both Asian and European readers.

 

'Collison puts the Indonesian experience into perspective.' - Sydney Telegraph

Indonesia - Intrik Perebutan Takhta Istana, 1965-1967

"Bagaimana kalau kita memanfaatkan tanggal Lima Oktober?" Saran Yani, ketika Dewan Jenderal mengadakan rapat untuk melakukan perlawanan terhadap Komunis pada 5 Oktober.

"...kita harus melangsungkan gerakan sebelum 5 Oktoberodan menangkap (anggota) Dewan itu pada hari Kermerdekan Cina," kata Soebandrio, ketika mereka (Aidit, Soebandrio dan Omar Dhanai) membahas rencana untuk menghalangi rencana Nasution mengambil alih Negara.

Peristiwa 1965 merupakan puncak dari segala pertarungan ideologis. Skenario-skenario politik pelbagai pihak dimainkan seperti kisah "Bharatayudha". Akibat konflik ini rakyat sipil yang tidak tahu apa-apa menjadi korban, layaknya wayang, yang siap "dikorbankan" oleh dalangnya.

MERDEKA SQUARE ditulis berdasarkan penelitian atas fakta-fakta sejarah serta ingatan pribadi Kerry B. Collison selama bertugas di Jakarta. Memaparkan tentang pertarungan dua kubu, Angkatan Darat dan PKI yang klimaks pada 30 September 1965. Bagainman kisah selanjutnya? Dan siapakah pemenang konflik perebutan kukasa ini?

Reviewers praised Kerry Collison's bestselling first novel, Timor Man.

"... hard to put down..." The Canberra Times

"... certainly a powerful doomsday thriller..." Australian Book Review

"... inspired by his long experience... intriguing plot... vivid descriptions." Sydney Morning Herald

"...this book is different, it's quirky, it's a touching little set of stories." - Bruce Petty

Tales from Dalgleish:

Missing Dot

Her Own Worst Enemy

It Had Been that Simple

Dot

The Christian Riding Camp

King

Tiara

The Picture Hat

Tales from the Sixties:

Mrs Duck

You Wouldn't Read About It

Miss Rickard

The Bride Doll

Fitzwilliam Road

MODERN INTERIORS rummages around in the back rooms and passageways of the family. When her husband dies, Philippa Finemore, formerly a pillar of the Establishment, is determined to broaden her life. She sells the family mansion, acquires a lover and new friends, and devises new plans for the family money. Her adult children, rather than welcoming her new direction, are unrestrained in their condemnation of what they perceive as gross irresponsibility and personal betrayal.

Whatever your view of life - spiritual, ornery, laid-back, reactionary, woke or wacky - you will welcome this debut collection of short stories by Sydney-born, Sydney-bred, peripatetic author, Phillip Derone.

Tales born of experience and imagination.

Share in relationships, intimacies, romantic interludes, self-satisfied contentment; sly sex, sex on the side, sex on the slide.

Consider contentious contemporary issues heavily cloaked in fictional drapes. Recoil from - or cheer on - confronting opinionated mindsets. Despair at poor judgment and inevitable disaster.

Take fantastical trips - into space, into time, into re-imagined Biblical narrative, into childhood, into dreams - or stay grounded in the murky world of internet dating.

Discover another angle to Shakespeare; eavesdrop on brief conversations with other long-dead writers.

Laugh out loud at mayonnaise madness in Majorca; view vignettes of inner Sydney, including Audrey Hepburn's innocent contribution to its social fabric; contemplate the end of humanity, albeit a highly benign one.

Delight in stumbling upon buried treasure of wordplay, cultural allusions and cliches.

And always be prepared for an ending that you had not expected.

So, travel to various destinations, experience novel philosophical itineraries and gain insight into other worlds by way of stories laced with intrigue and tinged with an ever-circling cynicism. You may find yourself examining common assumptions, questioning the mundanity of the quotidian, wondering whether coincidence can be life changing, and enjoying some momentary pleasures.

Charting surreal and yet familiar worlds where hope and horror co-exist, Monster is ruthless, weird, dark and funny. These 32 stories explore loss, addiction, love and breakdown with unsentimental economy. Stories concern mothers losing or leaving children, relationships dangling by a thread or exploding. Some characters are institutionalised, others are profoundly lonely. Some just wander around - lost, while others are filled with shocking violence. There is joy here, too, and a kind of blazing intimacy in this debut collection of tough, tender and unflinching stories.

 

Ashleigh Synnott lives in Sydney. Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in publications such as Meanjin, Overland, the Long Paddock, and Antipodes. Monster is her first book.

 

"Synnott has a rare gift for mixing light and dark, a love of outsiders and of inner worlds that soon becomes addictive. The stories in Monster pierce the skin, pick at wounds, and break through to the mysteries of embodiment and desire with a strange power. This is a writer who's not afraid to aim for the guts." - Jennifer Mills

 

"Monster takes us into unexpected corners of the imagination, a place inhabited by misfits and dreamers, innocents and lost souls, who take us by out necks and shake us around." - Debra Adelaide

 

"An astonishing writer. Synnott's immense empathy for her outsiders and her fearless ear reminded me of George Saunders." - Delia Falconer

 

"Strange, haunting, beautiful." - Sunil Badami

 

A wooftastic mystery.

You might think that dogs can't understand us, but you'd be wrong.

Apart from his obsession with cheese, Monty the Golden Retriever is actually a very clever animal. So when his beloved master is murdered, Monty decides to use his formidable nose to track down the killer.

Luckily, he manages to find a new home with Rose Sidebottom, the young policewoman who's investigating the case.

Monty and Rose soon discover they make an unbeatable detecting team.

'Moon Over the Mediterranean' is the fascinating story of Alexander, a conscientious objector in 1960s Holland. He embarks on a lifetime adventure, travelling the hippie trail through Greece, India, Nepal, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and beyond. He keeps his sketch pad at hand, always has a good book to enjoy and engages in deep philosophical discussions with fellow travellers, as well as falling in and out of love along the way.

As he matures, Alexander becomes more involved with the world around him, helping displaced persons, building clinics, schools and rehabilitation centres, assisting children who have been abducted as child soldiers and abused in horrifying ways. Finally, he embarks on several monumental projects where he attempts to change the way people think towards bigotry and asylum seekers.

'Moon over the Mediterranean' is a feel-good book despite the difficult issues it confronts. It tells the story of one man's struggle to make the world a better place and live a compassionate life.

Floyd McGuinness is a D-grade student with a clear lack of direction. His world is changing - is he ready to change with it?

With Year 12 in the rear view mirror, Floyd throws a party for his graduating class. Hard liquor, inexperience and a testosterone-fueled peer group are seldom a good mix.

What seems funny at the time isn't always funny in the morning. A court case suddenly looms on the horizon. Futures are hanging in the balance. The boys find themselves scrambling; all for one, and one for all.

Well, maybe not this time!

Raw, moving and sprinkled with thought-provoking humour, Mordialloc is a candid reminder; no matter who you are, or where you are - 'growing up ain't easy'.

Eric Judd is 39 and his girlfriend wants him to give up playing football. Eric (aka Mr Cleansheets) is a goalkeeping legend at his amateur Sydney club because in his youth he received a letter inviting him to trial with Manchester United. The letter said to 'come when you're ready' - and six days before his 40th birthday, Eric is finally ready.

Inspired by the dying wish of his Uncle Jimmy, Eric travels to England, but does not quite receive the welcome he had hoped for. Instead, he encounters all manner of villains: murderous football hooligans, Irish mafia, dodgy football agents, beautiful pop stars, international terrorists and a range of supporting players with any number of overt and hidden agendas.