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An old Aboriginal ritual leader, Bungawa, lives with a pack of dingoes on his tribal land in a remote part of Arnhem Land (Australia) just as his ancestors lived since time immemorial. His children have been forcibly taken from him by State authorities to be brought up and assimilated into the white man's world.

Bungawa, however, sees them embodied in the souls of the dingoes with whom he shares life in the wilderness, according to traditional teachings.

Didjeridu Charmer is the last novel of B. Wongar's Nuclear Cycle, presided by Walg, Karan, Gabo Djara, Raki and Manhunt.

Cover illustrations by Yumanna Buarrana.

Das Haus der Answerths in der Umgebung des australischen Städtchens Edison ist den Nachbarn nicht geheuer. Und auch die Answerths selbst sind sonderbare Zeitgenossen. Alle Gerüchte scheinen sich zu bewahrheiten, als die Gegend zum Schauplatz zweier Morde wird. Edward Carlow und die alte Mrs. Answerth finden im Wasser des nahen Sees ihr vorzeitiges Ende. »Bony«, der clevere Kriminalinspektor Napoleon Bonaparte, soll die Rätsel um die Giftvilla lösen…

Erst Samuel Goldspink, dann Alfred Parsons, zuletzt Hans Gromberg: drei ältere Junggesellen, die in der Stadt Broken Hill durch Zyankali vergiftet wurden...

Kriminalinspektor Napoleon Bonaparte, der berühmte »Bony«, hat es diesmal besonders schwer, denn zur Mordzeit trieben sich mehrere verdächtige Personen in der Goldgräberstadt in Neusüdwales herum.…

Wieded einmal übernimmt Inspektor Bonaparte, der berühmte »Bony«, einen Kriminalfall, über den bereits Gras gewaschen ist: den rätselhaften Tod des Schriftsellers Mervyn Blake.
Zum Glück hatte Blake eine sehr neugierige Nachbarin, deren scharfen Augen nur wenig entging…

Arthur W. Upfield: geboren 1888 in England, wanderte nach Australien aus und bereiste per Anhalter diesen Kontinent. Seine dabe als Pelztierjäger, Schafzüchter, Goldsucher und Opalschürfer gewonnenen Erlebnisse fanden Eingang in 30 Kriminalromane. Hauptfigur ist der sympathische Inspektor Bonaparte, der mit faszinierender Findigkeit verzwickte Situationen und menschliche Probleme zu entwirren versteht.
Upfield starb 1964, und »Reclams Kriminalromanführer« meint zu seinem schriftstellerischen Lebenswerk: »Seine Krimis gehören zum Besten, was die australische Literatur zu bieten hat.«

Den Mordfall des Viehhirten George Kendall will Inspektor Napoleon Bonaparte, der berühmte ›Bony‹, wieder einmal auf seine eigene, unkonventionelle Weise lösen.
Er taucht inkognito in dem Städtchen Merino in Neusüdwales auf und wird prompt von der dortigen Polizei verhaftet!
Dennoch gelingt es Bony, den Mörder zu stellen - einen Mann mit einem sehr seltsamen Tatmotiv…

»Upfields Bony-Romane sind für mich bei weitem das interessanteste Produkt australischer Literatur. Und einige von ihnen... mit ihrer Mischung aus Land, Farmern, Eingeborenen, Mythen, Puzzle und ›Action‹ sind absolute Sternstunden des Kriminalromans.« - Gisbert Haefs, Krimijahrbuch 1990

Today in business you want to be more than "good enough", and a brand strategy that identifies and highlights your points of difference is like having a secret weapon. For many firms it's the missing link. This book teaches SMEs and entrepreneurs the seven foundational steps that the world's greatest brands leverage to leap ahead of their competitors. Learn how to think strategically, how to find your point of difference and how to build the brand foundations that will help you to dominate in your market.

Learn how to differentiate to dominate so you can:

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"...this guy understands consumers, the science behind what builds great brands, and can systematically help people find their purpose and bring it to the forefront of their business through the medium we call 'brand'." - Jack Delosa, founder of The Entourage and BRW Young Rich List member.

Six international artists are invited to a residency in southern Spain. What could possibly go wrong?

Writer's block and paintings of oranges. Love, lust, revenge. A sculptor left for dead on the side of a mountain.

Part love story, part thriller and wholly page-turning, Dig Two Graves shows us once again that 'Morwood is a classy act.' - The Australian

For readers who like their crime/thrillers gore-free and more refined.

In the vein of Jospehine Tey.

A young Sydneysider in London, Lenore Blackwood, was getting work as an actress, pulling beers to pay the rent, and reading about Gandhi, Nehru, Menon and the very new Republic of India. Before the Hippie Trail opened, before Westerners in serious numbers heard the spiritual song of the ashram, or the material one of getting a foothold in the world's second biggest market, Lenore wanted to go where very few Westerners went.
For seven months in the 1950s she crossed the new nation from the Himalayas to Kerala and independent Ceylon. She visited cities like Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Benares, cities whose names were already becoming extinct on the lips of the world. The diarist joined pilgrims to see the icy lingam of Shiva, one of the most arduous pilgrimages on Earth. She sought out be-by-herself walks through nature to see art: through exotic acacias and abandoned garden flowers, an elephant mother-and-infant's bath time, climbed to high places, and on to temples to rival those of Athens or Rome, and where the rulers' respect for the sculptors' trade surpassed them both. Welcome to the wonder Lenore Blackwood felt.
Yet most of this book is about people she met. Prem and his family stand out, then and for life thereafter.
This is a book for Westerners who find the sub-continent and its people fascinating, and fo rthe Indian diaspora.

A young Sydneysider in London, Lenore Blackwood, was getting work as an actress, pulling beers to pay the rent, and reading about Gandhi, Nehru, Menon and the very new Republic of India. Before the Hippie Trail opened, before Westerners in serious numbers heard the spiritual song of the ashram, or the material one of getting a foothold in the world's second biggest market, Lenore wanted to go where very few Westerners went.
For seven months in the 1950s she crossed the new nation from the Himalayas to Kerala and independent Ceylon. She visited cities like Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Benares, cities whose names were already becoming extinct on the lips of the world. The diarist joined pilgrims to see the icy lingam of Shiva, one of the most arduous pilgrimages on Earth. She sought out be-by-herself walks through nature to see art: through exotic acacias and abandoned garden flowers, an elephant mother-and-infant's bath time, climbed to high places, and on to temples to rival those of Athens or Rome, and where the rulers' respect for the sculptors' trade surpassed them both. Welcome to the wonder Lenore Blackwood felt.
Yet most of this book is about people she met. Prem and his family stand out, then and for life thereafter.
This is a book for Westerners who find the sub-continent and its people fascinating, and fo rthe Indian diaspora.

Jenny Tomlinson has complex feelings about her unusual childhood in England. She is teaching at a school in Australia, when memories of traumatic events, also concerning a dear friend Terry, surface, become intrusive and begin to threaten her emotional well-being. She knows she needs to examine them further and, on returning home, her subsequent quest to prove Terry innocent has unexpected repercussions.

This authentic and moving novel explores the psychological fallout from false accusations - on both the victims and the accusers - and the power of perseverance, forgiveness and love.

The young Wooreddy recognised the omen immediately, accidentally stepping on it while bounding along the beach: something slimy, something eerily cold and not from the earth. Since it had come from the sea, it was an evil omen.

 

In Mudrooroo's unforgettable novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece, the author evokes with fullest irony the bewilderment and frailty of the last native Tasmanians, as they come face to face with the clumsy but inexorable power of their white destroyers.

 

A novel of real power and stature. - Adelaide Advertiser

 

In Dr Wooreddy, Mudrooroo has taken his previous themes of (Aboriginal) heritage and identity and melded them into one perception. This is an amazing book. - Newcastle Herald

 

Powerfully imaginative, unflinchingly honest, rich in imagery and alive with comic ironies. - Australian Book Review

 

Outstanding. - Boston Herald

Dog Ear Cafe is a true-life adventure story about how one Aboriginal community beat the odds and defeated petrol sniffing. It tells of the Mt Theo Petrol Sniffing Program: a story of culture clash, of two lines of fire that meet in the desert night, of partnerships that cross Australia's racial divide. Woven throughout are humour, taboos, bush mechanics, hope and tragedy. In a colloquial and narrative manner, this book invites the reader to a deeper analysis of the assumptions behind white and black economics, indigenous alcoholism, welfare dependency and the failure of well intended policy and programs. Hidden in the subtext is a mud map for reproducing successful partnerships with indigenous Australians.

The Mt Theo Program was founded in 1994, when half the teenage population of Yuendumu were sniffing. Eight years later no one sniffed, and ex-sniffers had become youth leaders and community workers. The elders of Mt Theo used their traditional bush knowledge to turn lives around.

The First National Black Playwrights Conference and Workshop held in Canberra in January 1987 was a hectic affair. More than one participant called on Mudrooroo to use the proceedings (in the sense of what was happening) and the stories going around in a book. Doin Wildcat was that book. It has been called his most Aboriginal work and it should be as it stems from that historical conference and what happened there transferred of course to - well - the world of Wildcat.

Wildcat, the prison graduate, drifting through life, making the most of the opportunities that come his way, relishing the pickings of the late 1980s... by the author of Wild Cat Falling.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend time with a convicted serial killer?

Or how you would feel when they told you what it was like to take a life?

Don't Ever Call Me Helpless is a powerful, chilling true crime story that offers a rare glimpse into the mind of convicted murderer Catherine Birnie.

In the late 1980s, Catherine and her defacto partner David Birnie went on a killing spree that shocked and numbed the Western Australian community. In just six weeks they abducted, tortured, raped and murdered four Perth women, and were only caught when a fifth victim escaped and led police to the killers.

During the 1990s author Ruth Wykes was a frequent visitor to Perth's Bandyup Women's Prison. She spent many hours with Catherine Birnie, and her account of the woman, mother, and remorseless killer is a must-read for anyone who is interested in true crime.

Welcome to Crime Shots - short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.