2012 A year of books by Queensland writers Books from our Backyard 2012

Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) invites you to curl up with a good book by a Queensland Author.

At QWC, we strive to enable more Australian writers to have sustainable careers, and to be read and enjoyed throughout the world. Our free, annual catalogue Books from our Backyard is one of the many ways in which we work towards achieving this goal.

QWC is thrilled to give you Books from our Backyard 2012, which contains 178 books published by Queensland authors in 2012, across a variety of categories and genres.

In conjunction with this initiative, we produce stickers that bookshops and libraries may put on books to help promote Queensland Authors, and create an exhibition of the books each year at the State Library of Queensland.

Arts Queensland’s Map of the Writing Sector notes that “Queensland is Australia’s most decentralised state…, and so geographical diversity also has a strong influence on our cultural landscape.” The unique voices arising from the many and varied regions of Queensland – from the Cape to the border, from the coast to the bush – make a vital contribution to Australian literature.

As Chair of QWC, I encourage you to browse this catalogue of stories emanating from this great state, and keep an eye out for the Queensland Author sticker at your local library or bookshop.

Kevin Gillespie Chair, QWC

This publication is produced by Paradigm Print Media, a proud supporter of the arts and local writers

Paradigm Print Media Books from our Backyard 2012 07 3394 1772 guide, and many of the books 15 Nariel St Albion contained within, are available from paradigmprintmedia.com public libraries and Qld bookshops contents

children's...... 3

crime & thriller ...... 6

historical fiction...... 7

Literary & general fiction...... 7

memoir...... 10

non-fiction ...... 11

poetry & anthology...... 13

romance...... 14

speculative fiction...... 15

young adult...... 17 isbn Publisher Purchase

Brave Squish Rabbit My Zombie Dog children's Katherine Battersby Charmaine Clancy 9780702249433 9780987286321 The Pile Up University of Queensland Press Hot Doggy Digital Press Robin Adolphs uqp.com.au amazon.com 9780987260307 katherinebattersby.com charmaineclancy.com Butternut Books print print • eBook amazon.com robinadolphs.com Squish is just a little rabbit, but being little leads to big fears… print • eBook of storms and chickens and the dark…especially the dark! What will Squish do when he can’t find his friend one stormy night? Maybe he’ll discover that being brave makes the dark a little wonderful after all. It's the yearly event in the neighbourhood street All Zane wants for his birthday is a dog. A real dog. A guy's dog. Where bikes, boards and scooters all meet to compete...... But his Mum brings home this little mutt and wants to call it Who'll take out the race, crowds gather to see 'Fluffy'. Seriously? It's shaggy, smells undead and bites people. But no-one can guess who the winner will be. And why do its victims all turn sluggish and keep asking Zane for brains? One by one, everyone he knows is becoming infected. A fast-paced rhyming story with an unexpected ending...... Yesterday I Played in the Rain Eric Vale Epic Fail Issi's Baptism Robin Adolphs Michael Gerard Bauer Paul Clark & Graham Preston 9780987260321 Illustrated by Joe Bauer 9781922074164 Butternut Books 9781862919921 Even Before Publishing amazon.com Omnibus Books/Scholastic carparkparables.com robinadolphs.com Australia carparkparables.com print • eBook boomerangbooks.com.au print • eBook michaelgerardbauer. When Lucy brings someone to church for a baptism, Impossible wordpress.com Issi laughs at the idea. 'All you need is some petrol and good print tyres!' But when Issi's day goes all wrong, even he is looking for Have you ever played in the rain? Have you ever felt the rain a fresh start. trickle down your face? One very cute family of ducks discovers Ever had a stupid nickname? A rotten run of bad luck? A best that playing in the rain can be fun for all ages . . . if you're not friend who just looks on the bright side - even when the bright ...... afraid of getting wet, that is. side looks black? Well, Eric Vale's got all three, and they're pushing him towards the epic-est of all epic fails! ......

Jasmin And The Nature Fairies Crispin Scales and the What Would Jesus Drive Violet Apted Golden Pearl Paul Clark & Graham Preston 9781618978066 Ruby Blessing 9781921633713 Strategic Book Publishing and . 9780646587707 Even Before Publishing Rights Co. Mighty Ink Publishing carparkparables.com amazon.com amazon.com Finalist CALEB Prize for faith inspired print • eBook crispinscales.com writing It's been raining for days! Sitting at her bedroom window print • eBook carparkparables.com watching the rain, six-year-old Jasmin is bored. She even asks print • eBook the rain to go away! To her great surprise a purple fairy named Lila appears. Using magic, Lila changes Jasmin to teeny tiny fairy It is Palm Sunday in the Westbrooke Church car park and Jesus size with wings. The fairy takes Jasmin on a wondrous adventure. A stolen princess and a rebellious witch. Dragons, fairies, is riding into Jerusalem. The only problem is deciding what Jesus would have driven into Jerusalem! Was it a motorbike, a truck ...... gnomes, elves, werewolves and vampires. Daemons, harpies and even a few zombies. And an evil, though disturbingly handsome, or a limo? Find out what the cars think in book 6 of this critically king. A clumsy dragon chosen to save the world. A shame he's acclaimed series. not very good at it......

Animal Pursuits The Big Rusty Nail Millie's Special Something

– the – Richard J. Atkinson Big Rusty Nail Lily Burgess Tania Cox 9781466958302 9780987391087 Illustrated by David Miller Trafford D & M Fancy Pastry Pty Ltd 9781921504389 trafford.com amazon.com Working Tiitle Press Invitation to Pitchfest in Las Vegas. wordsfromdaddysmouth.com.au penguin.com.au animalpursuits.com eBook taniacox.com print print • eBook by Lily Burgess Illustrated by Kate Hawthorne Big, bad Reggie loves to scare Millie. It's fun. But not for Millie. It's frightening! Her friends each have a special something to It is a fantasy about animals with trivia, facts, fantasy and many feel brave. puns. What might happen if animals took over a world after The Big Rusty Nail is an entertaining journey of a day in the life of humanity dies? It is a tale of murder in the animal kingdom a primary school sports room monitor, shared between a dad and So why doesn't she? Or does she? resulting in a chase, capture and subsequent court case of his young children. The story also provides a modern take on the ...... perpetrators. It is told by an elephant to his grand calves. proverb 'A Stitch in Time Saves Nine'......

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What Makes My Dad Happy Schumann the Shoeman The Adventures of Pigalotoffun Tania Cox John & Stella Danalis Deborah Gray Illustrated by Lorette Broekstra 9780702239236 9780646575384 9781742378381 University of Queensland Press Deborah Gray Allen and Unwin uqp.com.au bookworm.com.au allenandunwin.com Shortlisted 2010 CBCA, Book of the pigalotoffun.com.au taniacox.com Year, Picture Book & 2010 Itabashi print print • eBook Picture Book Translation Contest print What makes Dad happy? When I write a note for the pocket Pigalotoffun is a mischievous little pig. She lives on a big of his coat. When he helps me to fly way up high in the sky. Meaningful and stunningly beautiful, this picture book challenges readers to think about where things come from farm. Pigalotoffun loves to play tricks on farmer Bailey and When we hammer and glue a cubby for two. What makes your farmer Madison. Dad happy? and the world of big business. Inspired by the author’s struggle to find replacement parts for his electric tools, ...... Schumann the Shoeman feels like a journey into another world, a fable for times gone past......

What Makes My Mum Happy Word Hunters: Inside Asperger's Looking Out Tania Cox The Curious Dictionary Kathy Hoopmann Illustrated by Lorette Broekstra Nick Earls & Terry Whidborne 9781849053341 9781742378374 9780702249457 Jessica Kingsley Publishers Allen and Unwin University of Queensland Press amazon.com allenandunwin.com uqp.com.au Nautilus Silver Medal, Children's taniacox.com nickearls.wordpress.com Picture Books (US), 2012 finalist print • eBook print • eBook ForeWord Book of the Year Awards (US) kathyhoopmann.com What makes Mum happy? When I start her day with breakfast on a tray. When I make her a crown to wear into town. When print she watches me dance, skip, hop and prance. What makes Twins Lexi and Al stumble upon an old dictionary and their Through engaging text and full-colour photographs, this your Mum happy? world changes forever. They are blasted into history to hunt book shows neurotypicals how Aspies see and experience ...... down the words that threaten to vanish from our past and our the world. This is the perfect introduction to the world of present. Their lives and the future of the world are at stake. Asperger’s, told from their own perspective, for the people in Can they find a way back home? Or will they be trapped in the their lives: including family, friends, and classmates. past forever? ......

With Nan My Totally Awesome Story Mosquito Advertising: The Tania Cox Pat Flynn & Peter Carnavas Crunch Campaign Illustrated by Karen Blair 9780702249471 Kate Hunter 9781921136122 University of Queensland Press 9780702239397 Windy Hollow Books uqp.com.au University of Queensland Press windyhollowbooks.com.au patflynnwriter.com uqp.com.au Shortlisted CBCA Awards print • eBook katehunter.com.au taniacox.com print • eBook print A twig that eats... A branch that sings… These are some of the wonderful things that Simon sees on his walk with Nan. A school-based comedy about a fearless boy named Duane. Mosquito Advertising is in trouble when news breaks: the As he fills in his workbook with his wicked stories and government is banning advertising for soft drinks. All the work ...... cartoons, Duane hilariously details his run-ins with the deputy they’ve done to save Parfizz has been for nothing! In this new principal, his misadventures with his best mate Meatball, his adventure, the world's first advertising agency run by kids crush on hot girl Jackie, as well as his dream to jump over discovers that sometimes the most important thing to sell 100 cars on his motorbike. isn't a thing, it's an idea......

Opal Dreaming The Bronze Pookie the Kangaroo Braves the Bushfire Horses Bushfire Norah Kersh Jennifer Crane Deborah Gray, Jennifer Stevens, 9781922109293 9780985914745 Sheryl Garrick Boolarong Press Morris Publishing Australia 9780987389008 boolarongpress.com.au morrispublishingaustralia.com Kidz Bookz Publishing print facebook.com/Opal Dreaming amazon.com print • eBook kidzbookzpublishing.com print Thirteen-year-old Erin loves horses but not history, until she Pookie the Kangaroo, an Australian albino kangaroo, helps her Bushfires are always a threat to those families that rely on learns about our early relationship with horses and the origins friends escape from a bushfire. the land for their income. Bushfires often caused by lightning strikes also assist in the regeneration of the landscape. of riding in a dream of the misadventures of Fayina, a girl ...... from an ancient nomadic tribe, lost on the Eurasian Steppe ...... in 3000BC......

books from our backyard 4 isbn Publisher Purchase

Boo and the Big Storm Riley in the Rafters Baby Tawnies Wendy Lawrence A.J. Mallon (author & illustrator) Judy Paulson Illustrated by Glen Vause Photography by A.J. Mallon, M. 9781742755762 9780646577791 Adamski, L. Field, K. Ormonde Random House Wild Publishing 9780987244918 booktopia.com.au wildpublishing.com.au Arena Mallon judypaulson.com wildpublishing.com.au ajmallonbooks.com.au print • eBook print ajmallonbooks.com.au As darkness falls, two tawny frogmouths fly into the forest to find print food. Far above the ground, Reggie and Lyla are left alone. But Riley, a young brushtail possum, learns to make his way in the the little tawnies don't plan to stay in the nest. A classic tale of spreading your wings, with an Australian twist. Boo, the owlet, is blown out of the hollow during a fierce storm. world without his mother. Supported by memories of their deeply She lands in the middle of a road and fears she will never loving connection, he musters the courage to 'step out from the ...... get home. Then she meets Farmer Goodman and the real rafters, into the world of night'. This is a gentle, lyrical journey adventure begins. A story of lost and found, simply told and full into the important, but often taboo, issue of grief and loss. of love and compassion......

Elena's Dance Ralph, Buster and the World's PS Who Stole Santa's Mail? Lyn Lawrence First Dogathlon Dimity Powell 9780987322937 Neville Mills 9780985914714 Graphics Above 9781921999772 Morris Publishing Australia lynlawrencebooks.com Neville Mills morrispublishingaustralia.com lynlawrencebooks.com palmerhiggsbooks.com.au dimswritestuff.blogspot.com.au print nevmills.com.au print • eBook Elena Elephant believes she is the best dancer her jungle animal print • eBook friends have ever seen. One night, her performance goes terribly wrong. What can Elena Elephant do to reclaim her fame on the jungle stage and win back the applause of her audience? Ralph's grandfather needs a heart operation. If Ralph comes up ...... PS Who Stole Santa’s Mail? is a fast paced, action-packed, evil- with $5,000, Pop can have the operation privately. The only hope elf-filled, Christmas mystery chock full of funny festive humour is the world's first dogathlon being held in Ralph's home town of for primary-aged kids and anyone who believes in Santa. Sam Noosa in Queensland. First prize is $5,000. Do Ralph and Buster needs a Christmas miracle. Will one 'appear' in time? have a chance to win the race? ......

Hubert and the Magic Glasses The Crystal Code The Ruby Bottle Candice Lemon-Scott Richard Newsome Janet Reid 9781921928246 9781922079039 9781921869402 New Frontier Publishing Text Publishing Company IP Kidz littlerockets.com.au/books textpublishing.com.au bookdepository.com candicelemonscott.com richardnewsome.com First in IP Kidz Picks 2011 print print • eBook ipoz.biz/Titles/RB.htm print • eBook

Sadly, the Able Ants are not the best soccer team in the district Gerald Wilkins, the world's youngest billionaire, is about to get When Amber meets the djinn that lives in the ruby bottle, she - and Hubert is not the best player. He loves soccer, but his more than he expected for Christmas. Armed gunmen swoop on begins an adventure she never imagined. But will the djinn help skills are getting worse, not better. Could magic glasses be the his exclusive chalet, searching for a mysterious treasure. Join her deal with the bullying at school? And will he help her to answer? Gerald and his friends in the USA, the Czech Republic and a tiny perform the mysterious task that he keeps hinting at? ...... island in Sweden for a new thrilling adventure......

Billabong Dance Friends of the Flood Not This Little Black Duck A.J. Mallon Ryll Paul Mark Svendsen 9780987244901 9780987184887 Illustrated by Ben Redlich Arena Mallon Joshua Books 9781792760099 ajmallonbooks.com.au ryllpaul.com Koala Books ajmallonbooks.com.au ryllpaul.com koalabooks.com.au print print marksvendsen.com A facebook photo captured of a snake swimming in a flooded print

The sign says "Everyone Welcome" but when Dingo arrives at river, carrying a frog on its back as it struggled for survival during All the other little ducks had cute little names. There was Wade the Billabong Dance the other animals do their best to make the January 2011 floods across Australia, was the inspiration for and Dip and Brook and Bob and even Sludgepuddle. But this little him leave. But unphased and exhuberant Dingo has other ideas! this children's story. black duck did not have a cute little name. Oh, no! His name was This humourous and touching Australian picture book will bring This co-operation between two creatures reflected the human Duck. All the ducks tease Duck about his name. One day he gets a smile to the cheeks and hearts of readers of all ages. (+Aussie behaviour across the land. the chance for revenge. But does he take it? Lingo Glossary) ......

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Onslo The Pink Pirate The Darkest Little Room Kelly Theobald Michelle Worthington Patrick Holland 9781922022691 9781921928932 9781921924248 Vivid Publishing Little Steps Transit Lounge Publishing vividpublishing.com.au/onslo michelleworthington.com Readings Books, Melbourne print michelleworthington.com patrickholland.com.au print • eBook print • eBook Deep in the Australian outback, Onslo the blue Volkswagen Beetle dreams of adventures in the beautiful Simpson Desert, just like the big four-wheel drives. But, they tell him, he's too small! Have you ever dreamed of being a pirate when you grow up? Should Onslo dare to venture into the desert? More than anything else in the world, Georgia wanted to grow up ...... to be a pirate captain like her father, but he says girls can't be The story of a foreign journalist living in Saigon who, shortly pirates. Georgia will just have to prove him wrong! after reporting on a murdered girl washed up in Saigon River, is approached by a foreigner describing a brothel known as ‘the ...... darkest little room in Saigon’. The mysterious man shows him a photograph of a beautiful woman covered in wounds......

The Sugarbag Yellow Dress Day Silent Fear Nola Turner-Jensen Michelle Worthington Katherine Howell 9781921248474 9781921928291 9781742611907 Magabala Books New Frontier Publishing Pan Macmillan magabalabooks.com michelleworthington.com fishpond.com.au crackerjackeducation.com.au michelleworthington.com katherinehowell.com print print • eBook print • eBook An adventure story of two young brothers, Jimmy and Max, who are on their way to visit their grandfather. On the way, One whirly, windy day, Ava wants to wear her favourite yellow they encounter a tiny native bee and hope it will lead them dress, but it is nowhere to be found. What can her Mum do to to some delicious sugarbag. Sugarbag is a favourite treat for make this the best yellow dress day ever? Paramedic Holly Garland finds a man dead from a bullet wound Aboriginal people. We call it ngarruu...... and her long-estranged brother Seth standing beside him. Seth ...... claims to be the man's best friend, but Holly doesn’t believe him. Detective Ella Marconi suspects Seth too, but nothing else adds up either. Then a shocking double homicide changes everything...... crime & thriller Darth Promise The Proposition Julieann Wallace, illustrated by Tony Cavanaugh (A Bundy Quicksilver Mystery) Claire and Julieann Wallace 9780733630330 Pat Ritter 9780980723786 Hachette Australia 9781301422500 Little Steps Publishing Bookshops Pat Ritter Booktopia facebook.com/tonycavanaugh888 smashwords.com print • eBook print • eBook patritter.com.au Darth has been captured and taken away from his family - eBook perhaps forever. He enters the new world with a splash, but meets eye to eye with Grunt, the leader of a gang. Will Darth ever make friends in the new fish tank? Can he truly be happy again? Top homicide cop Darian Richards has been seeking out Bundy Quicksilver received two medals from the Commissioner ...... monsters for too long. He has promised one too many victims' of Police twenty years after he retired. He wrote a letter to families he will find the answers they need, and it's taken its show his appreciation, and received a telephone call from the toll. Now retired, a series of disappearances see him return to Commissioner wanting him to visit his office. Upon his visit, the the gun. On his terms. But he knows, every promise has a price Commissioner offered Bundy a proposal that he couldn’t refuse. to pay......

Tug of War The Price of Fame Spawned Secrets Yvonne Winer Rowena Cory Daniells Jay Verney Illustrated by Connie Bull 9780987271723 9780987377906 9781741208115 ClanDestine Press Zen Kettle Books Era Publications clandestinepress.com.au amazon.com [email protected] rowena-cory-daniells.com jayverney.net print print • eBook print • eBook Hare is tired of Elephant and Hippo. They are always bullying him. So he decides to teach them a lesson. What will Hare do? ...... "Strong, complex - don't read the last three chapters alone, after A group of disgraced (and disgraceful) stockbrokers is stalked dark."- Kerry Greenwood. by mystery man, 'Guy Friendly', who is determined to murder ...... each and every one of them. Their only hope is Garfield Fletcher, former ship's cook, jilted lover, and now, fake private eye. Join them on the rainforest getaway weekend from hell and beyond......

books from our backyard 6 isbn Publisher Purchase

The Psychic Spy Mr. Monfort's Marriage Nev Ollis Bryon Williams Vonnie Hughes John Pond of Oaks 978148255699 9781619371132 9781622124008 Smashwords Musa Publishing Strategic Book Publishing and . amazon.com amazon.com Rights Co. bryon.com.mx vonniehughes.com sbpra.com/NevOllis print • eBook eBook Accepted into Beijing Book Fest, Commendation by Qld Education Dept. sbpra.com/NevOllis print • eBook More fun, games and adventure in this dimension and the Matthew Monfort has two excellent reasons for loathing members John Pond of Oaks is an inspiring novel about an English school- afterlife. Spies and the murky world of Intelligence agencies, of the ton, but thanks to his father's machinations, he finds teaching parson in Australia during the rich historic era 1856 to mystery, intrigue, murder, sex and a visit to the dark side. What himself inveigled into offering for Lady Verity Tristan. It's time he 1868. He survives the arrogance of unbridled police power, a more could you want? This is the second in the Reluctant Psychic married and she's...different. In fact she's quite delightful, but biased government, savage racial differences and gold rush. series. she needn't think she's going to win him over......

historical fiction A Rain of Ruin The Merlin Prophecy: Australian Outlaw Lance Grimstone Battle of Kings Daniel M. Robinson 9781876344870 M.K. Hume 9781921919329 Copyright Publishing, Brisbane 9781476715124 Zeus Publications copyright.net.au Atria (Simon & Schuster US) zeus-publications.com amazon.com grimstone.com.au print print Nominated for HAG Award, UK mkhume.com print • eBook A young boy rode his way into the history books as an infamous It was a time of great political upheaval in the Pacific, during In the town of Segontium, a wild storm washes a fugitive ashore. bushranger, but was he really a cold blooded killer or a victim of which Australia's allegiance to the Mother Country had been He brutally rapes the granddaughter of the ruler of the Deceangli his time? Australian Outlaw is a tale of adventure and redemption brought into question in lieu of the rise of the United States. tribe, leaving her to bear his son, Myrddion Merlinus (Merlin). spanning a lifetime. Spurned as a demon seed, the boy is raised by his grandmother Yet, born out of the raw, turbulent wasteland of Hiroshima was ...... Australia’s future alliance, a family divided, and a marriage saved. and, as soon as he turns nine, Merlin is apprenticed ......

A Christmas Game Prophecy: Death of an Empire Whispers on the Wind Cheryl Hayden M.K. Hume r k willmett 9781906845414 9780755371464 9780987286802 Palores Publications Headline Review (Hachette) Interpersonal Dynamics amazon.com amazon.com ipdynamics.com.au Nominated for HAG Award, UK Books Monthly Book of the Month ipdynamics.com.au haydencomms.com.au Award (UK) print print mkhume.com print • eBook

Twelve women. Twelve voyages. Twelve stories. Why did these In the summer of 1549, the Cornish people set out to march on Determined to uncover his father's identity, Myrddion Merlinus women set sail for nineteenth century Australia? What drove London to talk to their young King Edward VI about his religious sets sail from Celtic Briton with his band of loyal companions. them to leave their birthplace? How did they survive in this reforms. Within weeks, they are at war against the Royal Army Their journey through war ravaged France, Rome and Ravenna to strange country so far away from family and friends? Their and on the road to catastrophe. Thrown together in grief and Constantinople will test their skills and strength to the limit ... stories are whispers on the wind. despair, Margh and Jenna must learn to trust each other...... literary & Captive Prophecy: Web of Deceit general fiction Vonnie Hughes M.K. Hume 9781619374553 9780755371501 Black Mountain Musa Publishing Headline Review (Hachette) Venero Armanno amazon.com amazon.com 9780702239151 vonniehughes.com Books Monthly Book of the Month University of Queensland Press eBook Award (UK) uqp.com.au mkhume.com veneroarmanno.com print • eBook print • eBook

When Alexandra Tallis discovers that her witless sister has Returning from Constantinople, Myrddion Merlinus finds Briton imprisoned their father’s nemesis, Theo Crombie, in their attic, in the grip of Uther Pendragon's bloodthirsty war against the she quickly frees him, fighting an unladylike impulse to keep him Saxons. Coerced into obedience, Myrddion serves Uther's brother, A boy sold into slavery is saved by a mysterious stranger who as her own special captive. Ambrosius, the High King, in order to spare the lives of his fellow raises the boy as his own. Renamed Cesare Montenero after travellers, and uses his skills to set up a spy network ...... Sicily’s own ‘black mountain’, Mount Etna, the boy grows up to ...... discover that his rescue was no accident, his physical strength is unnatural, and he has more in common with his saviour than he could imagine...... 7 isbn Publisher Purchase

Floundering A New Resolution Der geheimnisvolle Garten Romy Ash Rose Dee Annette Dutton 9781921922084 9781922074225 9783426511428 Text Publishing Even Before Publishing droemer-knaur dymocks.com.au amazon.com amazon.com Shortlisted for 2013 Miles Franklin rosedee.com annettedutton.net.au Award print print • eBook romyash.com print • eBook

Queensland’s Resolution Island is a safe haven for Anika and son, Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the Kye. But Ani's resolves are shattered with a custody battle and A best selling family-secret novel concerning a young German day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and rich Texan, Nate, who sails into the bay. Ani must fight for her son woman, Helene, who arrives in the Adelaide Hills in 1902 to work disappeared. Now Loretta’s returned, and she wants her boys and the growing attraction she has to the one type of man she with the Lutheran Church. Her modern day counterpart travels back. Tom and Jordy hit the road with Loretta in her beat-up loathes. A story of adventure, dreams and new beginnings. to Far North Queensland to find a tragic tale of unrequited love, car. The family of three journeys across the country, squabbling, stolen children and belonging...... bonding and searching...... Regarding Kimberley Beyond Resolution Jack's Chase Vera Berry Burrows Rose Dee - Ghosts of the Past 9781616099445 9781921633744 Shane Esmond Wings ePress Inc Even Before Publishing 9781465396310 amazon.com amazon.com Xlibris print • eBook rosedee.com xlibris.com print • eBook xlibris.com print • eBook

Discovering her real father is Australian television personality, Joel Samara lives a life filled with fear. Bad choices lead to the world Jack O'Sullivan has returned home after going to Vietnam in Winston, Kimberley Mason cuts herself off from the family she had of stripping, and a life spent looking over her shoulder. Until one 1967 as a war correspondent. The reappearance of some old always thought to be perfect. Leaving behind her life in England, event leads her back home to the mess she left behind. What will friends creates a turn of events which sets him on a path of she moves to Sydney to be with the man she loves, her business she do when danger follows her to paradise? This is a story that adventure and the desire to get to the bottom of the mystery partner, Simon Obertelli. Will running away find her happiness? shows the joy of forgiveness, trust and peace. he discovered in Vietnam. Who is Ben Cale, and why is the CIA watching over him? ......

Arcadian Daze The Greenfield Legacy The Beloved Anthony William Blake Rose Dee, Meredith Resce, Paula Annah Faulkner 9781301751129 Vince & Amanda Deed 9781742611556 Redpod Publishing 9781922074430 Pan Macmillan (Picador) smashwords.com Even Before Publishing Bookshops arcadiandaze.blogspot.com.au amazon.com Qld Premier's Literary Award for print • eBook rosedee.com Emerging Author, 2011. Shortlisted for print • eBook 2013 Miles Franklin Award print

Xavier Savage's progress to understanding life. A satirical, Mattie was in love with Billy, but tragedy brings painful Family drama set in post colonial Port Moresby. When Bertie serious, and whimsical telling of episodes in the childhood of consequences. Navy has never known her family. But an contracts polio she discovers, through art, a way to transcend her Xavier Savage, citizen of Monarchsland, a semi-fictional state of opportunity is met with jealousy from her cousin, Brooke, and disfigurement. But her mother has an academic future planned Australia, as he strategises a fail-safe way to avoid hell. aunt, Connie. A story that highlights the pain of the past policy of for Bertie and gradually their relationship crumbles. A tender, forced adoption.This family drama is written by four outstanding witty and vivid portrait of the beauty and burden of unconditional ...... Aussie Authors. love......

Closer to Stone Out Of Time Lighthouse Bay Simon Cleary Lesley Dimmock Kimberley Freeman 9780702239229 9780987334305 9780733623776 University of Queensland Press elldee Books Hachette Australia uqp.com.au lulu.com/spotlight/elldee bookworld.com.au Winner 2012 Courier-Mail's People's facebook.com/ kimberleyfreeman.com Choice Awards LesleyDimmockAuthor print • eBook simoncleary.com print • eBook print • eBook

Haunted by her past, Lindsay ap Rhys ap Gruffud just wants a Set in 1993 in northern Africa and in the US years later, quiet life. What she gets is Queen Elizabeth the First appearing 1901: Isabella Winterbourne has suffered the worst loss a Sebastian, the sculptor, must go in search of his missing brother, in her back garden. Lindsay and her best mate, Meg, must find a woman can know. She can no longer bear her husband nor his Jack. His journey is a modern-day as he Heart of Darkness way to send Elizabeth back before a sixteenth century conspiracy oppressive upper-class family. On a voyage between London travels into the dangerous, war-torn, desert interior of northern succeeds in removing her from the throne of England. and Sydney to accompany a priceless gift to the Australian Africa to discover what happened. What he finds there is not parliament, Isabella is the sole survivor of a shipwreck off the quite what he was expecting...... sun-drenched Queensland coast......

books from our backyard 8 isbn Publisher Purchase

Perfect Order The Promise The Appointed Hour David Hoffmann Wendy Mackenzie Lea Scott 9781456869519 9780987179128 9781475135985 Xlibris Wendy Mackenzie Lea Scott amazon.com wendymackenzie.com.au amazon.com print • eBook wendymackenzie.com.au leascott.com print • eBook print • eBook

A fisherman lets the big one get away, a wannabe serial killer Excerpt from book one of The Legend of Terragorn: Why do you looking for attention is blamed for a crime he didn’t commit, an want her? What will you gain if you can invade a human body? orphan discovers freedom in retribution, love and new cures are Leopold S Lurdan, an internationally acclaimed food writer and Willelm asked. If I can fully invade one of you, I could find the found in unexpected places. These fate-inspired tales will move feared restaurant reviewer, while embarked on his 'Italian Project', source that feeds you all and if I could find a way to cut off that you through laughter and tears, then send shivers down your researching his new book 'Lurdan on the Food and Culinary nourishment, you would all cease to be. spine. Traditions of Central and Northern Italy', 'resolves' his feud with old ...... friend, celebrity chef and television personality Marco Bragg......

Across the Water The Tower Mill Chameleon Maureen Jefferies James Moloney Kathy Stewart 9780646575544 9780702249327 9781480294332 Maureen Jefferies University of Queensland Press Createspace [email protected] uqp.com.au amazon.com print print • eBook authorsally.com print • eBook

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Web Of Lies The Viscount's Pleasure House Small Shen Laura O'Connell Suzi Love Kylie Chan & Queenie Chan 9781922074584 9781440560460 978073228983 Even Before Publishing Crimson Romance Harper Voyager Books amazon.com amazon.com amazon.com laura-oconnell.com Winner USA Windy City Romance kyliechan.com print • eBook Chapter Erotic Category, 2nd Place Linda Howard Award of Excellence, print • eBook Romantic and Sizzling suzilove.com print • eBook Small Shen is the amazing story of Gold — a stone spirit and a Stephanie and Lachlan make a mistake when they are teenagers. In exchange for information about his family, London's most chronic troublemaker in the court of the great Gods of Chinese Eight years later they reunite to find that the child they thought notorious viscount is coerced into allowing three respectable mythology. A mix of Kylie Chan's brilliant storytelling and Queenie they gave up for adoption was being cared for by Lachlan's women to visit his Pleasure Houses. Though the world-weary Chan's beautiful illustrations, Small Shen is a fantastic treat for sister. The family is on a journey of finding truth and forgiving one viscount falls in love with one of the ladies, he struggles to find fans of White Tiger. another, but the hardest decision is where will Ryan live? reasons to convince her to marry him when their visit ends......

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NIGMA Cruxim Balanced in an Angel's Eye Frances Clark Karin Cox Shaune Lafferty Webb 9781480189553 9780987360236 9780987154873 CreateSpace Indelible Ink Press Winterbourne Publishing amazon.com amazon.com amazon.com throughtime.webs.com karincox.com shaunelaffertywebb.wordpress.com print • eBook print • eBook print • eBook

An energy being from Virania has taken human form to travel back A rare and mysterious supernatural creature known as a Cruxim, Hael is a low-caste thrall angel, struggling to survive in a in time and record and explore history for the elders of his planet. Amedeo has but one mission—to rid the world of vampires. But war-torn city. When she attracts the notice of an arrogant lord, His physiology and psyche remain Viranian, that is until he meets when one of the two women he loves becomes one, and the other, she finds herself reluctantly bound to follow him to the human a beautiful geologist from Earth. Drake's troubles are only just a female Sphinx who has joined him on his crusade, is abducted world. Although every move they make disrupts an eons-old beginning. and tortured by them, what will he sacrifice to save one or both balance, they must find a lost angel and bring him home or be ...... of them? trapped forever......

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Exile The Apocalypse Blog Book 3: Cave Hill Rowena Cory Daniells Into the After Rob Simson 9781781080139 Melanie Edmonds 9780987086570 Solaris 9781476450131 Strictly Literary amazon.com Smashwords strictlyliterary.com rowena-cory-daniells.com smashwords.com robinsimson.wordpress.com print • eBook writer.apocalypseblog.com print • eBook eBook

Eight months ago, a bomb broke the world. Poison taints the sky In 1967 a geography teacher recruits ten senior students from and water, the restless dead crawl the landscape, and supplies are Toowwomba high schools to undertake an arduous educational " is an excellent continuation of an intriguing series. Daniells Exile getting more scarce with every passing day. Living is only getting expedition in the Carnarvon Ranges. The adventure is cut short by is quickly becoming a must-read author… I wanted to pick up the harder. Faith and her group of Seekers are struggling to survive. Do tragedy, and 33 years later six of the party revisit the site of the final volume in the trilogy immediately." – A Fantastical Librarian they have any chance of finding a way to build a future? accident at Cave Hill, while reflecting on their lives. on Exile ......

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When Johannes rescues a fugitive girl, he must himself flee. He The gods are dead, but will not be forgotten, as Mymnir, the "Sanctuary – Daniells has delivered a stunning climax to the meets Jhared and his band of warriors fleeing persecution to seek white raven, tries to flee her family - and Ragnarok.Midnight exile of the T’En race and all of the plotting, double crossing and out opportunity in the Bhel Sea. A third, Anna, spy, assassin and and Moonshine is a mosaic novel of moments, story-tiles as back handed political machinations are tied up superbly." – Mass slave, has her own agenda and they must contend with both her strange as witchwood and withywindles. It takes readers on a Movement Magazine and the growing power of the Korsar. Three journeys, one story. journey from ninth century Vinland to America’s Deep South in ...... the present day......

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One Long Thread Shadows (The Rephaim #1) young adult Belinda Jeffrey Paula Weston Jake's Page: 9780702238925 9781921922503 A Short Story & Play University of Queensland Press Text Publishing textpublishing.com.au Emily Craven uqp.com.au belindajeffrey.wordpress.com paulaweston.com 9780987500632 Craven Publishing print • eBook print kobo.com madelinecain.com eBook Ruby and Sally Moon are twins, cut from the same cloth but as Love. Nightmares. Angels. War. Gaby is still grieving the death different as night and day. While Sally is bold and adventurous, of her twin brother when Rafa appears and turns her world Ruby is quiet and creative. When divorce splits their family in two, upside down. Not only does he look like the guy from her violent Jake’s Page is a comic yet heart-breaking tale of a young, type and Sally moves with their mother to the Northern Territory, Ruby nightmares, he claims a history with her brother that makes no 1 diabetic and his Facebook page. A combination of short story holds onto the thought that one day her family will be complete sense. Who is Rafa? Who are the Rephaim? And who can she - written in Facebook status updates and posts - and a one-act again. trust? 'This series is sexy, smart and addictive' - Cath Crowley play for small/large casts, Jake's Page is an exploration into how young people represent themselves in real life vs. social media...... McAlister's Way The Grand Adventures Of Richard Marman Madeline Cain: Photographer 9781909302037 Extraordinaire Abela Publishing Emily Craven amazon.com 9780987500625 richardmarman.net Craven Publishing print • eBook kobo.com madelinecain.com eBook

In 1950, 15 year-old Danny McAlister escapes from a draconian Like many of her generation who travel overseas, Madeline turns boarding school in search of his father, lost while fighting the to Facebook to pass on news and keep in touch with family and Japanese. He teams up with ‘Mad’ Monty, an Afro-American friends. But her trip doesn't exactly turn out as she expected. In fighter pilot, and Angela, the daughter of an English missionary. a world of status updates and blogs, where 'Friends' can follow They face many adventures to finally discover the secret of your every move, how the hell is she going to get out of the hole Danny’s father. she dug? ......

Curse of Wexkia Grace Beside Me Dale Furse Sue McPherson 9780987222152 9781921248498 DCFBooks Magabala Books amazon.com amazon.com dalefurse.wordpress.com Inaugural black&write! Fellowship print • eBook winner and a White Raven Inductee for 2013 magabala.com print • eBook Aliens, powers, friends, traitors who were once friends—a girl’s Grace Beside Me is a coming of age story about a 15 year-old leap into her seventeenth year can be so fraught with danger. girl who lives with her Nan and Pop. It is packed full of timely Who can Nell trust to believe she isn’t the curse of Wexkia? wisdom, humour and down to earth advice, reminding us that, despite the difficulties of growing up, we are never alone......

The Big Smoke The Horses Didn't Come Home Cally Jackson Pamela Rushby 9781479298150 9780732293543 Cally Jackson HarperCollins amazon.com Book stores callyjackson.com Short-listed Queensland Literary Awards print • eBook 2012, Notable Book CBCA awards pamelarushby.com print • eBook

Ceara’s desperate for love; Seb’s desperate to get laid. Two The last great cavalry charge in history took place at Beersheba strangers, both moving from small country towns to Brisbane for in the Sinai Desert in 1917. It was Australian soldiers and horses uni. Will they survive life in the big smoke or crumble under the that took part in, and won, this amazing, unorthodox victory. The pressure? men proudly proclaimed it was their great-hearted horses that ...... won the day. But in the end, the horses didn't come home ......

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