‘Girls, I think your father's dead. I knocked his knees out. I conked his head. I shot that house clown in the neck.’In a dirt-dry town in rural Australia, a shot shatters the still night. A mother and her daughters have just welcomed home the man of the house—with a crack in the shins and a bullet in the neck. The only issue now is disposing of the body.Triggered into thrilling motion by an act of revenge, The Bleeding Tree is rude, rhythmical and irrever...

Waverley is a small cat with a big miaow and he lives with Mr and MrsTurner and their son Jonathan at number 10, Marten's Drive.Waverley likes the house at number 10, Marten's Drive because it haslots of good places to sleep and a back garden that seems to go onforever. Beyond the wooden fence at the bottom of the garden there isa children's playground, green fields, and then the woods. All daylong Waverley snoozes in the sunny spots around the ho...

It looked bleak and predictable for little Keelen Mailman: an alcoholic mother, absent father, the horrors of regular sexual and physical assault and the casual racism of a small outback town in the sixties. But somehow, despite the pain and deprivation, the lost education, she managed to absorb her mother's lessons: her Bidjara language and culture, her obligations to Country, and her loyalty to her family.So it was no surprise to some that a girl who could hide for a year in her ...

Jez is on a mission of mercy: to replace a tragically deceased comic book for his injured best mate, Tel. Venturing into the Hidden Asteroid bookstore in London—the temple of geekdom itself—Jez is bowled over by the guy behind the counter.Rhys is the poster boy for hot geeks: tall, gorgeous, and totally cool. Jez is desperate to impress him, so he bluffs his way through comic book jargon . . . and then dashes back to the hospital to beg Tel to teach him how to speak Geek.Te...

Danny Ellis is a survivor, strong and resilient. An acclaimed singer/songwriter, he is proud of the way he handled his difficult past: poverty in the 1950s Dublin slums and the brutality of the Artane Industrial School. He felt as though he had safely disposed of it all, until one night, while writing the powerful song that would launch his highly-praised album, 800 Voices ("A searing testament." —Irish Times), Danny's past crept back to haunt him. Confronted by forgotten...

WINNER OF THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS MEMORIAL PRIZE'Her art is ignited by voice, as you hear it, is unquestionable' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN'Distinctive, pared-down style' DAVID EVANS, INDEPENDENT**'Unflinching look at the lives of working-class women' DAILY MAILNell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, h...

This book has been serialized into 3 parts – this is PART 3 OF 3. From the author of the bestsellers ‘The Bride Stripped Bare’ and ‘With My Body’, a new twist on a classic tale of passion.In the conclusion of this serialization, while Connie’s new passion with Mel ripens over the summer, she knows her life is changed forever. Her husband is driven to desperation – either he must win back his beautiful trophy or punish her rebellion. Connie is being pulled out of the coldly glitteri...

THE BESTSELLLING CLASSIC OF SIXTIES LONDON'Touching, truthful and fresh - a tour de force' MARGARET DRABBLE'Hilarious, heartbreaking' PARIS REVIEW'Her art is ignited by voice' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN'Exuberantly alive' SUNDAY TIMESTo think when I was a kid I planned to conquer the world and if anyone saw me now they'd say, 'She's had a rough n...

A collection of short stories and poems with a twist

The cat sat comfortably on the wall.Are you sitting comfortably?Then I will continue.As you know cats like to sit. Sometimes they like to sit and think, and sometimes they just like to sit. But on this occasion the cat was sitting and thinking,'What a lovely day'.But little did the cat know that it was all going to go horribly wrong.

Geraldine Evans has put together an eclectic collection of short-short stories, ranging from one featuring her popular DI Joe Rafferty, to a Christmas tale, via one about mucky schoolboys and another, other-worldly one, with two more stories making up the mix.Why not buy and try? Geraldine has also had twenty novels published (fifteen in her Rafferty and Llewellyn procedural series, two in her Casey and Catt series, one historical, one romance and a medical suspense chiller, as wel...

Exploring grief, yet neither bleak nor overwrought, this powerful short story won the 2013 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition. The judge, Carl Nixon, commended its 'seemingly effortless artistry' and its skilful and well-sustained handling of demanding narrative techniques: 'the author does not miss a beat', he said. Cleverly juxtaposing the past and present, the narrator draws the reader into her life. The judge concluded: 'Beautifully controlled use of simile and ...