This is a story based on true events of Mary of The Shanty. Born in a shanty on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, Mary is a simple girl who was born with an amazing will to live. Pure of heart and keen of mind, she is a survivor.Mary grows up on a small farm with her father on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in Victoria. She was just sixteen years old when her father died and left her all alone during the great depression in Australia during the 1930s.Mary pulls hers...

Jack arrives on Mable Downs in Queensland nursing a broken heart. With him is his mate Alby also healing from the same thing. Both, not long home from the war they embark on a journey that will take them closer, ever closer to this healing. A journey towards peace and contentment. An adventure like nothing they could have imagined. Along the way they begin to open their hearts to new people and possibilities, to love and laughter and joy. Wayne the station manager knows exactly how they fe...

The powerful story of a young girl who stands accused of being a witch.Forced to leave her home and family and flee from an angry mob, Carmelia finds herself in the forest alone, frightened and cold. Carmelia also finds an iner strength that she didnt know she had.She outruns the mob who is hell bent on burning her only to succumb to fatigue and fever before she reaches her aunts house. As she lays down her head unable to go on she passes into a deep slumber.When she wakens...

Much of Jefferson Davis' life and career has been obscured in controversy and misinterpretation. This full, carefully annotated edition will make it possible for scholars to reassess the man who served as President of the Confederacy and who in the aftermath of war became the symbolic leader of the South.For almost a decade a dedicated team of scholars has been collecting and documenting Davis' papers and correspondence for this multi-volume work. The first volume includes not only Davis' ...

I have written this book Me and Matilda and set it against a backdrop of the rivers which I have lived on and traversed. The Diamantina and the Murray being my Favorites. I do love the mighty Murrumbidgee River and some of the family in Mary of the Shanty share blood with me. Tom in the Overlanders is a relative of mine to and Jack the ringer is close to me, or he was up until his death. These people in my books are very dear to me and I present them to you with pride.Wally is back...

Ted is a large as life bullock driver who delivers to the great outback of Australia. He takes on the task of delivering much needed stores to the small towns and communities and to many stations along the way. He picks up wool and other produce from the stations and farms which he delivers to the ports and the rail heads.Ted, though rough and ready, is usually a mild-mannered man who loves his bullocks and his life. In return his bullocks love him and they pull every load he asks ...

Based on a true storyThe Overlanders is a bittersweet, sometimes comical look at the lives and loves in the world of a droving team in the Australian Outback. Their trials and tribulations and the hardships they endured in the harsh desert country they inhabited. The dangers they faced from their enemies and elements alike. It also tells the story of the women they left behind time and time again to fend for themselves. Sometimes for months on end.Faced with the task of del...

Tales from the Chill Zone is a collection of short stories about theAustralian supernatural. It is a thriller which delves, often deeply into the darker more sinister Australian. Set in Australia in the 1960s, the book features Stella of the Outback a story concerned with the Australian psyche of the times.

The child of The Light, Glimmer, is taken from her mother's arms and forced into exile on Magoria, the Waterworld. Her only connection with her native land is Pagan, her Champion and Guardian, who must use his wits and powers to protect Glimmer from detection and hide the evidence of her true destiny.Meanwhile on Atheyre (the Airworld), Princess Khatrene and her lover Talis watch on helplessly, unable to protect Glimmer from the dangerous and bloody power play that is taking place....

Ennae is a parallel world joined to our own world by the Sacred Pool, a portal that can only be opened by one with the Guardian blood running through their veins. It is through this watery gateway that Khatrene leaves her modern-day life behind forever, drawn into a quest that will take her into the depths of the unknown.Khatrene must fulfil her destiny as The Light, the woman whose child will unite the four elemental worlds. At each turn are real and imagined enemies who will do e...

The Maelstrom is building – inexorable, relentless, causing destruction and death on an unprecedented scale, pouring elements from one realm into another – and the only hope for humanity, the young Glimmer, has strayed far from her destiny to unite the Four Worlds. An accidental touch of the Plainsman Memory Stone infects her with emotions and she abducts the coldest of the nobles, Kert Sh'hale, taking him to the Fireworld of Haddash where her clumsy seduction allows the Serpent of Death t...

Flaranthlas Eldanari is a young half elf that travels to the human kingdom of Telur after living his whole life with the elves. His desire is to join the Guardians; the elite branch of the Telurian army. But Flare has unknowingly started down the path of an ancient prophecy; a prophecy that the Church of Adel will do anything to keep from being fulfilled.