Rock and Roll as we used to know it is almost dead.But there is still one band, the last of their kind, doing their utmost to hold back the tsunami of (insert expletive of choice here) that the modern music business has become. Against all the odds, they make music, they tour, and they entertain fans with shows that kick so much ass that even the cushions you sit on afterwards develop a complex.And there is one guy, one stupid, moronic, guy, who has gone out of his way to s...

How can a fresh corpse in a Cairo morgue be 3,500 years old? From the Egypt of The Exodus, to an Egypt falling under an Islamic revolution SInai is a timeslip thriller for our time. In 1350 BC the Israelites are driven from Egypt, their journey through the harsh desert of Sinai, their plight and their story to forever be remembered as the Exodus. In modern day Sinai academic Richard Corrigan discovers a missing German tourist. S...

On June 4, Federal Police raided the home of Walkley award-winning journalist Annika Smethurst, changing her life forever.Police claim they were investigating the publication of classified information, her employer called it a 'dangerous act of intimidation', Smethurst believes she was simply doing her job.Smethurst became the accidental poster woman for press freedom as politicians debated the merits of police searching through her underwear drawer. In On Secrets ...

It is 2071 and humanity is in its infancy on the great galactic stage. Busily colonising planets and systems, feeling perfectly safe and secure in their own little corner of the galaxy. Until several civilian mining vessels disappear, plunging humanity into a massive war. And forcing Micheal Alexander and Nikolai Vargev into reluctantly joining forces just to survive against all the odds.

Five years have passed since the great Krenaran war, and humanity have began to rebuild from the devastation wrought upon them.A love survey ship drops out of plasma drive on the fringes of the far flung Auriga system, searching for potential new colony worlds.As it ventures further in-system, the crew are excited to discover what appears to be an immense alien installation built upon the surface of one of the planets. An installation abandoned for some three hundred years....

It is a time of peace and stability in the galaxy, all the major powers that inhabit it, E.O.C.A, Solarian, Krenaran and Dracos have largely kept to their own affairs. This is not to last however as a new threat looms on the far fringes of the galaxy, an enemy like no other, intent on eradicating all life is sweepeing through space and destroying all before it. Only by working together can the major powers hope to prevail against this ancient enemy, their ships blot out the stars, their le...

The Moon goes around the Earth, the Earth goes around the Sun, the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole. As you read this you are currently orbiting a black hole. Money might make the world go round, but black holes make the universe go round.Black holes are not just a curiosity; they are some of the most important objects for understanding how our universe works and how it came to be. And yet they are incredibly misunderstood; take everything you ...

This audio edition is narrated with dazzling enthusiasm by the author, Dr Becky Smethurst.Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred ...

Despite widespread interest in the trade union movement and its history, it has never been easy to trace the development of individual unions, especially those now defunct, or where name changes or mergers have confused the trail. In this respect the standard histories and industrial studies tend to stimulate curiosity rather than satisfy it. When was a union founded? When did it merge or dissolve itself, or simply disappear? What records survive and where can further details of its histor...

The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empire.Within minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to help her husband carve out a new life farming. Tragedy struck just three years later when Friedrich took his own life and she was left to raise their family alone....

Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it.

Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse.Now updated with a new epilogue, detailing Katherine’s brave stand at the Royal CommissionIn March 2009, Joseph Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for the systematic imprisonment, torture and rape of his daughter Elisabeth over 24 years, fathering seven children. The case shocked the world.But just a month before, the story of Australia’s own house of horrors was em...