In the harsh and beautiful frontier of 1850s Australia, a routine police patrol becomes the beginning of a chilling mystery. When Sergeant Norm Green dispatches four mounted constables to investigate the disappearance of a settler named Nigel Martin, they uncover far more than an abandoned homestead. Hidden across the lonely plains are murdered families, stolen government gold, missing children, and evidence of a ruthless conspiracy reaching far beyond the frontier settlements. As the trai...

The late 21st Century Farm Crime ComedyIt's 2091 and times on Bruce Walker's Wairarapa (New Zealand) farmlet are tough. The sheep need upgrading, the milking robot is bored, the car's paranoid, the sheepdog is run off his paws with union work, and the superintelligent teenagers are up to God knows what. But when the kids come up with a cunning plan to make the family some extra cash, and two sheep are rustled, a chain of events are set in motion that bring dog terrorists, triads an...

Most teens feel alienated from the adult world but Sam Kahu is more alienated than most. For a start his home just burned down and all his friends and family are missing, presumed dead. Worse, he knows they are out to get him, and if he doesn't successfully hide within the system he could find himself inside a UFO having his brain dissected. Fortunately he has a few resources: he's innately psychic, and he has high technology gadgets. But the most promising development is the youn...

After the shock encounter with the UFO Sue Williams is ready to listen to Sam's history of Renwick House. Hiding out in an Auckland safe-house Sam gently pushes the boundaries of Sue's credulity as he tells Sue how six families, all needing refuge, and all with one psychic teenager, ended up coming to live and work for the mysterious Russian financier, Dr Gennady Prosperov, at haunted Renwick House. But it was Dr Prosperov's odd physics experiment in the abandoned lighthouse which shocked ...

Set against the rugged, untamed frontier of colonial Australia, Mystery on the Frontier follows young mounted policeman Rex Howard and his fellow officers as they pursue what begins as a simple case of a stolen horse-but quickly unravels into something far darker. Their search leads them through isolated settlements, dangerous bushland, and a web of hidden identities, where escaped criminals, undercover operatives, and uneasy alliances blur the line between law and survival. As th...

Part 2 of Book 1 (Serendipity)The Weaving tells five storiesIt tells the stories of Tarik Gursoy, a young Kurd, whose father became embroiled in Turkish politics which cost Tarik the life of his mother and sister at the hands of Ergenekon.It tells the story of Scott, a white Zimbabwean boy, whose father's efforts to preserve the past simply contributed to the disaster of Zimbabwe, and how Scott ended up with his step-father, Bernard Khumalo.It tells the stor...

Peter King's book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. One of the world's leading alto saxophonists, he tells his story with searing honesty, revealing the obsessions and motivations that have driven him and the dilemmas of surviving as a top creative musician in an often inhospitable world. With unsparing self-analysis he describes the traumas that accompanied his brilliant career for many years.Internationally recognised as a jazz star, Peter King has performed and recorde...

From Long Island to Fiji, college students flocked to the sleepy little town of Ithaca to learn the how-tos and how-not-tos of broadcasting. From that influx came some of the future leaders and celebrities of the broadcasting industry. Television stars were born here, and some of radio�s future stars were nurtured to succeed in an industry that impacts the daily lives of Americans. Ithaca�s rich broadcasting history includes two college radio stations and several locally owned and operated...

Lose yourself in this heart-wrenching young adult/adult novel that delves into early difficult family life from the perspective of a brother and younger twin sisters having to grow up before their time. At the centre of the story is James, who craves the attention of his father but has to look to his granddad for affection and support. He has to deal with his sisters making home life unbearable for him as their father favours them above him. A chance meeting with Hailey while on holiday tu...

Tracking Al Qaeda in Pakistan, sex on a Fijian beach, fighting UFOs in Africa - Sam Kahu's 2009 might sound exciting, but there's no room for error. Earth's alien overlords want no repeat of the last battle. They want Sam and the rest of the Changels eliminated.But as natural psychics spiritual risks also haunt them. Sam learns he must still deal with his father's legacy of evil, then he discovers his partner, the beautiful but manipulative Tahira, is way ahead of him. Has Tahira f...

In Renaissance Sam tells Sue how Dr Prosperov's secret plan to use the psychic teens as super-secret agents went down with their parents. How the base beneath Renwick was built and the children trained to use their amazing technology. It tells the story of how Sam's romance with Emma fizzled under the onslaught of the community's secret but how his relationship with his Iranian work partner, Tahira, flourished. And in the present it tells how Sam manages to whisk Sue to safety from the clu...

The book is a children's fairy tale about toys with magic powers. A toy shop hidden in an old village deep in the countryside is rumoured to have magic powers. Every toy that enters the toy shop, either to be mended or sold is given the power to move and talk to other toys. But the magic power only happens when children and adults are not around. The children that live in the village somehow know that that is true, without having any real proof. All the parents are convinced that it is the...