When a small, ancient Irishman appears on a school fence post eating a cheese sandwich, entirely invisible to almost everyone — fifteen-year-old Immie Whitfield is not entirely surprised. She has always been able to draw characters who step off the page and speak to her. She has always known the world was stranger than it appeared.She doesn't know her estranged grandfather is a magician. She doesn't know that an organisation called the Collectors has been watching her fami...

Alex Moreton thought she understood grief. She thought she understood archives too: their order, their absences, the way a missing page could say more than a hundred that remained.Then she finds a hidden vault beneath the university, and inside it a record of everything her family and her institution have spent generations trying not to know. There is a dead girl, a dead engineer, a ledger that keeps the dark half of the story, and a woman who has spent forty years standing guard o...

When the body in the bag is the wrong body, the case becomes the case. The seventy-three papers at the novel's centre are not, as you first assume, a list. They are a ledger. Academics rarely admit in public: that scholarship has always been inseparable from patronage, and patronage from obligation. Academic institutions, where power is quiet, consequences accumulate slowly, where power protects itself in beautiful rooms and Dr Alex Moreton's dining table at the Scholar's Table on the Swan...

When the prestigious Italian Bellini Foundation arrives at the Swan River Festival of Voices with a previously unknown Vivaldi manuscript, Dr Alex Moreton notices three things before the opening reception is half over.The provenance chain leads from a Swiss estate sale, through a Zurich auction house, through eighteen months of preliminary authentication in Rome, and arrives in Perth wearing the imprimatur of the Bellini FoundationBy the following morning, the manuscript wa...

Immie Whitfield and her circle have mapped the Collector network, destroyed four supernatural nodes across three continents, and built the legal case that will bring the organisation down. Now they know what is left: not a building, not a ledger, not an archive. A manufactured thin place in the west of Ireland, built a hundred and fifty years ago from a covenant that was never supposed to be sealed — holding the original agreement, the true version, the one that proves the Collectors were ...

Don’t just live longer—live better!Everyone wants to feel fitter, sexier, more energetic, more productive, and younger—but what if the solutions were already here? What if there were already ways to ease the negative effects of aging and prevent diabetes, heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease from ever starting? What if we could translate all the exotic science and research breakthroughs of today into a practical plan that could help u...

This is the first book to explore the numerous ways in which mobile technologies and social media are influencing our outdoor experiences.Across the fields of outdoor education, outdoor recreation and leisure, and nature-based tourism, the book considers how practices within each of those domains are being influenced by dramatically shifting interactions between technology, humans, the natural world, and wider society. Drawing on cutting-edge research by leading scholars from aroun...

At the beginning of the 21st century, Antarctica is poised at the edge of a warmer and busier world. Leading Antarctic researchers examine the needs and challenges of Antarctic environmental management today and tomorrow. Through: (i) investigating the impacts of human activities on specific ecosystems and species, (ii) examining existing environmental management and monitoring practices in place in various regions and (iii) interrogating stakeholders, they address the following questions:...

Prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the Arctic and Antarctic regions were experiencing significant growth in tourist arrivals. In the aftermath of this global crisis, the tourism industry has rebounded and the number of tourists visiting the polar regions is expected to keep growing significantly in the coming years. Remote regions are increasingly accessible as tourism actors develop technologies, diversify activities and itineraries, and climate change worsens. In ...

The lighthouse at Lassiter Point has been decommissioned since 1986. The Heritage Council believes the shire owns it. The shire believes the Heritage Council does. No one has paid for maintenance since 2003, and the Fresnel lens has been sitting in the dark ever since.Until it wasn't.At two in the morning, the lamp comes on. Forty minutes exactly. Old Mossy, who has sat on the Rockingham seawall long enough to remember how the coast used to sound, has seen it before — three...

It is the summer holidays in Safety Bay, and Barry Carter has a credibility problem. Lying on his verandah at eleven forty-two on a hot January night, he watches a green light blink twice, pause, and blink twice again from Penguin Island — which has been closed since the last ferry came home at four. Nobody believes him. Barry mistook a wheelie bin named Bruce for a shark. He has no credibility.But Rose believes him. And Rose recruits Annie, who already has a notebook. The notebook...

Arthur Templar knows if he tries to rescue his parents, they could die.But if he does not rescue them, they will certainly die.General Zardaq learned that Arthur Templar's parents discovered how to control a runaway fusion reaction as part of their medical research.Zardaq took over the planet. He is terrorising its people, and he has kidnapped Arthur's parents to extract their secrets.Arthur has no option but to attempt a rescue. But he knows he will be tradi...