LONGGRASSING IN PARADISE
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Darwin longgrassers have been living large since the beginning.
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They come from all over the Territory to camp in the public spaces around town, to catch up with family and friends, attend health and legal matters, dodge the sorcerer, holiday and shop, and drink.
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Especially drink. And the whitefellas don’t like it. They think they’re noisy and dirty and rude. So, they try to move them on. For 150 years they’ve been trying to move them on. But the longgrassers won’t go.
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Yet beneath this running battle between the settled and the unsettling lurks a truth about colonisation that is almost Newtonian in style.
This is a story of resilience and denial against outrageous odds, an underdog’s triumph of survival in the modern world, for a people who just won’t go away.
STRUBERVILLE: CONSEQUENCES OF ISOLATION
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On a remote cattle station in Far North Queensland, four gold prospectors push their luck and pay the price.
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Venturing too close to the homestead they attract the attention of the landholders, who arrive armed and dangerous. Only three of the prospectors make it out alive.
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This is the story of Bruce Schuler’s murder at Palmerville Station on the 9th of July, 2012. His murderers, Stephen Struber and his wife Dianne Wilson, had for decades been a law unto themselves, terrorising all who dared cross ‘their’ land. Or as Struber saw it, playing ‘Cowboys and Indians’ and chasing them off the property. Using real bullets.
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Struberville is also a look at the darker side of isolation, and what happens to the civilising influence of society when nobody’s watching out there.
RED IN THE CENTRE: THROUGH URBAN EYES
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Best-selling book of Australian true stories; warm, witty and whimsical.
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​​Book One in the series, inspired by radio interviews collected on round-Australia jaunt for a national broadcaster; stories mostly light and bright with an amusing “innocent abroad” feel.
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“. . . a book that will help Australia better understand itself.” Charles Wooley
RED IN THE CENTRE: THROUGH A CROOKED LENS
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Entertaining account of Monte struggling to come to grips with Sunrise, technology and a newly-acquired 4WD bus determined to kill him.
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Monte’s amusing transition from mainstream television to freelance multimedia something-or-other; stories edgier and more chaotic than the first book, a touch of restrained madness here.
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“He views life with a Jack Nicholson like, quizzical overview, a Why is this thus? disdain.” Ted Egan
RED IN THE CENTRE: LOOKING FOR THE H CHORD
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Stories gathered from remote areas including Maralinga, Kimberley and Arnhem Land.
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​The 3rd book in the series and a more mature work than the previous 2; beautifuly rounded stories from some little-known regions of the country.
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“. . . he is ultimately an entertainer, and he writes to delight.” Peter FitzSimons
RED IN THE CENTRE: THE NOMADS AT LARGE
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A delightfully left-field look at the most important migration this country has seen since the gold rush.
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Stories gathered during a lap of the country with the Nomads (grey, reluctant or otherwise), offering a highly entertaining expose on what’s happening out there in the great Australian outback while nobody’s watching.
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“His books stand alone.” Steve Cooper – On the Road.
THE EGG COLLECTOR
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A love story with the lights left on, The Egg Collector is the most unlikely forty-year courtship you’ll discover this year.
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After spending most of his adult life avoiding responsibility, Myles Copley returns home to find his father being fitted for a straightjacket, and his childhood sweetheart available, if not exactly waiting patiently for his return.
It’s a perfect opportunity for the errant son to reconnect with his maligned father and the grown man to make amends for the sins of his youth.
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This is a life-affirming tale of sex, lies and dementia, of monster rats and wild birds’ eggs, and of accidental redemption for two stubborn souls hell bent on staying single.
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”It is with much regret that I finally finished your wonderful story “The Egg Collector”. It was like reading a thriller and I doled it out sparingly to prolong the experience. An evocative memoir covering four decades of love and tragedy woven together, much like a bird’s nest.” Lyndle Davies, Reader
WATER WARS
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A river in crisis. Its people in conflict. A wayward cop, a pesky television crew and a suspicious drowning. These are the main elements in this thoroughly entertaining crime fiction thriller.
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Yet there is a deeper message here. By mirroring the plight of Australia’s Murray Darling Basin, the author is highlighting the water security challenges facing this country in the twenty-first century. Will the driest inhabited continent on Earth ever strike a happy balance between end users of its most precious resource? Or is this peaceful nation about to spill blood over water?
THE MEANS
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A psychological thriller set in the Top End of Australia.
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In remote Northern Australia, three old friends are separated by accident, deceit and design, and made to face their fears as they re-evaluate their relationships with one another.
A suspensful story told with integrity and humour, an engaing tale of two men on a mission and a wife who will have her way, set against the harsh backdrop of the Australian outback in the late twentieth century.
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“I purchased ‘The Means’ for my Dad (90 year old) he loved the book and wants the next…(he has your others) You wrote ‘The Egg Collector’ was coming soon. Any idea?” Jan Winch, Reader