| Non-Fiction: Biography |
by Jocelyn Preece | Adelaide Woman is the true story of a passionate woman writer and activist of the early 20th Century. Her life and loves reflect the turbulent times in which she lived. |
by Janet Shaw | Beyond the Red Door is the moving tale of Janet Shaw who was born with a rare eye cancer, Retinoblastoma, resulting in the loss of her left eye at age thirteen months and limited vision in her right. |
by Raelene Hall | Legitimate Bush Woman is a series of columns about the lighter side of life on the land written by a country columnist who writes outback tales from a remote property. |
by Malcolm Reid | Friday the Thirteenth of May, 1983 was the inauspicious day when Australia's first and most respected trustee company dramatically collapsed. Nasty Business reveals some of the reasons for the collapse. |
by Marie Alafaci | In Savage Cows & Cabbage Leaves, in 1927, four-year-old Carmela Barbaro arrived in Melbourne with her mother after a long sea voyage from Italy. The Barbaro family faced hardship, prejudice and poverty, but their story is full of humour, passion and the joy of living.
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by Kathie Thomas | Worth More Than Rubies is a considered and contemplative book about how we can look after ourselves, our family and society at large while at the same time building a business from home. |
| Non-Fiction: Business |
by Magdalena Ball | The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything is a complete guide to the writing reviews process. |
by Barbara Gabogrecan | How to Run a Business From Your Kitchen Table
contains a wealth of ideas and strategies for all areas of business development for both existing businesses and start-ups. |
by Stuart Dawson PhD | Quit Smoking Now—Today—For Good reveals an easy, quitting method that reprograms your mind as an ex-smoker in under an hour. |
by Dr Greg Chapman | The Five Pillars of Guaranteed Business Success is a step-by-step guide in which Dr Greg Chapman presents the fundamental principles of building a successful business. |
by Jennifer McCoy | 2 Way Feedback addresses the issue most likely to keep business owners awake at night (apart from cash-flow challenges): 'Dealing with staff'. |
| Fiction |
by Jill Blee PhD | Jill Blee's second novel, Brigid, is at once a travel story and an historical novel set in modern Ireland, where Jill's first visit to her ancestral homeland is hijacked by the very real presence of her long-dead great aunt, Brigid. |
by Margaret Sutherland | Leaving Gaza is the tale of two very different women, Ruth, the vibrant Israeli writer who grew up amid guns and grenades, and long-married Barbara, still living and painting in Newcastle, Australia. |
by Camille Cain and Raema Hayes | Loris and Lucy's Later Life Guide aims to help women in later life (AFTER menopause) to better manage their health and wellbeing. |
by Jill Blee PhD | In The Liberator's Birthday, the mines and mining tragedies loom in the background while the belligerence of miners and lorrymen threaten the desire of the Farrell family to achieve wealth and respectability and Farrell's chance of finding love. |
by Jill Blee PhD | In The Pines Hold their Secrets, Elise Cartwright and her sisters arrive at Norfolk Island, in the mid-nineteenth century. She is attracted to O'Shaughnessy, one of the Irish convicts, in spite of what the rest of her family thinks. |
by Margaret Sutherland | In The Sea Between the world is about to go to war and Maggie Butler's husband has run off to America. This classic trans-Tasman story follows the Butlers across oceans and into the mysteries of the heart. |
by Jean Lopez | The Spanish Phalanx is a novel of fiction based on fact. It is set in the period of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. The story is about Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, an idealistic leader of a minor fascist political party. However, Jose Antonio himself is a fascist ill-made. He is unquestionably liberal. He wants to bring Spain into the twentieth century and create a just society for the Spanish people. |
by Terry Spring | Each story in Twenty Two Truly Twisted Tales is long enough for the story to develop and short enough to allow the story to give you a chuckle. Each unique tale has a twist in the ending. This is the ideal book to while away the time on a journey or at bed time and there are sufficient tales to keep you going for a while. |
by JB Rowley | Whisper My Secret sold out of its first print run before the book's launch and outsold the latest Harry Potter book in at least one Gippsland town. JB tells her mother's true story. Myrtle grew up in Albury, NSW during the 1930s where she falls victim to false accusations with tragic consequences that see her three young children taken from her. Ironically she is shamed into secrecy. |
| Fiction: Science Fiction |
by Paul Mealing | Elvene is on a reconnaissance mission when she is ambushed by a group of robotic space marauders. She finds refuge on an uncharted planet which holds a small group of humans, the Kiri. This community not only challenges everything she knows about humanity, but provides a friendship that ultimately leads her to consider the ultimate sacrifice. |
| Children's |
by Diana Harley | Beetles and Bugs will intrigue readers of all ages with its detailed colour pictures that depict the simple word text. An educational and entertaining read for all ages. |
by Adam Wallace | Better Out Than In is a collection of six gross, disgusting, HILARIOUS poems that kids will absolutely love. |
by Diana Harley | Butterflies is a stunning picture book that will delight readers, young and old. Aimed at the birth to 8 years age group. |
by Margaret Pearce | Carrington is a picture book for lower primary level. This is a very moral tale of a crocodile, who discovered that bullying and terrorising people doesn't pay, even if it is only in fun. |
by Penny Garnsworthy | Josh Townsend hates his life. He's had to move towns; his new school doesn't have computers; the footy team's already selected and nobody seems to want to talk to him. In The Cyber Riddles, Josh reluctantly befriends classmate Caitlin Randall and together they play the Internet game 'Cyberhunt' which promises them one wish ... if they can solve five virtual riddles. |
by Diana Harley | Cloud gazing can be lots of fun, especially when you have found a comfortable spot on the grass under a shady tree, all on a beautiful day! Underneath the Apple Tree will stir your imagination with its words, pictures and happy themes. |
| Young Adult |
by Penny Garnsworthy | Casey Reardon is knocked out during an under-14s rugby league match. When he wakes up, he is the same but just about everything else is different. In Across the Line, you'll discover if Casey has lost his mind or stumbled across an alternate reality. |
| Poetry |
by David J Delaney | My Small Book of Poems is inspired by memories of our beautiful outback, family, close war veterans and friends. What this book lacks in size, it more than makes up in heart. |
by Magdalena Ball | Quark Soup contains twenty eight poems which muse on topics like what it means to be human, love, loss, fear, longing, and transcendence. The appeal of this work is broad, and aimed towards a wide market of both sophisticated poetry readers, and those who feel that poetry is too highbrow or inaccessible for their tastes. |
by Roma Thomson | That's Life is a riotous, rhyming journey that starts with the likeable larrikin, Charlie, in his crib. It is richly illustrated by the author and printed in full-colour so it will both keep you laughing aloud and be a treasured keepsake. |
