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1 y separately published work icon The Society of the Unwanted Kareena Ghosh , London : Olympia Publishers , 2024 29182963 2024 single work single work children's fiction children's 'Harley, Melissa, Adam, and Kai are no ordinary twelve-year-olds. They're detectives. Deep-digging, perceptive, and always willing to find the truth, they are far more capable of solving mysteries than their principal, Mr Westman... until he bans them from school detective business. But, when a masked figure arrives before dawn to present each of them with a mysterious parcel, the children must use their deduction skills to track down the sender. At an abandoned science lab, the four learn there's more to their talents than observation. People are missing, and it's down to Harley and her friends to rescue them. Can they prove to Mr Westman that they're worthy detectives?' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Ugo and Jack : Book 4 Geoff Parton , London : Olympia Publishers , 2022 25303887 2022 single work children's fiction children's

'Elizabeth’s two boys William and Henry, discover the devilish little creature named Rrrr, who takes them on a journey to the forbidden forest.

'There they find a hidden entrance to Fire Fly Valley, where they discover a strange world, that takes them into timelessness.

'Rrrr shows the boys the Future Pond, where the boys get a glimpse of their personal futures.

'Ugo appears as a sailor… While Eli’s ship is moored, the boys and Ugo, prevent a major attack on Eli’s ship, saving many lives.

'At the same time, this scares the life out of one of the sailors, when he sees the transformation of the sailor, into a huge semi-transparent figure, called Ugo.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Ugo and Jack : Book 3 Geoff Parton , London : Olympia Publishers , 2022 25303810 2022 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'In a parallel universe, Andi takes on the task of Elizabeth after the latter's accident that placed Elizabeth in the transit world two hundred years earlier. Andi, the new Elizabeth, known only to Ugo, Jack and Rrrr, needs to complete unfinished tasks. She is transported back to the late 1700s and forced to endure many hardships, kidnapped and dragged along in chains before being rescued and finding true happiness. Andi / Elizabeth marries Eli and has twins, Henry and William, who turn out to be extraordinary children, they will go on to change a world of corruption in the future, thus, they need to be prepared. Eli, Elizabeth's husband and the twin's father has no idea of what is really going on. It's a world where time is meaningless, and death only means a transition to new roles.'  (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Ugo and Jack Geoff Parton , 2021 London : Olympia Publishers , 2021- 25303583 2021 series - author children's fiction children's fantasy
1 y separately published work icon Ugo and Jack : Book 2 Geoff Parton , London : Olympia Publishers , 2021 25303736 2021 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'Jack and his family live on a farm in rural Australia in the 1950s, Jack's relationship with his father is full of conflict and drama. One day Jack goes camping to his favourite place in the nearby pristine valley where he often goes to escape.

'While there he falls and is knocked unconscious. In that period of unconsciousness, he is transported to a strange new world where he meets Ugo, a loveable friendly spirit.

'For Jack's survival, Ugo helps change the future, Ugo teaches Jack about birth, death and rebirth.

'When Jack awakes he thinks it has all been in his imagination, but he soon realises that it is all true!

'His amazing adventures are just about to begin.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Ugo and Jack : Book 1 Geoff Parton , London : Olympia Publishers , 2021 25303636 2021 single work children's fiction children's

'Jack has an unhappy home life on a remote farm. His alcoholic father and bullying older brother make life miserable for him and his younger brother, Billy. His only moments of brightness are occasional escapes to the beautiful wooded valley near the farm. On one such visit a freak accident leaves him unconscious. Drawn into a strange but wonderful encounter with the spirit world, he meets a new friend, Ugo, at his home, Fire Fly Valley. When an unexpected opportunity suddenly comes to explore the valley further, Jack is taken into a world of completely new dimensions where he can see things previously hidden. Wherever there is life, he discovers, there is also a spiritual force and he learns that he can even change the future for generations to come.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Squashed Chickens Jeff Horne , United Kingdom (UK) : Olympia Publishers , 2020 23586758 2020 single work autobiography

'A traumatic boyhood experience on his parent's farm, when an incident between him and a mother hen results in 'squashed chickens', becomes the backdrop for the author's deeply-moving, personal life story.

'After devastating experiences in the Vietnam War, he returns home to a newly-hostile society, rejection and humiliation. Mentally scarred, he tries to cope with the responsibilities but it proves too much. He goes back to the countryside, starts a farm and tries to make sense of the world while fighting his demons with the support of medical professionals, his wife and children.

'Jeff describes his torment as he offloads his confusion about religion, racism, society and life, all the time finding new 'squashed chickens' along the way.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon East Timor Reveille for Courage : Recollections of an Australian Human Rights Activist, 1998-2001 Vacy Vlazna , London : Olympia Publishers , 2020 20249490 2020 single work autobiography

'Vacy Vlazna is a poet and a skilled story teller building a hands-on, vigorous, humanitarian account of East Timor's freedom struggle. There is much to admire and enjoy in this compelling story of courage and of sophisticated political analysis coloured by a commitment to a common humanity on behalf of the people of now Timor Leste.

'Her focus on the daily lives of a poor, but not always powerless, people will not be repeated in any official, diplomatic account. That is the originality and the value of this reveille for Timor.

'Learn from the brave, resolute Timorese people and their supporters. Admire the value of independence and the vision needed to get there. Grasp the stamina, love, courage and the humour which peppers the pages of this book.

'- Em. Prof. Stuart Rees OA.'

Source : publisher's blurb
1 y separately published work icon Dead Centre Robin Bowles , London : Olympia Publishers , 2020 20225455 2020 single work biography crime

The most mystifying murder and abduction to take place on Australian soil. Thanks to Robin Bowles' extensive research, this is the exclusive story of Peter Falconio's murder and the escape and tale of Joanne Lees which raised more questions than answers.

Source : publisher's blurb
1 y separately published work icon Stalker, Stalker : At Any Cost Therese Sullivan , London : Olympia Publishers , 2019 20225597 2019 single work novel thriller

'Adam Sullivan's new secretary, Eliza, seems vaguely familiar and somewhat cold, calculating and altogether unsettling. Despite her efficiency, he cannot warm to her and her friendly texts don't endear her to him or his wife, Lucy.

'Eliza behaves from the start as though she were Adam's girlfriend, joining him for lunch, leaving notes in his pockets and ignoring his crystal-clear rebuffs. His colleagues can't see a problem: after all, they wouldn't mind her fancying them! Having Eliza moved to another office doesn't work, she believes it's because he can't hide his feelings for her.

'Faced with such immovable stubbornness, Adam's world starts to fall apart around him. Eliza's promise to ‘fix things' so they can be together terrifies him.

'When a colleague, Kim, introduces him to Shamash, an agency specialising in dealing with stalkers, their findings show how truly dangerous Eliza is when things don't go her way.'

Source : publisher's blurb
1 y separately published work icon Just Like a Son Shane Tindal , London : Olympia Publishers , 2019 20225520 2019 single work novel

'Eighteen year old Freddy has always wanted to be a pilot like his World War Two pilot father. He enrols at the Point Cook Air Force College as a cadet and makes enemies of two bullies on his first day. He also makes friends, including flying instructor Alistair Churchill and his wife, Muriel. A star cadet, Freddy and his best friend, Redhead, learn about life and love as they study and train, then eventually marry before going on to satisfying careers in the Air Force.

'Then Freddy wakes up, severely injured in a strange hut with a man, who tells him that not only has he crashed a Vampire jet, but that he is accused by his long term enemy, Victor Green, of causing the crash deliberately. Later in hospital, Freddy is advised by his friend and mentor, Alistair Churchill, that he is to face a court-martial.

'When the past catches up, the future can be devastating, but can it be salvaged?'
1 y separately published work icon Bush Rhonda Matheson-Browne , London : Olympia Publishers , 2019 19468169 2019 single work novel crime

'A complicated thriller, which entangles Wattle, a mother and wife, living what appears to be a very luxurious existence, in the exquisite seaside resort town of Lorne, Australia. She is nervously covering up a secret, involving her husband and her son, that is about to explode the perfect illusion that she has attempted to hide from her close-knit community. Like the passion vines, that entangle themselves and suffocate the Australian rainforest, Bush is a story of the entwinement of various lives into a complicated root system that lies just below the surface. These characters find themselves on an intoxicating course which creates catastrophic outcomes for everyone who becomes caught up in the undergrowth of the story and the outcomes are terrifying, breathtaking, heartbreaking and unexpected.

'A story of murder, conflict, environmental awareness, domestic violence, love, lust and the idea that dreams and nightmares can come true.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Miss Her Not, Miss Her Never Tracey Ryan , London : Olympia Publishers , 2018 14941392 2018 single work novel

'A woman hangs herself from the balcony of her own apartment block, and at once all the machinery of the emergency services kicks into life. Who is she? Why is her apartment so unusually clean and neat? And, strangest of all, how has it come about that her suicide has apparently taken place at precisely the same time as the murder of the very man whose incessant violence towards her and her children has driven her to this desperate act? Tracey Ryan's surprising short novel is both a murder mystery and an eloquent plea for an end to domestic violence. In the course of its unpredictable twists and turns, the damage wrought in too many homes is unflinchingly explored. Yet, at the same time, Ryan finds, amidst despair, some powerful resources for hope.'  (Publication summary)
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