Cirrus@Austlit

'INCIDENT AT REDDING CREEK is rich with tension, grim stoicism and heightened masculinity of the male characters and the isolation challenging the women left alone to survive the harshness of an unrelenting community of new settlements.

'In a time of growth and wonder of a new country finding its own identity and building its unique history. It captures the men and women of clipped sentences and straight-talking words of the no-nonsense attitude necessary to survive in the remote bush period of the 1890s Australian outback.

'A journey with drover’s who battle the harsh land to see the relationships shared between each other, between white man and Aborigine; between man and the land and, finally, the ultimate and unavoidable relationship with their own mortality.

'Suspended in remoteness, the drama of each character surviving and reacting to events shows how life for people today has not changed so much.... a spiritual journey of survival, love and loss...'  (Publication summary)

'For young mother, Kimberley McIntyre, a dark past arrives to confront her with malice intent…and to threaten everything she has built for her new life…

'As a near-death moment catapults Ashley McIntyre’s realization that his marriage to Kimberley is over…but was it ever real to begin with and the answer will never be understood until the end comes to haunt them…

'Police seek out the murderer hellbent on stalking and killing young women in the city and they know time is running out to catch him…but they never knew one of their own would be helping him, until it was all too late…

'Confrontation of fears and pains explode throughout the night with a vengeance rampant and unrelenting to those desperate enough to survive the darkness of their own past shadows carried deep within their souls for only hell to care about…'(Publication summary)

'In a collection of tales from the mind of a self-confessed nutter, we uncover the entertaining value of pure fiction and indulgence…

'First there was George, a decent enough dweller who was disenchanted in becoming the director of a film he’d wrote of a dream dismissing doubt of deliverance…

'Second, we meet the decaying unstable mind of a young man deemed deluded by a power of death to be unrepented and then somewhat demented to the desires of success that default the darkened demons of his mind…

'Third, a dystopian author who in detail writes his own demise in a deluge of grief and panic amongst the sanity of the insane within his very pages … 

'Then, a dear younger lady descends to her death by daring to discover the decency of living the truth in her spiritual destiny and deciding to dictate her own life values with diversity and discretion that deepens all the deserving by demystifying her very driven desire to detach from all her fears and doubts…' (Publication summary)

'This complex psychological novel tells of love,loss, illness, pain, death, and the tangled web woven when people who love each other hide the truth and hold onto traumatic memories.

'Moving across two generations, where love overcomes grief, damage and loneliness.

'A woman abandoned; a man tormented and a daughter deceived entwined in a story that has at its heart the life and death of a writer, and the impact his life and his writing have on his intimate circle and their connections. A tale of gritty realism...a journey into the darker side of relationships that create disturbing psychological complexity and tension.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Expecting parents, Michael and Michelle Armstrong, look forward to the birth of their first child, Anna, yet Michael finds himself captive to a crazed ICE addict, leaving Michelle to suffer an unexpected difficult delivery…

'Braxton City is immersed in fear as a calculating killer abducts, rapes, tortures then kill’s young women without remorse and leaves nothing but battered corpses around the city; only to raise more questions than uncover needed answers for the police. Detective Paul Anderson, burdened by the case, learns of a female victim who has escaped the very serial killer they hunt…only what she knows will put her in grave danger and thrust the city into absolute shock if the truth she holds is revealed… A complex and utterly enthralling thriller that asks a burning question…

'What will happen to Anna the day she is born?'   (Publication summary)