Amy Soakes Amy Soakes i(28888393 works by)
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2 y separately published work icon Blood Covenant Alan Baxter , Maryland : Cemetery Dance Publications , 2024 27864918 2024 single work novel horror

'Whatever happens, don't bleed...

'What should have been a breeze of a bank heist for James Glenn and his crew goes violently wrong, forcing them to flee, blood-stained and angry. They stumble onto a remote lodge that doesn’t open for another month—a perfect place to lie low until the heat’s off.

'Except it’s occupied.

'The Moore family, just arrived to prepare for the season, are taken hostage by the criminals, but not without bloodshed. And when blood gets spilled, something ancient notices. Something malevolent. Something ravenous.

'Their only hope is the youngest Moore, teenager Rueben, outside and unseen when James and his gang arrive. It’s up to Rueben to get help and save his family, but the influence of the ancient evil is taking a toll on him as well…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2 22 y separately published work icon Joe Wilson and His Mates Henry Lawson , Edinburgh : William Blackwood , 1901 Z176014 1901 selected work short story
2 30 y separately published work icon My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn Miles Franklin , Melbourne : Georgian House , 1946 Z162219 1946 single work novel

'In this sequel to Miles Franklin's famous novel My Brilliant Career, once again we encounter the enchanting Sybylla Melvyn. She's a little older now, catapulted from bush obscurity into sudden fame with the publication of her autobiography. Sybylla goes to fashionable Sydney to further her career in the literary world, but her patrons, her critics and her innumerable suitors meet more than they bargained for in the wilful Sybylla.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (House of Books ed.).

3 14 y separately published work icon Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems Barcroft Boake , Alfred George Stephens (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1897 Z866614 1897 selected work poetry
2 7 y separately published work icon Notes and Sketches of New South Wales During a Residence in That Colony from 1839 to 1844 Louisa Anne Meredith , London : John Murray , 1844 Z455934 1844 single work prose travel

Personal observations of an intelligent and articulate lady in her early 30's - on sailing from England in 1839 and of life in the colony of N.S.W. until her departure for Tasmania in 1844. (Libraries Australia)

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