Cirrus@Austlit

'Two people from different cultural and social backgrounds with separate and dramatic life experiences. Binh is a violinist in the Melbourne Symphony orchestra, who lost everything yet found strength to pick up the pieces … and Julia working for an escort agency as a receptionist to pay off the debts of her deceased husband. Despite their differences they find comfort and love with each other...Fate is the unknown that happens to everybody … destiny is what you create.' (Synopsis)

'Tomorrow is Bruno’s last day of school for the year. But the full moon makes everything strange.

'Granny gives him Bill’s Big Book of Bunyips to read.

'Will this explain why there is fur growing down his arms, and who keeps painting the funny faces and breaking the farm fences?

'Bruno’s neighbours, the Stickwhistles, want to drain his beloved swamp to build their pineapple cannery.

'To save the swamp, Bruno talks to the animals and climbs the Big Pimple to find out who he really is.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Skyla Merrick is always in some kind of trouble ...

'In disgrace and suspended, the Cornish-born detective witnesses the first of the bizarre deaths while visiting Arthurs Bay, a coastal fishing village with bigger ideas. The director of a local climate change research facility, Edwina Ling, is number one.

'Skyla relishes the opportunity to restore her fortunes but false evidence and her personal demons deceive her and she chases the wrong suspect.

Then there is another, and then another death ...

Her one-time lover helps resolve her confusion and assists her pursuit of the murderer with renewed clarity. Colleagues quietly follow their own investigations and pursue the money trail. And then there is the confrontation between the developers and conservationists ...

'When Skyla and local police officer Hugh Fitzpatrick bring their work together, she sees the solution.

'But can she catch the killer?' (Publication summary)

'WEEKEND TERROR In the sleepy coastal suburb of Willow Cove, Thorny, Lou and Happy spend much of their free time swimming and surfing. When they see a speedboat ram Mr. Wilson's dinghy, their early morning swim becomes the start of a weekend of adventure, mystery and terror. ... ' (Publication summary)

'Billy's grandmother moves to an Retirement Home for the elderly up in the hills. While cleaning her bush cottage for a tenant, Billy finds a ring among the rubbish. She slides it on her finger, quickly discovering she can talk and understand birds and animals, especially bossy ones like her grandmother's Siamese cat... Life will never be the same again.. 'Come on, ' the husky voice said crossly. 'We must hurry.' I stared at the cat. Did the voice come from the cat? The cat stared back. Grandmother always said Bast was intelligent, but talking cats! Was I going down with heat stroke? 'Bast?' 'Beloved of the Goddess, the ring has accepted you, ' the cat hissed. 'The ring, ' I repeated like an idiot. 'The ring...' the cat hissed. She stopped lashing her tail and stared at me with her mad crossed blue eyes. 'It gives you the power to understand and be understood by all creatures.' 'Like the Dr Doolittle who could talk to animals?' 'Never heard of him, ' the cat hissed. 'So I can understand cat language, ' I said. 'All creatures, ' the cat hissed.' (Publication summary)

'TWO LIVES... A car crash - two lives collide, shattering one and setting in train a series of events that may ruin the other. Two damaged women whose lives have touched, and whose salvation may ultimately lie in each other. Dedicated to anyone, anywhere who can identify with the two women in this book.' (Publication summary)

'The Greying snakes across Bigriver towards Landland… all the lands are in turmoil. Meah combines her power of thinking with the magical Book of Colours, and joins the Bigriverland army to fight the horrid Firbog. Faith, Hope, and Charity, the white many-headed-winged-thing, returns. Auntie Beryl has become the evil Queen Berilbog – she must be stopped. Many-headed-winged-things soar high over battle-fields, three-humped-beasts-of-war go on the rampage, and, from out of the mists of the greying, slithering Homunculi goad them on. Meah’s magical plans are not what Landland needs– Firbog hordes swarm across a dried up Bigriver into Landland, cutting their way through The Scented Forest, all the way up to the tip of Mount Beacon. Chaos reigns supreme, Landland writes its own story… but the story is all wrong. Meah looks for a way to escape. Will she find her father, The Biggo, again? Can they win their way home – should they leave Landland and all their friends in the clutches of Auntie Beryl, the Grey Lady?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'LANDLAND CRIES OUT FOR A SAVIOUR...

'Upon the death of her mother, Meah is pulled across the boundary that separates this world and another time and place where the dog-like Firbog have brought the mists of the greying. Under the evil Queen Berilbog they threaten to claim all the lands. With her Mother dead and her Father missing - she is on her own! Can Meah learn how to use the power of the thinking? Will there be enough time to save both Landland and herself? Will Meah ever find her way home again? She must triumph over grief and sadness on her journey into a world made cold, grey, and colourless by the ravages of the greying. Meah travels into the depths of Bigriverland to find the mysterious sage, The Biggo. In the heart of Dead Wood, Meah meets Josh O'Tosh, the last of the warrior Pictish Priests. Battling lurking homunculi and the horrors of the many-headed-winged-thing, they set out to recover the only thing that will save Landland ...her mother's Book-of-Colours.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A sanctioned murder and all hell breaks loose! The Politics of Murder is a story of the greed inherent in man and his disregard for the consequences. While scientists developed the nuclear fuel, they failed to produce a safe waste storage system. When a clandestine facility is built in Western Australia, an equally secret mercenary force is set up without the knowledge of the Government. Dan Brennan and Mac McLean are back again in this exciting yet challenging thriller of thrillers. Instead of a simple case of murder, the two detectives find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy that extends up the line of command to the very top. When an assassination team is sent to execute them, it can only mean one thing – the Prime Minister himself has betrayed them.' (Publication summary)

'What else could possibly go wrong?

'Geoff is sixteen and still at school.

'Julio is a seventeen year-old panel beater.

'Herbie is eighteen and already in the Air force.

'They have a common love - skydiving.

'Nothing seems to go right for Geoff - he has to go behind his over-protective mother's back to even watch. But no way she will permit him to jump!

'The boys' barbecue sparks a bushfire... and no one is pleased and when a jumper commits suicide, his mother hears part of a conversation... and jumps to the wrong conclusion. When a white powder she finds in his back pocket is not what she thinks, it is the last straw!

'Maybe he should leave home ...

'An adventure story set around the sport of skydiving!' (Publication summary)

'Billy’s grandmother moves to an retirement home for the elderly up in the hills. While cleaning her bush cottage for a tenant, Billy finds a ring among the rubbish. Sliding it onto her finger, she quickly discovers she can talk and understand birds and animals, especially bossy ones like her grandmother’s Siamese cat...

Life will never be the same again!' (Publication summary)

'As soon as the Flynn brothers lifted their Glocks, Dan was in trouble. Silence descended like a cloak of doom. No confusion crossed his mind... it was clear he would die in the next few seconds...

A detective and mystery story set in and around Adelaide, South Australia. ' (Source: Libraries Australia)