Cirrus@Austlit

'Ruth Black is an English novelist left widowed by the mysterious death of her husband during the Great War. She immigrates to Australia and settles in the sleepy coastal town of Pelican River to repair her broken heart and work on her next novel.

But her quiet life is thrown into disarray when Aunt Julia arrives with an urgent, dreadful message. Ruth’s life is in danger and the threat is from a source not entirely of this world. With the assistance of her butler Rutherford, and her good friend the inventor Gordon Duncombe, Ruth finds herself caught up in a hair-raising race to defy her impending doom.' (Publication abstract)

'Spider Webb fixes time machines for a living, and hates it. The time machine biz has changed: machines are portable, less expensive and even disposable. But one machine, an illegal, radically overclocked, hotrod built by Spider's boss, has been stolen and Spider is the only Time Machine repair man who might be able to find it before the end of time itself. A tale that spans different time zones of the 21st century and beyond.'

Source: Publisher's Blurb

'For now, Spider must be content with repairing broken time machines, rebuilding his life and avoiding the lunatic antics of his boss, Dickhead McMahon.

'Spider's life is status quo until he discovers inside a broken second-hand time machine, the corpse of a brutally murdered woman from the future. The Department of Time and Space steps in to manage the situation - leaving Spider asking a lot of questions that only lead to more questions; unsettling evidence, brewing trouble, and the knowledge that Spider himself might be involved in an epic battle for control of time itself.

'Will his knowing the future be a curse or a blessing? and will Spider Webb really find out how things turn out before they happen? With his new found knowledge, who can Spider trust?

'One thing is certain: it will all happen before the End of Time!' (Publisher's blurb)