AustLit

'A reflection on consciousness and its awakening - Moriarty's Super Gene challenges the reader to examine the personal instruments that we all accumulate to navigate through life.'

'The hero, Moriarty, is at once a participant in the game of life, a critic of humanity's foibles, a philosopher and a proud leftover from the '60s. He wrestles with everything from the decay of democracy, excessive political correctness, the horrors of Nazism and the extreme danger of climate change denial. Yet this is a book of great optimism which reaches the reader through humour, familiar experiences and fine analytical writing. It is an opportunity for some personal maintenance.'

'Perhaps its greatest strength is that it is a primer to an achieve better future, for a more just and humane world.' (Publisher's blurb)

'Queenstown is below, stitched into the bottom of the valley, the dark geometric shapes of the Mount Lyell headframe away to his left and the vast sail of Mount Owen on the other side of the town, opposite him. The summer sky is clean and clear, vast and high, an endless cathedral ceiling. This is where he comes when he wants to hide.

'1983 - The Franklin River Dam Blockade has invited protesters to Tasmania's remote West Coast. For one local delinquent, coping with an ill father and an uncertain future, their arrival brings a time of challenge and confrontation, when Billy begins to feel everything sliding out of control.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'This collection of poems is a companion to Mary Kille's first book, Happenstance.

'Both books reflect some acutely remembered experiences from her earlier years in England, but mostly people, places and pleasures of the lovely north west coast of Tasmania.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Matilda Langley is a beautiful young woman living with her family in the highlands of Tasmania in the 1850s. She falls in love with a sea captain and ends up with child. Disowned by her father, she flees the family farm. She is waylaid by two masked men. While escaping from the men she falls over a cliff. Because of her injuries, her clearly marked trail is found leading to the river where it is presumed she drowned. Her family believes her to be dead although no body was ever found.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'It is the early seventies. Mal Staines, from working-class Burnie, endeavours to reconcile his adolescent frustration and anger whilst searching for artistic enlightenment in Hobart. But from the grimy chaos of his revolting share-house, Mal battles the distractions of his quirky friends and a hedonistic way of life until he forms an unlikely friendship with an immigrant beekeeper. In this coming-of-age story Mal discovers there’s more to his parents than he ever imagined and that qualifying at art school doesn’t necessarily make you an artist.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'From the wilds of Tasmania's south-west in the 1880s to the boardroom of New York bankers in the 1990s and back again.

'Follow Paul Walker and his fiancée Carol in a dramatic, fast-moving journey as they try to unravel the mystery of the lost gold reef of Frank Timbs and the devastating murder of six innocent men at the Rosebery Mine in 1962.

'The blame lay with Paul's father, Dave. But was he really responsible?

'Each mystery leads Paul and Carol to even more questions and skulduggery culminating in a desperate battle to survive the combination of a crazed killer and the equally deadly vagaries of western Tasmania's terrain and weather.

'Although written as a work of fiction, some events in this book are based on actual events and people. It reflects the ever-present power struggles and corruption found in seemingly responsible company boardrooms and the lengths to which some people will go in their quest for wealth and power.' (Publication summary)