Good Boy Joe

Vicky Bhargav has fallen.

When India’s famed film industry turns its back on one of the brightest stars of its past, it takes a slum dweller, riding his rundown scooter, to save the day for him.

One unusual road trip and a series of comical misadventures later, the two men end up bringing a glimmer of joy and hope in each other’s downtrodden lives.

Gold Shades: A True Lady

Will a man ever be able to tell it from a woman’s perspective? The short answer is no. Let alone a young man with just over two decades of experience. What would he know? What has he even experienced? He doesn’t even know himself yet. Absurd, right?

This novel aims to do exactly that. 9 women. 9 story lines. 9 perspectives. Sounds a lot, I know. I still can’t get my head around it. It’s quite emotionally draining being a woman, you know. Well, try being 9 different ones for a day.

Be prepared to be taken on a journey, with many ups and downs, twists and turns. Be prepared to laugh, to cry and be awed.

Men, take notes. Women, enjoy.

Going Dutch: A Constructive Guide to Europe

When a young electrician becomes bored and disillusioned with life in England, the hopes and thoughts of adventure spur him towards life over the Channel. Join Dan Johnson’s travels as they lead to a collection of like-minded characters, all trying to succeed in life on the continent, and a merry-go-round of their successes and losses amid the canals and coffee shops of Holland.

Free From The End Into Something New

The traumatic experiences of many sudden changes within her childhood leading up to her adulthood. A fight for Patricia’s life is needed in order to survive. A desperation of people fighting for her love parallel to a personal need to be accepted by her true love compels Patricia to realise that there is always an end to something new. What she has to leave at the end and bring with her in the new is what seems to always catch her by surprise. However, having faith in God throughout brings her through each stage of her life knowing that the new cannot control or oppress but only empower.

Free From The End Into Something New is a fictional book which covers real-life topics such as abuse, pain, emotional attachment, the Windrush generation, fostering, romance and marriage. This book will bring you an alternate thought-provoking narrative of characters which will leave you inspired, engaged and empowered.

Forgetting Jake

Ben is a rancher, living in Carter’s Pass, Oregon, a small town where nothing ever happens. He spends his days taking care of his young son, feeding horses, and mending fences around his property. That is, until early one morning, when a stranger ends up on the road to his ranch.

The young man is uninjured but has no idea who he is or how he ended up on the road. Named ‘Frankie’ by Ben’s son, the young man has flashes of his past. But as he begins falling for Ben his memories become clearer, and the past catches up with him. What will happen when the life Frankie has made with Ben clashes with the old?

Forever and a Day

Life is never dull in the seaside village of Trentmouth on the Dorset coast. Molly and Alistair await the joyous arrival of another new life into the family and to their friends they are the perfect happy couple. Bertie finally opens his vegetarian beachside café with the support of his wife Lucy, a midwife at the local hospital. The Reverend Suzanne has caused quite a stir in sleepy Trentmouth and Lady Isobel has plans of her own at the Manor.

Tranquillity is short-lived when Molly has to make some serious decisions about the veterinary practice she has worked so hard to build; Lucy’s health is threatened and she is faced with imminent changes at the hospital and the ‘Rev’ has ruffled one too many feathers.

Molly, Lucy and Suzanne continually find themselves thrown together for mutual help and support turning this quiet little backwater of village life upside down in ways they had not expected – will life for them ever be the same again?

For Redder

Harry Larsen’s boyhood in post-war Sydney is marred by the death of his Danish father. With the loss of their breadwinner, Harry and his mother move to a new life in the country in New South Wales. He takes with them an old biscuit tin containing letters and items left by his father. The letters, in a language he cannot understand, and the words ‘For redder’ levelled in anger at his father, become posers that the Harry seeks to solve. The adult Harry learns of his mother’s death while employed as an engineer on a copper mine on the island of Bouganville, a mine that is increasingly opposed by the islanders. Returning to Australia for his mother’s funeral he decides to give up his life as an engineer and go to Denmark to find the truth of his father’s wartime activities; to his resistance to the German occupation of his country. For Harry it is a journey of discovery to find the family that he has not known and, ultimately, to love.

“A debut novel of a boy raised in Sydney to the adult who seeks to find the truth of his father’s participation in resistance to German occupied Denmark.”

Flotsam and Jetsam

Phil Wilson is an ageing saxophone player who washed up in the Ocean Breeze caravan park, like flotsam left on the beach after a storm. Even for those somewhat on the margins of the good society, life can be pleasant. Phil and his fellow caravan park renters thought so.

But life throws a series of curveballs and they can give in or fight back. They will need to navigate the testing waters of interpersonal relationships, bureaucracy, and the unpatrolled worlds of online communities.

Set on the Surf Coast in Victoria, the novel is a wry study of male mateship and the challenges of friendship and relationships.

Flamingo Tears

The odyssey of a supreme court judge tainted with scandal: a brilliant female barrister, two women, one a pathologist and the other a lawyer, who run an underground little theatre, and the judge’s mother. They are privileged, comfortable and confident. The world about them changes. The sea recedes.

Lightning and thunder are constant in the background. Stories and rumours contaminate that which had been previously taken as a day-to-day normal. Confusion and tragic assumptions are made when the safety of truth is trumped by versions of something more convenient. All around them, fiction has become the constant fall-back against the unpalatable real.

Everything is perplexing and challenging. Though for all of them, there is something on the tip of their minds that they should be recognising. All is not new. Some things are being repeated historically, over and over again. They are acutely discomforted by the fact that the truth is uncertain in both words and intentions. They are out of kilter participating in a new version of life. An unreal version, that confronts and challenges them day after day: a challenging version devoid of rules or precedent. The points of the compass are confused. There is a risk, undefined, in making eye-contact. They have been thrust into a version of life that is not simply fake: they bleed too much, and know pain, and fear—or not! Is it all just a performance?

Finding Handel

When the sixty-five-year-old Handel’s journey through Holland is interrupted by a road accident, he is nursed back to health by a hermit and a servant girl who both have deeply troubled lives. He embarks on an inner journey, recalling musical triumphs and failures, dreaming of his past loves, facing up to his faults of character and asking himself questions: why has he chosen Britain as his home? Why does he feel compelled to compose his final oratorio, 'Jephtha', in a race against time with his encroaching blindness? 

His London friends realise he is missing and try to find him, led by his number one admirer, the artist Mary Delany, who passionately opposes the oppression of women and celebrates her own sexuality. Handel’s Christian faith is so badly shaken by a quarrel with the freethinking hermit that it threatens to prevent him from completing his life’s work. The novel takes us right away from the usual stereotypes of Handel as a haughty courtier or a comical foreigner, and into the mind of an intensely private and passionate man whose unique musical gifts are enjoyed more widely today than ever before.

Final Settlement

Life during South Africa’s apartheid times had been idyllic for the white residents of a small village in the picturesque Nede Valley. Ken Chandler witnessed this when he moved there from England. However, he thought things would need to change following the abolition of apartheid and he saw that the nature and governance in the nearest towns and smaller townships had changed rapidly to suit the needs of the Zulu and Indian residents, but nothing had changed within the Nede valley.

How they were to maintain a “whites only” village was a major concern for its residents, but how were they to achieve this? Would it be amicably achieved or would they need to resort to violence? Eventually, change was brought about in the village, but not in a way that anyone would have envisaged.

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