Books

Some legends are remembered. Others are waiting to be found.

Jennifer Liddel expected her two years in England’s Lake District to be quiet. While her veterinarian husband, Maurice, completes advanced research in bovine medicine, she fills her days with writing, riding and exploring the isolated estate they temporarily call home.

Then, beside a...

A bull killed his father.
Magnus Bigelow intends to return the favour.

At fifteen, Magnus watches his father die on their remote Australian cattle property, killed by a fighting bull imported from Spain.

A year later, obsessed with revenge, he travels to Spain with an extraordinary ambition—to become a matador.

At the Escuela Taurina de San...

Why would an up-and-coming NRL star risk everything... when he already had it all?

Kai Dunbar had fought his way back from drugs, drink-driving and public disgrace to reclaim the career everyone thought he’d thrown away.

The NRL welcomed him back.

His club trusted him.

The fans believed in him again.

Then came a million-dollar idea.

A...

Why would a dying woman leave a $40-million fortune to a man she barely knew—and almost nothing to her only son?

Arthur Rolfe is a council grader driver, a practical man more comfortable behind the controls of a Caterpillar than sitting in a solicitor's office discussing inheritances.

Then Eleanor Vance dies.

To everyone's astonishment, she leaves...

It began, as these things often do, with something small.

A routine trip to the supermarket.
A packet of bacon.
An item not charged.

Most people would have let it go.

Grace Mitchell did not.

What follows is a quietly escalating chain of events that moves from customer service desk… to legal correspondence… to something rather larger than anyone...

Move Over Bond...?

James Bond has a licence to kill.

Senior Sergeant James Roxby has something far more dangerous... a conscience.

Decorated SAS veteran. Elite detective. Country police officer. Roxby thought he'd left his darkest battles behind when he accepted a quiet posting to a sleepy rural town. Then a violent home invasion drags him back...

The copper telephone lines are gone, but the past refuses to hang up.

In the centre of the long hallway of an old Queensland farmhouse, a black Bakelite telephone sits on a purpose-built timber table, a silent witness to seventy years of family history.

It is more than a communication device; it is the “keeper of family stories,” a vessel that has...

Welcome to Villa Villani.

The car park is always full.

The queue at the front door grows longer by the minute.

The cocktails arrive before you’ve ordered them.

The meal you receive probably isn’t the one you asked for.

And somehow...

...it will be the best lunch you’ve had in years.

Meet Don Angelo, the retired Italian patriarch who can solve...

When Daniel and Rachel Hartman purchase the decaying Twilight Star Saloon in San Francisco, they believe they are investing in a future, restoring history, building something of their own, and leaving behind the violence and loss of their former lives. But old buildings do not easily surrender their past.

Hidden behind embossed wallpaper and...

Year of The Red Sun is a chilling geopolitical thriller about administrative capture and the quiet mathematics of power. It explores how nations do not fall in battle, but in briefings — how sovereignty is not seized, but recalibrated.

Built on the doctrine of “arithmetic as mercy,” the novel traces the slow alignment of institutions, incentives,...

A Shepherd from Mercy to The Long Paddock is the kind of story that feels carved from the land itself, red dust, cold mornings, the smell of lanolin and chalk.

Ross Cooper’s life begins within the stone walls of a Mercy orphanage, where obedience is demanded and tenderness is rationed. Escaping into the world of men’s work, shearing, droving,...

BALD

Born Analogue. Lived Digital.

In 1949 the world ran on radios, newspapers, and black telephones fixed to the wall.

By 2026 machines are writing, thinking, navigating aircraft, guiding tractors, managing money, and sometimes even holding conversations with us.

How did it happen?

In BALD, Australian author Michael Holding takes readers on a...

Pinned down in the suffocating silence of the Victorian Highlands, Senior Constable Brian Sortell and his Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) confront their deadliest challenge yet. An unseen sniper, Andre de Villiers – a ghost from South Africa’s elite Special Task Force – has already claimed a police dog and four officers, transforming the...

Kai Dunbar had everything.

Raw talent. A professional contract. The bright lights of the NRL.

And in one reckless night, he lost it.

Raised in the cane fields of North Queensland, Kai was the kid destined to make it — the pride of his family, the hope of his town. Rugby league was his way out. His future. His identity.

But success has a shadow.

He survived the war. The system might finish him.

When a gunman from his past tracks him to a remote Queensland posting, Senior Sergeant James Roxby makes a split-second decision that saves his life — and costs another man his.

But the threat wasn’t random.

It was a warning.

Once an elite SAS operator, Roxby knows how enemies think. Now,...

Rétrograde Justice: A novel by Max Barrington

When justice goes soft, one man turns hard.

In Rétrograde Justice, Max Barrington delivers a razor-edged thriller that asks how far a man will go when the law won’t go far enough.

Harry Croft, freshly retired and grieving the sudden, senseless death of his wife at the hands of reckless youths, finds...

GOING BACKWARDS – A Gripping Tale of Survival, Betrayal, and Redemption

After losing his parents, Marcus Diarmuid embarks on a journey from England to Australia, seeking a fresh start. But fate has other plans. A deadly altercation at Brisbane’s Terrace Hotel forces him on the run, fleeing to the outback town of Quilpie—only to be arrested and...

There are books that entertain, books that thrill, and then there are books like 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒆’𝒔 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅, which haunt. Max Barrington’s sweeping novel is far more than a crime mystery or a bushranger legend; it’s a richly layered exploration of legacy, identity, and the lengths we go to in pursuit of truth… or treasure.

From the very first page, the...

The King is dead. Long live the spare.

When a devastating avalanche wipes out the reigning monarch and his family in Switzerland, the line of succession is shattered. Desperate to keep the crown from his estranged, ambitious son, Prince Arnold (and his manipulative partner, Melvin Clarkson), King Alexander IV executes a stunning contingency...

He left the force for a quieter life…
The sea had other plans.

Harry Cousins is a retired Australian police officer with a problem—his new life isn’t working.
A struggling charter business, a dwindling bank account, and too much time to think have left him questioning everything.

Then he meets Jantjie.

Confident. Experienced. Unpredictable.

A man...