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Mark Smith's first novel, The Road to Winter, is a fast paced story of survival set in the not too distant future. It's a guaranteed page turner or your money back.

'We Ate the Road Like Vultures' is a contemporary 'road trip' by Lynette Lounsbury full of invention and surprises.

Nick Richardson explores the power and influence of sport during the great conflict of World War 1 in 'The Game of Their Lives'.Rebecca Ryan has written about simple ideas on how to meditate which are suitable for anyone in 'Mindfulness for Mothers'.

Zana Fraillon's, 'The Bone Sparrow', is a heart rending story of what happens to asylum seekers incarcerated in detention centers.'Dead Men don't order Flake' is another of Sue Williams humourous crime stories, set in country towns where government policies could be the 'sauce' for murder.

When a young woman is murdered it makes media headlines.  Emily Maguire's book 'An Isolated Incident' concentrates on the effect to loved ones.

Katherine Brabon's, 'The Memory Artist', explores the collective soul of Russia as her character, Pasha Ivanov, revisits the past and the landscape of his future.

'Two Decades Naked' is Leigh Hopkinson's memoir about her two decades working as a stripper in Australia and overseas. It provides an interesting insight into an industry normally not discussed.

Indulge in 'The Hotel Du Barry' - a novwl of 1920's manners and decadence by Lesley Truffle.

Arnold Zable takes us ino the boxing ring of life in 'The Fighter'.

Join in a tribute of four decades of 3CR's community service in 'Radical Radio-celebrating 40 years of 3CR, introduced by Juliet Fox. Toni Jordan has written a comedy about love and marriage, how kids are hurt and the hurt that comes with the inability to conceive them in 'Our tiny, useless hearts'.

There are many perspectives possible when writing about conflict; the hero's as well as the enemy's. David provides both views in 'Dreaming the Enemy'.

Explore love and the delights of Rome in Mark Lemprell's novel, 'A Lovers' Guide to Rome'.Kat Patrick has listed the loves and amusing truths in 'I Am Doodle Cat', illustrated by Laureen Marriott and published by Scribble, the brand new kid's imprint of Scribe Publications.

In 'The Art of Reading' Damon Young writes about curiosity, courage and patience being just a few of the dispositions necessary for a good reader. The role of The Californian in the Titanic tragedy remains an enigma that is explored in David Dyer's 'The Midnight Watch'.

Luke Devenish creates a sense of Australian Gothic in 'The Secret Heiress'.

The truth about a dog being man's best friend is behind Reka Kaponay's supernatural story of nightmares, 'Dawn of the Guardian'.

Aoife Clifford has set 'All these Perfect Strangers' in a university, with new friends to be made, secrets to be hidden and murders. A morally complex page turner.

The effect of suicide on best friends is at the heart of Jennifer Down's 'Our Magic Hour'.Ruth Clare's 'Enemy' looks at how her father brought the Vietnam War home.

How much does Angie, a single mother manipulate George an elderly widower?  Tess Evans 'Mercy Street' is a book about love, loss and loneliness

Will the daughter tell her secret and allow her family help her? Sara Foster's 'All That is Lost Between Us' is a domestic noir set in the Lake District in England.  A lost child, a mother's responsibility and a critical society come to the fore in Olga Lorenzo's 'The Light on the Water'.

Hugo Race takes us on a journey through music, time and history in his reminiscence, 'Road Series', and provides insights about life as a musician. Fiona McFarlane has characters reviewing themselves at the end of each short story in 'The High Places'

Barry Jones takes us on a journey of the great classical works of music and literature in a book that spans several ages and continents.

'Kings Rising' is the third installment in C.S. Pacat's Captive Prince trilogy. Erica Jewel is Kathryn Ledson's creation and in her third crime novel,  'Grand Slam', she protects the number one seed at the Australian Open from danger and herself! Both authors also discuss their involvement with Romance Writers.  

David Carlin knows Sosina well and has written her story of growing up in Ethiopia, finding asylum and a circus career in Australia and the emotional draw back to family and culture of Ethiopia in 'The Abyssinian Contortionist'.

We journey into a surreal world in Leanne Hall's adolescent novel, 'Iris and the Tiger'.

Mary Parker's, 'Fairy tales Written by Rabbits', is an allegorical tale that blends reality and fantasy. The journey of Heath and Millet is one of discovering identity. Anne Brown's, 'Wimmera Journeys'. explores the clash of cultures in the Australia of the 1850's. It is a fictionalized account of a true story. European settlers imposed their expectations on an indigenous boy, Willy, who was taken...