Book list August 2015
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Heather and Heath Sally Odgers ISBN: 978-0-9925580-9-3 TPB ($31.99) 978-0-9942285-0-5 Ebook ($5.99) Format: 6 x 9 inches Category: Historical Fiction Book Description: Love of a place. Is it a blessing or a curse? Established in the highlands of Van Diemen’s Land in the 1830s, the property of Glen Heather captivates yet breaks the hearts of three women across three generations. One who was there at its birth, one must hold it for her son, and one who loves it best of all, stand to lose what has become their world. How far will they go to hold what is theirs?
The Art of Effective Dreaming Gillian Polack ISBN: 978-0-9942285-7-4 TPB ($26.99) ISBN: 978-0-9942285-8-1 Ebook ($5.99) Format: 6 x 9 inches Category: Fiction / Fantasy This is not a self-help book, but it’s a book about dreams. They are not always good dreams. Fay is a dreamer. To escape real life, which she finds ‘drearily, drably and impossibly dull‘, Fay creates a dream-world. She escapes there as often as possible. But what happens when the line between dream and real life blurs? Dead morris dancers. Horror and happiness. Folksongs and friendship. Can she trust anything, or anybody?
Being Norah Kelly Modulon ISBN: 978-0-9942285-1-2 TPB ($24.99) ISBN: 978-0-9942285-2-9 Ebook ($3.99) Format: 5 x 8 inches Category: Romance Book Description: Norah is bothered by an annoying inkling that her aloneness may in fact be making her lonely. Juggling her sister’s melodramas and hospitalisation of her mother is something Norah is quite capable of handling. But it is when the awkward Dr.Gregg Griffin continues to cross her path that Norah really starts to realise that her life is missing something. But can a visiting cat, a pair of borrowed red high heels and a late night passion for playing piano really be enough to bring one lonely soul out of fear, and into the arms of a life fulfilled?
Reading the Entrails : An Interview with Lucius Shepard Jack Dann ISBN: 978-0-9942285-3-6 PB ($9.99) ISBN: 978-0-9942285-4-3 eBook ($1.99) Format: 5 x 8 inches Pages: 42 Category: Chat book / Interview Between the years 1990 and 1992 Jack Dann had many conversations with American author, Lucius Shepard over the phone. This is an interview conducted during one of those calls and was never published. With the passing of Lucius late in 2014, Mr. Dann felt it was time to release this as a tribute to a life-long friend. This also contains an introduction by Mr. Dann that is heartfelt in the loss of this friend.
The Rebel : Second Chance Jack Dann ISBN: 978-0-9943108-5-9 HB.LE $59.99 ISBN: 978-0-9943108-4-2 TPB $32.99 ISBN: 978-0-9943108-3-5 ebook $6.99 Format: 6 x 9 inches Category: Fiction / Alternate History Book Description: Sixty years ago, the legendary actor James Dean died in a horrific highspeed car crash. His life, full of enormous possibility, was over in an instant. All the promise of youth and genius ended on a sun-bleached American highway in 1955.
But what if…? What if James Dean didn’t die in his Porche Spyder racing car? What if he lived to change what we think of as ‘history’? In this special edition of his critically acclaimed novel The Rebel, bestselling author Jack Dann gives James Dean a second chance: a chance to change the cultural and political landscape of America. The Rebel: Second Chance is a wild, almost hallucinatory ride through America’s culture of the 50s and 60s. Here is all the glamour, danger, pathos, and promise that was America. Here is America through the looking glass: a time when James Dean came into his own… a time when he lived fast and furious… a time when he ran with Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and the Kennedys. A time of danger, dissipation, and, yes, even hope.
Tales of Cymria K.J. Taylor ISBN: 978-0-9943108-2-8 HC.LE $59.99 ISBN: 978-0-9943108-1-1 TPB $29.99 ISBN: 978-0-9943108-0-4 ebook $5.99 Format: 6 x 9 inches Category: Fantasy Book Description: These are the lost tales of Cymria, drawn from the Malvern and Liranwee archives, now gathered in a single volume for the first time. How did Arren Cardockson become a griffiner and rise to the post of Master of Trade? And what was the origin of his mysterious connection to the Redguard family? Why did Bran Redguard eventually become known as Bran the Betrayer? And how did Skraed the griffin become Skade, the Wild Woman of Withypool? Now is the time to find out, and learn more about the mysterious land of Cymria, and some of the people who have lived in it, whose later lives were written about in The Dark Griffin and its sequels. Featuring illustrations drawn by the author, along with extra material written exclusively for this volume.
But this is more than just another edition of a critically lauded novel. The Rebel: Second Chance is the ‘compleat’ novel. It contains new chapters and story lines: adding up to an extra 135,000 words! This is the author’s original vision, which Satalyte Publishing are proud to publish in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of James Dean’s death.
The Dragon and the Crow : Magickless Book One T.B McKenzie ISBN: 978-0-9943408-8-7 TPB ($27.99) ISBN: 978-0-9943408-9-4 Ebook ($5.99)
The Narrative of Deserter Burman Greg Pyers ISBN: 978-9942285-7-4 TPB ($27.99) ISBN: 978-9942285-8-1 eBook ($3.99) Format: 6 x 9 inches Category: Historical Fiction
Format: 6 x 9 inches Category: Fantasy / Young Adult Magick is the birthright of every child in Arkadia. Power defines a person’s name, their skill, their destiny. Brin Menderson is different. Even the simplest spells do nothing for him and he is starting to fear that he might not have magick at all. Little does he know that there are those in the kingdom who would see an end to peace and order; an end to the golden age of magick. They believe in a prophecy, an ancient rhyme about a child foretold to end the kings rule and bring dragons back to the starless sky. Brin is about to learn that having no magick might just make him the most important person in all the land. “Heralds the coming of a strong new voice in Australian fantasy. A compellingly readable tale. His hero may not have magick but McKenzie does.” – Justin Woolley, author of A Town Called Dust
In 1834 Private Benjamin Burman is on the run to a new life in America. But the British Army does not suffer deserters; Benjamin is captured and banished to Van Diemen’s Land. Yet even when his sentence is over, his punishment is not done, for he is forever to be reminded of his disgrace by a thick, black D tattooed into his ribcage. It will take the greatest tragedy of his life, awaiting him still in the gold-mining town of Daylesford, to set him free.