James Aldridge: 6 books

When young Spit MacPhee comes to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen fear for his future. Fyfe MacPhee is a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit has to fend for himself along the riverbank where they live. While some people feel that Spit can look after himself,...

Six intriguing and fascinating short stories that deliver so many unexpected twists and turns, you’ll need a chiropractor. And if that is not enough, there is also a bonus - the first 12,000 words of, The Diary of P.F. Criggley, the author’s upcoming nightmarish horror novel - a must-read that...

The sea was a Mediterranean emerald, and all around us the heavy stillness of the summer's hot day was always there, as if everything about us in that beautiful bay would remain as it was forever. And there too, in front of me the creature from the sea, so perfect that I didn't want anything in my...

Kitty St Clair adores her nomadic life, travelling from town to town with her parents and their aerobatic circus. A youthful copy of her spirited mother, Kitty is on the way to becoming an accomplished pilot when tragedy brings an end to her golden existence . . . Will she ever know again where she is going and who is going with her? Who can help her turn once more to the skies? And how?

Since teacher education looked to become a formal field of study in the 1800s, it has historically contended with competing forces in the effort to solidify its professional identity. Currently, that contention is juxtaposed with those external forces that look to promote fast-track teacher training,...

In this lyric poet book may be of your dreams that you feel about life as we see it.