Steve Tolbert: 5 books

Seven stories, six unique settings, many divergent themes and characters. Seventeen-year-old Jacob returns to Bali in ‘Surfing for Wayan’. Once terrified of surfboards, he’s there to surf wild for four people, including his brother killed in the 2002 Bali bombing.   In ‘Summits’,...

Mya is caught up in Yangon’s Saffron Revolution and flees to Karen State, near the Thai border, where she believes her mother has taken refuge. Military Intelligence agents, human traffickers, landmines and venomous snakes are among the dangers Mya faces in her journey. To survive, she takes on many...

The smirks on their faces and that rubbish-bin needle. Her eyes and nose streaming tears and gunk, and that sleazebag’s hands all over her. So give him what he wanted after what he and his mongrel friends did to her? Bitter tears welled up again. ‘No,’ Jackson muttered to herself. ‘No way.’...

Blood flows on the war-torn streets of Masar e-Sharif. To try to cope with that, and barbarous Taliban rule, Soraya illegally reads and attends a secret girls’ school. But when her mother is killed in a missile attack, all Soraya’s girlish dreams and aspirations appear to be crushed forever. One...

Michael O’Leary’s life as a ‘weird and wacky’ word-fixated student changes after his mother is killed and his father badly wounded in a Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist attack. In the company of his alter ego, Bounty Hunter Clint, Michael travels to Bali and Central Java intent on confronting...