Austin Macauley: 378 books

From the moment of our birth, death—a mystery still—becomes a fact of life. In 1984, Jenny witnessed the death of her three-year-old daughter, Elin Mair. Awakening – The Inevitable Door is written in conversation with her daughter, revealing her dying process, her birth and her...

The identity of the ‘Common Man’ in this book is sure to delight and surprise you. The ‘Common Man’ fits a niche between the rich and famous and the downtrodden and homeless. The rich and famous receive ample recognition, as do the downtrodden and homeless, to a lesser extent. The ‘Common...

The title of this book is taken from my understanding of the ‘The Children’s Prayer’, as learned at age three. It starts out: “Now I Lay me Down to Sleep…” Because it was run together, I thought ‘Lay me’ was one word. It didn’t make sense to me, but it didn’t bother me at the time,...

Cairo 1973. British intelligence agent Lucy Vickers is on the run, her cover blown. Her colleague Mark Bellamy has just dumped a dead policeman and a Mercedes in the Nile. Can the former lovers salvage the secret mission that has brought them together on the eve of war with Israel? Or are they throwaway...

Ross Radich loves to travel and has done plenty of it. As 'one who lived nowhere and was available to travel anywhere', he visited most of the planet. On finding himself with no home, just a TV and a cat called Nelson Mandela, Ross, with no qualifications, decided he wanted a job with no responsibilities....

Think you know football? Not like Bob Cass you don’t. By The Way recounts Bob’s glorious life in sports journalism and gives you a first-hand account of every football story that ever mattered. From the Hillsborough Disaster through to Fergie’s retirement and Cloughie’s rise to the top of...

How and why religious fundamentalism has come to exist is an important issue, rarely explored in detail without an underlying agenda. In this discursive and absorbing investigation, Andrew Norman has addressed this complex question in an intellectual, yet thoroughly comprehensible manner. Each aspect...

The staff of Raymar Prison are trying to move on from the catastrophic events earlier in 2004. The governor, with an eye to the future amongst other things, embraces an idea which he hopes will restore harmony and drive the prison forward. The new Special Secure Unit has one resident, a notorious...

In mad sky, Dan Ryan seeks to articulate a spiritual relationship with the power and beauty manifested in the natural world. It is a romantic quest, the search for meaning and explanation in the signs and messages provided by active and intelligent nature. Colors, images, myths and symbols are deployed...

Tasman Echo Alpha is the embellished experience of former air New Zealand pilot Guy Clapshaw at a time when airline flight brought magic and romance to lives. Characters include Richard Whacker, the aircrew scheduler who managed to get all the aircraft overseas and their crews back in New Zealand,...

When the sixteen-year old Bill Jack applied to join Lanarkshire Constabulary in 1969, little did he realise he would be entering a world of outrageous and colourful characters, overseen by senior officers who had learnt management in the National Service of their youth. He found attitudes and practices,...

Sailing north along the Australian East Coast in 1770, Captain James Cook spied eleven mysterious peaks that he named the Glasshouse Mountains after the glass furnaces of his native Yorkshire. Unknown to Cook, the mysterious landforms were culturally significant to the traditional owners of the land,...

If you feel your life has hit the buffers or you’re trapped on a hamster wheel that only seems to gather speed, you’re members of a popular club. Membership rules: your brain must resemble jelly and you feel like a failed circus juggler performing in the dark. Motorcycling: The Ultimate...

A kid peed on some cereal boxes and a clerk used mop water that's somehow dirtier than human waste. There's a funny smell in the air now. I'm picking up Kira from work. She was supposed to get off five minutes ago. This has been a long five minutes. The rom-com has been turned on its head and life is about to get a whole lot crappier.