Buzzword Books: 15 books

Fitness Without Tears: Here's the lowdown on exercise that other books take long chapters to express, collated in one jaunty, jiffy digest. Read about everything from hormones and health myths to diet and your parasympathetic system. Can you really laze your way to fitness? This book tells...

Top short women's fiction from periodicals such as WOMEN'S WEEKLY, CLEO, WOMAN'S DAY, ARGOSY UK and ABC Books.There's 'The Sand Man' - an award-winning story about a crazily-in-love couple who build a huge sand man on the beach. What happens then will make you...

Four people are enticed to a remote island resort. But this is no playground. It's a battleground!Their host is the sadistic billionaire arms-dealer, Nicholae Mould, a man whom they've all harmed in the past, either personally or financially - and he wants revenge. A quick death however...

What would happen to you if you discovered the world's best kept industrial secret?Can a car engine run on water? By using an oxygen- hydrogen splitter it's theoretically possible. But as no petrol company wants to compete with the ocean, they'd buy up the patents of anyone who...

Foxy, bisexual, not-so-closet lesbian and ad woman, Jen Madden, moonlights as an amateur sleuth solving sex related murder cases. Her latest account is a Funeral Home franchise run by the mega-rich Sheehan Brothers. At the dynasty’s beach-house party she finds one of the brothers chopped into sections....

Shock, crime, horror! Nine tough, thrilling, chilling tales - most published in leading men's magazines. Stories from 'Man', 'Man Junior', 'Pocket Man', 'Squire' and other male mags.In 'Night Flight to Amsterdam', a millionaire's life...

What really goes on behind the scenes in a country town? These interrelated short stories expose the lives behind the masks.The town, in this case, is the elegant provincial city of Ballarat in Australia. The theme of this brilliantly written anthology is the world behind what we take as actuality.The...

A shipwreck in the North Sea. A terrifying journey in a life raft. A mysterious Russian ghost ship... This thriller never lets up. A mysterious unmanned device lands in the Australian desert. All nations want it because it contains weather-controlling technology. John Black is a mercenary searching...

What does the detective do when she discovers her own body is somehow being used as the murder weapon? This ingenious mystery will baffle you to the end and includes one of the steamiest lesbian/SM relationships you'll ever read.When unashamedly bisexual ad-woman Jen Madden joins an orgy on a...

Martin Jensen, despite his tendency to smugness and intolerance, is the universal man. And his formidable knowledge is augmented by his partner, the fetching Dr Jensen. Their passion is effective living. Jensen's first humorous sally, "How to Keep Fit Without Exercise" has already been downloaded...

The hilarious memoir about Australia in the 1950s.When a naive young couple marry, romance clashes with reality and just about everything goes wrong - and right.When a gormless just-married couple rent an impractical shack at Avalon, twenty-six miles from Sydney, they face, among other things, an...

It's the brutal 2080s. And technology's turned feral. Enter a denuded overpopulated world where a corrupt, decaying society faces cataclysmic war and where remarkable scientific advances are available only to the rich. The white hope in this disaster is Alexander Logos - an innovator with...

A teenage boy with typical troubles meets the local handyman Al - a guru in disguise. Their unlikely relationship provides a framework for ideas and events that open the boy's mind to perspectives never mentioned at home or at school. Al's instruction starts simply enough. Then the learning...

When you’re almost flattened by the naked body of a young spunk who falls from an apartment block, it’s hard to ignore it. Particularly when you’re told his killer is the guru of a cult - and then see your informant run over by a truck. Jen Madden, a not so closet lesbian, advertising...