Independent: 429 books

Xavier Brady and Carolina Steel have had a pretty hot flirtation going, that is until two days before Valentine's Day when Xavier is shot in the line of duty at Carolina's bakery. After months of recuperation, Xavier is tired of Carolina avoiding him. On his way to find out why he hasn't seen hide...

Private investigator and amateur magician Jolly Lomax finds himself in over his head when he’s hired by a rich widow to stop her daughter from pilfering funds from their shared bank account. The complication? The girl’s been dead for over a year and the woman believes it’s her daughter’s ghost...

My name is Sable Turner and I am a nobody. At least, that’s what it feels like most days. I can count on one hand the people who care about me and my well being. One is my sister Lizzie. The others are the hired help so they kind of get paid to care. My life is not as simple or as glamorous as you...

‘… the Theatre of the Absurd and the Theatre of Cruelty are even more pervasively embodied in the plays of Alexander Buzo, Thomas Keneally and Bill Reed. In Buzo’s case it is Absurdism which is especially apparent; in Keneally and Reed, Artaudian ‘myth’ and language-in-space… ‘It...

Lara is thrilled when her paintings are being honoured at the Barbican Gallery with a prestigious gala. The shadow of her humiliating breakup with her actor boyfriend looms over her as she tries to navigate her way through the public eye. She needs a date for her gala but she can't bring herself to...

The machines have been running overtime in Obsidia's Becher District and everything seems a touch out of sync. Epoch II is about to begin and the Ministry of Obstetrics is making preparations, but whether homicidal Alex is a problem or an asset to this long-awaited transition has yet to be determined...

The live-acted shadow play of today uses live actors to evoke fantasy combined with realism to illustrate a fully-rounded play narrated by a storyteller sitting in full audience view. It is not a puppet show. It does not demand actors contort themselves into amazing shapes like trees of elephants....

You know I’d never lie to you. How could I? It’s the Talls campfire and these are the oral-lit smoke trails that swirl about you, never to dribble drivel upon you. You can be sure you’ll only get what’s inner-heard. I embellish you not.Surely you remember Wi, a name especially chosen to fit...

An ensemble of actors who are about to start rehearsing a play about the Moree race riots visit Endeavour Lane in Moree to get a feel of the lie of the land. This is where the young Aboriginal 'Cheeky' McIntosh was shot and killed during the infamous 1982 rumble between local whites and blacks. The...

Bill and Billy are having marital problems but these pall when compared to the problems they have to face from their next door neighbour. If that wasn’t enough, there is the general alarm put out to be on the alert for a serial murderer thought to be in the district. In the heavy night of...

As humans, life is an invitation to experience a variety of emotions. Poetry is a way to express those emotions, no matter how varying they are. Roulette of Rhymes is my tribute to the variety of feelings found within us. Life need not make sense or be planned, it only needs to be experienced and...

Smith, and then his son Terry, found they were just as snagged on Hindu’s damning wheel as their forebears had been for over 170 years, until the family finally managed to carry on to Australia. The two of them thought they could ride belatedly to the rescue of Terry’s once little-she twin...

Three disillusioned SAS Special Forces members return to Britain in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf conflict to discover an increasingly corrupt judiciary. Smirking miscreants walk free whilst the innocent suffer. Aided by a Scotland Yard informant, the trio embark on a brutal, covert crusade to rid...

You would have to wonder why a Rhodes Scholar, a VC winner and a Commissioner of Police named his son Frank E. R. Stein by way of a ha-ha ‘monstrous joke’… or why he cackled derision every time his eyes lit upon the boy; or why he showered more affection on his adopted son, Costas, the otherwise...