Michael Burge: 8 books

One random night in 2004, Michael Burge’s long-term partner, choreographer Jonathan Rosten, died suddenly while rehearsing a show. In the midst of the ensuing grief, Jono’s relatives started the secret and devastating process of disenfranchising Michael from his position as Jono’s next...

Leaving a mark on history is usually the result of courage, but it always starts by simply making a stand. Since 2009, Australian journalist Michael Burge has written about single-minded individuals who faced fear, grief and oppression, yet went through with defiant acts of social and cultural rebellion. Many...

After several careers that went off the rails more times than he cares to acknowledge, author Michael Burge took to journalism at the age of forty and has felt it necessary to look over his shoulder ever since! Taking jobs that nobody else wanted because the pay was crap and the prospects zero, Michael...

Journalist and Amazon-bestselling Australian author Michael Burge spent six years writing full time before embarking on the publication of a range of books he wrote while developing a social media readership. Write Regardless! is his no-nonsense guide to plotting, packaging and promoting an independent...

When a middle-aged boy player returns to London's Globe playhouse during a terrible revival of Romeo and Juliet, she sets off a chain of events as great as any of Shakespeare's entertainments, revealing a love story that lay hidden for decades, just beneath the lines of the script. Centuries later,...

A collection of ten stories, variations on a theme: hiding from the truth. The matron who interprets her sexual desire as physical pain, obsessed with one of her nurses to the point of stalking. The father who has liaisons with men at public toilets, and the kid who works out he knows the bloke. The...

Twelve-year-old Evan Mason’s life has been turned upside down by the sudden death of his father. His mother isn’t home much, the insurance office during the day, waiting tables at night. Evan is spending a great deal of time alone. Now he finds himself on a Greyhound bus headed for a small town...

Crime and violence are commonplace in 1947 postwar Chicago, but when a man’s mangled body is discovered on the railroad tracks in a small southern Illinois town, people take notice. Bargetown’s Chief of Police, Bert Thatcher looks to a seasoned railroad detective, Grady Colston, for help in solving...