Patrick Mcgowan: 4 books

Best described as a discontinuous novel, this is a story told in six parts. Each part is told in first person by a different member of the team in Canberra preparing a report on the international geopolitical crisis of the break up of the Russian Federation. Nev, team leader, is ex-army, with a fixation...

Anna Waters, 17, is a smart girl from a good home who has a passion for natural medicine. Inspired by a medieval miracle worker, she wants to bring the people of her town to healthier ways of living. Al Flanagan, 24, a smooth talking and super ambitious businessman who works for a multinational...

Shipton Kingsgate, 40, lives in Riverwood. He’s an electrical engineer, is divorced, has one son and a drinking problem he wants to be rid of. One day he attends a talk on jade. His serendipitous interest in the stone grows to become an obsession even as he is forced to learn to discern the true...

Marco Gentolini wants to discover what he can about jade in Australia. It started after he visited the world’s biggest carving of a single piece of imported gem-quality green jade housed at the Buddhist Temple near Bendigo, where he was prompted to ask: is there any gem-quality jade in Australia?...