Publicious Book Publishing: 75 books

Anna didn't want to die. She wanted to live to see her grand-daughters' weddings. But it was not to be. It is always tragic to lose a loved one, but it is sheer torture to watch one's partner deteriorate day by day, losing faculties one by one, the use of arms, legs and hands, and eventually the ability...

The war in the Pacific is drawing to a close. In New Guinea a soldier receives a letter which destroys his hope for the future. In a drought-ravaged Australian country town the sender receives no reply and assumes he is dead. Years pass. Life goes on. Two young people fall in love and...

Detective Inspector Susan Prescott never dreamed that at her age she would be keeping a secret from her husband, David, but before she gets around to revealing all, he is called away on what she suspects is dangerous business. If that isn't enough to worry about, two murders - which she believes are...

A tumultuous story with the invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939 by Nazi Germany; A Polish soldier, Franciszek endures the total humiliation of a paradox and bizarre situations being forced to fight for three different countries in three different uniforms, Polish, German and British in WWII....

Angie White realises she belongs to the well and truly “dumped sisterhood” after her 36-year marriage comes to an abrupt end. Embarking on a two-year voyage of self-discovery, Angie realises that her journey is like trying to stay afloat on a raft with holes. Clambering to get a grip, she...

This is a story about a family business that was begun by immigrants to Australia in late 1950s. It is a history of a respected and successful fashion manufacturing company, supplying the middle market of women’s clothing throughout Australia and New Zealand, to over 600 boutiques and most major Department and chain stores.

Iggy – A Star is Born is a feel good fantasy for the young and the ‘young at heart.’ It is a tongue-twisting, tonsil-tickling tall tale from Tinsel Town. Faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a garlic fart, it is a rip-roaring romp through the realms of the ridiculous. In...

How I gave up smoking without putting on weight, and without using patches or other drugs. There is no logical reason for smoking. That’s the part you must understand. If there’s no reason, then why do we continue to do it?

One Path, Many Lights takes you on the roller-coaster ride of twelve months in the life of author, counsellor, hypnotherapist and Reiki Master Teacher, Maria Lacey. By sharing her story Maria has one aim; to encourage you to recognise that change, adversity and confusion can empower you to move forward...

PI Harry Kenmare is back, with a visceral lust for vengeance. Sydney’s elite and powerful are awash in corruption, like rats sunning themselves in an open sewer. And so, in these sordid episodes, Harry’s business is as busy as ever. All the better, then, to finance Harry’s quest:...

A young Sicilian refuses to bow to the dictator Mussolini in the streets of Agira and is threatened with retribution by his Fascist thugs, the Black Shirts. He hides in the mountains near his home town and arranges for a passport to Australia in 1924. Twelve years later, when he returns to Sicily...

There was a time when people read the sea. They touched skin and scale, fur and feather and divined the weather and the way of things with their fingertips. They felt its dimpled skin, watched its rippled surface and it sang to them and they heard its song. Mattie Finn surfs dark water when the moon...

Traumatised by horrific experiences in Vietnam, Michael Johnston is repatriated to Australia and placed in a psychiatric ward. Eventually discharged into an uncaring world, the disenchanted soldier descends into acute depression. To escape city pressures, Michael...

Sardinia, two and a half centuries before Christ. It is a night for wolves and witches. Across a wind-swept plateau two young lovers are pursued by a group of villagers intent on vengeance. Terrified, hungry and thirsty, the fugitives seek refuge in an ancient burial ground, the so-called 'Domain...