Andrew Christie: 8 books

They didn’t mean to hurt anyone. Being the stand-in father to a teenage boy is harder than John Lawrence imagined. When Billy and his girlfriend, Rashmi, pull a political stunt at school, the blowback puts his friendship with John to the test. Hiding from the police and media, Billy and Rashmi...

A father’s murder. A mother’s secrets. Can he protect his family from their deadly past? Scarred by Afghanistan and out of the Army, John Lawrence wants to re-build his life. When his aging mother is injured in Paris, he brings her back to Sydney, hoping to reconnect with the only family...

They say lightning never strikes twice, but Rae Holland knows better. Already dealing with the aftermath of death and betrayal, Rae’s life is thrown into crisis when her neighbour is murdered. She wants to know who killed ‘Smokey’ Joe Whitmore and why. For John Lawrence, Smokey’s...

Lie. Cheat. Bargain. Fight. Accept. Bribe. Conquer. Evade.   No matter what humanity tries, Death always wins.  Or does it?   Discover the answer in The Death of All Things, where twenty-two...

The Summer 2017 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited. ...

IT'LL SOON BE DARK Eighteen dark faerie tales lie within these pages. Like the originals, they are. Like those that came before, those that warned of the darkness. Not like modern tales, no. No happy endings in sight. These stories are all new (not re-tellings of old tales) and...

The thirteenth Tarot card is Death, and he is a symbol not of the end, but of transformation and rebirth. This is the genesis and root of Thirteen: Stories of Transformation. The twenty-eight authors of this collection are voices—new and old—who are not afraid to explore what comes next. Whether...

The Rape of Childhood: Development, Clinical, and Sociocultural Aspects of Childhood Sexual Abuse details the dark realm of childhood sexual abuse. While lived experience, memory, subjectivity, and affect cannot be classified into neat categories, this collection is divided into four core sections—epidemiology,...