Echo imprint: 54 books

It's in our nature to relate and connect with others. But in a world dominated by electronic communications, online identities and constant busyness, we are losing touch, and our relationships are lacking real meaning. Many of the problems we face today are directly related to our inability...

During a routine family holiday to her husband’s homeland of Turkey, Lisa Kennedy was suddenly told their marriage was over. Her husband took their six-month-old baby from her care and instructed her to go home to Australia, alone – beginning four years of hell in Istanbul as she fought the case...

Australia’s region comes to the brink of conflict. The tensions are fed by political instability, neo-fundamentalism and an increasing trade in the tragic commodity of refugees. From the Indonesian archipelago to Papua New Guinea and homeland Australia, the Australian government of Prime Minister Edward...

It is the year 1890. Sherlock Holmes’ fame has spread even to the colonies as he and his stalwart chronicler, Dr John Watson, are swept up in an array of mysteries ‘down under’. They find themselves summoned from location to location, traversing all corners of the strange island continent of...

Adam, a serious cinema nerd, has no idea that he is the Hot Guy – a man so ridiculously attractive there’s a Facebook group dedicated to seducing him.Cate, a sports publicist who loves to crack a joke, is feeling down about her newly single status when her friends suggest the perfect pick-me-up:...

Do bad people look like good people, like friends and brothers and boyfriends and students, until they have their hands around your throat? All of these men standing around me, drinks in hand, backs to this screen… smiling, laughing, flirting, and they look harmless. But any one of them could be...

The story of the first cadet-midshipmen to join the Royal Australian Naval College is without parallel.  In 1913 twenty-eight thirteen-year-old boys joined the new Navy at a time when Australia was both idealistic and ambitious. The boys were drawn from every State and became known as the...

In a world where data is the new currency, social media is turning us all into walking, talking brands and billboards and we’re meant to be mindful, manifesting and present, isn’t it a bit rich to be expected to be happy, too? After a lifetime spent actively searching for happiness as well...

The disappearance of Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe was one of the most heartbreaking and confounding child abduction and murder cases of the century, spanning almost a decade prior to the eventual arrest of known pedophile Brett Peter Cowan, one of the original persons of interest.The story...

At the 2013 election, many Australians expressed their concern with the chaos that surrounded the Labor minority governments of Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd. They gave their support to Tony Abbott as a Prime Minister who promised to put the grown-ups back in charge with stable and strong government;...

In 'Diplomatic Digs', Robert (Bob) Merrillees gives a frank personal account of his experiences in diplomacy and as a Foreign Affairs Officer, serving Australian Governments for 34 years until his ousting by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer in 1998. The story includes striking examples of the Tall Poppy Syndrome, hypocrisy and chauvinism and Australian public life.

Covering a century and a half during which the thylacine’s status has changed from being a despised sheep killer to a magnificent survivor, these enthralling stories are for both the curious and the enthusiast. Speculation by an ever-growing band of Tasmanian tiger devotees that the thylacine still...

Ice Nation is the blow-by-blow account by the lead investigating officer of efforts to stop a violent ice trafficking syndicate that operated in northeast Victoria and southern New South Wales as the scourge wrought havoc on his patch. When the young and impressionable sons and daughters of...

From the signing of 'The King’, Wayne Carey for a song, to the football legend’s wife who proposed via a fax machine, Favourite Footy Yarns will inform, amuse and delight. The smorgasboard of tall and mostly true stories is the latest from Australian sport’s master storyteller Ken Piesse...