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Many of my poems centre on the theme of having a positive or moral outcome. We are all the same in that we all feel emotions regardless of who we are. I have always been of the opinion to use rhyme as a simple means to express, as concisely as I can, the reasons why we feel the way that we do and...

Take the scriptures as the bow, the great weapon, and place upon it the arrow sharpened by meditation. Then having drawn it back with a mind directed to the thought of Brahman, Strike the mark, O my good friendthat which is the Imperishable. Om is the bow. The atman is the arrow, Brahman is said to...

Who is Boomer? Good question! Boomer is not quite your average Aussie Lariken; he is somebody that you would least expect to have the qualifications that he has and, in a lot of cases, you would wish he didnt have. So to burn a mental picture into your brain that you will never forget so that you...

A future winter November 2018. Th e Eye of Heavena prototype Chinese satellite with next generation technology falls and is lost in the polar icecap. Th e race begins when two superpowers face off , one to learn secrets, the other to keep them. And they will send their greatest weapons wielded by...

To the Inuit people, living as they did in the frozen North, life was hard and frugal. They were a deeply caring community, and their families were loving. Tatchatka cared for his family, and he had a deep love for his wife and children. Across the sea, to the West, living on the coast was also hardhot,...

Rachel is a well-established business woman who has her head screwed on properly. She is self-sufficient and a highly successful woman. You could say she has a pretty good life and isnt missing much, but when she meets Liz she realizes just how much she is actually missing. This story takes us behind...

Ramblings of a Very Man is a book of poetry about love, love lost, work, the loss of work, disenchantment, and being at odds with the times. It also explores affirmations and encouragement.

My book is about seeing things and feeling them from my own perspective. In my book, I write not only my personal experiences but also how the experiences of those who are dear to me affect me. My poems are written to reach out to readers. I go deep within myself and expose my personal feelings and some experiences in hope that readers will relate and know they are not alone.

Will Traverse is a war baby, a Brisbane boy, and in later life a taciturn and solitary retired engineer. But there is another side to Will romantic, lyrical, and deeply sensitive to the culture of the original inhabitants of this part of South-East Queensland. His work on a novel about the impact...

In the summer of 1981 Will Traverse set out to walk across the city of Brisbane; a journey that took him from an Aboriginal bora ground in the Samford valley west of the city, through the city centre, and on to a midden on Stradbroke Island. At that time Brisbane, a small city under the yoke of an...

A courtroom drama set in 1966 in Sydney, the novel traces the path of a murder investigation which results in a prominent politician being charged with the murder of his young lover. An inexperienced lawyer is surprisingly engaged to brief a down and out barrister by the accused's wife, and as the...

A fortune in Palmer River gold disappeared on the Great Barrier Reef during a cyclone over a century ago. Vietnam veteran, Scott, operating big-fi sh charters out of Port Douglas in Far North Queensland with friend and fellow vet Ben, has researched the history of the treasure for years. After...

The princess who lived on the 174th floor, is about the forest, its friends and the Apple family. The Apple family are a special family, whose love of the forest meant they would spend hours discovering all its sights and sounds. One day, as they explored the forest, the Apple family came across a...

We have compiled these exercises as English Language Teachers in Malaysia. We have used them for our children, our friends children and our tuition students and they have scored A1 in all their examinations. Today they can converse comfortably with anyone from the US, Great Britain or Australia. We...