Gilbert J Hardwick: 9 books

A short fun-fantasy of a boy being hunted down by the Egyptian God Anubis and his baying hounds while out skateboarding.After making a foolish wager with Osiris that he could beat them in a set time or be mummified for all eternity, he has his work cut out.He is wearing his warp suit...

After his two closest cousins die mysteriously, dreamy young Ned finds himself the last remaining heir to a vast outback cattle empire. He has to learn quickly to stand on his feet. Ambitious relatives are staking their own claim on his land.Yet he is not alone. Using Aboriginal magic and strength...

This intriguing tale opens with an anthropologist working among traditional Aboriginal people of the vast Central Desert, when a white boy arrives suddenly in a truck with a dead body in the back and a fortune in gems stashed under the chassis.He can’t remember who he is but the elders think...

The three-part Podwarp series is a coming-of-age story initially set in a great techno-dystopian city enclosed in a protective energy shield, in contrast with the rough outside life of gaucho villagers who work to feed the place.One podling boy, solxv98fg6, nicknamed Sola, learns to turn his...

In this young adult neopagan supernatural fantasy rewrite of Edmund Spenser’s Elizabethan poem 'The Faerie Queene', nine young Irish boys in 11th Century Leinster were made precocious through elven magic, and trained as message runners. Six of the boys were captured as pixies and held in...

A easy, straightforward guide for Permaculturists and hobbyists on converting animal skins to useful leather products using traditional recipes and methods at home.

A popular and important master list of hundreds economically useful native plants for northern Australia and other such tropical regions intended for human habitation, catalogued as wet areas and aquatic plants, ground storey grass and shrubs, middle storey bushes and trees, and upper storey trees.

Alex and his Aboriginal blood-brother Peter run into new friends when they arrive in the West with film-maker Dr Sam Flanagan, to start University.They meet the autistic hippy Nicolas with his two wives and one husband - the Asperger's kid too handsome for his own good - but something...

On a windswept coast, not far from Lindisfarne, a small Celtic community have found security. Did the gods lead them there?A dying grandmother struggles to recite their tale, which is then seen through the eyes of younger characters.In an interesting, and often moving way, the reader...