Richard G Tomkies: 9 books

Aussie Outback Yarns is a worthy collection of short stories gathered over the years during the author's travels throught the great Australian Outback. These tales reflect the typical Aussie humor in the age-old tradition both in Australia and overseas of fireside yarn telling.Most of the stories...

This fascinating yarn is based on the true story of thecrew of five on a small schooner outof Sydney, Australia and bound for Bowen in orth Queensland with a load of sawn lumber. Caught in a tropical cyclone, the 'Nightingale' is dismasted and beached on rocks on a small islnd in the Whitsundays....

This fascinating true story reveals the cause of the former Pacific Southwest Airline's Flight 1771 when it nose-dived suddenly without warning into a field just off Old Creek Road-Cayucos Road near the central Californian coastal town of Cayucos, after reaching 700 mph. The force of the impact virtually...

This novel was originally published under the title “Valley of the Damned” in 2005 and was the second of my books originally published.Those who read the original book, have all, without exception, given it most favorable reviews. In this New Edition, the title and the cover image have been changed...

The story of this popular book begins during the Second World War when the pilot of a Zero, a Japanese Air Force fighter plane sights an enemy Coastwatcher's building on the eastern coast of Australia's remote Cape York Peninsular. The pilot machineguns the isolated hut, but receives crippling return...

Angelina Lacey as an eighteen year old in 1845, runs away from her alcoholic and abusive step father who continually attempts to beat her and bed her. Leaving her mother and two brothers, she falls in love with an ex-convict and his friend and sails into the uncharted waters of tropical North Queensland...

This new book "True Stories of Early Australia" is the result of a great deal of research and is complete with old photographs both black and white and color. The author has endeavored to record some fascinating stories of an earlier era many of which have been obscured over time from the general...

Two gold prospectors meet up to become firm friends on the goldfields of far north Queensland's Palmer River. Braving the hardships of the remote goldfields and attacks from the tribes of fierce cannibalistic Aborigines who slaughter large numbers of both European and Chinese gold diggers to...

This full length novel is set in a central North Island town of New Zealand. Inspired by events in both New Zealand and Australia the story revolves around a car salesman who becomes unwittingly involved in a series of mysterious shootings especially after the Sales Manager, who, like the rest of...