The first in a series of stories about the legends of the Old World being transposed from their roots to Australia, where the Old Legends have never really taken root. The first book " HALLOWEEN... More > brings the trick or treat tradition to a land interested more in a bit of fun and some lollies (candy) than a fantasy monster that rules the night when the magic folk are free to cross into our dimension freely.< Less
Nine short stories that explore the effect of random chance on the lives of ordinary people. A Touch of Evil offers an answer to the eternal question:
"What if ...?"
" What can you say about a twenty five year old girl who died?" With those words, Erich Segal opened his tear-jerker novella Love Story, and a film (and cultural) phenomenon was born.... More > "Gone to Mums" doesn't allow a dry eye in the room. Told from Ray's perspective, it is a most improbable love story, set among the orchards and migrant farmers of rural Australia. He meets Kelly when she beats the crap out of him for trying to steal fruit from her roadside farm stand. Ray and Kelly do fall in love, but their romance is anything but conventional. If Love Story taught us that love was never having to say sorry, "Mums" reminds us that time doesn't heal wounds, it just covers them over with scar tissue.< Less
