This book is a guide to sailing Australian waters from Fitzroy Island up Cape York to the tip -- including instructions for... More > entering Torres Strait and visiting Thursday island -- then sailing to Mornington Island or directly to Darwin. All coordinates are checked on googleearth but sailors are advised to use correct charts and navigation techniques. Mud maps are a rough guide only. < Less

What is Bougainville Blue about? It’s about Bougainville. It’s about a ‘blue’ – Australian slang for a fight.... More > It’s about the beauty of Bougainville and its flora and fauna. It’s about the destruction which is a byproduct of ‘modernisation’. It’s a novel but, it also will enlighten the reader about the true happenings regarding the Panguna Mine. It was closed by a ragtag militia bent on reclaiming their land. There was a mine. Someone got some guns. The rest is history.
The author lived in Bougainville for 15 years and saw the Bougainville Revolutionary Army come into being. He observed the rise and fall of Australian rule in Bougainville. He watched the ‘blue’ take place. < Less

Diane Andrews has collected her prose pieces into one volume. They have all been previously accepted for publication in... More > online or in print literary journals over the past five years. Venero Armanno has highly commended her work. Her writing deals with human relationships and covers a wide variety of genres. Her style has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf. One piece is published in a litersry tribute to Philip K Dick (Blade Runner and Minority report author) Diane describes her writing as social commentary and does not subscribe to any particular genre. < Less

Review: (1) Your writing is brilliant and more than a tad courageous. Those who can, write; those who can’t, review. As it... More > is said, “If you can’t sing: don’t!” Your writing per se is impeccable; your imagination and imagery, wonderfully vivid. R SCHNEIDER (2)Diane Andrews work was highly commended in a past QAC comp and it is easy to see why. She writes with a firm confidence in her characters and her story, and this helps to propel the reader very easily from page to page. Her characters are engaging and have depth, thair back-stories are credible and the various jeopardies they find themselves in help push the plot further and further. The fictional and magical world Diane Andrews writes about seems to contain a fully realised internal logic. The ‘Speed of Darke’ is an absorbing tale, with much darkness and complexity of character. The lead is a strongly written female character and the scenes of violence and sexuality are compelling without being gratuitous. Highly commended. VENY ARMANNO < Less

Dennis and Diane sailed a sixteen foot yacht from Sydney to Cairns. They set out with a few dodgey bits of equipment and an... More > Alan Lucas cruising guide. Dennis wrote the log. Diane wrote the very funny novel of the adventure. Inside its pages you will find a humorous account of the journey laced with invaluable information for the fellow intrepid sailor. I'd suggest a slightly bigger boat - but so long as it floats it can be done. < Less

Dennis and Diane sailed a sixteen foot yacht from Sydney to Cairns. They set out with a few dodgey bits of equipment and an... More > Alan Lucas cruising guide. Dennis wrote the log. Diane wrote the very funny novel of the adventure. Inside its pages you will find a humorous account of the journey laced with invaluable information for the fellow intrepid sailor. I'd suggest a slightly bigger boat - but so long as it floats it can be done. < Less