World War Two is over and North Queensland is yawning its way back to normality. The name and exact location of this town is... More > not important except it is somewhere on the coastal side of the Great Divide. By small it is not a one horse town - but too under populated to score a red dot on the map and be classified as a city. Big enough to boast a Mayor - a Shire Council - a meat works - small port - a river plus a creek - a railway workshop - say ten pubs - a public hospital and library - a cemetery - two department stores - banks - a hardware business plus numerous small enterprises. Oh yes, it also has a dominate Catholic Church, complete with a Bishop to cater for the spiritual needs of a large but mainly rural diocese and a Church of England house of worship that is content to accept its prelate guidance from somewhere further South. The only other religious persuasion of any consequence is the somewhat less patronized Presbyterian denomination. < Less

A flash of lightning, a shuffling of molecules, and life for Franz Kafka Molekel will never be the same.
His sudden... More > metamorphosis from a bright young lad into an energetic and clever jack russell terrier brings a neverending series of amazing challenges and adventures into Franz’s life. < Less

Mr Bernstein, a bloodshot-eyed basset, has a nose for crime – which is why he feels right at home in Homicide Division.... More >

With his able two-footed crime-fighting partner, Detective-Inspector Ivar Varg, and his slightly less able junior partner, an unruly jack russell named Manny, Mr Bernstein Solves a Murder or Two takes the reader on a wild ride through the overactive underworld of a resort area somewhere on the east coast of Australia.

No murderer is safe with the ten-legged team of Varg, Bernstein and Manny hot on their tail. < Less

Based upon a true story set in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Around 1919, A young married couple arrive in this... More > isolated mining town, he a health inspector with the Shire Council, she an ambitious wife dedicated to his promotion. The terrible aftermath of the First World War and the war widows left behind to survive. < Less

Mrs T gathered them all around in a circle and whispered, ‘The magical land is close enough for you to visit, but way too... More > far if you do not see.’

Something to make you think, something to help with pondering ... something to cheer your day and take you back to your childhood and the carefree-ness of that time!! < Less

A woking great yarn of crime and confusion within the Chinese restaurant business. Take-away murder, a la carte, when using... More > your noodle calls for lots of choppa-stick, frigid action. Detective Ivor Varg, friend of Lau number one son Malcolm, must find the murder victim before she disappears yet again. Does the Imperial Red Dragon Restaurant hold a secret which Varg has not discovered? Drugs, sex-wagons ... did poor Chen suffer from wet feet? What were the twins Yin & Yang doing at midnight? And of course the Ming Dynasty has much Wong to answer for. Who is a proper Charlie then? < Less

World War Two is over and North Queensland is yawning its way back
to normality.
The name and exact location of this town is... More > not important except it is
somewhere on the coastal side of the Great Divide.
By small it is not a one horse town - but too under populated to score a
red dot on the map and be classified as a city. Big enough to boast a
Mayor – a Shire Council – a meat works – small port – a river plus a creek
- a railway workshop – say ten pubs – a public hospital and library – a
cemetery - two department stores – banks – a hardware business plus
numerous small enterprises.
Oh yes, it also has a dominate Catholic Church, complete with a Bishop
to cater for the spiritual needs of a large but mainly rural diocese and a
Church of England house of worship that is content to accept its prelate
guidance from somewhere further South. The only other religious
persuasion of any consequence is the somewhat less patronized
Presbyterian denomination. < Less

A flash of lightning, a shuffling of molecules, and life for Franz Kafka Molekel will never be the same. His sudden... More > metamorphosis from a bright young lad into an energetic and clever jack russell terrier brings a neverending series of amazing challenges and adventures into Franz's life. < Less

Mr Bernstein, a bloodshot-eyed basset, has a nose for crime - which is why he feels right at home in Homicide Division. With... More > his able two-footed crime-fighting partner, Detective-Inspector Ivar Varg, and his slightly less able junior partner, an unruly jack russell named Manny, Mr Bernstein Solves a Murder or Two takes the reader on a wild ride through the overactive underworld of a resort area somewhere on the east coast of Australia. No murderer is safe with the ten-legged team of Varg, Bernstein and Manny hot on their tail. < Less

Mrs T gathered them all around in a circle and whispered, ‘The magical land is close enough for you to visit, but way too... More > far if you do not see.’

Something to make you think, something to help with pondering ... something to cheer your day and take you back to your childhood and the carefree-ness of that time!! < Less