Food, Sex, Respect

In a post apocalyptic world, there’s no idealism. You’re down to the bare essentials. Food and water. Safety and survival. Everyone is starving, desperate. 

If you can’t defend yourself, you die. But also, if you don’t protect your family, you die.

The selfish do not survive.

Suffering from traumatic amnesia, a man struggles to relearn the rules of the desolate earth and not be a burden to his family as they fight to survive in the remnants of a dead planet. Monsters and robots roam the surface, few of them friendly.

Can he protect his family from the survivors of the end of the world?

Can he master his mental state and be the hero that humanity needs?

For Redder

Harry Larsen’s boyhood in post-war Sydney is marred by the death of his Danish father. With the loss of their breadwinner, Harry and his mother move to a new life in the country in New South Wales. He takes with them an old biscuit tin containing letters and items left by his father. The letters, in a language he cannot understand, and the words ‘For redder’ levelled in anger at his father, become posers that the Harry seeks to solve. The adult Harry learns of his mother’s death while employed as an engineer on a copper mine on the island of Bouganville, a mine that is increasingly opposed by the islanders. Returning to Australia for his mother’s funeral he decides to give up his life as an engineer and go to Denmark to find the truth of his father’s wartime activities; to his resistance to the German occupation of his country. For Harry it is a journey of discovery to find the family that he has not known and, ultimately, to love.

“A debut novel of a boy raised in Sydney to the adult who seeks to find the truth of his father’s participation in resistance to German occupied Denmark.”

For The Love of Poetry

John Butler-Hopkins’ For the Love of Poetry opens, appropriately enough, with a sequence of poems about romantic love in all its aspects: the dizzying ecstasies of infatuation and first love, then the brutal lessons of rejection and betrayal, and finally the discovery of a soul mate and the development of a true, long-term relationship.

By contrast, the book’s second half is concerned with the tragedy of young men going to fight in the First World War. Within this, the section ‘The Lost Letters’ combines the subjects of love and war as a soldier and his lover share memories of happier times while they live through the horrors of their current situation.

If you love to read about deep and powerful human-centred emotions, this is a book for you.

For Those Who Do Not Die

In a dying world where life itself is staggering to a halt, an elite soldier of the God’s Order wrestles with his world’s impending doom and takes brave steps to alter its fate. Steps that lead himself and his friends into a web of chaos and bloodshed.

Foraging

She can be found anywhere – sitting in a café, walking along a rocky beach, cramped in coach class, or bored at her desk. Heartbroken and lonely, she seeks solace, another chance, and redemption in snippets of words, phrases, and puzzling rhymes. These missives to others capture her passions, grief, and bubbly glee. Her mind fades in and out at these moments, almost drunkenly grabbing any napkin to jot down cryptic notes in pencil or pen before folding it haphazardly and shoving it into her wallet.

Years later, she retrieves these tattered memos and in the quiet of early morning coffee or late evening wine, she writes, drafts, edits, and trims, perfecting the feelings, capturing the place, time, and emotions that were almost lost.

Forbidden Love 2

Six years later, Carmine Basie continues having recurring cryptic lucid visions while trapped in a paradox of dreams, unable to distinguish between reality or fantasy when he awakens. Meanwhile, Renata Moreau from his past life haunts him in his sleep reciting her unconditional love that they once shared, begging Carmine to persist with life. Whereas Renee Roberts continues holding her cards close to her chest, further prolonging the prospect of her awakening to finding out the truth. Will Renee be convinced? Alternatively, will Carmine run out of time?

Forever and a Day

Life is never dull in the seaside village of Trentmouth on the Dorset coast. Molly and Alistair await the joyous arrival of another new life into the family and to their friends they are the perfect happy couple. Bertie finally opens his vegetarian beachside café with the support of his wife Lucy, a midwife at the local hospital. The Reverend Suzanne has caused quite a stir in sleepy Trentmouth and Lady Isobel has plans of her own at the Manor.

Tranquillity is short-lived when Molly has to make some serious decisions about the veterinary practice she has worked so hard to build; Lucy’s health is threatened and she is faced with imminent changes at the hospital and the ‘Rev’ has ruffled one too many feathers.

Molly, Lucy and Suzanne continually find themselves thrown together for mutual help and support turning this quiet little backwater of village life upside down in ways they had not expected – will life for them ever be the same again?

Forever Love

Experience a love story that transcends time and place in Forever Love. When a young man living in the bustling metropolis of New York City is transported into a dream world, he discovers a love so profound that it defies explanation.

In this alternate reality, he finds himself living with a woman who is his wife in another century and country. As he delves deeper into the mystery of this dream world, he realizes that his actions could have real-world consequences for himself and his relatives in Sicily.

With the help of his trusted friends, he embarks on a journey to mitigate the danger and uncover the truth behind this mystical love story. Through the power of hypnosis, he unravels the secrets of his dream world and discovers a connection that spans across centuries.

Join our hero on this thrilling adventure as he travels to a far-off land in pursuit of a love that has no bounds. With danger lurking around every corner, he must navigate treacherous waters to protect himself and those he holds dear. Will he uncover the truth behind this mystical love story, or will he be forever lost in a dream world of his own making? Find out in Forever Love.

Forgetting Jake

Ben is a rancher, living in Carter’s Pass, Oregon, a small town where nothing ever happens. He spends his days taking care of his young son, feeding horses, and mending fences around his property. That is, until early one morning, when a stranger ends up on the road to his ranch.

The young man is uninjured but has no idea who he is or how he ended up on the road. Named ‘Frankie’ by Ben’s son, the young man has flashes of his past. But as he begins falling for Ben his memories become clearer, and the past catches up with him. What will happen when the life Frankie has made with Ben clashes with the old?

Forgetting the Dreamtime

Sixteen-year-old Kristen has had quite enough of following her evangelical parents’ copious rules. But although up to her neck in both disobedience and discipline, she, nevertheless, suddenly finds herself at the heart of a mystery more profound than anything her willful imagination could have conjured. A challenge so deep that it will affect not only her own fate, but that of the species itself. And, ironically, it will require all of the power of her remaining faith in attempting to overcome it.

A coming-of-age story in the widest and most important sense, Loewen’s characters will, at first, dismay and then inspire as we follow his plucky and precocious heroine and her intellectual beau straight into the abyss of life’s meaning in our own time.

Forgotten America

Sensational work of literature. Eminent of its time. While turning each page, readers go on a riveting journey of the self. Every chapter is an adventure with characters that readers cannot help but to develop a paradoxical relationship with. A heartfelt piece the author created to shed light on how easily we forget that others’ problems may be our own problems.

Fourteen Days in August

One August day in 2017, Christina Davies receives a life-changing message about her supposedly long-dead husband Cador. The Native American sender of that message claims to be in possession of documents and items that Cador has left to his son Jonny. One of these items turns out to be an unknown Gainsborough painting worth millions, and it hides a map with directions to a secret hideaway full of fabulous treasures.

This map sets Jonny, Christina and her friends on a dangerous quest that will change their lives forever. But the painting is claimed by ‘other parties’ who want it because it clarifies ownership of land in Boston Massachusetts; ownership granted by King George II for services rendered by a direct relative of Jonny Davies – the pirate Captain Robert Davies. The land is also claimed by a Boston religious community that has become rich off the back of its ownership. But over the centuries their accountants have morphed into a Mafia-linked community holding company that is using the money to fund global criminal aspirations. The secrets of the painting could destroy their plans.

The authors have framed a cast of characters that builds and sustains the story through a well-conceived developed plot. Deep emotional and sexual attachments are formed as their adrenalin-fuelled 14-day journey encounters murder, kidnap, drug running and extreme violence – all addressed head-on by the authors. Their detailed and dynamic writing style drives the plot at a frantic pace, drawing the reader into a breath-taking story packed with desperate chases on foot, speed boats, cars, the London Underground and horseback.