Grandma Ethel’s Braid

Grandma Ethel’s Braid is an epic and engaging story of culture, family, love, romance, and adventure. In Part 1, the story follows three generations of a Jewish family as they journey from oppressive Russia in the early 20^th century to freedom in America. Once in America, Ethel and her family carve out a new life. Ethel marries and has a daughter. In Part 2, Ethel, her daughter, and her granddaughter face more modern challenges well into the 21^st century. A story you won’t forget!

Granduncle Bertie

Sarah, a free-spirited artist in her late twenties, accepts an assignment from her granduncle, Albert Smithson, to write his memoir. ‘Bertie’ has a crippling terror of death brought about by the agonising death of his father, who was an atheist. He learns that there are three conditions one must attain to die in a peaceful state. At age fifty-four, he has none of them and is determined to achieve them all.

Grasp the Nettle

Set in a remote district of Western Australia in the 1920s, an era which outlawed suicide, an unidentified body has been found and police are treating the death as suspicious. The story presents a chance for strangers (the reader) to peruse the very private diaries of the protagonists. Intriguingly, this is like peeping through the coin slot of a piggy bank to count the wealth inside. Elsie has married Tom in an arrangement brokered by her brother. Tom’s job is delivering the Royal Mail, and it takes him away from home for weeks at a time. Vivacious, imaginative young Elsie must entertain herself in their isolated, unsophisticated bush hut. Married women were not allowed to be financially independent. Grasp the Nettle is not a fairytale ‘lived happily ever after’ romance, but a lode of accurate historical data balanced by details of underlined moral standards of life before the advent of reliable contraceptives, and acknowledgement of gender diversity. In those harsh times, things that are commonplace for us today were yet to be invented: like mobile phones, internet communications, and GPS. There were not even engineered roads through country districts in this vast nation, Australia. Grasp the Nettle poses the question: how did people cope with life’s challenges?

Greener Grass

What makes people do the things they do? Is it their upbringing? Is it their environment? Their role models? Perhaps it is their friends and support circle. Or is it their previous actions changing their cognitive patterns?

There are many factors that influence people. For Joe Smith and Daniel Suddlemire, it could be a mixture of all these components. Despite having two different upbringings and personalities, they’ve formed an unlikely friendship. A friendship that blossomed since childhood. However, after witnessing a traumatic and life-altering incident, a series of events occur. Events that will chip away at their friendship, leaving nothing but hate and broken promises in its wake.

As Joe and Dan slowly drift apart; they both form new social circles. One in a gang and one in the arms of the loving Nicki Yakes.

One factor remains the same – Desby, a failing seaside town, run by the controlling drug lord Victor Romeo. Through the help of psychologist Gareth Hall, a troubled Dan gets the chance to leave Desby forever. But, will he take his oldest friend or Nicki?

Should Nicki go with Dan? She has troubles of her own, a haunting past which will not only halt Dan’s plans to escape his environment but threaten the lives of everyone around him.

Grief Is

Catherine O’Connor tells the story of grief in poetic form.

A moving and honest reflection of the desolation, isolation, and emotional consequences of loss and grief.

It brings light and hope to the heart.

Grope

Be very careful before you decide to buy this book because it might give you ideas!

Judge Jury, pillar of society, makes one drunken mistake which turns his life upside down. Although now considered a despicable character by all, including his wife, he picks himself up with the help of a new-found friend he met at Her Majesty’s pleasure and gets to his feet.
His career now in shreds and his generous income no more, he receives some invaluable advice from his new-found friend: start stealing things. You will be amazed how easy it can be.

So this is why I warn you to be careful before you approach the cashier to pay for what you hold in your hands. This book could get you into trouble. Big trouble.

Ground

In an England shattered almost beyond repair by the Great Catastrophe and the war that followed, Mark Norman is brought up in one of a few fertile Grounds, Grounds surrounded by land that is, at best, liable to cause sterility and, at worst, to be lethal to all who venture into it. His doubts about the truth of what he is taught increase and when duty calls him to sterile service in the Domain, ruled by a sterile but near-immortal nobility, he flees to the Outland, the land where rebels have maintained a fragile truce with the Domain for more than 200 years. His flight is a catalyst, provoking violent reactions on both sides. In the chaos that follows, his recall of vital information acquired in his escape determines the future that is unfolding.

Growing with Fiction

Everybody has their heroes. From fictional to real, everybody has people or characters that they look up to and aspire to be, that even help them during times when life becomes too much or even when life is just the way they want it to be.

This book follows one particular journey and how different heroes really can affect one person at various points in life and how they can come to relate to experiences such as trauma, individuality, balance and other wide-ranging aspects of life that many will experience in their lives.

From well-known characters that people across the world will know and love to some lesser-known that only a very few will know, this book will give readers an insight into how the experiences and struggles of a life so far can be helped and sometimes even healed by the heroes and inspirations we look up to and love.

Guarded

Jenna:

“I’m a survivor – literally: she died, I didn’t.

That night still haunts me, but it’s not the only thing.  Somebody is toying with me now, messing with me and I don’t know why – and I don’t know who.”

Aiden:

“Babysitting civilians is below my paygrade – and my patience. Especially when my brother’s civil defence unit gets to hunt down the scum responsible for harming a close family friend. But once setting eyes on the shy, pretty little thing I’ve been requested to familiarise with, I decide she might make a decent distraction after all.”

What’s supposed to be a straightforward assignment – with a few added perks – gets flipped on its axis as two defence contracts merge in a sinister, unforgiving way.  Soon Aiden realises he will have to do more than just protect his sweet, new obsession.  Now he will have to hold her accountable for her own crimes.

Guardians

When Gwin is persuaded to try her hand at live-action roleplay she quickly discovers that the character she has created, Thaddeus, has a life of his own, and through him Gwin experiences the incredible, complex and intricate world of Empire. Thaddeus’s world is beguiling, beautiful, violent, and dangerous, and the young warrior becomes entangled in a deadly conspiracy of power, passion, and betrayal.

Gunner's Island

Gunner’s Island is a post-war novel that will engage dog lovers, military veterans, history enthusiasts, and undoubtedly anyone who is all three. Set in the small town on a tiny Canadian maritime island, the story unfolds with the return of World War II pilot Linus, following a plane crash that left him irrevocably altered. Linus is grappling with PTSD and acclimation back into civilian life, when he is mysteriously befriended by Gunner, a full grown and affable Newfoundland dog.

With a wide array of detailed characters and scenes that jump between flashbacks and present life, Gunner’s Island is both a drama and comedy. It is earnest yet jocular, weighty yet wholesome, and meant to set sail the reader into the story as effortlessly as its northern ocean waves.

Gwennie's Girl

This is a visceral, engaging and demanding debut novel by a well-travelled author with first-hand experience in a variety of war zones. It is the story of Lizzie who is no hero. She is a coward who has fled Australia, an abusive and loveless existence and the sorrow of being abandoned by her loving mother, Gwennie, and her redoubtable nanna. She lands a job in Geneva, travelling to war zones and refugee camps, and gradually comes to relish her new independence. Physically, Lizzie survives. Emotionally, she shuts down, closing her mind to memories, nursing anger and feeling of guilt, and determined never to let herself be vulnerable again. She has what she thinks is a one-night stand with a war photographer. But eventually she has to choose whether to stay safe in emotional isolation or take another risk--trust someone else. After all, she is Gwennie's and Nanna's girl. The decision is made.