Showing posts with label Fiction - The Bad Seed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction - The Bad Seed. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Read an eBook Week - Free eBooks available now

To celebrate Read an eBook Week, March 8th - 14th, we will be giving away a selection of eBooks to download for free. Please click the covers below to download your free copies. Each day will have a different genre of books to chose from including Crime, Adventure, Fantasy etc.

Please come back each day for your copies.

More details on Read an eBook Week can be found here

Sunday 8th

Mystery - Available to Download Now

Click the cover image to go directly to the download page

The Bad Seed by Maurilia Meehan








Capable of Murder by Brian Kavanagh

Also by Brian Kavanagh:
The Embroidered Corpse
Bloody Ham




Death in Malta by Rosanne Dingli

Monday, 26 January 2009

Happy Australia Day


Books for Australia Day

From our Australian Authors:

Sleep Before Evening by Magdalena Ball

This is a remarkable novel, not one detail of which rings false. The setting is New York City and one of its suburbs and the time is the Reagan years. Ball has achieved the remarkable in recovering this particular tim
e past and the drive of the narrative makes this a compelling and an exciting book. Bob Williams

The Bad Seed by Maurilia Meehan

The appearance of a novel by Maurilia Meehan is always an event to celebrate. She writes with a sharp, bold, experimental pen, and takes her readers into realms at once astonishing and familiar. Carmel Bird



The Playm
akers by Graeme Johnstone

An absorbing tale of conspiracy, manipulation, romance, and death when two young men (Shakespeare and Marlowe) from vastly different backgrounds are flung together by their passion for the written word.




Death in Malta by Rosanne Dingli

It is a meticulous psychological fable that favours character development and snapshots of village life over racier plot elements. Stephen Bell




Teach
ing Daedalus by Bevan McGuiness

An unusual romance, with a little mystery thrown in. I'm wondering if McGuiness will use the character Cornelius Monk again ... he has more to offer. S E Crawford



Treason by Meredith Whitford

Treachery in Love and War in the Struggle for the English Crown

Witty & literate. If you are curious about Richard 111, War of the Roses/Tudors, this is an easy fictional approach - which may indeed reflect the truth. Deirdre OShea


Featuring Belinda Lawrence, our Australian heroine:

Capable of Murder by Brian Kavanagh

Mr Kavanagh managed to do what one of my favorite authors, M C Beaton, does so well, incorporate humor within the confines of a credible mystery. Mary Lynn




The Embroidered Corpse by Brian Kavanagh

Superior in quality, this novel will grip you from first to last page and leave you wanting more from this very talented writer! Viviane Crystal




Bloody Ham by Brian Kavanagh

Bloody Ham is a fun, unique read and we look forward to more of Belinda and Hazel in the future. Vanessa Lee, Armchair Interviews




And our acclaimed Australian Poet:

The Way Back by Nana Ollerenshaw

From the underbelly of the world, poems of a nurse, a trekker and a traveller.

Thursday, 3 April 2008

Review: The Bad Seed by Maurilia Meehan

Maurilia writes with a sharp, bold, experimental pen, and takes her readers into realms at once astonishing and familiar. Carmel Bird

Maurilia Meehan's writing is life to the full - passions, ideas, the immediacy of real, astounding people. Judith Rodriguez

...a shrewd, poignant, tart morality tale that repays a slow, attentive read, however light the bracing prose may appear. Cath Kenneally, The Sydney Morning Herald

Illusions abound from the outset... The subtle mental torture, teamed with Meehan's elegant prose, is captivating. Tony Maniaty, Weekend Australian

Her young daughter has disappeared, sparking a massive murder hunt, and now her husband has gone walkabout in the bush with no plans to return.

Nothing is coming up roses for small-time gardening correspondent Agatha.

So she plants the seeds of a new life in an isolated village … in the dilapidated former home of a renowned witch.

A strange new lover and mysterious visitors from half a world away will not allow Agatha's own ghosts to rest … and her garden produces dark honey and poison as Maurilia Meehan's tale builds to a chilling climax.

Sinister flora and phantoms flourish in this rich and unforgettable work from the pen of the award-winning author of the acclaimed "Performances", "Adultery", "The Sea People" and "Fury".

ISBN: 978-1-905202-12-6