The Last Days of Dom Sebastian is now available in paperback. It's a beautifully presented book made to last, and a big, bold adventure story in the vein of Wilbur Smith.

440 pages. ISBN: 9780648733874

From Medieval Portugal to Australia's Kimberley, this is a unique story of shipwreck, discovery and adventure that will keep you turning the pages long into the night.

About the book:

How can I rest until this story is told? Can I let such a tale slip unnoticed into history? Or allow men to take liberties, inventing lies about that which is precious to me? I, Luis Pereira, Dom Sebastian’s friend and confessor, can alone let the truth stand for posterity…

So begins our narrator's account of The Last Days of Dom Sebastian, the story of the Portuguese 'hidden king,' opening with defeat and ignominy in Morocco, then a desperate flight across the sea to that shadowy continent once known as Grão-Java, or the Austral Land. The story raises another possibility in a long line of plausible European 'discoveries' of Australia, and deals with the darkest reaches of the human heart.

Modern day archaeologist, Francis da Costa, is obsessed with exploring his Portuguese heritage and the first, as yet unrecorded European landings on Australian soil. Francis unravels the story of Dom Sebastian's escape across two vast oceans, narrated by a gentle Dominican priest who strives to protect the young woman he loves most in the world. Their ship, the Nossa Senhora dos Anjos, her crew ravaged by disease and starvation, drifts towards Australia's shores, still pursued by the highly trained guarda-costras, minions of Cardinal Henrique, who has seized the throne.

Together with the beautiful Nicolá Massane, Professor of Archaeology at Lisbon University, Francis follows the trail to a valley surrounded by cliffs of red stone. Hidden ruins tell of how the disenfranchised king found refuge there. Francis stumbles closer to the truth, forced to confront the demons that have plagued him all his life, and to grapple with the truth of the death of his father.

The Kimberley landscape has memories of its own. The past, written in blood on the soil, is neither inviting nor pleasant. Instead it is deeply malevolent, bowed over with weighty memories of violence, treachery and death.

Dom Sebastian faces his enemy on a harsh and remote battleground, unaware that treachery from an apparently loyal friend will soon take his life, while Francis slips deeper into the grip of the saudade, searching for the tomb of a king, hearing the voices of the dead as if they still walked the earth. Past and present become one. Both medieval and modern threads build towards a shattering and simultaneous climax that will thrill the reader and resonate long after the book is closed.

The Last Days of Dom Sebastian is a story of human frailty, adventure and conflict, yet a rumination on the darker side of the human psyche, and, most importantly, on the unseen marks each of us leaves on the landscape when our time on earth is done.

The Last Days of Dom Sebastian is a premium HARDBACK with case laminated cover and dust jacket. It's a beautifully presented book made to last, and a big, bold adventure story in the vein of Wilbur Smith.

440 pages. ISBN: 9780648733874

From Medieval Portugal to Australia's Kimberley, this is a unique story of shipwreck, discovery and adventure that will keep you turning the pages long into the night.

About the book:

How can I rest until this story is told? Can I let such a tale slip unnoticed into history? Or allow men to take liberties, inventing lies about that which is precious to me? I, Luis Pereira, Dom Sebastian’s friend and confessor, can alone let the truth stand for posterity…

So begins our narrator's account of The Last Days of Dom Sebastian, the story of the Portuguese 'hidden king,' opening with defeat and ignominy in Morocco, then a desperate flight across the sea to that shadowy continent once known as Grão-Java, or the Austral Land. The story raises another possibility in a long line of plausible European 'discoveries' of Australia, and deals with the darkest reaches of the human heart.

Modern day archaeologist, Francis da Costa, is obsessed with exploring his Portuguese heritage and the first, as yet unrecorded European landings on Australian soil. Francis unravels the story of Dom Sebastian's escape across two vast oceans, narrated by a gentle Dominican priest who strives to protect the young woman he loves most in the world. Their ship, the Nossa Senhora dos Anjos, her crew ravaged by disease and starvation, drifts towards Australia's shores, still pursued by the highly trained guarda-costras, minions of Cardinal Henrique, who has seized the throne.

Together with the beautiful Nicolá Massane, Professor of Archaeology at Lisbon University, Francis follows the trail to a valley surrounded by cliffs of red stone. Hidden ruins tell of how the disenfranchised king found refuge there. Francis stumbles closer to the truth, forced to confront the demons that have plagued him all his life, and to grapple with the truth of the death of his father.

The Kimberley landscape has memories of its own. The past, written in blood on the soil, is neither inviting nor pleasant. Instead it is deeply malevolent, bowed over with weighty memories of violence, treachery and death.

Dom Sebastian faces his enemy on a harsh and remote battleground, unaware that treachery from an apparently loyal friend will soon take his life, while Francis slips deeper into the grip of the saudade, searching for the tomb of a king, hearing the voices of the dead as if they still walked the earth. Past and present become one. Both medieval and modern threads build towards a shattering and simultaneous climax that will thrill the reader and resonate long after the book is closed.

The Last Days of Dom Sebastian is a story of human frailty, adventure and conflict, yet a rumination on the darker side of the human psyche, and, most importantly, on the unseen marks each of us leaves on the landscape when our time on earth is done.

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6x9 Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-0-6487338-2-9

270 pages

Set in Arnhem Land in 1990 and 1950s America, this is the story of a forty-year fight for justice.

In Australia’s Northern Territory, NORFORCE Sergeant Jamie McKinnon is ordered to escort a group of Americans into Arnhem Land, one of the world’s last great wildernesses. Yet what begins as a field assignment becomes a journey into Jamie’s own identity.

Danny Carter was a schoolboy during the Korean War, growing up with the mystery of his airman brother’s disappearance. As Danny comes of age in a rapidly changing United States, he is determined to locate his brother’s lost plane in the face of murder, intimidation and loss.

Danny and Jamie, coming together from opposite sides of the world, will find that revenge extracts a terrible price, and together reveal a shocking truth that will shake the world.

You can read a couple of sample chapters at: https://tinyurl.com/ycorcb82

150 Pages - short novel

ISBN:9780648733898

Stone Country Justice is a true Australian bush yarn in the tradition of Ion Idriess and Arthur Upfield, and compulsive reading for all Australians. The author is well known Top End fishing and bush writer, Dick Eussen.

About the book:

When a troubled young man, Ungara, goes on a killing spree in Arnhem Land, local Elders contract Kangi, a Kurdaitchii man, to hunt the fugitive down.

Meanwhile, also on the hunt are Northern Territory police sergeant Ken Wilson and Indigenous policeman Toby Cahill. In the wilderness of the Stone Country they join forces with the Kurdaitchii Man, but Ungara proves to be a hard man
to catch. He leads them a merry chase through crocodile-infested swamps, across fi re-blackened plains and through tall monsoon woodlands.

Just as the “wet season” arrives, Ungara leads the hunters into the void of the Goyder River swamps, where the chase will reach a terrifying climax.

The Time of Thunder by Greg Barron

Read by Matthew R Grego

8 hours and 40 minutes audio

Set in Arnhem Land in 1990 and 1950s America, this is the story of a forty-year fight for justice.

In Australia’s Northern Territory, NORFORCE Sergeant Jamie McKinnon is ordered to escort a group of Americans into Arnhem Land, one of the world’s last great wildernesses. Yet what begins as a field assignment becomes a journey into Jamie’s own identity.

Danny Carter was a schoolboy during the Korean War, growing up with the mystery of his airman brother’s disappearance. As Danny comes of age in a rapidly changing United States, he is determined to locate his brother’s lost plane in the face of murder, intimidation and loss.

Danny and Jamie, coming together from opposite sides of the world, will find that revenge extracts a terrible price, and together reveal a shocking truth that will shake the world.

Rusty's Tale - The memoir of a Gulf Country chopper pilot.

ISBN: 9780648733850

149 page small format paperback

Russell Carrington’s family came to Australia in the 1840s. His Great-Great-Grandfather fought at the Eureka Stockade before taking up land in Australia’s North.
Russell grew up on Planet Downs, the family station, then became a ringer, and later a chopper pilot. In Rusty’s Tales he describes the situations and circumstances that happened around him. A good yarn told warts and all, sometimes happy, sometimes sad.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Ben Mulligan is a cop from the Northern Territory town of Katherine, with more than his share of problems. When he heads down to Camp Leichhardt, a Grey Nomad camp on the Roper River, to fish and get away from the stresses of life, he finds that all is not what it seems.

Ben uncovers a criminal conspiracy that will destroy lives and wreak havoc on local communities. With the beautiful Malea as his ally, he has to face his past head on, and tackle a cartel intent on making money at any cost. Yet, in doing so, he risks everything, even his own future.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Crime, terrorism, history, international politics and the wide open spaces of outback Australia are all passionate interests of author Greg Barron. He has lived in North America, New South Wales and worked in and around Katherine, Northern Territory, for almost a decade. He once crossed Arnhem Land on foot, and has a passion for the Top End landscape.

His books, published by HarperCollins Australia and Stories of Oz Publishing, are all gutsy pageturners. Rotten Gods was long listed for the prestigious Ned Kelly awards, and has been lauded as "one of the most sophisticated geopolitical thrillers ever written." Savage Tide was described by ABC Radio reviewer Rob Minshull as; "Both supremely intelligent and written at breathtaking pace."

Camp Leichhardt is the first of Greg's Australian stories to see print, and was serialised in 2016 to wide acclaim. Rotten Gods, Savage Tide, Voodoo Dawn and Lethal Sky all feature Marika Hartmann, the Australian intelligence agent who won the hearts of readers all over the world.

Trade Paperback. 260 pages. $19.90 plus 5.90 postage and handling.

New edition, fully revised and updated with dozens more stories added.

Galloping Jones was a bare-knuckle-fighting larrikin who could tame any horse. Moondyne Joe escaped prison using an ingenious plan that made a whole colony laugh. Caroline Coleman was a settler who raised her children in Western Queensland, and buried her husband behind the store they built near the Thomson River. Nemarluk was an Aboriginal freedom fighter, who terrorised the Daly River region of the Northern Territory.

Based on the popular weekly Stories of Oz history posts, these sketches of Australia’s past will inform and entertain you. Above all, they will remind you of what life was like, in the days before highways and smart phones.

232 pages

Premium Hardback with dust cover

ISBN: 9780648733812

When anthropologist Robert Morris arrives at the old Doomadgee Mission, at Bayley Point near Burketown in 1934, he's intent on learning local languages and customs. One very old woman living there, he discovers, was originally from outback New South Wales, and is something of an outcast amongst the Waanyi and Gangalidda locals.

On delving deeper, Morris discovers that the old woman was the 'wife' of a white stockman for more than thirty years in the frontier days, and claims to be the mother of one of the north's most notorious outlaws. Determined to record the facts of her son's crimes from her perspective, he sits with her each afternoon.

This is the story she told ...

Joe Flick was both victim and murderer, a young man caught between two worlds. His story stretches from outback New South Wales to lawless Burketown, from Hodgson Downs Station in the Territory to drab Fannie Bay Prison. The final scenes, set against the backdrop of picturesque Lawn Hill Station, are both thought provoking and violent. It's a book to be devoured, and a must-read for all Australians.

Praise for Greg Barron's novels:

'A superlative political thriller' Rob Minshull, ABC

'A high-octane thriller ... the pace is excellent, the writing is sharp and Barron has a real talent for the evocation of place ... sufficiently gripping to keep you up at night' The Australian

'Barron echoes the work of authors such as MacLean, Clancy and Ludlum' Canberra Times

'Barron has written a thriller that entertains but also for those wanting more, a thought-provoking polemic' Courier-Mail

'A darkly imaginative page-turner' Bookseller+ Publisher

'Entertaining, provocative' Daily Telegraph

They called her Red Jack, for her hair was as bright as an outback sunset, hanging to her waist from beneath a stained cattleman’s hat. On her jet-black stallion, Mephistopheles, she roved the north in the 1880s and 90s. Where did she come from, and where did she go? No one knows for sure, but the mystery lives on.

The Ragged Thirteen were a band of thirteen larrikins who put their stamp on Australian folklore with their devil-may-care journey across the wild Northern Australian frontier. They were not bushrangers, but were certainly inclined to bend the law. This fictional account is based on the recollections of settlers and pioneers, but is, most of all, a yarn in the best traditions of the word.