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Garrick Jones

    This author crafts compelling historical gay fiction, deeply exploring relationships and the inner lives of men. Their narratives often delve into the intimate details of human connection, leaving space for the reader's imagination to fill in the gaps. Each story is driven by intricate plots involving spies, detectives, or epic dramas, ensuring a captivating experience. With a research-driven approach, the author meticulously recreates the atmosphere and lived experiences of their characters, while also celebrating the unique aspects of Australian identity and history.

    The House with a Thousand Stairs
    Wheelchair: Antarctica. Snow and Ice
    • 2020

      Wheelchair: Antarctica. Snow and Ice

      • 398 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      You can never judge an academic book by its cover. Simon Dyson, a quiet assistant professor, is a man of hidden depths. To the world he presents as a harmless, innocuous, shy and retiring intellectual. However, the man who lurks behind that public persona is far more interesting ... and dangerous ... and driven.'Wheelchair' is a slow-burn contemporary psychological crime thriller about a man who suffers from both OCD and PTSD, a man who is unwittingly caught up in a cross-border war between rival crime gangs-a conflict that almost leads to his death, and more than once.It's a study of compulsion and of disability, and of the many faces of emotional dependence and sexual compulsion. It's about how some men cannot just love or make love because their hearts or their bodies lead them to it, but who can only connect emotionally and physically through self-imposed rituals which involve struggle or self-abasement.

      Wheelchair: Antarctica. Snow and Ice
    • 2020

      The House with a Thousand Stairs

      • 354 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Warrambool In Gamilaraay, the language of the Kamilaroi peoples of north-western New South Wales, it's the word for The Milky Way. It's also the name of Peter Dixon's homestead and sheep station, situated in the lee of the Liverpool Ranges. In 1947, Peter returns from war, his parents and younger brother dead, the property de-stocked and his older brother, Ron, having emptied out the family bank account and nowhere to be found. The House With a Thousand Stairs is the story of a young man, scarred both on the inside and the outside, trying to re-establish what once was a prosperous and thriving sheep station with the help of his neighbours and his childhood friend, Frank Hunter, the local Indigenous policeman. Enveloped by the world of Indigenous spirituality, the Kamilaroi system of animal guides and totems, Peter and Frank discover the true nature of their predestined friendship, one defined by the stars, the ancestral spirits, and Baiame, the Creator God and Sky Father of The Dreaming. Maliyan bandaarr, maliyan biliirr.

      The House with a Thousand Stairs