David Francis: 73 books

I'm not really sure of a long description here, as I've really set it out in the short one. Suffice to say, I was sick to death of reading all the bullshit that goes with manuscripts - that they HAVE to be this and they HAVE to be that: don't use different fonts and don't play with the spacing and make a coherent story etc. So I set out to defy all that.

Mary has a history with her mother. She also has a history with Chris, the priest. Mary's mother and Chris have a history with the Bible. Julie has a history with Mary, her magazine and Mary's writing. Mary has a history with writing; so does her mother. Jacob is Mary's father; he has a history with...

Letters to the editor of the Sunday Age that I have written over the period 2007 - 2015. Covering a wide range of interests, it gives a snap shot of Australia and, sometimes, the wider world over the past eight years.

Published to great acclaim in six countries, 'The Great Inland Sea' is a haunting novel about a boy who escapes the scorched Australian landscape of his youth with a horse called Unusual, and returns as an adult to nurse his ailing father, discovering the secrets long buried there. 'The Great Inland...

First book in my new style, particlism. Written ten years ago, this novel was written in parts, one part to a day. Very short chapters, grouped into months of the year. Some sort of story hangs in it and some of my life as it was at the time. A kind of combined novel/memoir.

Number three in the Particlism Novel series. Mostly short chapters but a couple of old-fashioned, long form chapters in there as well. A man leaves his wife and family to live alone on the ocean and contemplates his life as a massive storm approaches. Or it could be about something else; you're free to make up your own mind on it.

This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature...

The crisp Autumn air calls to Elmer, an old man who has lost faith in life, to climb the mountain of his youth in search of the great, majestic Whitetail Buck. Not fearing death or his advanced age, Elmer picks up his rifle and enters upon his last journey reliving memories from his past as he climbs...

The second volume of The Pontiff and The Prophet trilogy (The City and The Wilderness) tells the story of Antonlonello (the Prophet), his escape through the northern wilderness of Norumbega, his capture, and death in the levels of Quebec. It also depicts the various aspects of life lived in the theocratic...

CONTENTS: ABRAHAM MERRITT 1. The People of the Pit AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG 2. Omega ANTHONY MELVILLE RUD 3. Ooze ARTHUR TRAIN 4. The Nth Power CLARK ASHTON SMITH 5. The Black Abbot of Puthuum DAVID H. KELLER 6. The Jelly-Fish DAVID H. KELLER 7. The Rat Racket DAVID H. KELLER 8. The Worm DONALD ALLEN...

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops Richard Jefferies: After London Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. Cox: The Guardians Philip F....

A Bildungsroman (German expression meaning: "novel of formation, education, culture"), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change...

Plagued by bloody wars and armed conflicts, political instability, communal violence and displaced persons, and at the mercy of natural catastrophes such as drought and famine, it is not surprising that the Western press has long dismissed Africa as the 'hopeless continent'. In the face of these challenges,...

In the latter half of the 19th Century a group of particularly intrepid explorers navigated their way into the interior of Africa, documenting what they saw, mapping the territory they crossed, and competing with one another to be the first to discover the fabled 'source of the Nile'. The...