Austin Macauley: 378 books

Sometimes, to save the world, we have to start with ourselves.Having protected the world from sure destruction thirty years before, Lawrence, a B12 Android, is now languishing on a death pole on Mars. His creator's son, Prof. Paul Linsdale, makes an impassioned plea to return this extraordinary humanoid...

This novel follows the story of Alice and Redmond Gilraine from Achill Island to London, Brisbane and Rochester, New York and back to Achill. It chronicles their adventures, tragedies and joys. This collection of characters live ordinary lives illuminated by love of family, stoic resilience in the...

Louise is the average woman with an average life, some might even say better than average. So when her world turns upside down after the worst morning of her life, why can't she just move past it and get on with things? Was she really happy or was "that morning" merely the start of something new?

Anna doesn't have the easiest start in life nor a happy relationship with her mother. She grows into a very beautiful, successful, but lonely young businesswoman. She meets an equally successful businessman who sweeps her off her feet. However, he controls her life completely and, as time passes,...

If you've ever wondered what stories James Herriot would have told if he'd been an environmental health officer and not a vet, then wonder no more because this is the book he'd have written. Having been disillusioned by his second career choice and abandoning it after only one year, Brian saw something...

MY COUSIN BEFORE THE STRANGER. MY BROTHER BEFORE MY COUSIN… The Scud missile did not bring the dreaded sarin gas but it did point the way to the first dead body. The first in a trail of blood that would lead Kuwaiti homicide detective Riad al Ajmi from the world of the rich to the slums of...

Set in post-World War-I Australia, Journey to Warudhar is the story of Jessica Brooking, whose idyllic childhood is turned upside-down when her mother undergoes a sudden religious conversion. Love and joy disappears from her household overnight, and when Jessica can bear the toxic atmosphere no longer,...

Mauro Marcantoni’s Against the Light walks us through the lives of blind people; each overcome by the complexities of their lives risen due to their disabilities, each trying to hold on to the relationships they have with the people around them and each hoping to find what meaning they can grasp...

Lena kills her husband in order to escape from his violence; then she vanishes, leaving behind her two damaged children. Robert's daughter disappeared ten years ago and he has been given an address where she might be living with her husband, but when Robert arrives, she has already departed. When...

Sometimes the smallest voices make the deepest impact. Josephine Hadley, a 1930s Canadian housewife, fills her days looking after her children, her indifferent husband and a stream of Depression-era visitors. Her contribution to her guests is a bowl of stew and an open heart. Her small...

In a vivid blend of the natural and supernatural, author William Roberts has created an enchanting tale, set in Wales over one thousand years ago, when one really could say 'here be dragons'! Thomas and Caitlin are brother and sister, spirited children of farmer Evan and his wife Gwyn. Expressly against...

Millicent Milner is over 30 now but still floundering and in pain, still running away. So is her big sister, Geena. Why? Everyone fawned over their suburban American parents. “You girls are so lucky! Such a charming mother you have! And that dynamic father!” Geena – wickedly funny...

John Henry Rainsford’s novel Queen Maeve is set in Ireland. It begins on the day when the gates of the Otherworld are thrown open and the spirits of the dead return to the land of the living. It isn’t long before things take a dramatic turn for the worse and havoc is wreaked. War is raged, blood is spilt; how will it end?

Janet Dwyer lives in a rural town in South Taranaki, New Zealand, under a beautiful mountain overlooking the Tasman Sea, where she and her late farmer husband raised three exceptional children. An interest in genealogy led to an observation of and interest in people that resulted in her becoming a...