Austin Macauley: 378 books

Evie Campbell is a fifteen-year-old girl terrorised by her mother's abusive husband who she has fearfully named ‘The Thing'. She finds no respite out of home either, as the neighbourhood bullies are determined to make her life hell. After another brutal beating unconscious Evie is catapulted into...

Prison, a time served, a glance at living behind bars from an artistic eye and a poetic voice. Describing everyday ordeals and ideals that have to be compensated for. How perspectives and perceptions change after crossing a social boundary. Prison having an ‘out of sight, out of mind’,...

Severin Brille is the happiest man on earth. He’s by a bridge. He’s waited a lifetime for this and now – now – it’s here. He stops. Looks around. He wants to make this moment last because it is sweet. Then he turns and walks under. An hour later, he’s still there. Hanging. Dead. Was this...

Although Adam Scott is a design engineer for Struthers-Ergen, he has strong links with his upbringing on an outback cattle station in the state of Victoria, Australia. When he receives strange letters from his ailing grandfather in a rest home in Melbourne, he decides to combine a visit to him with...

Because of her past, Detective Inspector Helen Ross of the Metropolitan Police is coerced into working for Colonel Nash, who heads up a special group set up in MI5. Her mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a known IRA terrorist cell that is preparing to carry out a bombing blitz on the nation's...

After a successful career in banking, Mike Thompson finds himself redundant and, in desperation, goes to the tiny Cornish west coast fishing village of St Pennard, intent on suicide. Instead, he is captivated by its beauty and establishes a new life in the quiet pace of this peaceful setting. Following...

James Lettice was born in Wigan in 1940, a wartime baby. His cheery autobiography takes us through his short but eventful army career. A young man with a spectacular talent for getting into trouble, James' senior officers couldn't decide whether he was a leader or a follower and soon his name went...

Canterbury Tails by Chris Gilberd is a romp through one man’s smallholding and indeed one man’s vision of the Good Life, with a fair dollop of antipodean humour and a few other squishy bits along the way. Unexpectedly relieved of his business career, the author is launched into his long-held...

Fiona Winter's 'A Lead to Love' is a modern romance set against an unusual backdrop of a dog walking club in the North of England.The club that is formed by Jess the central character when she is unexpectedly lumbered with her grandmother's new puppy, becomes more than just...

Chris just wanted to be an aeronautical engineer, but events and WWll changed it all. Christopher Darby’s father wants him to follow a medical career and become a doctor like himself. But Chris knows his real love is engineering, especially aeroplanes, and he wants it to be his career. A chance...

A young woman’s best friend is killed in a horrific accident, which impacts her outlook on life. At the same time, other events happen that lead her on an arduous journey to find the peace and happiness she longs for. She finds herself criss-crossing the world and nearly loses the understanding...

What a Wicked Web We Weave is a novel full of mystery, intrigue, murder, revenge, fraud and betrayal amongst many other things. It has several twists and turns as you get enthralled into each chapter and it will leave the reader in suspense and at the edge of their seat, right up to the end. After...

When eight-year-old Rebecca visits her grandmother at her country estate, a new world opens up to her when she is visited by a kookaburra, who delivers an invitation from the bushland animals and birds to attend a high tea. At the high tea, Rebecca is presented with a most unusual request. Follow...

The Story of Good King Ferdie is a book promoting democracy as preferable to autocratic rule. It is intended for children, from kindergarten to early-reader age, and it amusingly teaches the drawbacks of autocracy.