Fontaine Publishing Group: 47 books

These 30 short stories are bound by a collective eclecticism, shades of darkness and narrative twists. The darkest themes – violent crime (‘Blood Red and the Eighth Dwarf’), suicide (‘Pin Back Your Ears and Smile’) and the spectre of incest (‘Terror by Torchlight’) – are tempered by the...

Veljanoski’s poems are original, interesting and powerful. Well-written they explore the nature of our life existence with its intrigue. Lost love is something we all have experienced, but not in the same way.

Abigail and Beatrix have been adopted by the Malefics, a famous inventor family, after a short stay in the Skipping girl Home for Wayward and Homeless girls in Melbourne. Zarah sets out to be reunited with them, but when she gets to the Malefic Mansion she is disturbed to find that her sisters are...

Who was Santa before we called him “Santa”? And how did he get involved with elves and reindeer anyway? What turned his beard white? And how did he begin delivering toys and gifts to children on Christmas Eve? A story from long ago holds answers to these questions that will surprise and delight you.

This book focuses on specific design features of many Australian, and other, animals as well as other evidence for intentional creation by a Creator.It is intended as an aid when visiting east-Australian zoos, as well as a study manual for biology students, at a level of academic rigour expected in high...

Why does an ancient Egyptian obelisk celebrating the god of the sun stand in the centre of St Peter’s Square in Vatican City, the home of the Pope and the heartland of Catholicism? Taking this mysterious fact as his starting point, Tony Sunderland examines the history of religious belief in an attempt...

Transformations — A Guided Journal is a guide suitable for anyone wanting to discover their innermost thoughts and beliefs. If you work through this guided journal you will discover who you truly are. You will develop your own insights about your world and you will be transformed. Your choices will become mindful and your own eternal wisdom will guide you. You will feel reborn.

Murder. Mayhem. Misdeeds. In the nineteenth century, Brunswick was a satellite suburb of Melbourne. While the big city boomed, Brunswick was a place of “bricks and pottery, mud and poverty” with the unruliness of a frontier town. This collection of contemporary newspaper stories provides a vivid...

Instead of telling his family he was fired, Mitch Gibson lives a lie to pay the bills, and takes the only job he can get – in the sex industry. THAT’S a raunchy secret he must keep from his wife, their daughter, and his father working for a shock-jock TV show.

Radio drama is often called the “theatre of the mind”, wherein a listener’s imagination is stimulated by voices, sounds, and music to create mental imagery as real as any bricks-and-mortar theatre. Reg James spent a lifetime in the thick of Australian radio drama. Rising through the ranks at Grace...

Passing through Boundary Rd at West End, a Brisbane suburb, is not an ordinary experience.    As opposed to the larger world— where due to differences in religion, culture, language or social class, pools of blood have coloured the streets and the sacred threshold of family homes have been turned...

Mental illness can affect absolutely anybody, with its causes often mysterious and perplexing. In this highly readable memoir, Greg Ralls charts his own formative life experiences from work-related fatigue, trauma and hearing ‘voices’ (thoughts) through to psychosis, a devastating diagnosis of schizophrenia,...

Veljanoski’s poems are reflective, intriguing and vigorous. The author views Drunken Revolution as genuine philosophy for our own existence; the democracy, and the equality, the freedom and the unity, the love and the hate . . . In this collection of meditative poetry you will find the connected thoughts of a master of metaphors.

One who communicates the Dharma of the awakened mind is like the skeleton that points in the direction of the moon. They are not the moon. Secular western Dharma encourages the removal of the ‘ism’ from Buddhism to create the potential for a fourth reformation period. It promotes a return to the...