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Mark BarwellMark Barwell was born in 1981 and raised on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. He studied Civil Engineering at the University of Wollongong, and moonlights by day as an engineer in bridge and highway construction. He is married to a beautiful young woman and is father to three rambunctious children.
Mark's first novel, 'The Naked Viking' was published by Poseidon Books in 2005. We hope to have this available on amazon.com shortly. Mark's second novel, 'The Turning' went on sale on amazon's Kindle Store in October 2012. 'The Turning' is also available in paperback via amazon.com or createspace.com. THE TURNINGWhat would you do if all the men in your life started turning into women? Such
is the predicament faced by Reuben, a twenty-something lad from contemporary urban Australia. Affable, likable and at least moderately handsome, Reuben is a bit miffed with life. His career has stalled, he's mired firmly in Best Friends Country with the loins-achingly beautiful Deidre, and his best mate Morrie's shag-happy ways are making Reuben wonder why he ever liked the womanising man-whore in the first place. So when a terrorist group of Militant Feminists unleashes a terrible biological weapon upon the world, a weapon guaranteed to turn every single man into a woman, Reuben can't help but feel that there may in fact be a great steaming turd in his hat. As it were. Tempted though he may be to crawl into a box and gibber madly in blind panic, Reuben eventually reasons that there's no sense in making a fuss. |
D. A. CairnsThis second novel from D.A. Cairns mixes wry sarcastic humor with infidelity and neighborhood drama. David Lavender's constant preoccupation with his neighbor, whom he's dubbed the Chainsaw Massacrer of Chinaman's Hollow, and his frustrated passions lead him down a road of risk, betrayal, and violence. In a way, he betrays himself by becoming someone he never imagined he'd be. His life is not far removed from everyday human experience, but it's about to change drastically--and not for the good.
This is a bold, compelling read with well-drawn characters anyone can relate to: friends, family, a lover and, above all, neighborhood enemies." - Jeanne Haskin Loathe Your NeighborDavid Lavender is a man with a talent for making bad decisions. In his fortieth year on planet Earth, dangerous restlessness overwhelms him, and, as his marriage crumbles, and a dispute with his neighbor escalates, he responds to
theses crises in his life with characteristic folly. Frozen out by his mysteriously indifferent wife, Lilijana. Baited by his cantankerous stepson, Tomo, and alternatively supported and rebuked by his two best mates, Matt and Chalkie, will David successfully negotiate the minefield which his own discontent constructed, or will he destroy himself and everyone around him? Adult-content rating: This book contains content considered unsuitable for young readers 17 and under, and which may be offensive to some readers of all ages. |
Steve ShapiroBorn in 1944 in Bridgeton, New Jersey Steve Shapiro graduated Burlingame High after the family moved to California in the early 1950's. As a college graduate, he moved into Pebble Beach with his family and developed photography as his primary art form from making movies much like Man Ray with whom he exhibited in the 1960's.
A 1969 UCLA graduate student in theater arts, film due to his friend Ansel Adams' recommendation, Shapiro, a thirty year-plus Carmel resident had his first book "Carmel - A Timeless Place" published by Central Coast books in July 1998. A local best seller, it is considered a substantial footnote to the Arts & Crafts architectural movement. Writing about photography and as a journalist, Shapiro published major works on photographic history especially the argument on the image versus the print in a British Journal, Photographica World to which he regularly contributes. Of the permanent collections that house Shapiro's work from one man shows, the US Navy, Seabee's Museum at Port Hueneme, Calif. have "The Peacetime Navy," and the Smithsonian Institution. PAWNSIt's Pap. Set in San Francisco at the unsuspected end of World War II, the
fictionalized story based on two true events. This is a sensual, social intrigue in a Chinese gambling parlor, from the effete streets and into the newsroom of the San Francisco Chronicle. Reporter Don Day writes about west coast finance, of murder, arms dealing and the unvealing of the actual story behind the Rosenberg treason scandal that ended with their exicution in Sing Sing prision after the A-Bomb brought an end to WW II, in Japan. |