Bücher von Michael Davies

A collection of short stories by a writers' group in the Mind-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, covering murder-mystery topics, relationship issues and life in rural Australia. The writers have all come to the writing world in middle life after professional existences in other fields

A collection of short stories and illustrations submitted by children as part of the annual "Tell Me a Story" competition inschools in the Manning and Great Lakes regions of New South Wales, Australia.

A collection of short stories and illustrations produced by students in schools on the Mid-North Coast of NSW resulting from a competition now in its sixth year and in the fourth year of publication. Each year, the number of entries has increased and the popularity of the event grows.

Two young men learn how to hack into hospital systems and then into pacemakers implanted in patients' bodies. They use this skill to blackmail wealthy people with the fear of stopping their hearts and demonstrate that they can do exactly that. In a few cases, they kill the victim who resists paying up. They are persuaded by a man with Mafia connections to work with organised crime and extract state and military secrets from senior personnel in the security forces and military. This becomes a matter for the security forces in the UK, USA and Australia where the attacks have taken place.

A series of murders is happening in a small town in New South Wales. At first, some are not even recognised as murders but appear to be accidents and a suicide. But in all cases, there is not a single clue as to the perpetrators. The Detective in charge of the case is baffled. And why are the killings all occurring on the ninth of the month? As she begins to identify the deaths as murders, she is faced with a crisis that could threaten her sanity and even her life.

Prior to Vatican II, 80% of young people leaving Catholic schools practised the faith, today, 3% do. The much vaunted New Pentecost is seemingly no quite so awesome as the first. This catastrophic collapse is primarily the result of the heresy of Modernism, which has seeped into the Church's blood stream like AIDs, sapping her vitality and reducing her to a shadow of her former self. Since Vatican II, with one or two honourable exceptions, Western sees have been filled by Rome with dreary, vacuous, bog-standard Modernists. Under the leadership of these men, Christ Body in the British Isles, and elsewhere, has simply haemorrhaged away? It is also no coincidence that the horribly sex-abuse scandals, mostly perpetrated by predatory sodomites, occurred on their watch. To cure a disease, one must first understand it. In this booklet, Michael Davies uses his scholarship to lucidly expose the nature of this deadly virus in terms that all can understand. By Graham Moorhouse Chairman, PEEP

Garry Barton is an Australian business consultant working for a Chicago-based accounting firm. He reviews his firm's computer technology and advises the partnership that they are severely at risk because of their outdated systems. This so enrages the partners that they fire him. Garry joins a small, advanced accounting group and builds up their consulting business, much of it by taking away clients from his old firm. They begin to panic and try threats of violence against him. This doesn't work and the partners become more and more panicked as they see their firm decline and eventually the try and have Garry killed.

A new, vast spiritual force is approaching Earth. As it nears, the influence becomes extraordinary as people's spiritual awareness grows dramatically. Some remember past lives, others develop new abilities. The Infinite Soul is coming for a purpose - to cure Humanity of a sickness that threatens the survival of the entire Universe. There are one million species in the Universe, of which Humanity is one. As they near the end of the spiritual cycle of growth, they will eventually merge to form the supreme entity we have called God. But this cannot happen while Humanity is sick. The approaching Infinite Soul must complete its mission. But therre are evil forces in the Universe, committed to the destruction of the entire Universe. The final battle between Good and Evil must be won or all of Creation will be lost.

Kaiden and Hazel meet at school and soon discover they have an extraordinary connection. They soon discover that they are twins, separated at birth and adopted by two different couples. As they research their origins, they find that they were the result of extraordinary medical experimentation that at the time was illegal. These experimenta have given them some super-human abilities. Together, they can travel into the past and find themselves in Victorian England and Prohibition-era Chicago, they create a magical fantasy world and then go to a future Sydney. They must learn to control these powers in order to live normal lives.

Katrina, Jamie and Amelia leave the far west of the state for the two-day drive to the coastal resort of South West Rocks for a family holiday. But within a short distance they encounter a red fog that envelopes the car in a violent storm and when they emerge, they have reached their destination. Bridget and Warren, their parents are unaware that anything is wrong and have no memory of the storm, nor do they seem to notice that there is nothing there - no town, no shops, no camp site. The mystery deepens when six-year old Amelia demonstrates strange powers over animals and she heals Katrina when she is bitten by a lethal Brown Snake. Then Jamie discovers the astounding reality. Not only have they travelled over a thousand kilometres in a few moments, they have also gone back in time by 500 years. But they have yet to learn the shattering truth of how and why this has all happened. The children must display great courage and intelligence to solve the mystery of just who or what is Amelia, why do their parents not notice anything strange and how to combat the enemy that has followed them through the time portal and how they can return home.

Twelve years have passed since the events of "The Star of the Yshan Kings." The rightful heir has been crowned as Emperor Garamax 19th of the Yshan Galactic Empire and rules over a peaceful and prosperous Empire. Now Charlie marries Kyle before he and Josh take their posts as newly-commissioned officers of the Imperial Fleet. Almost as soon as they have joined the ship, an invasion by an enemy fleet occurs, almost capturing the Empire's Capital World and only brilliant action by the battleship's crew and a new weapon designed by Charlie's father save the day, at least for now. But the enemy hasn't finished and with support by the traitor Princess Sophie and her uncle, deadly danger threatens the Empire and the life of Emperor Garamax, the friend of Josh, Kyle and Charlie. They must risk everything to save themselves and the Empire.

The rightful heir to the throne of the Galactic Empire has been kidnapped and with it, the Star, the sentient crystal that has guided the Yshan Dynasty for several thousand years. Kyle and Sophie, the twin children of the Emperor have come to Earth to seek out the Prince and the Star and they are joined by Josh, Charlie and Henry, but they must overcome treason and great dangers before teh rightful heir to the throne is found and rescued.

Taught only by her grandfather, Charlotte plays the cello beautifully. After her grandfather died a year ago, Charlotte now has his cello, but tragically this is damaged in an accident during a concert. But a mysterious old man who seems to know her gives her a new instrument, a cello of extraordinary beauty and sound. Soon after, she plays the solo part in the Elgar Cello Concerto at a concert and word of her ability reaches the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She is invited to the Sydney Opera House to play before world-famous Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Concertmaster, Dene Olding and Principal Cello, Catherine Hewgill. Not only are they astonished by her playing, but they identify the cello as the long-lost and legendary cello made by famed luthier, Nicolo Amati. This cello was believed stolen in 1700 and said to contain an amazing secret. But others want the cello and its secret and Charlotte is kidnapped and the ransom demanded is the cello. As part of the search for Charlotte, the detective in charge of the case uses high technology to examine the cello and finds what appears to be the answer. Somehow knowing this, the kidnappers release Charlotte. Charlotte's friends are also helping and in their own research, they discover what the answer to the huge secret is. The hunt for an extraordinary treasure goes to Italy and then back to Australia and Charlotte finally realises her dream when Vladimir Ashkenazy leads her out to the stage of the Sydney Opera House to play the solo part in the Elgar Cello Concerto to a packed house.

Mickie Dalton is now fifteen but in his mind is the genetic memory of the entire life of Markel, once the leader of the Pfafth race in their prime as the rulers of the known Universe and during their downfall and flight into hiding. In his three years of travelling the Universe aboard the inter-galactic trading ship, he has grown, matured and developed some of the astonishing and lethal powers of the Pfafth and met many different species, some of them friends, some dangerous enemies. He has also encountered and fought the dreadful Sillaron, the frightening and destructive race that caused the downfall of the Pfafth over a million years ago and he has barely escaped with his life at times. Although unable to contact them, Mickie has discovered where the Pfafth have locked themselves away in a Space and Time outside of normal Space and Time. Then the Pfafth make contact with Mickie and he finally gets to meet his species and learn of the role for which he has been bred over a million year program. But the encounter reveals a reality for which he could never have prepared himself and a crisis far worse than could have been dreamed of. Unless the hidden galaxy of the Pfafth is returned to normal Space and Time, all of the Universe could become unstable and break apart. Mickie is faced with the ultimate choice between his own life and that of his entire species.

Nearly a year has passed since Mickie Dalton joined the massive inter-galactic trading ship and began the search for his origins and answers to the mysteries of how his people, the Pfafth vanished from the Universe over a million years ago, where they went and how they could be hiding from even the universal telepaths, the Speakers. As the ship continues its travels trading between species on planets in many Galaxies, small hints are found that the Pfafth are SOMEWHERE. As he matures, Mickie finds more and more of the astounding powers of the Pfafth and sometimes he is frightened of just how much more he will develop. But not only are Mickie's powers growing, so too are those of the ancient enemy, the Sillaron, a mysterious and ancient species that is seeking the Pfafth to destroy them finally. Then the Pfafth begin to reveal themselves and as more is learnt about the million year-old war between the Pfafth and the Sillaron, Mickie is confronted by the truth of what happened to his people and why they fled to a Space outside of Space and a Time outside of Time. Now he must contact them and save the entire species from destruction by a merciless enemy. This is the second book in the Mickie Dalton Trilogy.

Life for twelve year old Mickie Dalton is miserable. Cold, abusive parents make his home intolerable. So when Mickie meets a young couple in the park, an escape opens up. They tell him an astounding truth - Mickie is not a human being, though just what he is, where he came from and how he came to be on Earth are all a mystery. Mickie joins his new guardians on an immense spaceship that travels the Universe, even between galaxies, trading with many intelligent species on other planets as he seeks out his origins and nature. Slowly, he begins to develop extraordinary powers that must have been part of his people. As he also starts to find strange hints of what may have happened, he learns that he is one of an ancient race, the Pfafth who once ruled over forty galaxies but vanished without trace a million years ago. But other forces learn of Mickie's presence, huge forces of immense evil and power that were the cause of the destruction of the Pfafth and now they are intent on finding Mickie and his vanished people so that they can complete the destruction of that ancient race. A million year old war has started again and Mickie must draw on all his astonishing, growing powers and seek the help of allies, some strange, some beautiful, some terrifying as he seeks his people to prevent their end.

Geneticists had dicovered that our DNA holds a visual and aural records of our lives and those of our direct ancestors. It becomes possible to look back through time. New historical facts are discovered, old one revised and the whole meaning of what it isd to be human starts to change. The biggest change occurs when it is found that the basis of the world's great religions is quite different from what been believed and everything must change, often with violent consequences. But as new discoveries are made about the ancient world, a new renaissance in the arts, science, medicine, justice and diplomacy arises and the world changes just as it had done before. But a critical question arises - why do we have this ability? Where does it come from?

Alex finds a beautiful recorder hidden in his house and when he plays it, a door to another world opens. He and his friend Kate travel in a strange world, meeting monsters and people who have been there for many years. Some of the adventures are sad, meeting a squad of Australian soldiers who have been for some years but they don't know who the enemy is or how they got there. Some are frightening and they also find there is a mystery about their own parents that they can now resolve.

Daniel (11) and his next door neighbours, Olive (11) and April (6) find a portal into another world in the forest. As they explore they encounter strange forces, some dangerous and hostile, some friendly. When they return, there are new revalations about their families and their origins. The three children must venture back through the portal to try and save the nation there from a wicked Empress and restore peace and safety.

When Gilbert discovers the amazing powers of his farts, he embarks on a series of adventures. he flies into orbit, saves a house from burglars, tries to help his footie team win a game, rescues a man trapped on the roof of a burning building, gets rid of a plague of rats at the market and saves the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race from being becalmed in zero winds.

The new kid's arrival at school causes a stir. Not only is he immaculately and stylishly dressed, but he arrives in a Humvee limousine with two armed guards who stay with him all day. Alice, C.J., Casey and Ben, a young American who is also a new arrival get to meet Yuri and they all become friends. But then Yuri and Casey are kidnapped from a party and the complexity of the situation increases dramatically. It turns out that Ben's parents are CIA agents and they are somehow connected with the case. And why are the Australian Federal Police involved? And just who is Yuri Kirilenko? All the friends display great courage and resourcefulness as they struggle to solve the mystery of Yuri Kirilenko and free him and Casey from the grip of a mysterious European group.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may have died decades ago but not all the roots are dead. When Dan Bailey, a successful English executive living in Chicago starts to have bizarre, frightening nightmares of a long-ago Russian childhood, he gradually discovers that he is one of those hidden roots, a "Manchurian Candidate" left behind many years ago as a weapon against the USA. His incredible psychological mind-conditioning back in a secret camp in Siberia has left him an unwilling slave of a one-time General in the KGB who is using him now as a weapon, not against the country but against his business rivals. Dan discovers that he has murdered enemies of the General and he is quite incapable of refusing the orders he is given and after he has killed, he forgets the event. But the conditioning is breaking down after all these years and Dan starts to remember his childhood, his mother, the training and the men he has killed on the orders of his controller. Desperate to break free of this slavery, Dan tries to enlist the help of those who were once his enemy, the US intelligence forces who had tried to create their own Manchurian Candidates in years gone by. But undergoing the appalling, near-fatal process of breaking the mental conditioning leaves Dan not knowing who is friend and who is enemy.

A series of serial killings begins in Sydney, spreads around Australia and then is found to be happening around the world. Detective Inspector David Hunter, leading the Homicide Squad goes under cover to investigate the killings and puts himself at great risk of his life as he finds out the appalling truth behind the murders.

Julie Malloy and her friends make a school visit to the museum. On leaving and reclaiming her bag from the checkout, she is given the wrong one. Nobody claims it and her own is still there. When they are able to open the bag, they find a map indicating something hidden. As they unravel the mystery, they find themselves in a dangerous situation with a gang of criminals who export Australian wildlife overseas. They must draw on all their courage and intelligence to solve the mystery and keep themselves safe.

When Geoff, Natasha, Emma and Adrian are "double-dared" to visit a spooky new store in town, they couldn't not take the challenge. And spooky it is, indeed! Inside, they find first editions of famous old books, newly-printed newspapers with headline stories of events that happened decades ago, a radio broadcasting news of cricket matches that were played sixty years ago and many other strange exhibits. But they also find something terrifying - an old painting in a large gold frame hangs on the wall and the picture is of - themselves! The picture starts to take hold of Geoff's mind and attaches itself to him. He wakes up the next morning after a series of nightmares, the picture is on his bedroom wall but with a different scene - Geoffrey on his own looking back at him. What is the dark secret of the picture and how will Geoff and his friends prevent it from taking hold of him and imprisoning him as it has with others in the past?

A little girl is kidnapped off a school bus, but almost immediately released. Then a second child is taken from the school and demands are issued for her locket. Australian Military Police are involved because the child is the daughter of the officer in charge of the case and there is a mystery that involves international crime. The locket is believed to hold the location of a cache of jewels once owned by the eldest daughter of the last Russian Czar and the criminals holding the hostage are a major European crime gang. An elaborate plot is devised to save the child and snare the criminals.