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"He reflected on why he'd come to South Australia in the first place. He realised that he owed it to himself to find out whether having something real with someone could be his, despite his fame. And he owed it to them." The Holiday Romance is a tale of love in the spotlight, taking place in Australia and the United States in the late 1990s. Before taking a well-deserved break, copywriter Kate's dating world collides with that of Josh, a well-known Australian actor who lives in LA. Will they be able to navigate their holiday romance in the limelight when it becomes more than just a fling? Kate is trying to forget a public past break-up when she returns to her home town in country South Australia after two years. Meanwhile, Josh has all-but given up on having a genuine relationship. Being the focus of media attention makes it almost impossible. When Kate and Josh meet at a computer games conference, they cannot deny their connection and their common experience living in the public eye.But as their holiday romance develops in front of a gossiping town, as well as the relentless media, they are forced to revisit their past. Can their romance survive it?The Holiday Romance is a novel of hope and taking a chance to find happiness.

"There''s no deal unless you tell me who killed Lucretia, Thomas! For the love of God, I have to know-""She was shot by an assassin.""But who was this assassin? Who shot her?" he demanded again angrily, leaning forward over the table."I did," I said, after a suitably dramatic pause.He threw his head back and laughed loudly, his arms crossed on his chest. "You?" he said once he''d regained his breath. "You? Thomas Haupner, the violinist? The would-be army officer from some stupid, derelict relic of the British Empire, a trained assassin?"After returning from a secret mission in occupied France for His Royal Highness, George, the Duke of Kent, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Haupner is looking forward to a cup of tea, a hot bath, and the sleepy head of his American lover, Major Henry Reiter on his shoulder when he wakes up the next morning.However, along with items Tommy has recovered for the duke, he has also discovered a secret stash of documents, which, when opened, prove to be a poisoned chalice. Tommy and Shorty find themselves caught up in a dangerous web of lies, enemy agents, assassins, and traitors. In an effort to save the reputations of not only their friends, but men and women high in both society and in the government, they themselves become victims of  I.K.S., a former World War One international extortion ring, which has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes of bomb-devastated London.

In this modern day tale of broken moral compasses, Frances Brennan, a successful highflying lawyer, and Gino Rossi, a reformed crim, carry the two lead characters on a journey with their respective views on life and the afterlife, making use of their protective dogmas as their drivers. Their protagonist and antagonist roles appear to reverse as they each encounter some of life''s serious crossroads.  Despite their abiding respect and affection for each other, the two become perilous foes, who use mentors and external creeds to justify their own deep convictions. Armed with these convictions, Frankie and Gino choose their separate courses of action, all wrapped-up in serious ethical dilemmas, right through to the thrilling end, when the line blurs between social justice and social carnage. Ethically adrift, Frankie and Gino manage to re-purpose their opposing understandings of God to suit their conflicted consciences and behaviour. Values and principles narrow to a single purpose. While maybe not as extreme, the novel echoes ethical dilemmas we''ve all faced, or may face sometime in our lives. It will challenge readers and stimulate discussion and debate about what keystones we use to sort right from wrong, and how difficult it can be sometimes to distinguish between the two.  It leads us all to consider how and why at times we do the right thing for the wrong reason, and sometimes the wrong thing for the right reason. Not stuffy or highbrow, this book is for thinkers in the general community, as well as fiction lovers, thriller readers, faith holders, legal professionals, and even senior high school students.

Beachside Como and South Perth in the 1950s and 60s - the time and place of my early life. Then, even more than now, Perth''s remoteness gave its citizens a distinctive independent spirit.To guide you to that distant time and place, I write as wholeheartedly as I can - of Perth, the city of my youth, as well as the events, people, songs and movies that moulded me. That said, the biggest influence in the making of this Perth boy was my dad. So this memoir is as much his as mine.In my dad''s bleak childhood in Northern Ireland, family life and family love were absent. Sadly, such emotional harshness fractured his self-belief.Like boys the world over, I copied my dad to be loved by him. And in my case, as I grew, I soaked up dad''s repressed childhood anxieties. Eventually, they became a persistent, unwanted inner voice telling me I wasn''t good enough. As a young man, finding and then grappling with the source of my deep insecurity became a relentless quest. And yet, as you will read, it was because of that personal struggle that I discovered a way to admire and accept my dad as he was.