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Or you can order from a good book shop or buy from my website.
E books available on everything, but mainly:
JUDGE ROSA SOMBERLY
The Caiman v Tau al-Gorz
Young Rosa Somberly suddenly inherits the title “Judge of the Court of Last Resort” following the death of her father in a courtroom catastrophe.
Benji, an urban explorer and thief, breaks into the Judge’s house and is sentenced by the old Judge’s corpse to protect Rosa from the follies of the human world and the cruelties of the elementals.
Together Rosa and Benji learn to navigate the laws of both humans and elementals in the Court of Last Resort where anyone (or anything) can seek justice.
But Rosa and Benji face their greatest challenge when the eternal clash between Tau al-Gorz, the Sweeper of Progress, and the Caiman, Protector of the Rivers and Forests, reaches a chaotic world-wide climax.
To judge the very same case that killed her father, Rosa, Benji and his urban gang must travel 4000 years through time to the Minoan civilisation where the ancient conflict between progress and the natural world began.
What others say:
“The vibe of the book is fantastic…”
” … and to whet the appetite, if themes like deforestation and overdrawing of natural resources resonate with you, I think you’ll get quite the kick out of some of these cases. Nature is given a lot of love and respect in this book, and it’s really nice to read something that honours the almost mythological miracle that is the natural world.“
Laura Nuttall MLA
“It might seem incongruous that a young adult story should be about a judge. Cops and villains, of course, but judges? Stuffy, ponderous, upholders of the law. The ultimate authority figure? But when I discovered that this judge is just ten years old and that her closest allies are a street crew of petty thieves in a story that slips between a near future where enchantment has reclaimed its place as elemental in the world, nothing can ever be taken at face value – particularly tattoos – and that there’s a fabulous excursion to ancient Crete, I was in. Judge Rosa Somberly isn’t for little kids. But for teens and everybody else, Colly Campbell has created a world that’s creepy and scary while also being fabulous, alluring and just a bit profound.”
George Hirst, Cranky Curlew Productions
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E books:
The Kyoto Bell
* ON THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE’S ESSENTIAL READS LIST, 2021 *
It’s 2141, the weather is savage, energy politics is brutal, and millions of climate refugees from Asia eke out an existence in a greening Australian desert.
Todd, the teenage son of powerful Indigenous energy mogul, Dr Madrigal Phipps, is kidnapped. A furious Dr Phipps gathers her old team from AuZgov Security Services and a renegade hacker, Andaman Marko, to hunt for Todd and his missing neo-Blues band, but both the climate chaos and her shadowy foes are treacherous.
The young people are held captive in a reclusive community in a central Australian gorge, run by a cult of privacy and silence, called the Qwietude. As adolescent tensions of sex and affection escalate, Todd and his friends plan their own escape.
Then, out of the blue, Madrigal’s 120-year-old father-in-exile calls with an extraordinary request from Kyoto, the only place on the planet where cherry trees still blossom.
Could Todd’s disappearance and the Old Man’s request be linked? And will the extreme weather prevent Madrigal from rescuing her son?
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E books:
*The only novel on the Australia Institute’s essential reads list of 2020*
The Capricorn Sky
A century into the future: the weather is lethal, sea levels have risen, and AuZtralia is a lot more complicated.
Andaman Marko lives in the Jointly Administered Territory of Capricornia – a new homeland for millions of climate refugees from Asia. Marko is a playboy by day, fraudster by night: making millions of $New by illegally decoding corporate and diplomatic komms to deal inside trades on the markets. And unknown enemies start to circle.
Then, in a society where prolonged peace is enforced through mass surveillance, eugenics and social engineering, a bomb goes off and Marko and his mysterious girlfriend, Flick, flee north to the climate ravaged badlands of Cape York.
Marko leads both would be assassins and his guardian angel, Dr Madrigal Phipps, in a wild pursuit through a world where the peace is cracking apart.
What others say
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It’s a century in the future and climate impacts are deadly. Big government keeps order in a world awash in climate refugees using a terrifying mix of eugenics, political engineering and an AI-managed watchful eye. How long can the enforced stability last?
A wild ride!
Blair Palese, Climate and Capital Media
All short stories on this website are works of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
