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Toni Thomas
Toni Thomas’s poems inhabit a world where love is a subversion of slinky dresses, strangers live in shoes, sea merchants wander, jewels grow on the leafless tree, where permeable girls…
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A Sydney man working late at night watches news stories detailing uncontrolled violence around the globe. He panics and rushes out to buy supplies. Later, his fears seem justified as…
Set in Scotland, this collection of poems is a meditation on the nature of modern life, home, relationship, equity, longing. Through a variety of people, landscapes and experiences these poems…
A Note on Toni Thomas’ Chosen These are poems of that day- when the fiction lifted, poems of ecclesiastical life burning / sweet on the bread sticks, these are narratives…
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Do some girls find another measure of moonlight, live amid the rain, half-sung roses in the hope someday they can carry them?
Why do some of us permanently vanish, others…
An updated history of Hollywood film music from the 1930s to the 1990s, this book presents portraits of its foremost practitioners. It discusses the life, work and influence of Alfred…
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What would you do if out of your house ached an epiphany, loss wore a tangled dress. In the shoplifter’s paradise there are racks of mink, cashmere, homeless girls who…
Through lyrical verse and visual art the author takes us on a journey of personal discovery.
She seeks to explore the gifts of the natural world, the sustenance of the…
This collection explores childhood, desire, loss, the feminine, immensity in a measured world, the things we think we know, and those we’ve forgotten.
Enter the world of the Little People and you will find merriment, kindness, adventure, and simple ways that inspire an appreciation for life, community,
nature, and all creatures. Even when…
Sometimes love turns a blind eye, the seasons of a life go missing. Are there women who sail away, refind the skin that was peeled from them, slide back into…
The girl with thirst on her tongue wants to taste liquid kisses. In the dowry of her heart a pole star burns bright as a secret corridor. These poems are…
What is the key we enter by? How is it that invisible bread sometimes arrives unbidden in the cramped of our soul's kitchen. What does it mean to be tender…
Tony Thomas’s new essays pulverise woke causes including climate doomism; the Aboriginal industry; and the ABC’s bias.
While society goes mad with political correctness, Tony gives sanity and laughter a…
Tony Thomas's Anthem of the Unwoke is a new portfolio of his trademark anti-woke essays. He skewers the climate crazies, the green/Left brainwashing and textbooks in schools, the Aboriginal industry…
Tony’s pieces are an absolute tonic. That’s because Tony himself is full of such palpable energy, empathy, a relentless ear for hilarity and irony, and most importantly boundless curiosity. The…
This is the third collection of Tony Thomas’s best work. It ranges from zany travels in the PNG Highlands to a reporter’s career highlights and lowlights since he first opened…
What is it that threads through our life amongst the trees' nesting, threads through our family, marriage, hopes, pain? What does it take to be here?
How can our children…
In these poems, the night can't always be trusted. Things get carried away, a woman's voice, body. But some of us refuse to parenthesis want forever behind a barbed wire…
Are some lives diminutive, do they come to us as a hidden pearl, unnoticed vestibule. Will the woman heavy with longing find a way to meet banishment with a different…
This collection of poems explores the nature of perishing; how lovers, places, family can disappear before we are even able to claim them. The poems circle longing, faith, the preciousness…
This book of 45 essays - ranging from purely humorous to politically and socially grave - provides samples of the lifetime’s work of a trained journalist of 60 years’ professional…
Donald G Boland
In studying natural wisdom, Dr. Boland takes a look at how Aristotle defends the principle of non-contradiction, focusing on the great philosopher's treatment of the causes that prompted the ancients…
This book seeks to demonstrate the need for a restoration of Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics (as illuminated by Aquinas) as the necessary basis of political science for the modern world…
Donald Thomas
Baxter McPherson is a child prodigy. He is able to use 99 percent of his brain capacity unlike normal people who only use 8 to 10 percent. He is anything…
The Post-Romantics, first published in 1990, provides a clear, introductory guide to the literary careers and reputations of five major Victorian poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne and Clough. Heirs to…
When the divorce rate of professing Christians mirrors that of an unbelieving world, something is terribly wrong. Often that something dates back to the selection process itself. Sadly many singles…
The Lord Jesus Christ is My Bridge Over Troubled Waters is a follow-up to my first book entitled Donald Thomas, Man of Faith. The first book describes how the Lord…
Thomas has excelled himself. An important and riveting study in social history, it also has a very pertinent relevance in the crime-riddled society that is Britain today.-The Sunday Times (London)…
From this much-loved author of brilliantly accurate historical detective and thriller novels
Tension and detail spot on’ Daily Telegraph
‘Tension and detail spot on’ Daily Telegraph
‘A bleakly stylish evocation of 1949 London’ Kirkus
A dark story of murder and betrayal set in Gangland London at the time of the Abdication crisis.
‘Strong on city life and the interplay between policemen and local politics’ Independent
‘A subject which still has the power to elicit shivers of delighted disgust’ Daily Telegraph
‘Compelling … fresher and more challenging than fiction’ Herald
‘A wonderful book, the best I have read for ages’ Literary Review
An account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower.
