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Fourteen stories collected for the first time and presented as the final volume of Graham Jackson's 'Tales from a Square Crib' trilogy. The earlier volumes, 'Square Crib' and 'The Decline of Western Hill' were published by the University of Queensland Press in 1981 and 1983 respectively. 'The stories catch at the fraying edges of small town life' Otago Daily Times (NZ). 'These are troubling stories... They are surreal, bizarre, and have much imaginative invention and crazy logic' Luna (Aus). 'The insidious effects of discrimination based on skin colour are depicted with imagination and vigour' Publishers Weekly (US). 'Jackson's writing is understated, subtle and delicate. He tackles political issues with intelligence and depth through a set of closely linked stories' Social Alternatives (Aus). 'Jackson is a social commentator whose balanced perceptions present a celebration of life with all its fragility and force' Access (Aus).

Australia is an immigrant society and, as John Winston Howard famously said, its people 'decide who comes into this country and the circumstances in which they come.' Every generation has exercised its right of veto, not always without controversy. Elections have been won and lost on the issue, none with less honour than Howard's own Children Overboard election of 2001.Unlike an immigrant wave, the arrival of a new biography of the former conservative prime minister is always timely, particularly one to which the man himself has contributed, or at least had words put into his mouth.As the Children Overboard disgrace amply demonstrates, we are not always the authors of our own destiny, or even of the record of our past. The history of Australia has seen many leading characters come and go, and it has seen truth-telling wax and wane. John Winston Howard is still with us, but at least with the publication of 'The Demonist' his dark deeds are now more or less factually on the record.

Title: first Person, Delusional Author: Graham Jackson Copyright: Graham Jackson First Published: 2021 ISBN: 978-1-4717-8579-5

Incest in Heidelberg Gardens, dark meetings of the Order of the Silver Serpent, the shadow world of the Conservative Alliance and its impact on the city. These are the themes of The7th Victim, a psychogeographic novel of Melbourne, seven chapters in the life of Xian Cross Michael. Xian is an apparatchik of the Alliance, but he's on the way out. He's served his purpose. His departure reverberates around his suburban enclave , shaking its foundations and influencing the behaviour of its inhabitants, in particular his sister Mary and her husband Leif Winther. Leif is the suicide heir of the Winther family, a dominant force in the Alliance, the political party shaping Melbourne. Or does the city shape the emotions of those within it and control its own future? Xian is the narrator of the novel, one of the victims - but not the seventh. Who are the others? And can Xian be trusted to tell the truth?

Captain RP Laxman and Oliver Cape sail to the Olympus Islands on the giant wind ferry Charon. Their mission is to administer the World Authority's peace at the end of the long anarchist war... Expecting to make a useful contribution in an outpost of empire, they instead become enmeshed in local intrigue and incompetence. The Resident Commissioner is a pompous alcoholic, with a Treasurer scheming to replace him. The Secretary, James Darling, is a buffoon with a dangerous, diseased mind. The Japanese trader, Omi, is also prominent in the affairs of the Islands, as are the Resident Commissioner's wife, Jocasta, and the Treasurer's daughter, Hope... The Olympus Islands are being slowly drowned by the ocean. The native People of the Coral, bemused by the Authority's representatives, realise they have to make use of their innate occult vision and take a more active role in their own affairs... Even though they know that, ultimately, the inhabitants of all worlds live at the direction of the Fates and the Furies.

A retrenched bank manager from rural Australia resumes his personal war against Terror on a flight to London. His wife is beside him, aware of some of the disturbance in his mind, but not the full extent of his dark, occult vision. He is immediately suspicious of Harold Byron, the passenger sitting on his other side... He has never accepted the death of his elder daughter in the Twin Towers. In the fearful emanations of London - in its Underground and Tower - he is brought to the edge of his personal ground zero, which will finally absorb him in Disneyland Paris. He follows Harold Byron to Rome, pursues him through the Sistine Chapel, and on to a reckoning in the Colosseum... But fear has no satisfactory resolution. Is his wife all she appears to be? Might she be in bed with Terror? He travels on through northern Italy and into Germany to find out... 'Guantanamo Bay' follows 'Accounting for Terror' in the tragicomic 'Terror Trilogy', which concludes with 'A Captain of Souls'.

Citizen Lipstick is stalked by her past. She is also menaced by Citizen Will, a psychotic cat burglar, one of a new generation of revelling citizen. Their society, led by an egoistic President, is in moral decline. The lives of these three intersect in the hilly streets of Darkmoon Bay, a reality much like ours. But their world has been altered by Citizen Lipstick asking the question, what is her right to life? Perhaps Citizen Will can provide an answer. Not much can be expected of the President, who is fully occupied with his own survival. Darkmoon Bay is one of the city's conservative, revelling suburbs. Nothing in the shadows of its apartment block canyons can support the growth of a geranium, let alone a moral conviction. The Church of the Prophets is similarly enfeebled. Citizen Lipstick's search for an answer leads her onto the unlikely green grass of Darkmoon Bay Park, beneath the giant image of the President in his political death throes. Whose knife will prevail?

The Grim Almanac of Georgian London

Discusses on managing hyperlipidemia, diagnosing and treating coronary artery disease in women and the elderly, and managing chest pain in the presence of normal coronary arteries. This book focuses on the evaluation and management of stable angina pectoris. It includes the percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery bypass grafting.