David Morisset

• Feb-2024
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Daniel Anstiss is a battler from a meatworks town on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia’s oldest city. After setbacks during his early school years, he eventually excels at his tertiary studies and joins Australia’s diplomatic service. De...

• Oct-2021
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Many of Australia’s first European settlers were convicts transported across the seas from the British Isles. There were also free immigrants. While online databases have made it possible for today’s Australians of European descent to tra...

• May-2020
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Two exiled princes, one a gifted musician and the other an invincible warrior, leave their hard-hearted father’s prosperous realm and travel to a world of wonder outside the conventional boundaries of time and place. They encounter hermits with...

• Nov-2016
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'The New Settlement' is a dystopian fantasy set in a fictional Middle Eastern theocracy during the last years of the twenty-first century. Seven decades have gone by since a nuclear war turned parts of Shemesh's homeland into radioactive netherworlds...

• May-2014
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When a young man is king hit on the streets of Kings Cross by a drunken reveller the aftermath exposes failures in the legal system that prompt an unscrupulous group of men to implement their own model of justice. Set in the suburbs of twenty-first c...

• Apr-2014
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Sohrab's homeland is a benighted theocracy cut off from the rest of the world after a deadly war. The ruthless rule of the sons of god has created a paradise for themselves and their descendants and servants. Ordinary people live in conditions of nea...

• Feb-2014
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When a strange creature arrives from outer space and helps the police fight crime, what do you give him as a birthday present? You give him a time-machine. Can you guess where he goes with it? Back to the wild west of course!...

• Feb-2013
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David Morisset's poetry and short stories are difficult to categorise with any precision. His inspirations come from his Australian homeland as well as the wider world. While he is preoccupied with human relationships, he also explores the natural wo...

• Sep-2012
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Set in the third quarter of the twentieth century, 'Butchers Parade' features the Australian location of Redgate - a meatworks town on the semi-rural western fringe of Sydney. The story is dominated by the hulking figure of Horrie, a young meatworker...

• Mar-2012
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A beautiful Persian woman and a naïve Western man are drawn together by love and desire in the rapidly changing Iran of the 1970s. But their romance is cut short when Manijeh and Ben are cruelly separated by family ties and cultural clashes. Just wh...

• Nov-2011
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David Morisset's crime novel is a simple yarn set against the complex backdrop of Australia's huge funds management industry and the country's ambitions to become Asia's premier financial hub. The plot pits the naive, the gullible and the opportunist...

• Oct-2010
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Inspired partly by 'Bijan and Manijeh', Ferdowsi's epic romance, 'Conquest of the Persian Garden' is the story of two people from vastly different cultures who fall in love despite established loyalties and the chaos of Iran's Islamic Revolution. Dav...

• Oct-2008
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This collection of short stories examines the searing pain of lost love, the precious delight of new love, the fierce ambitions of youth, and the delicious absurdity of dreams. All of the stories are seasoned with a pinch or two of satire and laced w...