Richard Ward

• Dec-2023
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Carol Heizer, the main character of Flying Away, finds herself, at age thirty-three, near the end of her tether. Married to a successful New York fashion photographer and mother of two children, aged eight and five, Carol is tormented with overwhelmi...

• Aug-2022
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He was aware of spinning and tumbling ashe dropped through the water and then was aware ofrising through the lightening green ...There are Snapper over at Holden and Old Kukupu and the Last Taraire Tree Seed are just two of the tales from down under....

• Oct-2021
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The year is 1972. The Vietnam War, the Black Power movement, domestic politics, and general cultural rebellion dominate the times. A couple of earnest young men meet by chance in Berkeley and decide to travel together to the East Coast, each on a kin...

• Sep-2018
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• Mar-2018
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Although Adam Scott is a design engineer for Struthers-Ergen, he has strong links with his upbringing on an outback cattle station in the state of Victoria, Australia. When he receives strange letters from his ailing grandfather in a rest home in Mel...

• May-2017
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Set in New Zealand, Rat Bait is a tense thriller which follows the activities of Zack Garroway as he pursues a one-man crime spree after being released from prison. Being part of a small community has its drawbacks despite the lengths to which he goe...

• Jan-2015
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• Apr-2014
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Where are you? You open your eyes and quickly survey your surroundings. The light is pouring in through the ceiling to floor windows, light that repels you. Exposed brickwork, a dry swallow, a lick of your lips. You hide, naturally, in the corner...

• Nov-2013
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One theme common to each of the conservation stories in this collection is that of small creatures whose environment is challenged by change. The change is usually as the result of modifications to their traditional habitats, both incremental and sud...

• Jul-2013
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In the Far North of New Zealand, an inquisitive young man searches for some inherited land in Honeymoon Valley, but is thwarted by those who don't want him to find the land because they are illicitly mining it for 'red rock'. A series of...

• May-2013
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For followers of the ‘Boys Own’ genre, 'Baiting the Rat' is a fast-paced, action-packed read. Set in New Zealand's Northland, a trail of crime is unleashed by a young rebel. As the police close in, he turns to his 'old school' uncle. As t...

• Jan-2012
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This book was created from a fictious story about Saint Patrick told to a Kindergaden class which asked the teacher, "Who is this Saint Patrick guy, and why do we have to wear green?" The book ends with a clever explanation of the wearing of green. T...