Book Information
The Weilmoringle Kid (1997) ISBN: 0-9681273-0-4 ppb. 204 pages
The Weilmoringle Kid is a city-bred youth just out of college dispatched at the whim of government to Weilmoringle, a drought-and-fly ridden sheep station in the Australian Outback. Overwhelmed by the heat, dust, isolation and the prospect of enduring up to three years in such a desolate environment, the Kid strives... (more)
When the Curlew Cries (1999) ISBN: 0-9681273-1-2 ppb. 212 pages
Thirty-seven years after pioneering a school in the Australian Outback, B.J. Pettit returns to the desolate, fly-ridden sheep station known as Weilmoringle to find out what has happened in the lives of his first students. Heading the list is the extraordinary Aboriginal boy, Dougie Orcher, whose own lessons had given him ... (more)
Saturday's Hero (2000) ISBN:0-9681273-2-0 ppb. 147 pages
Saturday's Hero is an ode to the best aspects of nationalism. Its purpose is to demonstrate how the power of history can alter the human spirit. A fictional teenaged boy is drawn toward the life and exploits of a real life war hero from Nanaimo, Canada - Raymond Collishaw. Collishaw shot down sixty enemy ... (more)
Beyond Matilda (2003) ISBN: 0-9681273-3-9 ppb. 257 pages
A young soldier who has shown the highest morality in combat suffers the contrary nature of Australian civilians when he returns home. Embittered by being made to feel a national embarrassment, and haunted by circumstances surrounding his best friend's death in ... (more)
Cameron's Crossing (2005) ISBN: 0-9681273-4-7 ppb. 207 pages
A youth’s courage is questioned when he fails to help his stricken sister in a mill accident in Scotland. Full of self-doubt, and bullied to the point of retaliation, he loses his job and leaves home. He endures a six-month crossing ... (more)
Shadows on Spatsizi (2008) ISBN:978-0-9681273-5-3 ppb. 20
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Six Vancouver Island friends, war veterans among them, head for the Cassiars on their annual sheep-hunting holiday. Tagging along are two invitees. Each evening, by the campfire, withing the shadowy embrace of Spatsizi Plateau, tales expected to 'stay on the mountain' ... (more)
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