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My Third & Debut Novel:  The Last Asbestos Town - Adelaide Books, New York

An Australian National law has been passed and a group known as the Asbestos Task Force (A.T.F.) is formed by the government to systematically remove all known asbestos. The cities and suburbs of Perth have undergone this removal,  and gradually the task force spreads further afield into country areas. Their target has reached Farmbridge, an old pioneer town with numerous asbestos houses and buildings. Newly married, May and Isaac who plan to renovate their home, an old Girl Guide Hall, experience an imminent threat of losing their home after receiving their  fateful letter.  It is a relentless quest by the couple to save their home from demolition.

The novel explores the reality of what could happen when asbestos is recognised world-wide as a killer. On a subliminal level, it also highlights that asbestos is a current, unmediated menace often going unchecked in the importation of materials and construction of buildings and other various infrastructures. The main premise, however, reveals what can happen in a community when power and control are designed on a grand scale and are insensitive to difference. It is a relentless quest by the young couple to prove that their home is made from a safe product. From the two alternate points of view, they each, as a united front, endeavour to save their home. Firstly, utilising a ghost named Cheryl, a girl who has been raped, murdered and dumped in the hall, and secondly with the help of the indigenous community, they use a Mul-gar man to halt the hall’s demolition.

     Two forces are at work at the end of the novel and the power of two entities one Aboriginal lore and the other paranormal succeed in warding off the A.T.F.  In the final moments, May and Isaac receive the long-awaited  laboratory results of the hall’s composition and a joyous occasion ensues. 

My Second Novel:  The Ozone Cafe: This is a WIP novel. The Ozone Cafe is about the life of a cafe on the sunrise coast of NSW. The setting is Satara Bay, a fictional coastal town where in the fifties a Calabrian by the name of Vincenzo Polamo builds his dream cafe and his new life in Australia. The cafe forms the backdrop of the people involved in the purchasing of the land, the actual building of the cafe, its clients, friends and visitors and its successes through the inclusion of three child characters. They are Winifred, Casey and Nicolas. Nicolas is in a wheelchair and has muscular dystrophy, so the two girls who have befriended him, push him around the town: to the beach, along the Esplanade and to their cubby house at No. 10 Bream Street. No. 10 Bream Street is the site for the eventual building of the cafe and in the drama, like a three act play with three separate owners the cafe, over time is eventually demolished and caused by corruption.

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