Bøger af Michael Davies

A comic pseudo-history of the von Schnitzelgruber family in Australia who bred haggises for sport and trained kangaroos to draw the stage coaches that crossed Australia from Perth to Sydney. Other members of the family are described and the problems inflicted on Australia when haggises escaped and went feral.

The new kid's arrival at school causes a stir. Not only is he immaculately and stylishly dressed, but he arrives in a Humvee limousine with two armed guards who stay with him all day. Alice, C.J., Casey and Ben, a young American who is also a new arrival get to meet Yuri and they all become friends. But then Yuri and Casey are kidnapped from a party and the complexity of the situation increases dramatically. It turns out that Ben's parents are CIA agents and they are somehow connected with the case. And why are the Australian Federal Police involved? And just who is Yuri Kirilenko? All the friends display great courage and resourcefulness as they struggle to solve the mystery of Yuri Kirilenko and free him and Casey from the grip of a mysterious European group.

Strange and frightening things happen at the school. First, Sasha is kidnapped off the school bus during an outing, but then mysteriously freed and left by the road within hours. Then Wendy is kidnapped from the school building at night, but she is not freed. Instead, a ransom note is sent to the school, demanding the silver locket that she normally wears. What is the secret of Wendy's locket? Who is behind the kidnappings and why is Alex's father, a colonel in the Australian Army Military Intelligence involved in the case? Sasha, Wendy, Alex and Sally must all show great courage and determination to help solve the case and avoid the serious dangers presented by the mysterious people behind the events.

About 80% of the world believes they have a novel in them. Most are probably right but they have no idea how to write one, develop plots, characters and atmosphere or how to structure a book of any genre, whether it be a thriller, a romance, a sci-fi epic or anything else. This book uses the problem-solving techniques of the top-level international business consultant to show you how to develop plots from almost anything and how to create characters that leap out of the pages with a life of their own. After that, it's the mechanics of writing that can stall the prospective novelist. What are the essential ingredients of each novel? How does a thriller differ from a sci-fi adventure? How do you write for kids and young adults? The author has written and published more than twenty-five books of his own and published more than that of other writers' works. He has taught writing classes with local groups and with the prestigious Camp Creative in Bellingen, NSW for the last two years and both groups have produced authors who have finally learned how to get that novel written that has been in their minds for many years. He uses the same workshop techniques to work with schoolchildren and develop a complete novel by getting the students to develop their own stories, characters and twists. This is the pathway to getting over that final hurdle at last and sit at the computer, typewriter or notebook and get that novel written.

Garry Barton is a top-level consultant working for an old-established, conservative firm of accountants in Chicago. But Garry incurs huge resentment when he advises his firm that they are sadly out of date with their business technology and at risk of failing. Rather than listen to uncomfortable news, the partners fire Garry. He joins up with a young, modern, aggressive firm of accountants and begins to take business away from his old employers. As they see their livelihoods threatened, they panic and attempt to scare Garry off with hired thugs. But as the failures mount up and their business begins to collapse, they panic until there is only one, bloody solution left and Garry must be killed.

Mustapha al Yaffi had murdered Scott's parents and sister, apparently by accident when the internationally feared assassin had targeted some diplomats in a hotel. But when Scott retires from the Royal Air Force as a helicopter pilot, he is offered the chance to join the Mongoose Section, a British anti-terrorist group charged with protecting VIPs and hunting down just the sort of assassins as al-Yaffi. Scott leaps at the opportunity. But as he seeks out the terrorist all over the globe, his world is turned upside down as everything he thought he knew about his friends, his target, his origins, even the real nature of his family turn out to be nothing that he could ever have imagined. In the end, he is faced with a decision that nobody should ever have to make.

A massive conspiracy has been brewing in the USA since the end of WWII when two young American servicemen came home from the ruins of Berlin with stolen Nazi treasure and embarked on the creation of the "New America." Over fifty years they became the two richest men in the country and formed their secret committee consisting of some of the most powerful men in the nation, sufficiently well funded and connected to military, industrial, religious and political powers to establish control over the USA. A coup is planned after they have destabilised America by a series of murderous riots that kill tens of thousands. Only a small group of highly trained operatives learns about the conspiracy and is frantically working to destroy it as the day of the coup approaches. But not everything is as it seems, and neither the agents nor even the members of the Council for the New America know the real objectives of the Council's founders. The dreams of those two old men are far more complex, far more ambitious and far more lethal than any of them could possibly have envisaged.

Mickie Dalton is now fifteen but in his mind is the genetic memory of the entire life of Markel, once the leader of the Pfafth race in their prime as the rulers of the known Universe and during their downfall and flight into hiding. In his three years of travelling the Universe aboard the inter-galactic trading ship, he has grown, matured and developed some of the astonishing and lethal powers of the Pfafth and met many different species, some of them friends, some dangerous enemies. He has also encountered and fought the dreadful Sillaron, the frightening and destructive race that caused the downfall of the Pfafth over a million years ago and he has barely escaped with his life at times. Although unable to contact them, Mickie has discovered where the Pfafth have locked themselves away in a Space and Time outside of normal Space and Time. Then the Pfafth make contact with Mickie and he finally gets to meet his species and learn of the role for which he has been bred over a million year program. But the encounter reveals a reality for which he could never have prepared himself and a crisis far worse than could have been dreamed of. Unless the hidden galaxy of the Pfafth is returned to normal Space and Time, all of the Universe could become unstable and break apart. Mickie is faced with the ultimate choice between his own life and that of his entire species.

Nearly a year has passed since Mickie Dalton joined the massive inter-galactic trading ship and began the search for his origins and answers to the mysteries of how his people, the Pfafth vanished from the Universe over a million years ago, where they went and how they could be hiding from even the universal telepaths, the Speakers. As the ship continues its travels trading between species on planets in many Galaxies, small hints are found that the Pfafth are SOMEWHERE. As he matures, Mickie finds more and more of the astounding powers of the Pfafth and sometimes he is frightened of just how much more he will develop. But not only are Mickie's powers growing, so too are those of the ancient enemy, the Sillaron, a mysterious and ancient species that is seeking the Pfafth to destroy them finally. Then the Pfafth begin to reveal themselves and as more is learnt about the million year-old war between the Pfafth and the Sillaron, Mickie is confronted by the truth of what happened to his people and why they fled to a Space outside of Space and a Time outside of Time. Now he must contact them and save the entire species from destruction by a merciless enemy. This is the second book in the Mickie Dalton Trilogy.

Life for twelve year old Mickie Dalton is miserable. Cold, abusive parents make his home intolerable. So when Mickie meets a young couple in the park, an escape opens up. They tell him an astounding truth - Mickie is not a human being, though just what he is, where he came from and how he came to be on Earth are all a mystery. Mickie joins his new guardians on an immense spaceship that travels the Universe, even between galaxies, trading with many intelligent species on other planets as he seeks out his origins and nature. Slowly, he begins to develop extraordinary powers that must have been part of his people. As he also starts to find strange hints of what may have happened, he learns that he is one of an ancient race, the Pfafth who once ruled over forty galaxies but vanished without trace a million years ago. But other forces learn of Mickie's presence, huge forces of immense evil and power that were the cause of the destruction of the Pfafth and now they are intent on finding Mickie and his vanished people so that they can complete the destruction of that ancient race. A million year old war has started again and Mickie must draw on all his astonishing, growing powers and seek the help of allies, some strange, some beautiful, some terrifying as he seeks his people to prevent their end.

Watch the trailer at TheWorldOfPangea.com Set against an extensive mythological backdrop, Path of The Warrior begins as a coming of age story and quickly explodes into an epic conflict between light and darkness. This first novel in the Pangea trilogy promises to take you beyond this earthly realm and into another where mortals and immortals struggle for the fate of their world. FROM THE BACK COVER: What Can One Man Do Against The Gods? "Where the sacred rivers meet, Beneath the shelter of the Keeper of all things. There lies the hall of the beginning, The ruler of the world before the Kings." Pangea is shaken. The past has become the present. Ancient myth has awakened, and legends walk amongst the living. Idris has always known the path of the warrior was his to choose. Now, as war strikes at the heart of Pangea, he must wrestle as a mortal thrust into the wars of immortals. It will take more than his training to face the chaos as darkness strikes deep into the life of his people, and Idris's own inner demons threaten to destroy him before the battle even truly begins.

Over a hundred years has passed since the Yshan Empire was invaded by an alien race and the Imperial Fleet driven into exile in a distant galaxy. Now the old Empire is ruled by the aliens and their puppet, the one-time Princess Sophie and her descendants. The startling reappearance of "The First," the original rulers of the Yshan planet who passed the torch to the Yshan people over 5,000 years ago now gives hope that the Empire can be retaken. But first, the descendants of the original players from over a century ago, Prince Kyle, Josh Bradshaw and Charlie Foster must go to Earth on a strange mission to restore the Emperor Garamax and somehow find a new Star that will empower them to defeat the aliens and retake the Yshan Empire.

A collection of short stories by a writers' group in the Mind-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, covering murder-mystery topics, relationship issues and life in rural Australia. The writers have all come to the writing world in middle life after professional existences in other fields

Taught only by her grandfather, Charlotte plays the cello beautifully. After her grandfather died a year ago, Charlotte now has his cello, but tragically this is damaged in an accident during a concert. But a mysterious old man who seems to know her gives her a new instrument, a cello of extraordinary beauty and sound. Soon after, she plays the solo part in the Elgar Cello Concerto at a concert and word of her ability reaches the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She is invited to the Sydney Opera House to play before world-famous Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Concertmaster, Dene Olding and Principal Cello, Catherine Hewgill. Not only are they astonished by her playing, but they identify the cello as the long-lost and legendary cello made by famed luthier, Nicolo Amati. This cello was believed stolen in 1700 and said to contain an amazing secret. But others want the cello and its secret and Charlotte is kidnapped and the ransom demanded is the cello. As part of the search for Charlotte, the detective in charge of the case uses high technology to examine the cello and finds what appears to be the answer. Somehow knowing this, the kidnappers release Charlotte. Charlotte's friends are also helping and in their own research, they discover what the answer to the huge secret is. The hunt for an extraordinary treasure goes to Italy and then back to Australia and Charlotte finally realises her dream when Vladimir Ashkenazy leads her out to the stage of the Sydney Opera House to play the solo part in the Elgar Cello Concerto to a packed house.

Mark and Anna meet the day before their thirteenth birthday when Mark moves to a new school. They discover more and more about each other and realise that they must be twins, adopted by different parents. But they also learn that they have unusual powers that show that they are not human. Eventually they learn of the two hundred year old war that has been fought on Earth by two groups from their home planet who were marooned on Earth by a space accident involving the ship that brought them. They learn that their natural parents have been kidnapped by a group that has gone rogue in its quest for wealth and that they are the only ones who can rescue them. Mark and Anna must draw on all their extraordinary powers and their courage to sort out this terrible mess.

When Geoff, Natasha, Emma and Adrian are "double-dared" to visit a spooky new store in town, they couldn't not take the challenge. And spooky it is, indeed! Inside, they find first editions of famous old books, newly-printed newspapers with headline stories of events that happened decades ago, a radio broadcasting news of cricket matches that were played sixty years ago and many other strange exhibits. But they also find something terrifying - an old painting in a large gold frame hangs on the wall and the picture is of - themselves! The picture starts to take hold of Geoff's mind and attaches itself to him. He wakes up the next morning after a series of nightmares, the picture is on his bedroom wall but with a different scene - Geoffrey on his own looking back at him. What is the dark secret of the picture and how will Geoff and his friends prevent it from taking hold of him and imprisoning him as it has with others in the past?

Katrina, Jamie and Amelia leave the far west of the state for the two-day drive to the coastal resort of South West Rocks for a family holiday. But within a short distance they encounter a red fog that envelopes the car in a violent storm and when they emerge, they have reached their destination. Bridget and Warren, their parents are unaware that anything is wrong and have no memory of the storm, nor do they seem to notice that there is nothing there - no town, no shops, no camp site. The mystery deepens when six-year old Amelia demonstrates strange powers over animals and she heals Katrina when she is bitten by a lethal Brown Snake. Then Jamie discovers the astounding reality. Not only have they travelled over a thousand kilometres in a few moments, they have also gone back in time by 500 years. But they have yet to learn the shattering truth of how and why this has all happened. The children must display great courage and intelligence to solve the mystery of just who or what is Amelia, why do their parents not notice anything strange and how to combat the enemy that has followed them through the time portal and how they can return home.

Twelve years have passed since the events of "The Star of the Yshan Kings." The rightful heir has been crowned as Emperor Garamax 19th of the Yshan Galactic Empire and rules over a peaceful and prosperous Empire. Now Charlie marries Kyle before he and Josh take their posts as newly-commissioned officers of the Imperial Fleet. Almost as soon as they have joined the ship, an invasion by an enemy fleet occurs, almost capturing the Empire's Capital World and only brilliant action by the battleship's crew and a new weapon designed by Charlie's father save the day, at least for now. But the enemy hasn't finished and with support by the traitor Princess Sophie and her uncle, deadly danger threatens the Empire and the life of Emperor Garamax, the friend of Josh, Kyle and Charlie. They must risk everything to save themselves and the Empire.

Start winning in life A famous football manager paints a white line from his apartment to his team's training ground. A woman faces trees in her local park and pulls some unbelievable shapes. People who have never exercised in their lives keep heading back to the gym. In this book from Entrepreneur and Author Michael Davies, the author looks at why people develop habits to succeed and what you can do to win at life. * Learn how you can eat more healthily and live longer* Learn how to exercise and keep returning to the gym where your friends quit* Learn how to save money for long-term goals* Learn how to win at life* Learn secret visualisation techniques that you can use to be even more successful* Learn mindfulness techniques that you are not taught in class

Medical English: A Grammar Guide is an updated version of The Medical English Grammar Guide. This compact book is aimed at medical students, doctors and nurses who are of basic and intermediate level and who need an understanding of grammar with examples that you can use in the workplace.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may have died decades ago but not all the roots are dead. When Dan Bailey, a successful English executive living in Chicago starts to have bizarre, frightening nightmares of a long-ago Russian childhood, he gradually discovers that he is one of those hidden roots, a "Manchurian Candidate" left behind many years ago as a weapon against the USA. His incredible psychological mind-conditioning back in a secret camp in Siberia has left him an unwilling slave of a one-time General in the KGB who is using him now as a weapon, not against the country but against his business rivals. Dan discovers that he has murdered enemies of the General and he is quite incapable of refusing the orders he is given and after he has killed, he forgets the event. But the conditioning is breaking down after all these years and Dan starts to remember his childhood, his mother, the training and the men he has killed on the orders of his controller. Desperate to break free of this slavery, Dan tries to enlist the help of those who were once his enemy, the US intelligence forces who had tried to create their own Manchurian Candidates in years gone by. But undergoing the appalling, near-fatal process of breaking the mental conditioning leaves Dan not knowing who is friend and who is enemy.

A collection of short stories and illustrations submitted by children as part of the annual "Tell Me a Story" competition inschools in the Manning and Great Lakes regions of New South Wales, Australia.

A collection of short stories and illustrations produced by students in schools on the Mid-North Coast of NSW resulting from a competition now in its sixth year and in the fourth year of publication. Each year, the number of entries has increased and the popularity of the event grows.

Two young men learn how to hack into hospital systems and then into pacemakers implanted in patients' bodies. They use this skill to blackmail wealthy people with the fear of stopping their hearts and demonstrate that they can do exactly that. In a few cases, they kill the victim who resists paying up. They are persuaded by a man with Mafia connections to work with organised crime and extract state and military secrets from senior personnel in the security forces and military. This becomes a matter for the security forces in the UK, USA and Australia where the attacks have taken place.

After an accidental meeting on the playing field, Kaiden and Hazel begin to find some strange similarities between them. They have the same birthday, they were born in the same hospital and they have the same extraordinary blue eyes. As they dig deeper into library files and their parents' documentation, they discover some extraordinary truths about themselves, something so astonishing they could never have believed it had it not been recorded in all the official paperwork. But something had happened to them - when danger threatens, they discover that they have an amazing talent, something nobody has ever had before. After two astonishing adventures, they begin to learn the truth of their origins. But their adventures have only begun!