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The Fatal Empires    by Trevor Steele
Price: $4.95 USD. 153390 words. Language: English. Published by Mirador Publishing  on April 16, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Victorian.

The last decades of the 19th century: the European empires are competing to gobble up the rest of the earth. Their inborn “superiority” seems to guarantee success, and the “natives” will have to submit.
The Lady from Mt. Tamborine    by Uri Palti
Price: $5.99 USD. 64110 words. Language: English. Published on February 20, 2013. Fiction » Literary collections » Australian & Oceanian.

“Jerome sounded another few short barks, which translated to something like: “Look, I’ve got a packet of biscuits I didn’t declare – please don’t make a big issue out of this”. The dog, puzzled, looked at his uniformed lady, who was taken equally by surprise, and said:”What’s going on here, sir? What do you think you are doing – why are you barking at the dog!” Find more stories here!
Contrappasso Magazine, Issue 2: International Writing    by Matthew Asprey
Price: $5.00 USD. 104750 words. Language: English. Published on November 12, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Australian & Oceanian.

CONTRAPPASSO is an independent biannual magazine of international writing published in Sydney, Australia. Issue 2 contains interviews with Elmore Leonard & Clive Sinclair. Contributors: Mimi Lipson, John Salazar, David Thomson, Paul Pax Andrews, Peter Doyle, Antigone Kefala, Chris Andrews, Mark O’Connor, Paolo Totaro, Paolo Fabrizio Iacuzzi, Floyd Salas, and others...
The Red Volkswagen and other stories    by Rosanne Dingli
Price: $1.99 USD. 22980 words. Language: English. Published on October 31, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Australian & Oceanian.

Rosanne Dingli's popular car short stories are collected in this bumper edition. Enjoy five stories packed with memorable characters, events, and locations ... and cars.
A Quintessential Love Affair    by Margaret Sutherland
Price: $3.99 USD. 77020 words. Language: English. Published on October 19, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Australian & Oceanian.

A Quintessential Love Affair is a wonderful omnibus or sampler of this New Zealand author's work during her years in Australia.
Words That Rattled In My Head    by Garry Boyd
Price: $4.99 USD. 33340 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Australian & Oceanian.

A collection of poems and short stories, mostly set in the Australian bush.
The Eulo Queen and Other Outback and Opal Stories    by Colin Wurth KOA-Publications
Price: $2.99 USD. 63160 words. Language: English. Published by Kylie Reynolds on April 5, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Australia & New Zealand.

Based on facts, this collection of Australian stories revolves around frontier life on the opal fields at the turn of the of the century (19thC to 20thC).