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Drought. Heatwave. Environmental ruin ... Rion Saunders is forced to return to his hometown in the 'Belt as a Police Force draftee. Released from custody, Sylvia Baron must play a double game infiltrating the shadowy Misanthropos. Meanwhile, her ex-husband David, is on death row. The latest Director of Security at Yellowcake Springs tries to keep a protest from spiralling out of control. Do the answers lie in Controlled Waking State, CIQ Sinocorp's newest stratagem to subdue a restless population? Yellowcake Summer concludes the exciting story begun in Yellowcake Springs.

Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Sydney, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.

In the distant future, climate change has wreaked havoc on the world, leaving isolated communities living beneath great shields.Ji Tao is a young peasant woman struggling to make sense of her place in the world of the Kingdom of Four Rivers, and coming to terms with the impending failure of her uncle¿s trading business. All of this changes when a shrewd prospector, Bao Min, offers her family the opportunity to pillage the ancestral capital of Shulao, the jewel in the crown. There they make a startling discovery in an ancient crypt, sending Ji Tao and her family on a breathtaking journey of danger and intrigue.

A dystopian novel set 50 years from now in Western Australia. A plot to sabotage a nuclear reactor emerges in Yellowcake Springs, a town owned by a fictional Chinese company, CIQ Sinocorp. The region is deemed a Protectorate not subject to Australian law and is the set for exploring issues relating to Australia's energy future.

'A cracking tale that closely follows the historical context' -Aunty Patsy Cameron'I am George Baggs, wrenched from the cradle of my birthing and flung across the sea to this infernal place at the mercy of a pitiless wind ¿ a place where the western winds howl ceaselessly and rain pours down in sheets from the maw of a black sky.'DIEMENS is a tale of Tasmania's origins like no other, a story of how two worlds collide, transforming colonial Van Diemen's Land.George Baggs, a young Englishman exiled from his homeland, is crewed aboard a Bass Strait sealing ship. Fleeing the cruelty of his masters, Baggs and friend Jimmy Brown are saved by the kindness of northeast Aboriginal Tasmanian clansmen. DIEMENS follows the colony's first decades told through the lens of a family destined to shape Tasmanian history.

'Once: A selection of short short stories' brings together the best of new flash, micro and hybrid fiction in Western Australia. The collection showcases thirty new, rising and established authors who write big ideas in small spaces. Funny, ironic, thoughtful and sharp, these eloquent stories of extreme brevity are sure to have you laughing, thinking and ultimately hooked on this exciting new genre.

Complicity City is a domestic noir in the style of The Girl on the Train. It is the story of one woman's quest for justice for her slain friend Klara, and the dark deeds and secret men's business she uncovers along the way. Set in Perth, Western Australia, it centres on the lives of Lesley, a single mother who won't hear the word 'no'; Klara's brother Frank, consumed by the loss of his beloved sister; and Maria, a Filipina housekeeper who has seen far too much. In a town where light and darkness go hand-in-hand, knowing where to turn and who to trust is the hardest thing. However, it soon becomes apparent that in this world full of drug abuse and dodgy deals, long-buried secrets are finally going to be exhumed.

A contemporary collection of 100 flash, micro and hybrid stories, each 500 words or less, by rising and established writers. Building on the success of Night Parrot Press's first collection, Once, Twice Not Shy showcases the best of Western Australian authors writing in this exciting, challenging and condensed genre. Small but mighty, the stories linger long after reading them.