Resultados Editorial "Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd" en Literatura de género

Salt and Soil – Beginnings is a tale of love, set in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, as two people come together to share their lives, in order to meet the demands and pleasures of their adjoining West Country estates.

Told through the eyes of Booba (Grandma), this story follows the life of a young female dancer in 1930s-40s Eastern Europe. It explores themes of relationships, bravery, and unity in the face of hatred, both in the past and today, toward others simply because of their religion, race, colour, sexuality, or gender. Booba has spent years researching the Holocaust, reading personal accounts, and listening to survivors' stories. This book does not include names of people or places because she wants you to imagine it is your city, town, or village.

In this captivating coming-of-age story, we follow Adiyah, a young jungle girl, as she navigates the intrigues and mysteries of life in the heart of the African wilderness. Alongside her parents, she embarks on a thrilling quest to find the 'Big One', encountering enigmatic native tribes and facing the untamed beauty and perils of the jungle.

Simão, the protagonist of A Spiral of a Dream, is a young university student who enrolls at the University of Évora with aspirations of becoming a writer, only to find himself plunging into an existential spiral as he transitions into adulthood. In the first part of this trilogy, The Medium, we encounter a myriad of characters who reflect and embody a generation on the brink. Their personalities are so relatable that we will find echoes from our own lives.

Christian is the epitome of the modern working youth who goes out with the love of his life, Yolanda. He finds meaning in the realm of family relationships, where he reconnects with his half-sister Amelia on a holiday to Sweden. Through his working relationship, he meets his boss, who is his uncle when he works as a scientist. As he gains in popularity with his acting career, he is able to forge his career as a scientist too at the same time. The book emphasizes the importance of real day romance and family relationships in a modern working world.

Picture a social misfit who has stumbled through life, making every conceivable mistake along the way. Despite his best efforts to find stability and understanding in a world that seemed to elude him, he remained stubborn and uncompromising, clinging to a deep-seated attitude of non-conformity. His headspace had no room for compromise, and as a result, he had never experienced a meaningful relationship of any kind.

Journal writers aim to educate others on important matters within specific fields. Chris’ goal, however, was to educate himself on an important matter within a very specific field: himself. As Chris began writing, he discovered his journal entries were small, seemingly unconnected short stories. As he pieced them together, a larger, finely detailed narrative emerged, one he could see and understand more clearly.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, victory in the American Revolution empowered its founding fathers to consider a glorious ‘revolutionary idea’: a democracy of inclusiveness and diversity for all. Yet, America’s revolution never meant to include the enslaved, who lived in small, dark squares of windowless slave houses. At Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Constitutional Convention of 1787, compromises perpetuated America’s ‘slave society’ based on free labour, benefiting its citizenry to the detriment of America’s slave row.

On a long car journey to Norfolk, Little Jo’s repetitive chant, ‘We’re going to the wide, flat land, the wide, flat land, the wide, flat land,’ resonates through the car, much to her older brother’s annoyance. Hailing from Surrey, the siblings have always been enchanted by the charm of East Anglia’s countryside, their anticipation heightened by the nostalgic tales of their mother’s own childhood holidays on the north-east coast.

Sixty thousand souls hurtling through the infinite darkness aboard a billion-year-old lump of rock, leaving behind them a dying world. Before them, a precipice, beyond which lies the end for all humankind. Only one is left who may save them all, and she is lost and forgotten. And the clock is ticking.

In a world transformed by apocalypse, the familiar landscapes of life are forever altered. Power struggles dominate the scorched continent as the Theodolis and Razors clash for dominance, while the Settlers and Wanderers yearn for a lasting peace. Amidst the turmoil, Oda, a determined Settler, is captured by Kemp, the tyrannical leader of the Razor colonies. Held in his cruel grasp, she becomes a pawn in his games of power and possession.

She left her loving family behind, her friends and her whole life, to be with the man she adored. She was also desperate to escape her horrific childhood memories and abuse, in search of a secure and happy life. But nothing could have prepared her for what was to come …

Let me ask you this question: what does an exiled king, a thief with morals, a young sorcerer off on his own, a high elven wizard with secrets, an unlucky sell-sword, a somewhat clueless child, a man with gambling issues and a sewer needing cleaning have in common? The answer is: not a whole lot.

This story centers on an Australian Elon Musk-type character who drives the narrative. Follow the fortunes of Nicole, an ex-RAAF Elec Fitter turned Aerospace Engineer, as she is recruited by Aaron Daniels, the CEO of CosmoTechs, to work on his star craft. Set in Queensland, the story parallels contemporary space exploration. Join Nicole and Aaron as they navigate the uncertain world of space exploration, balancing cutting-edge technology with age-old Indigenous land rights. Nicole is an engineer, not a negotiator–how can she secure a win-win deal while ensuring Elim15 works for CosmoTechs?

In Talent Show, an introverted father becomes talkative and lifts the curtain on who his wife was before she was a mother, who she became after, and who each of his children were in his eyes.

Two millennia ago, a thief named Levi finds himself crucified alongside his companion and a holy man. As he endures the agonizing crucifixion, he resigns himself to the imminent embrace of death. Yet, the unknown realm beyond life remains a mystery he’s unprepared for.

The story of Isaac Marcu Moritz and the great affliction of his childhood caused by a lightning bolt launched by Jupiter, god of the sky, the father of gods and men, and the patron of Rome. The bolt kills his aged mentor, whose knowledge of history and languages is transferred to the traumatized mind of the boy. He is plagued throughout his life by visions and torment of Rome’s ancient rulers and gods.

Mother Nature has issued human beings various warnings over the years, some subtle, some not so subtle; messages she intended to wake us up with, ones that would stop us from directing the planet onto a path that, some say, might already be irreversible. Unfortunately, these messages have largely gone unheeded up until now, which is why Mother Nature has decided to create something new: an Agent that is absolutely unpredictable.

A care home, purposely built around a Georgian folly castle façade in Essex, Gramwell Glade is making a fortune for business developer Akin Akindele who, armed with an MBA, foresaw that high-end care homes were going to return significant returns on his investment. If we know someone who works in the care sector or spends their twilight years in a home, if we visit family or friends who have moved on into residential care, make no bones about it, something like the Gramwell Glade experience could come to us all.