Book signings by talented local wordsmiths

Wal Walker, a descendant of Darcy, tells his family story of the enduring romance between Jane and Darcy, lifting the veil of secrecy that has hidden their love story for over two hundred years.

Jane & D'Arcy is the story of Jane Austen and D'Arcy Wentworth, their romance and adventures, and of Jane's enduring love for D'Arcy. It reveals a history which has been kept secret for more than two hundred years.

In two volumes, Folly is Not Always Folly and Such Talent & Such Success, Jane & D’Arcy, tell the long hidden story of their romance and adventures. It will move and delight Jane Austen’s readers, and revitalise Austen scholarship.

http://janeanddarcy.com/

Ruth wrote the books she needed as a teenager, university student, musician and fledgling teacher. Books in her primary career of music education and performance include:

Sounds and Souls: How Music Teachers Change Lives.

Confident Music Performance

Speak Out–Don’t Freak Out

Enjoy Playing the Clarinet

Practice is a Dirty Word: How to clean up your act

Her recent two-book saga fulfils a passion for heritage as Historical Biography/Memoir:

Burn My Letters: Tyranny to refuge

Midnight Sun to Southern Cross: Those who go and those who stay.

She approaches music performance, teaching and practice from decades’ experience as musician and teacher.

Ruth’s presentations and teaching across Australia, NZ, USA and Europe uplift those who perform words or music.

Ruth is an AMEB examiner and taught at Queensland Conservatorium for 15 years. She now teaches at Good Shepherd Lutheran College, Noosa and in her studio at The Gap.

“Train to Australia"

“The symbolic title and cover photo illustrates the perception of a child’s anticipated journey to a faraway place (Lidia). The young family fleeing from war torn Europe had no identity papers as these were destroyed during their escape. 

They survived harsh conditions in outback Australia in 1950 and embraced the new lifestyle of that era to help create opportunities in a new country that was too big, too far and too insular. 

Lidia’s experiences are openly shared as her life unfolds and she becomes a wife and mother, then she decides to advance her own education. 

A large and important part of her family’s history is missing from her life and at the age of 44 years she reconnects with the few surviving members of her family in her native homeland. But another new and unforeseen emotional chapter greets her on her return to her immediate family back in Oz!” In the sequel,  - I “DO”

Born in London and moving to Australia in her early twenties,  Rita Chapman now lives on the Sunshine Coast and has written four books; Missing in Egypt, Book 1 in the Anna Davies Mystery Series, Missing at Sea, Book 2 in the Anna Davies Mystery Series, Winston - A Horse's Tale and Dangerous Associations. When not reading, writing or playing tennis Rita enjoys walking along our beautiful beaches or river and catching up with friends.

Prue Mason lived for many years in the Middle East and draws on her own exciting life experiences to write her children’s adventure novels that have been particularly successful with boy readers. Camel Rider, won the Queensland Premier’s Award and was considered a notable book in the CBC awards in Australia and the U.S.A. Having travelled and lived in many different places around the world Prue likes to write about cultural diversity and cultural understanding. She holds a private pilot’s licence and her latest book ‘Amazing Australians in Their Flying Machines’ published by Walker Books has been selected as a Notable Book by the CBCA.

She has written a number of articles and short stories for children’s magazines in Australia and internationally. 

website: www.pruemason.com 

blog: How Wings Work and Why Planes Fly.

Mary Atkins is the author of Finding Your Voice: Ten Steps to Successful Public Speaking and Losing You, a novel about overcoming adversity and the redemptive power of love. A Home Economist she is the Past President of the Australian Association of Food Professionals. Mary is also an award-winning speaker who currently travels the world lecturing on cruise ships
A wife or life partner to a good man, Mother to three incredible children of whom I am immensely proud, Grandmother to 8 awesome grandkids and now great grandmother to little Melody.

Website: https://maryatkinsauthor.com/