Bøger af Robert Menzies

As payback for a neglected and unhappy childhood, sixteen-year-old Helen plans the ultimate humiliation for her 'respectable' middle-class parents - giving birth to an illegitimate child. Deciding to adopt the baby out, Helen flees the sterile environment of the family home and embarks on a journey of independence that takes her to the sordid world of drugs and prostitution in Kings Cross to the rugged beauty of Arnhem Land where she finds true love and peace with the simple-living Yolgnu people.

Michael Francis is a disillusioned university student with a drug habit. His girlfriend of two years leaves him and his tutor tells him he will fail every subject at the end of the year if he doesn't get his act together.One night whilst driving home from a party, drunk and stoned, he knocks a female pedestrian down at a set of lights. Panicking, he leaves the scene of the crime and goes into hiding.He reads in the paper the following day that the woman he hit is seriously injured and in intensive care. The driver, who answers Michael's description, is being sought by police.Michael travels north in an attempt to evade the police. But everywhere he goes, trouble finds him. Hiding on Queensland's Gold Coast he becomes unintentionally embroiled in a highly illegal, exceedingly dangerous criminal undertaking that puts him on the police's Most Wanted list.Just when it seems that there is nowhere left for Michael to run, providence intervenes and he spies a dim light at the end of the tunnel.But could this be just an oncoming locomotive?

This is a book of records, memories and anecdotes, beginning with the lives of Adam Menzies, Margaret Simpson, Frederick Druba and Ethel Lucy McLean, and ending with the Menzies families in 2015.

Mary was once a happy, attractive, teenage girl who loved having a good time and who was popular with the boys. Now, ten-years later, she is an abused and battered housewife with three young children and a drunken, whoring husband. Jane is a classy and beautiful high-school teacher - and a high-class call-girl.She enjoys both her careers immensely. That is, until she meets the father of one of her Year Twelve students who beats her savagely, rapes her and leaves her lying in a pool of her own blood.After Jane recovers from her ordeal she does some research to discover that hundreds of thousands of women are physically, sexually and emotionally abused by men. And there is a terrible shortage of reliable services and refuges for battered women.There seems to be no answer to the problem.Except one.Jane decides to become a vigilante. She plans to put to death all the violent men with whom she has had dealings, starting with the man who raped her and left her for dead.She meets up with Mary by accident in a shopping centre and discovers that Mary is an abused housewife. So she offers to murder Mary's husband for her, setting off a chain reaction that leads to more murder, retribution and suffering, yet amidst all this, a ray of hope for the future.

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This is a book of stories and poems about people.The author has put together forty years of observations of children, adolescents and adults in situations of love, hate, obsession, conflict, harmony and disharmony - observations that have coloured his life.

Arthur is a worn-out war veteran who now sits on his veranda smoking and coughing his heart out and watching the world go by.He watches as a group of seasonal workers steal goods from his mate Phil's General Store across the road. He informs Phil of the thefts and Phil then employs a friend of Arthur's, a fourteen-year-old girl called Jilly, to keep an eye on the store.The gang kidnaps Jilly from the store and take her to a bush hideout where they beat her, terrorise her and sexually molest her.Arthur mounts his worn-out old mare Blacky, and goes after the criminals, unconcerned for his own welfare. He doesn't care if he dies saving Jilly. His lone crusade leads to a great deal of bloodshed and anguish for himself, Jilly and her family.His mission becomes clouded with more and more difficulties and unexpected twists and turns, finally reaching a bloody and unexpected climax.

Danny is a twenty-nine-year-old penniless loner without a decent job.Seemingly by chance, Danny meets Mandy, the most beautiful woman he has ever set eyes upon, who is also rich into the bargain. And what's more, she agrees to spend the evening with him. Danny can't believe his good luck.Mandy then invites Danny to attend a function at her mansion. Here he meets her husband, a notorious gangster, criminal and racehorse owner.Danny falls hopelessly in love with Mandy. But in the back of his mind is always the suspicion that he is a pawn in something devious and deadly.Suddenly Danny becomes unwittingly embroiled in the sordid world of race-fixing, blackmail, intrigue and murder.

Diana is amoral, unconventional, promiscuous and more than a little crazy. She turns up unannounced at her sister Mel's home after eleven years in the wilderness. She was once engaged to be married to Mel's husband Corey and to Mel's dismay, the flame still burns strongly between her husband and her wayward sister. Mel discovers something frightening about her sister: she has become an intrepid confidence trickster. She and her partner Randy embark on a series of cons that nets them lots of money but when one of their schemes backfires they find themselves in serious trouble and running for their lives. Their bohemian and lawless lifestyle leads them into some very dark places. Eventually they find themselves enmeshed in blackmail, extortion and finally, murder.

Normie, a Vietnam veteran, is now an itinerant drunk who makes his home in a hidden cave. When exploring his new home, Normie uncovers a labyrinth of caves, and in doing so, makes a grizzly discovery of human remains. Normie explores deeper and makes another startling discovery, opening up some devastating and frightening consequences for himself. As the story unfolds, the author explores a thought-provoking scenario, where a child born in seclusion is suddenly thrust into an alien outside world of human conflict. With some unexpected and startling twists and turns, the story draws to an extraordinary and unexpected climax

Randy Randolph is a naive and inexperienced cadet reporter for a small London suburban newspaper. Somewhat of a social misfit, Randy spends all his spare time in the archives of his newspaper office searching for cold case murders, with the pipe dream of one day writing a best-selling novel.He comes across a story that intrigues him about a local man who had mysteriously disappeared, his body being found a year later, buried in his own back yard, his widow charged with the murder. Randy researches the case, searching through a plethora of microfiche newspaper reports from years gone by. He uncovers some startling and sordid facts about the case and manages to arrange an interview with the accused widow, now out of prison on bail.The moment Randy sets eyes on Diana Fraser he falls hopelessly in love with her, despite the fact that she is twice his age, wealthy, beautiful and elegant - right out of Randy's class. But Randy is an inveterate dreamer, unable to recognise deceit or harsh reality when it confronts him.In attempting to prove Diana's innocence, Randy unwittingly opens a Pandora's box, revealing some disturbing facts about her late husband. Randy's unrequited love for Diana, combined with a deeply inquisitive mind, lead him deeper and deeper into the discovery of quagmire of immoral and illegal practises committed by Peter Fraser.It soon becomes evident that Randy now knows too much about the Frasers, and his life becomes endangered. Ignoring the danger, he continues his relentless and dangerous quest, believing naively that his actions will rescue the beautiful and mysterious Diana from life in prison.It is Randy's confrontation with someone Diana refers to as 'The Bristol Bomber', that his life finally unravels. He finds, to his peril, that the people he thought were his friends are now his deadly enemies.

John and Shirley Peters are two ordinary Australian white teenagers who are thrust into a black environment against their wishes. When their father buys a pub in a place called 'Djargunya' in tropical north Queensland, the twins have no idea what dramas lie ahead of them. 'Djargunya' turns out to be a remote Aboriginal settlement hundreds of kilometres from the nearest town, and hundreds of kilometres from any other white people. What starts out as a nightmare, turns into a unique adventure and some spell-binding discoveries of native Aboriginal beliefs and practices. But the twins' joy is short-lived when they discover the culture shock that awaits them around the corner...

Arthur Jenkins and his ageing father Sam have lived on Norfolk Island together alone for twenty years since Sam's wife Lorna died. Arthur is now 42 and has never left the island.On Sunday morning after church, father and son are sitting in their car overlooking Slaughter Bay when Arthur sights a snorkeler who appears to be in trouble, but then appears to recover and manages to struggle onto the beach. Arthur walks down to greet the snorkeler, discovering a terrified young woman who has made a shocking discovery out on the reef: a body dressed in a long black gown and cape.Police bring the body to the surface. When it is taken to the local morgue, another alarming discovery is made: the young male, who cannot be identified, has had his penis non-surgically removed. The police sergeant has heard rumours that a satanist cult is operating somewhere on the island. He suspects that his John Doe might be an ostracised member of this cult.Meanwhile Arthur befriends the young woman, Gloria, who discovered the body. She reveals to Arthur that she has dabbled in devil-worship and knows how to identify satanists. With Gloria's help, it soon becomes clear that a number of the island's "upstanding citizens" are in fact satanists, who meet in a disused building once a month for "Satanic worship".Arthur discovers that the satanists are clandestinely involved in some obscene and deadly pagan rituals. In trying to rescue a friend who has been forced to take part in these rituals, he finds himself caught on the horns of a terrible moral dilemma, from which he can see no escape.As the satanists develop more and more power over the island's Christians, Arthur must put his life on the line in order to save his friends from the evil tentacles of Satanism..

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Reformers Before the Reformation - principally in Germany and the Netherlands - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

This book about crime, law, power, and social issues in Canada includes contributions from academics, legal practitioners, journalists, and social activists who have been studying and struggling for years against the abuse of power in myriad realms of Canadian life and represents the first systematic effort in Canada to integrate a variety of topics related to power into a single collection aimed at identifying and exploring common themes, issues, problems, and remedies.