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New Release: It Grows on Trees

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Eleven-year-old Nelson Kidman is an only child with a complicated family that includes eight grandparents. His much-anticipated Gold Coast holiday is suddenly cancelled when they get news that his Grandpa Richard is dying and wants to see Nelson and his father urgently.

They take off for London, and so begins Nelson’s entanglement in a family tree distorted by multiple marriages.

Grandpa Kidman reveals on his deathbed that he’s amassed over £2,000,000 in his later years, which is to be divided unequally between his three families, leaving Nelson and father well rewarded but his cousin, Will, and his family much less so.

Money, Nelson learns, does grow on trees. Family trees.

Told through the eyes of a child growing into a young man, It Grows on Trees, is a story for young adults and old adults alike.

 

 

The Bottle-o on the Bullock Track

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As I trudge along the bullock track

The sweat is dribbling down me crack

The sun so hot it burns me eyes

Just heat and dust and bloody flies

 

Me mate Kev pulls up in his ute

His sister’s with him, God she’s cute

She grins at me, you want a ride?

I’ll move my arse, you get inside

 

So she slides across and in I get

The vinyl’s warm and slippery wet

My sweat’s now spreading out in ripples

Her t-shirt’s clinging to her nipples

 

Kev drives a bit and then I spies

Glistening wet between her thighs

An ice cold bloody can of beer

That’s yours, she says, unless you’re queer

 

Oi, says Kev, you greedy swine

That’s the last can, mate, and that can’s mine

There’s another fifteen miles to go

Until we reach the bottle-o

 

As we bounce along that rutted track

And I sip me beer, Kev’s mood is black

His sister gives a little sigh

As she slides her fingers up me thigh

 

I tell ya I’m about to blow

When we finally reach that bottle-o

So me and sis race out the back

Of the bottle-o on the bullock track

 

And we root right there, on a slab of beer

Fosters, if me memory’s clear

Then we eat meat pies off an Akubra hat

You can’t get much more Aussie than that

 

JG April 2020

Escape to Eden Launch

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Escape  to Eden  will  be  launched  on  Saturday  16th  May,  by the  Shakespeare  of  Williamstown  – Chris  Ringrose,  at  Newport  Community  Hub.
Be there, or remain stuck forever on this dying planet.

 

 

Out Now: Escape to Eden

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The  year  is  2217  and  every intelligence  agency on Earth is preparing  for  the reopening  of  the  portals  to  Eden.

Earth’s population is nearly five billion, resources are running low and all the major powers are running out of places to store their radioactive waste.
This could spell the end of Eden as we know it.

The third book in the Eden trilogy, out now.