Literary Fiction

Armed with a massive retirement fortune, a lonely Australian man travels across nine countries desperately searching for the perfect wife. Instead of finding true love, he falls into a devastating trap of his own making, trading his life savings to fund phantom businesses, secret debts, and broken promises. Will he realize that companionship cannot be bought before he loses absolutely everything?

In a hidden Melbourne laneway, chef Arvind Singh runs a secret twelve-seat supper club serving displaced immigrants the exact, poignant flavors of their lost homes. When a corporate buyout threatens to commodify these sacred family recipes, Arvind must choose between financial security and the soul of his kitchen. To guide his decision, he must finally break the seal on his grandmother's fourteen-year-old spice tin and confront the memories he left behind in Punjab.

Nine men believe the names on their property deeds give them the final word. Nine women are about to challenge that certainty with evidence, determination, and courage.In Parramatta, one building becomes the battleground for nine separate claims—and a powerful lesson in what it truly means to build a home.

Sleep is the ultimate luxury, but what if you could physically bottle and sell your deepest rest to the highest bidder? For exhausted immigrant Sunil Sharma, extracting his sleep into a miraculous, restorative liquid brings untold wealth—until he realizes he is inadvertently selling off his most precious memories. What the Night Takes is a haunting sci-fi novella exploring the brutal commodification of the human soul and the terrifying price of modern convenience.

When a young widow remarries and struggles to uphold a government-mandated promise to financially support her grieving mother-in-law, a bitter court battle forces them to confront the true cost of their shared past. Ultimately, a cold legal judgment of a twenty-five percent salary deduction unexpectedly paves the way for healing, proving that some emotional ledgers are meant to be carried rather than mathematically balanced.

A search for hidden truths in post-war Kosovo. Includes Collected Articles: 94 article entries on Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and international affairs, in a complete PDF and separate article files.

A bookseller in Tirana faces loss, injustice and a voice he cannot silence. A literary novel of identity, love and human dignity in contemporary Albania.

Off Lagos, Greg is surrounded by the Atlantic and still cannot get three artificial intelligences to see the ocean. Somewhere else, the Council returns. Wave 4 goes looking for what everyone has been missing.

Nine couples, one crowded house in Western Sydney, and a hallway whiteboard dedicated to cracking the unwritten, highly confusing rules of everyday Australian etiquette. The Parramatta Social is a heartfelt exploration of culture, community, and the invisible art of making room for others.

When a chaotic Parramatta household starts a fierce competition to find their rarest heirloom, an accidental web of local history begins to unfold. A systems architect tracking the objects soon discovers that the true value of these items lies not in their price tags, but in the stubborn human refusal to let them be forgotten.

When a sudden bureaucratic policy change shatters their promised future in Australia, two highly skilled migrants are thrust into a hidden world of grueling manual labor and endless paperwork. Stripped of their professional identities, they must rely on a newfound community of fellow exiles to navigate a terrifying legal maze. The Bridging Exile is a gripping exploration of identity, resilience, and what it truly means to build a home in the dark.

A humble worker leaves Basra for Baghdad, never imagining that fate will lead him from poverty to power and into the mysteries of a queen. A timeless tale of love, betrayal, survival, and a grandfather's story preserved on an old cassette tape.

When heavily armed pirates hijack a massive bulk carrier just outside Sydney, they expect a predictable standoff of ransom demands and political hesitation. Instead, an elite nine-woman tactical team executes a ruthless, zero-casualty assault utilizing precise naval artillery and overwhelming non-lethal force. In the span of a single freezing winter night, the ancient, bloody script of deep-ocean piracy is permanently rewritten.

Nine affordable villas on Cowper Street hide two dangerous secrets: a builder's toxic cost-cutting sealed behind the plaster, and a neighbor's unrequited obsession festering in a prized rose garden. When toxic devotion meets highly flammable insulation, the quiet complacency of an immigrant suburban enclave is violently ignited. Will the neighborhood realize the danger before a single match erases their carefully constructed lives?

When his mother locks the door and never returns, nine-year-old Ramesh must turn a freezing Parramatta flat into a secret fortress of survival. Hiding his desperate reality in plain sight among his teachers and classmates, he learns that staying alive sometimes requires becoming completely invisible.