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  • On Writing Series
    Peter M. Ball
    Series fiction has exploded in popularity with the rise of digital publishing, drawing attention from readers and institutions alike.Yet writing series fiction isn’t always easy-developing characters and stories capable of iterate through multiple volumes while still engaging readers is a challenge for any author, and our understanding of how series fiction works is still couch...
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    12,24 €

  • Unfamiliar Shores
    Peter M. Ball
    A desperate future where humanity lives in the ruins of old buildings, avoiding the streets haunted by predatory cars who hunt for sport. Off-duty time travellers stop Viking invasions that interrupt a well-earned night out.A clowder of cats gathers around a mysterious fire to tell stories of what might be, and teenage friends turned bitter rivals compete in a race that sends g...
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    11,92 €

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Brains
    Peter M. Ball
    Vicious storms of red rain sweep across Australia, raising the dead as zombies hungry for human flesh. Fortunately, we’ve all seen zombie movies and know what comes next, allowing the locals to band togetherand live small, desolate, ordinary livesdespite the ever-present danger.Drawing inspiration from George Romeroand Raymond Carver in equal measure, Peter M. Ball presents six...
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    8,72 €

  • White Harbor War
    Peter M. Ball
    The Viking Maiden’s crew has received some long-awaited shore leave and all Dana Valkyrie wants to do is kick her heels up, stay out of trouble, and devour the steaks and vegetables you just can’t get in the middle of space. She might be the Maiden’s champion, the best fighter on the toughest ship to sail the spaceways, but even Dana knows better than to pick a fight in a port ...
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    10,35 €

  • Unicorns, Fey, and a Hardboiled Dame
    Peter M. Ball
    If you love hard-boiled detectives, dangerous fey, and cold cases that turn hot on a dime, then take this opportunity to introduce yourself to Peter M. Ball’s Miriam Aster stories. This omnibus collects the two books in Miriam Aster’s case files.HORNAward-winning author Peter M. Ball takes you into the world of exiled fey and dangerous magic in his cult novella Horn.Miriam Aste...
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    11,92 €

  • The Early Experiements
    Peter M. Ball
    Fiction writers are taught to show, not tell. In each Short Fiction Lab, award winning short fiction writer Peter M. Ball takes one of his own stories and explores an aspect of the writing craft in the accompanying essay. In this introductory Primer to the Short Fiction Lab series, Ball presents four short tales for lovers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.Upon Discoverin...
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    7,11 €

  • The Australian Policy Handbook
    Catherine Althaus / Peter Bridgman / Sarah Ball
    The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public engagement and policy success and failure. ...
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    65,04 €

  • These Strange & Magic Things
    Peter M. Ball
    For fans of the weird and enchanting, Peter M Ball returns with a third collection of speculative fiction stories that dance along the borders between horror, fantasy, and science fiction. These Strange and Magic Things brings together fifteen tales showcasing why he’s among the finest writers of the strange and fantastic working in Australia right now.A zombie zombie survival ...
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    11,90 €

  • Deeper Cuts
    Peter M. Ball
    Peter M. Ball made his debut as a speculative fiction writer in 2007, but he’d already been writing for two decades by the time he turned his attention to producing short stories. This chapbook brings two early, formative short stories back into print, featuring the discontinuous, post-modern grunge-lit of Night, Morning, Story and the crude horror of Impact. The chapbook also ...
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    8,09 €

  • Gold Coast, 2002
    Peter M. Ball
    Years before he built his name as a science fiction and fantasy author, Peter M. Ball was a young poet and member of the Gold Coast’s Post Hoc Performing Word collective, building a profile with publications in venerable magazines such as Overland and performances at writer’s festivals around Australia. Gold Coast, 2002, collects 24 poems capturing life as a permanent resident ...
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    7,27 €

  • Deadbeats
    Peter M. Ball
    Cody Jones owes the corp a lot of money. Decanted from a cryotube with a mountain of debt and very few options, Cody works corporate black ops in Downside, home to the gene-freaks, gangs, and dispossessed who don’t have a place in the gleaming towers of Helix City.Cody’s latest job should be simple: recover a fresh cache of cryogenically frozen citizens from a local gang before...
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    7,11 €

  • Briar Day
    Peter M. Ball
    Published here as a stand-alone chapbook, Briar Day is a short, slipstream story about masculinity, fairy tales, and the narratives we tell ourselves. Also available in the collection The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales.Everyone remembers where they were when the briars first choked the city. Everyone celebrates the anniversary of their rescue from the rampaging dragon and...
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    8,09 €

  • Exile
    Peter M. Ball
    Hitman Keith Murphy is on the run after a botched job. He’s bodypacking a magic bullet, fleeing an apocalyptic cult of necromancers, and wishing like hell his partner Danny Roark hadn’t chosen to go AWOL. Flying solo, Keith’s left with a single plan that might keep him alive: return to the Gold Coast and do his best to lie low.Keith’s not been home for sixteen years, but nobody...
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    7,91 €

  • Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet
    Peter M Ball
    The twelve stories in this collection touch upon science fiction, horror, and fantasy, but all see people brush against the sublime and discover who they truly are. In 'One Saturday Night, With Angel,' a young man staffing a convenience store frets as angels hunt his customers. In 'Say Zucchini, and Mean It,' the world is overrun by a plague that robs us of three very important...
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    13,53 €

  • You Don’t Want to Be Published (and Other Things Nobody Tells You When You First Start Writing)
    Peter M. Ball
    In these essays, Peter M. Ball-Aurealis award-winning author and founder of Brian Jar Press-explores the seemingly unintuitive lessons he’s learned over twenty years of writing, educating other writers, and running writing conferences attended by hundreds of authors at every level of experience.Drawn from some of his most popular blog posts, author presentations, and articles, ...
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    10,42 €

  • Shedding Skins
    Peter M. Ball / Peter MBall
    A Brain Jar Press Short Fiction Lab chapbook, Peter M. Ball’s Shedding Skin is a dark fantasy about snakes, old wounds, and isolation in the heat of the Queensland outback. Things haven’t been right with Mariah ever since the car accident, but Harley knows their problems were seeded long before they drove off the road. Things come to a head when they retreat to an old house in ...
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    3,89 €

  • The Seventeen Executions of Signore Don Vashta
    Peter M. Ball / Peter MBall
    Sixteen executions have failed. The seventeenth is about to begin.Beal devoted his life to the study of eliminating convicted felons, but the notorious Don Vashta is the greatest challenge any executioner can face: an immortal criminal who always rises from the dead to sin again. A short story chapbook about a job that turns into a friendship, and a friendship that becomes an o...
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    3,86 €

  • The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales
    Peter M. Ball
    Twelve short stories those who love strange, heartbreaking, and unforgettable fantasy.What if kaiju decimated your hometown, but only half the population could see them? What if mermaids unleashed their wrath against Copenhagen using mechanoid war-machines? What if the man you loved wanted nothing more than running away to live with the faeries, but you were the one they wanted...
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    9,43 €

  • Barley to Bayonets
    Peter Ball
    Comprehensive illustrated history of an agricultural village on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, during the nineteenth century, which subsequently became home to an army garrison, with detailed notes, appendices and index. ...
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    19,76 €

  • Barley to Bayonets
    Peter Francis Ball
    Very detailed social history of Bulford, a village in Wiltshire, England, through the nineteenth century, when it changed from an agricultural community to a military garrison. Themes include religious nonconformity and papermaking, and the book includes detailed histories of prominent village families. ...
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    25,92 €

  • Introducing Spiritual Direction
    Peter Ball
    This clear and practical guide to what happens in spiritual direction throws valuable light on something that is a huge help for many, yet sometimes seems a little unnerving for those considering it. It includes a number of first-person accounts - from spiritual directors and from those they have guided. It provides insight into why individuals seek direction, how they are guid...
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    21,56 €

  • Faith on the Way
    Malcolm Grundy / Peter Ball
    Bringing together the authors’s experience of working in Europe, the United States, and Australia, this book includes the latest rites for welcoming adults into church membership, together with a detailed account of the Adult Catechumenate and the way in which adults may make a journey into faith, making commitment at the right time on the way and following through into discipl...
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    39,64 €