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Familiar places.
Unfamiliar truths.

From coastal dunes to rising rivers, and an Australia that might have been. Find your next story.

The Beach by JT Newman. A shovel in moonlit coastal dunes.
THE BEACHJT NEWMAN
Murder mystery / 2025

The Beach

The Past Never Stays Buried

A body in the dunes. Three suspects. Bob Annersley returns to a coastal town where wartime resentments and buried secrets run deep.

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Flooded by JT Newman. Red floodwater surrounds road signs for Rocky Mouth and Rivertown.
FLOODEDJT NEWMAN
Murder mystery / 2024

Flooded

Unsolved and Underwater

As floodwaters isolate his hometown, Detective Sergeant Bob Annersley investigates a murder and a suicide on neighbouring farms.

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Overlords: Stories of a Japanese Australia by JT Newman. Intertwined red and blue koi on a white cover.
OVERLORDSJT NEWMAN
Alternative history / 2023

Overlords

Stories of a Japanese Australia

An alternative-history collection imagining Australians’ lives after a Japanese victory in the Pacific War, from 1944 to 1972.

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The Beach.

A young woman disappears after a night at the Rocky Mouth hotel. When her body is discovered in the dunes, Bob Annersley is called back from leave to investigate.

Three suspects. Old resentments. A truth that refuses to stay buried.

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