Author: ashwoodpublishing

A Shore Seldom Trod

Cover of A Shore Seldom trod. A huge pawprint over an antique map of south-east South Australia, with an 1870s carbine on one side

South Australia, 1874. Searching the lonely south-east coast for signs of a lost ship, reclusive policeman Rem Wayborn ponders the wreckage of his own life. A series of mysterious stock killings is terrorising the people of the area, with enormous tracks suggesting a predator well outside their experience. Amid increasing hysteria in the far-flung community, […]

Numbers Are the Devil’s Work

Cover. Title is on a ballot paper, with a map of Tasmanian electoral divisions in the background.

There’s a new Independent Member for Braddon. The boys’ club is in for a shock. No-one is sad when the Tasmanian premier dies, but it’s one less vote for the minority government. Deputy Premier Bernard Wynyard has his work cut out if he is to gain and hold the premiership. On the west coast, former […]

Becoming That Guy

Becoming That Guy cover. A surgeon with his back to the observer, and red ECG lines either side of 'That Guy'.

From the Bronx to Tasmania: An interventional cardiologist’s stories from the cath lab

The Van Diemen’s Land Thespian

Cover. Theatrical curtains open to show 'The Van Diemen's Land Thespian' in vintage font over a 19th-century painting of Hobart Town.

In 1833, Samson Cameron sailed into Hobart Town with his new bride, the acclaimed actress Cordelia Bouchier. It was a town on the up, with a would-be high society, religious leaders jockeying for dominance, convicts toiling to erect grand sandstone buildings, and a pub on every corner. What followed was a life of entrepreneurship, intense […]

Moult

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A novel in short stories

The All-Animal Vet

The All-Animal Vet cover showing Margareta Shiel and various animals

Stories from a vet in outback Australia Cattle, sheep, horses, and the occasional ostrich or buffalo – a vet on her own has to think on her feet! As a newly minted vet in rural Queensland, Margareta Shiel performed her first-ever caesarean on a cow at midnight by the lights of a tractor (the cow […]

Dora Freeman’s (Un?)Eventful Life

Dora Freeman's (Un?) Eventful Life cover. The title curves across the top hald of the image with a pair of scissors between the "un" and "Eventful". Below is a swirl of pink ribbon around a dressmaker's mannequin wearing a wedding veil.

Dora knows perfectly well how Harry died – let the police work it out if they can. Dora’s self-important husband, Harry, always told her nothing ever happened in her life. Now Harry has been found dead at the bottom of the Alum Cliffs near Kingston, Tasmania, so that’s definitely something! As Dora adjusts to her […]