World famous actor Sam Neill and rap legend Chuck D rub shoulders with writers like JP Donleavy and Carmel Bird. Physicists, business leaders, publishers, political activists, soldiers, poets, athletes and comic book creators are brought together by their common experience of hitching a ride sometime in the past. Since the '60s and '70s - the heyday of hitching - people have thumbed rides worldwide. Money never changes hands, but all manner of social transactions take place. These tales will open your eyes and take you back - or forward. Just when you think you've heard it all, turn the page. You'll discover you haven't! Tom Sykes writes fiction and non-fiction. His stories and articles have been published in the UK, USA, Canada and Southeast Asia Simon Sykes is an author, linguist, musician, designer, and carpenter who hitchhiked extensively during the 1970s. This exciting new book follows on the heels of their popular British, and North American collections.

Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

In a world not far removed from our own, a city lies ravaged. Crime overruns its streets, its citizens are helpless. Crime lord Robert Latham, to the world at large a legitimate businessman, holds the city in his sway. Fear and intimidation rule throughout. One man, however, stands above the rest, willing to fight for freedom. That man is The Wraith. This newly revised Special Edition, to celebrate the character's twentieth anniversary, includes a new preface by the author, a sketchbook featuring never before seen art by Jim Taylor, Jeff Austin, Roland Bird and John Jett, an interview with the author, five pages of photos from the live action film and sneak peeks at both the Valley of Evil and Vendetta novels. Start the series off anew with this brand new edition of The Wraith, brought to you by a master of the field, Frank Dirscherl.

After having been betrayed by crime boss Robert Latham, and defeated by The Wraith, Crossfire has returned to cause mayhem and carnage at every turn. His ultimate aim? The utter destruction of all his enemies, and he doesn't care who gets in his way. Can The Wraith bring this deadly villain to justice, while being caught in the middle of a savage gang war? And who is causing the widespread depression in Metro City? Vendetta, #5 in this amazing series, will excite and thrill you as never before, courtesy master storyteller Frank Dirscherl.

The never before told origin of the original Wraith/Paul Sanderson.

Having gone through ordeal after ordeal, Paul Sanderson (aka The Wraith Dread Avenger of the Underworld ) and his love Leena Patterson, decide to take a long overdue vacation. Choosing the mountain village of Bidbury as their destination, the two happily leave the crime and filth of Metro City far behind them, at least for a time. Once they reach the picturesque surrounds of the Little England area, their idyll is shattered by an attack by a creature nobody thought could possibly exist-a werewolf. Soon, Paul discovers a village wracked by fear and deceit, and an evil so pronounced, so monstrous, that only The Wraith could possibly defeat it. Cry of the Werewolf is the fourth in this enthralling series of pulp novels featuring the Dread Avenger of the Underworld, and has all the thrills and emotion that one has come to expect from Dirscherl, surely the pre-eminent superhero pulp author of our time.

Fiction. Daniel King's short story collection cycles through the shadowy landscapes of death, gnarled relationships, the slippery side of human nature, even the contemporary lure of cosmetic surgery pushed to a surprising extreme. Philosophically pointed with a surreal bite, the characters of these stories wrestle with existence and each other as profound questions scatter them. King's stories have been widely published and praised in Australia and overseas, and this compilation was Highly Commended in the 2010 Interactive Publications Picks Award for Best Fiction.

When Nadine Neumann decides at the age of eight that she wants to be an Olympic swimmer, she trades a normal life of school friends and parties for the rigours of elite sports training. With acute honesty, wisdom and humour, Nadine spins readers through the loneliness and heartaches of a different kind of adolescence. Ages 14+.

With the city back firmly in his grasp, crime lord and entrepreneur Robert Latham is celebrating by bankrolling Metro City's 200th anniversary gala year, which includes the unveiling of a never-before-seen ancient Aztec stone carving--the Cortes Stone--at the City Gallery, a carving that has thrilled the scientific and artistic communities, but infuriated the monstrous Aztekoth.

Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it, or just disappear. Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searing account of survival in the urban Melbourne scene.