Books published by DSL Publications

Why some people enable them and how others courageously stand up to themIn this chaotic world of fake news, alternative facts and a daily diet of threatening tweets, ordinary people are facing a serious crisis of trust in their leaders. Who is telling us the truth, who is dealing in 'spin' and political game playing?In this book the author tackles the challenging issues of leadership and followership in a world of 'crazy', where all moral and ethical leadership seems to be a distant memory. She asks: Why do we elect totally unsuitable leaders? Why do people encourage and enable their appalling behaviour? Is democracy obsolete? Are we teetering backwards into a world of dictatorships? The world seems to have slept through all the warning signs. Fortunately, courageous souls everywhere are waking up and challenging the bullies who would destroy decency. A new generation is standing up and saying 'enough', and many countries are deciding that people, the environment and future generations are more important than profits.

Thinking with The Eye's Mind demonstrates how to successfully review and develop ideas and plans that have yet to fulfil their original promise. It does so by way of a 14-chapter text and two free online applications designed for business and personal planning.After reading this book you'll come to realize that there is no excuse for letting your best ideas and plans fall by the wayside for lack of an easily employable testing procedure. Not until they have been tested in a special visually-oriented project-planning system called the Universal Template (U-Template(TM)).Once you learn how to let your eyes do the work they're intended to do, you'll never abandon a worthwhile idea again.

Out of the organised chaos of a radio station newsroom and into the silence of an austere Trappist monastery. In The Abbot's Shoes Peter recounts his journey and brings into our view the hidden day-to-day life within an enclosed contemplative community. Now almost 50 years later (after careers as a Catholic journalist, Presbyterian preacher, and Pentecostal revivalist) Peter writes about his "return" to this other world.In the monastery we "stood, bowed and knelt in the 'death zone' of 3am … we prayed for everyone and anyone". Now the house of prayer in which Peter "lives" is very small … "only a few feet square". "My singing of the Psalms morning, noon and night is my occupation. I am dreaming of many tiny monasteries, 'invisible' in urban and rural wildernesses. In holy obscurity such will shape the sinews of history."The Abbot's Shoes is a poignant expression of gratitude to Our Lady of the Southern Star Abbey. But it also contains hints and clues for younger people especially, who are drawn and haunted by the mysterious, ancient and perpetually renewed "allure into the desert".Radical and beautiful, witty and blinding, it's a perfect kick in the arse for the "I want it now", social media-driven times we live in. This book is the most inspiring and thought provoking I've read in a long while. - Miriam Clancy, Singer-songwriter, New York City, USAA beautifully scripted work that deserves to stand with writers such as Thomas Merton and C.S. Lewis - David Williams, Chaplain, Sydney, AustraliaAbout the authorHaving worked as a newspaper and radio journalist, Peter Robertson embarked on a 35 year career in Christian ministry, involving parish, lecture hall and itinerant preaching. His 'final quest' is for a contemplative life in which prayer is work and work is prayer. Other books he has written include The Tribulation Church and A Great Sign. Peter lives in New Zealand with his wife and family.

** Shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award 2019 Best First Novel **Laudanum. Irish whiskey. The tried and true escape routes of bordello madam Hennessey Reed. On this occasion she suspects even their combined magic will not soothe her distress. The girl lying violated on the undertaker's table will remain dead, wounds horrifying and inexplicable, reminiscent of Indian sacrifice.Hennessey treasures the uneasy peace she has found in the remote town of Melancholy in 1880s Idaho Territory. However the discovery of three more young victims-all girls of similar age to her daughter Evie-compromises this hard-won equilibrium when she recognizes one of the girls.Usually content to tend her own business and leave others to mind theirs, Hennessey decides U.S. Marshal Rafael Cooper requires her help to search for the killer but acknowledges, if consulted, he may not necessarily agree.Although helped by an eclectic group dedicated to the barstools in her saloon, she is hindered by demons stifled by addiction and myopic hatred of Jedidiah Cannon: a man from her past she is convinced is involved in the present-day murders.So with her Bowie strapped to her calf and wolfhound Raven at her side Hennessey sets out to investigate-a one-woman stampede.

Troy is afflicted by a condition that lets him live out different futures. Jaded by living all those possibilities he drifts through existence until a chance encounter with a funny, crazy, woman convinces him to give the real thing one more try.