Books published by Gondwana Press

A Short History of TheatreWorks presents an illustrated chronology of the first dozen years of this small but remarkable theatre company that grew out of Victoria's community theatre movement at the beginning of the 1980s and continues to support local, original theatre from its home base in the Acland Street Parish Hall in St. Kilda. TheatreWorks first gained a reputation for innovative performance styles in 1982 with their revolutionary production of Storming Mont Albert by Tram - the world's first play on a moving tram. What became known as The Tram Show was subsequently reproduced seven times on trams in both Melbourne and Adelaide and lead to the creation of a number of other ground breaking site-specific plays in riverboats, pubs and cinemas, mansions, boarding houses, parks, tents and gardens.

"Living Rooms" is the fifth play in the Picture Play series by Paul Davies. It was originally produced by TheatreWorks as a site-specific work in 1986. The play takes place entirely within an historic mansion known as "Linden" situated at 26 Acland Street, St. Kilda, Melbourne. It deals with three key periods in the building's history: family mansion (1900), boarding house (1972) and art gallery (1988). These three scenes, set in three separate rooms (Drawing Room, Flatette and Gallery) are played simultaneously as the three separate audience groups rotate through the building. Thus, each group witnesses the whole play but in different orders. Finally all characters and audience members come together for a final, surreal scene in the hallway. The play deals with how St. Kilda originated as a wealthy Victorian suburb, then declined to a seedy, downmarket hub for drugs and prostitution until finally becoming regentrified in the late twentieth century.

After being inexplicably traded mid-season to New Orleans, aging basketball star Taj Davis encounters a demon in his hotel room. When he ends up naked and bleeding in the hotel hallway with a bloody voodoo doll in his hand, he decides he needs some questions answered. Taj encounters a young woman named Adela. Adela has long, red hair and a voodoo symbol on her chest exactly like the one Taj has on his chest. A strange man Taj meets at the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 advises him to consult with Mama Mulate, a local voodoo expert.Hired by an NBA superstar, French Quarter private detective Wyatt Thomas and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate are launched into a hard-boiled thriller. Wyatt learns that Adela has magical powers and secrets to hide. When she transports him on a supernatural journey, he is hard-pressed to distinguish the experience between reality, a dream, or dark fantasy. As the bizarre mystery unfolds, Wyatt and Mama learn Taj's demon is linked to an unsolved murder that had occurred one-hundred-eighty-years before on the thirteenth floor of the oldest hotel in the French Quarter. It also leads them to the torture, brutality, and horror that occurred in the noir setting of the infamous Lalaurie Mansion, a place many believe to be the most haunted house in the Big Easy.There's a cemetery in New Orleans where thousands of bodies are buried, beneath a single headstone, in a common grave. Wyatt deals with the ghosts and departed spirits at this haunted cemetery to find a time portal to time travel back to antebellum New Orleans where he must deal with insanity, brutality and an Irish Witch who practices powerful magic.

PERFECT MIXTURE OF MYSTERY, SUSPENSE AND THE PARANORMALBroke, out of work, and in need of a new truck, P.I. Buck McDivit needs a job before his landlord evicts him. The only one available is a one-time gig as assistant county death investigator. The case involves the death of a local ranch hand. The police think it's suicide but Buck knows differently. Not only was the man murdered, the evidence indicates the killer is more than human, maybe even supernatural. When the ranch owner hires him to find the murderer, Buck learns revenge wasn't the only motive. As the situation grows insane, he must solve the murder or become the killer's next victim.Bones of Skeleton Creek is the fun, sexy, romantic, and thrilling Book 2 of the popular standalone Paranormal Cowboy Series that almost seems as if a reincarnated H. Rider Haggard wrote it. Fans of adventure, action, hard boiled mystery and paranormal suspense will enjoy this book and this series.What Amazon reviewers are saying:"Paranormal/Supernatural fans will enjoy this book.""Buck is amazing, clever, lovable, and downright adorable."Discover the new paranormal mystery series thousands of readers are already enjoying. This is a full-length, humorous, and romantic paranormal mystery thriller set on a cattle ranch in Central Oklahoma.Join the fun and grab your copy now, and then read the other books in this three book series in any order, and keep the fun going.Ghost of a Chance, Book 1Blink of an Eye, Book 3

A new client wants paranormal P.I. Wyatt Thomas to find his mother's killer. The problem is the fifty-year-old murder isn't just cold, it's frozen solid.Events happen fast when Wyatt accepts a large retainer from a new client wishing to keep his identity secret. Shortly after agreeing to find the person who killed the man's mother, Wyatt's client is himself murdered. The killers shoot Wyatt as he attempts to intervene. He awakens in a New Orleans' hospital only to find they have yet to finish with him.The mysterious men want him dead. He escapes and learns they've somehow managed to pin his client's murder on him. But why? Determined to find out, he enlists the aid of Lucy Diamond. Lucy is a beautiful though cynical reporter in town to film a story on the same murder his client paid him to solve. He marks her for death when they discuss the case. Though different in every possible way, they go on the run together.Wyatt and Lucy soon learn more than a single person participated in the murder of. The ensuing chase drags them through the gritty backside of New Orleans where everyone has a dark secret and a bloody motive.What's the connection between the N.O.P.D., Krewe of Rex, and southern mafia? How are the Russian Special Forces, C.I.A., and U.S. Public Health Service involved? Why is the Cuban army trying to kill them? And, what's up with the mysterious and secret satanic sect that practices human sacrifice? Wyatt and Lucy must learn the answers or die.River Road is a paranormal thriller based loosely on an actual murder. Set in the Big Easy, this bayou suspense novel is Book 5 in author Eric Wilder's French Quarter Mystery Series.

Burdened by spring floods, malaria and yellow fever, citizens of New Orleans often turned to voodoo practitioners-African Rosalie, Sanite Dede, Bras Coupe-for protection. None was more powerful, or feared, than Doctor John or Marie Laveau. After P.I. Wyatt Thomas encounters a ghost during a hospital visit, he tells the story to his sometimes business partner, voodoo mambo Mama Mulate. She puts him in a trance and channels the ghost, soon learning a curse connects him and a long-dead French aristocrat. They are doomed to remain connected forever, unless Wyatt can return to old New Orleans and lift the curse before midnight on New Year's Eve.

During a late spring snowstorm in a sleepy Tulsa neighborhood, an old man runs away from his abusive son and meets a woman, perhaps by magic. Together, they find adventure and fall in love. But there are unanswered questions. How old is too old to fall in love, and when should you give up on life? Take the journey with John and Attie and discover the answers.

Lost on Route 66 is a compendium of short stories, poetry and essays about The Mother Road, Route 66.

It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and French Quarter sleuth Wyatt Thomas is dealing with a new client and an old curse. Get ready for a ride!