Books published by James Timothy Connelly

Prolific Australian author, Jim Connelly, ('Mountain Boy', 'Wild Beauty') turns to his own native Gippsland in his free-wheeling account of this beautiful, varied and historic region.

Molly's farm lies next to the snow-covered peaks of the Alpine National Park in Australia's high country. Beauty is Molly's treasured four-month-old foal. With her mother, Beauty breaks out and joins the wild bush horses that run in the National Park. In the months that follow, Beauty falls into other, crueller hands. The time comes when Molly has to decide whether to keep Beauty for herself or return her to the free life of the mountain brumbies. What would you do? What does Molly do? No peeping to the last page! This is a story full of warm human feelings as well as a good deal of solid horse sense!

Well-known Australian author, Jim Connelly, gives us another series of quirky observations on himself and his local community. In this volume he adds another dimension: a collection of his original bush verse, some comic, some old-world sentimental, all bearing his special brand of sympathetic understanding of human nature.

This is the story of the coming together of families of British and Irish stock, translated from the Old World to the New. The Hazards of ancient English lineage, conjoined with the Tooths of similar English background, joined in the new land of Australia with the Connellys from Ireland. Here, subsequent generations flourished. How much do they owe to their European forebears? Are these truly new families or transplanted Britons?

In this action-packed third book in the 'Tom and Anna' series, Tom and Anna are joined by their class-mate, Danny, as they hunt down a violent gang of criminals smuggling rare birds overseas. Their investigations take them far afield - into the Australian bush and to faraway Switzerland. Another triumph for brains and bravery over the forces of evil.