Book Award 2022

Jamestown, 1609. Life in this fledgling colony is far from the promised Paradise. A nightmarish winter and Indian attacks spawn the horrors of “the starving time.”

Debugging the Mind describes a systematic, rational, and individually verifiable path to a free, fearless, and emotionally fulfilling life. It is based on eliminating the source of misery, viz., internal discord among thoughts, feelings, and words in relation to actions.

Tal Neilson is convinced his billionaire father's sudden death is murder. The battles for justice, his legacy, his sobriety and his life, intermingle with his addiction to Ophelia, a young woman with a sixty year old secret. Will his own family members them apart or get them both killed?

The shadows are alive, the whispers haunt your sleep and murder is top of the agenda. What's an ex Ministry of Witches detective to do? Elise Liddell pokes her nose where she shouldn't and quickly lives to regret it. When the hunter becomes the hunted, is it better to let sleeping wizards die?

Is death the end? Detective Adam Chapple has always assumed so.
When his ex-wife is killed, the boundaries between fantasy and reality begin to dissolve. His main suspect for her murder insists she’s actually his star witness. She claims she met the killer once before. But only after she died.

Despite the advancements in technology, wisdom and
knowledge, there are some questions which continue to
perplex mankind just as they have done for centuries. What
is the meaning of life? What happens when we die? How
did we get here? Who's really in control?

I can be anything! Teach your child the power of Positive Self-Affirmations by joining the little astronaut on its adventurous journey through space as it discovers its potential. Each affirmation is introduced with playful rhymes. We are all amazing. We are all enough. We just need to believe it.

Detective Rosie Bloom, known as the Silver Dingo, is seconded to a rugged corner of the Kimberley to investigate a spate of local troubles. Cattle shootings, missing tourists, and a woman with no memory. Then the troubles morph into something far more sinister. A murderer is on the loose.

Best Book Series Entrant - The Hollow Man, London Bridge is Falling Down, and Surviving Prague. The Hollow Man Series follows a US government analyst in a trilogy of suspense across Europe. For additional detail, please see these books as entered under the Golden Author Awards contest.

It is 1962 and Will Johnstone is sent back to his twelve-year-old body. What’s more, he is about to escape his abusive father … by committing suicide.

Introducing the No Bullshit Guide to Self Confidence. A practical, step by step approach for reclaiming the ‘real you’. This ‘life changing’ guide was a Book Excellent Finalist in 2019.

There are no diets, gimmicks or quick fixes in this book. It’s about you embracing who you are.

You may not see the soul, but it always travels with you.
Touching, profound and poignant, this book strives to help you to help your children understand where a loved one or special pet goes when they pass on, sometimes unexpectedly.

Diplomat Chris Kelly rescues children from sexual slavery. Chea Phyrom is the nephew of Cambodia’s prime minister, and that lucrative trade is his core business. When Kelly threatens his profits, Chea’s revenge is swift: he kidnaps Kelly’s adopted daughter and hides her in his network of brothels.

April 1979, Liberia. Ken unwittingly participates in the overthrow of the Tolbert Presidency—the end of the Americo-Liberian of political dominance.

Based on a remarkable true story, THE DUNG BEETLES Of LIBERIA is a young American’s fast-paced adventure, set in 1960's Liberia, exposing a sordid society upon which the wealthy are feeding and in which the poor are buried.

​Kept: An American Househusband in India is a hilarious, heart-warming tale of a company man turned trailing spouse when his wife gets his dream job and drags him halfway around the globe.