Fiction by Caroline de Costa
Rookwood Island
Boolarong Press, 2007
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The girl lay at the edge of the beach, lapped by the incoming tide. Her long dark hair was bleached gold at the tips, and her toe nails were painted an iredescent blue that matched the Ulysses butterfles circling above her...But who was she, and what had brought her to the remote part of Far North Queensland, across from Rookwood Island?
In this second mystery involving Inspector Leslie Fernando and the people of the Yingin community, Caroline de Costa again leads her reader through a tale of intrigue set against the rainforest and seas of the far north, exploring questions of relationships across racial barriers, loyalty and revenge.
Purchase this book via the Boolarong Press websiteUnder the Skin
Boolarong Press, 2006
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In the small North Queensland community of Cassowary Creek,
as the inhabitants prepare for a cyclone, Maud Murphy uneasily awaits
the arrival of Sinead, a young woman she has never previously met. Her
visitor seems intent on raking up the past - a past that Maud has been
trying to forget since an unsolved tragedy seven years before. But with
Sinead's appearance comes the chance for Maud to see that past differently,
and the arrival of the cyclone brings the possibility of a solution to
the years-old mystery.
Introducing Inspector Leslie Fernando and the people of the Yingin Aboriginal community, Under the Skin moves between the rainforest of Far North Queensland and the Dublin streets of Maud's student days, where her story began. A tale of intrigue in an exotic tropical setting, Under the Skin explores questions of race, love and loyalty, and what it means to be a mother.
Purchase this book via the Boolarong Press websiteClone Baby
Boolarong Press, 2006
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Cloning people is wrong. It's forbidden by law. No responsible
scientist would dream of trying it…..Or would they? When Sydney gynaecologist
Dr Malcolm Gledhill, elegant, rich and clever, is called to the hospital
bedside of his only son Simon in 1997, he makes a sudden and momentous
decision. A decision that leads, within a few months, to the birth of
his second son Stephen. But who exactly is Stephen? Simon's brother? Or
his clone? Consequences, foreseen and unforeseen, flow from Malcolm's
decision and Stephen's birth. Malcolm himself acquires celebrity status
as he propagates his message across the planet. But for others in the
Gledhill family - for Stephen and his mother Margaret - the results of
Malcolm's decision are monstrous and frightening. And in an unexpected
denouement Malcolm too is ultimately defeated by the experiment he has
undertaken.
In this fictitious account of Sydney's medical profession Caroline de Costa explores the possibilities, risks and implications of human reproductive cloning, with a reminder that though the techniques may be currently banned, the technology to develop human cloning is already right here - in a laboratory not far from you…..
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