Most Popular Books by Ken Edwards

Abu is always getting into all kinds of mischief! Children will love this tale about the charming troublemaker''s antics, and the rhyming text is just right for newly independent readers.

"She heard the satellite continue to deviate from its orbit. . . . Her body plotted the satellite''s errant path as it passed overhead unseen, more than a hundred miles above the city. She awoke briefly, then, moisture on her face, bruised. That would have been in the early morning, certainly before it was light. . . ". "Futures" -- British poet Ken Edwards'' first published novel -- traces the paths taken by a woman named Eye travelling on her bicycle, across and out of an unnamed city in the wake of an event she can''t remember, as she faces her terror and tries to retrieve the fragments of her life.

The author says of this Selected: "This volume contains what I think of as the essential matter in my verse composition over two decades. I tend to compose in books, and didn''t want to disturb the integrity of my favourites: therefore Drumming & Poems, Intensive Care and 3600 Weekends are included in their entirety, as are the shorter sequences A4 Portrait and A4 Landscape. Erik Satie loved children, an early pamphlet, is also included, as I still think it''s quite sweet, and besides it was the first showing of what later evolved into my preferred procedures: cutting and splicing, juxtaposition, language play, composition by rhythm."

Possibly the fastest bowler of his era, Eddie Gilbert''s story includes three legendary encounters with the incomparable Don Bradman. But this story transcends cricket. It is the powerful, tragic experience of an Aboriginal Australian struggling to succeed in racist Queensland of the 1930s.

In “Keys to Lasting Joy” you will discover 11 principles gleaned from the life of the apostle Paul as he lived it as a prisoner in Rome when he wrote to the Philippian church. These revelations came during the depths of hardship and despair few experience, yet he shared how God''s love is bigger than, and greater than any of our circumstances. These 11 principles will help you prepare the soil of your life in order for the fruit of Joy to be produced in abundance. Also included is a Study Guide. My prayer for you is that you will begin to live life as God intended.

Nearly a dozen people witness the violence occurring in the Palace Saloon on a summer night in 1884, and at least half of them are involved. Who is guilty of what? Will the the public outcry for retribution require the hangman''s noose? Undermined by explosive publicity, where in the region can an impartial jury be found? What form will the shifting sands of frontier justice take in the capital of Arizona Territory? This true and well-documented story of crime and punishment provides insight into the pioneer days of the Southwest, as justice struggles to find its roots.

Contemporary and accessible literary fiction by avant-garde author, musician and publisher Ken Edwards. Jobless, young Dennis Chaikowsky is house-sitting for his parents in the back end of nowhere, near a nuclear power station on the coast. His attempts at musical composition are stymied by his complicated relationship with his Neo-Marxist poet friend, city-dweller Tarquin, his sexual obsession with Alison, a.k.a Wanda, who works in the power station by day and is a singer by night, and his fear and awe of her rock musician husband Severin. It''s an unsustainable comedy, but the world outside, natural and unnatural, described in Edwards'' unnerving prose, doesn''t care.

An elderly homeless man living on a beach discourses at length on philosophy, poetry and science. He seems obsessed by someone in his past named Grech whom he appears to blame for his misfortune, but the stories don''t quite add up....

Despite being subtitled "A Mystery", Ken Edwards'' third novel is no conventional crime story. An old and vulnerable woman has gone missing, and a private detective, Phidias Peralta, an illegal resident in a business park near the run-down port of Deadmans Beach, has been hired by her nephew to find her. His assistant, Lucy, is more concerned with her seven-year-old son who is failing at school - but she too is drawn into the quest to try to solve a mystery for which there appears to be no single solution.

A dystopian novel, narrated on behalf of a dead man, unfolding in 33 chapters mirroring Dante''s cantos, and set in a hellish world uncannily like post-Brexit Britain.

Poetry. In GOOD SCIENCE Edwards has written one of the truly powerful books of poetry to come out of England in the past ten years, linking many endeavors with the phenomenon of linguistic intrigue. In these days when American writers are battling over issues of how interruptive a poem should be, Edwards'' writing is what Iron magazine described as "somehow fluid and fractured at the same time." GOOD SCIENCE is an illuminating book. GOOD SCIENCE leaps over the shaggy dog of most contemporary poetry by transcending poetic license, elevating the writing beyond mere poetic concerns to a larger human scale.

It''s Hallowe''en and there''s talk of a ghost on Birdwell Island. Jetta and Mac aren''t scared, but what would they do if they actually did meet a ghost?

1970s London: short-life communal living, the beginnings of the alt-poetry scene, not forgetting sex, drugs and rock''n''roll. Forty years on: where have the wild metrics of those days taken us? This prose extravaganza dives into the inscrutable forking paths of memory, questions what poetry is, and concludes that the author cannot know what he is doing. Among the cast of characters are a Rock Star who has become a national treasure, a bunch of poets and writers, some now legends, and assorted other misfits and malcontents. Some names have been changed.

When the tugboats'' work is done for the day, they have time to splash and play.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sports games from all over Australia; aimed at school children from Kindergarten to Year 12; includes diagrams, background to each game, game rules, variations of the games, and teaching points.