Dragonfly Publishing Books

Tumblagooda is alive—against all odds! But deep beneath the waves, can she find her way back to where she truly belongs? George and her best friend Mac are desperate for answers. Will they ever see Tumblagooda again? At a crayfishing camp on the wild Abrolhos Islands, surprises lurk around every corner—a clever Arctic tern, a pair of shady treasure hunters, and buried secrets that could change everything. As the stakes get higher, George, Mac, and Tumblagooda must summon every ounce of courage and cleverness to outsmart their foes. But with the specter of moving back to Ireland still looming, can George convince Seamus that home isn’t always across the sea—that sometimes, where you are is where you were always meant to be? Full of friendship, courage, and ocean-soaked adventure, the final instalment of the ‘Tumblagooda Trilogy” story will plunge you into the depths and back again.

1968. After her father gambles away the family home, seven-year-old Kate and her mother, Nora Wallace, move to Chidley House, a quaint boarding house in Fremantle, where Nora is employed. Alice Chidley occasionally allows Kate to watch the newly acquired TV, presenting an illusory world to the young child. Ex-teacher, Miss Tillman encourages her to be more than “Just Kate”. Stan and Syd Blennerhasset fuel Kate’s imagination with facts and made-up stories. With this background of fantasy unintentionally created, Kate warms to make-believe and hidden truths as a way out from her unwanted existence. When Chidley House is sold, Stan gives Kate a diary as a parting gift. After leaving school, Kate endures a job in a cafe and evening typing classes. Absorbing etiquette and subtle manipulation from her new wealthy friend, Fiona Noble, she waits for the opportunity to have a similar lifestyle, embellishing her family’s situation and social standing with untruths. 1977. Securing a job at an upmarket boutique as Katisse Blanchard, Kate is worlds away from her past. Her subtle lies continue as she builds a life amongst society’s elite, recording her exploits in a diary. But has Kate’s attitude, shaped by comparison of others’ lifestyles, created overtures for a life of illusion? Are her diaries full of lies or enriched truths? And will she regret any of it?

Ten-year-old Georgina ‘George’ Doherty lives a free-and-easy life with her father, Seamus, in the coastal town of Mirmouth, Western Australia. Together with her best friend Mac, she spends her time seeking buccaneers, buried treasure and people in need of saving. When a cyclone devastates Mirmouth, a secret is unearthed. Dislodged from within the coastal cliffs, a fossilized cocoon cracks open revealing a strange creature! George and Mac stumble upon this creature. Now, they must embark on a thrilling adventure to protect it from the prying eyes of the world. Will they be able to keep their new friend hidden, or will their secret be revealed?

A collision of loss and love. Clara wants to be a writer, a passion she shares with her beloved older brother, Jake. But when Jake is found dead in the wash on Scarborough beach, it shakes her to the core and she’s desperate to understand why he took his life. While studying Psychology at uni, she finds herself assisting with a rehab program in a low security prison. There she meets Michael, an alcoholic and petty criminal with an irresistible pull. He reminds her so much of Jake and constantly challenges her, testing her resolve to stay true to her partner, Dan. As time moves on, Clara sets up her own practice but cracks are forming in her work and relationship with Dan, not helped by Michael weaving his way in and out of her life. She’s treading water and still plagued by Jake’s death. Can she overcome her loss and save Michael before it’s too late?

When everything shatters, can Andrea piece herself back together? Seventeen-year-old Andrea Nekić has her whole life mapped out: achieving top grades, a spot at university, and a career as a writer. But surviving high school is just the beginning, and Andrea is about to find out how even the best laid plans can be destroyed in an instant when popular, magnetising Julian Valesco drags her into his orbit. One day, she’s stressing over earning extra credits; the next, Julian’s devastating betrayal throws her life into chaos. With her world crumbling around her, Andrea must fight to survive the aftermath. Can she find the strength to overcome her trauma and reclaim her future, or will the weight of it all pull her under?

Little Boo, a playful Tawny Frogmouth chick, has learnt how to make a big squawk and just wants to make non-stop noise. But her constant noise-making disrupts the peaceful nighttime bush, and Mumma Frogmouth and the other grown-ups are not amused. Will Little Boo and her new-found friends have fun making squawks and croaks without getting into trouble?

Little Boo does NOT want to go to sleep but Mumma says that Tawny Frogmouths have to go to bed when the sun comes up. Staying up all day and playing games is much more fun, especially if it’s the peekaboo game. Will Little Boo find a friend to play with before Mumma catches her?

She really should know better... Lucy's life was fun and uncomplicated. Nights were spent partying with best friend Em, doing what twenty-somethings do: dancing, drinking and ditching any men who wanted more than just a one-night stand. All Joe Morris wanted was for Lucy to be his devoted wife. Now two years have passed since Joe's death and Lucy wakes at sunrise reliving the events of that fateful night harbouring a guilty secret she knows will cause her house of cards to tumble. When Em suggests a holiday to the clubbing island of Ibiza, Lucy jumps at the chance to escape her woes and reignite a lifestyle she'd long since left behind. Ibiza doesn't disappoint and Lucy wants more, but is it all just a smokescreen? Lucy's past won't stay buried for long and she knows what she should do but at what cost? Can she figure it out before it's too late, or will Lucy always be the sunrise girl? A sexy, emotive tale of a thirty-something woman's struggle to reconcile her past in the wake of tragedy and figure out what she truly wants.

Shortly after the events of book one, we return to the coastal town of Mirmouth where George refuses to go to the police about Tumblagooda despite her father Seamus’s appeals. George is worried about school bully, Jed Ostler. Will he keep quiet about the “alien” who saved him from drowning at Red Cliff beach? And just where is Tumblagooda now, anyway? As George and Mac continue their adventures, they find more than they bargained for in a cliffside Aladdin’s cave, and George is forced to confront issues of honesty, loyalty and the missing spectre of family. When she thinks she can hear Tumblagooda communicating telepathically with her through the walls of a local mine, the stage is set for a course of action that will have potentially far-reaching consequences…

It is the mid-1960s in Perth and Vicki is bored, restless and up for a challenge. Like many young women of the day, she left school early and lives at home. She has a low-paid job as a typist and is friends with two workmates, Gwenda and Nora. The three young women meet each morning for tea and biscuits and gossip. They like grumbling about their pesky boss, chatting about where they’re headed in life and discussing the books they’re reading. Life begins to look up for Vicki when Gwenda suggests she read Coonardoo by Katharine Susannah Prichard. Vicki is bowled over by the novel. From then on, she reads everything she can get hold of by and about Katharine and records her discoveries in a diary. Gwenda supports Vicki’s project, Nora doesn’t; she’s more interested in Gwenda’s troubled relationship and finding a boyfriend. Vicki’s mother thinks her daughter is wasting her time reading books by a ‘radical’ and should be looking around for ‘a nice young bloke to marry’. With the help of a friendly librarian and a retired school teacher, Vicki gradually discovers a new and completely different way of looking at the world and starts to plot her future.

Sunset, the dawn of my darkness. Sunrise, the eve of my new light. Darkness to light. Soul Refraction. This book is a journey of moments in time displayed in poems and prose. Raw yet captivating, confronting yet uplifting, powerful, passionate, relatable and thought-provoking, it takes the reader and their heart and soul, on a journey from breaking to healing, growing to soaring. Because life is a journey… A trajectory of ups and downs, lefts and rights, light and dark… A soul refraction…

A hidden lab. A grisly discovery. An eerie swamp. Can Sadie and Newt uncover the secret of the swamp before it’s too late?

We all have an innate ability to heal ourselves emotionally, mentally, physically and so much more… In 2019, following the onset of a mystery illness, Ann M Basili embarked on a “self” healing journey consisting of daily meditations and communication with a higher power. What resulted was a series of Divine Instructions for how to heal herself from the illness, and more. Reflecting on the self-healing instructions she received, Ann resolved to teach them through her courses, in her counselling practice, and now in an easy to follow, step-by-step book as gentle, guided Metaphysical Healing Meditations and inward reflection exercises to facilitate self-healing at the quantum level. The techniques you will learn can be used alongside medical treatment, alternative therapies or on their own. There are no pre-requisites to learning this modality of healing; everyone can benefit from the skills and knowledge attained. All that’s required is an open heart, an open mind and a willingness to try something new. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to heal yourself in an easy, uncomplicated way using simple techniques to create your own self-healing toolkit, then this book is for you. Welcome to the new paradigm of self-healing.

Asha-lee has been blessed with “The Gift” but refuses to acknowledge it. Growing up in a house with chanting and incense burning, and her mother, Lalita, declaring everyone needs to ‘cleanse their spirit’, Asha-lee turned from being a girl wanting to appease her mother to Asha, a young woman wanting just to be “normal”. Asha rents a flat in an old house on Redhill Corner and instantly falls for its once-elegant charm, determined to make it her home. She finds an old cardboard box in her flat containing paraphernalia from years gone by and feels compelled to learn more about their vague connection to the old house, something she hopes the caretaker, Mr Cantronelli, can help uncover. When Asha meets a young woman and her baby at a nearby bus stop, she learns Jocelyn and her husband, Oscar, have recently moved to the area and are struggling to make ends meet. And despite resistance to her psychic abilities, Asha is drawn into a mysterious love story centred around the place she now calls home. What extraordinary secrets will this house reveal to Asha, if only she’d let it? Learning to embrace her gift, can Asha figure out what happened to the young family in the house on Redhill corner and in doing so, finally accept who she really is?