Allan Baillie – författare

The nature of modern life that man lives has put him in a state of constant conflict with his life. Whenever a person realizes something new, he finds the horizons before him wide open, and he strives to achieve more successes. In this atmosphere full of movement, man has lost a large part of his humanity or sociality. The foundations of human psychological stability have been shaken due to these successive scientific changes, and then mental illnesses began to take hold of him and make him an easy target. Indeed, the World Health Organization announced that approximately 160 million individuals suffer from depression, anxiety, and depression, and the organization called in a study for the necessity of seeking to eliminate the causes of these psychological diseases.

The long barrel of a skeletal gun coughed streams of fire into the night. In a few moments the deck of the fishing boat burst into flame.Pat has joined his father on an old boat off the coast of a troubled Indonesian island to search for treasure. But as they follow a trail of clues to the world''s richest shipwreck the violence on the island coils around them.In this powerful, action-packed thriller, master storyteller Allan Baillie takes us on a quest where the dangers are real and the cost of a mistake could be life.

Cat scooped leaves to add more over her body and then lay still. She could hear crashing from above . . . When Cat is dropped off at her grandmother''s hut in a remote part of the bush, she suddenly finds herself on her own. What has happened, and what can she do?Piecing together clues, Cat starts making sense of things . . . but not the sort of sense she was hoping for.A gritty, thrilling adventure story from one of the best!

Ian first met Abbie the orangutan when they were trapped together on a sinking freighter in the middle of a cyclone. Now Ian is taking Abbie back home, giving her freedom in the jungles of Borneo. But it''s not as simple as he thought it would be. There is something much worse than a cyclone waiting for them this time ... The thrilling sequel to Wreck!

Yates was cautiously lifting a cooked and curried crescent to his mouth. He stopped and looked at Pettit. ''It''s a cockroach,'' he said. ''I''m going to eat it.'' ''What in hell for?'' ''To find out what it tastes like.'' Here is a journey that begins with a shuddering disaster in the Himalayas, and ends with an ill-starred romance on Mars. In between are adventures down the rivers of Cambodia and Laos, battles with bulls in Australian country towns, encounters with French agents, freelance photography assignments, handbag-snatchers in Naples, thong-flingers in Rangoon, bread queues in Afghanistan, and more. This streetwise collection from master storyteller Allan Baillie spans centuries of cross-cultural relationships, civil wars and expeditions.

Suddenly there was a trench across the beach, about ten meters away from the fishermen, where before there had been nothing but flat sand.  The fishermen moved quickly away as the trench heaved grey ash across the sand.  They sprinted when it hurled black rocks at them.Kerta didn''t want to go to Krakatoa.He knows that a dark spirit, Orang Aljeh, is there and he is terrified he might wake it.  But Kerta is there on the volcano, and the Ghost of Krakatoa has woken up.A powerful story of survival and loss based on the real-life events of the Krakatoa eruption in 1883. Winner of the 2010 New South Wales Premier''s Literary Award Patricia Wrightson Prize ''This book is a marvel of precision and economy, stuffed to the gunnels with ideas, and brimming over with a dark energy...a masterclass in how to write...Krakatoa Lighthouse is that rare find: an exciting, moving story that keeps opening the doors to larger questions. Baillie puts the reader right there in the moment with stunningly accurate detail...yet we never feel the dead hand of history overwhelming us.'' From the 2010 NSW Premier''s Literary Award Judges'' Report

Something was in the rings that shouldn''t have been there.Life on the remote moon Ord is dangerous.  Random eruptions in the ice, extreme cold, loneliness and loss: it''s all Dece knows.Until one day he sees a mysterious object caught in the rings of the nearby gas planet, Cotal.With no choice but to investigate, what he will find is so extraordinary that it is almost beyond understanding.