"The Katana Quartet":
1) THE SHOGUN'S NINJAS - two generals in Ancient Japan are sent on an Imperial mission, not knowing that it is intended to incriminate them as murderers of an entire family.
2) THE UNARMED SAMURAI – a wandering warrior who has sworn off violence is drawn into clan conflict in Ancient Japan.
3) THE OX AND THE RAINBOW – a Dutch sailor shipwrecked in 17th Century Japan helps defeat a ninja assassin's plot to supplant the Emperor.
4) THE DAIMYO'S PROMISE - Two men separated as youths reunite in defiance of the Shogun’s intention to claim their deceased father’s holdings and slaughter all Christian converts living there.
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POLAR EYES - a murder mystery set in Antarctica, against a background of ecological vandalism, family secrets, and potential world plague.
GOODS LIFT - a young woman who discovers a way to peer exactly 24 hours into tomorrow must return to yesterday to save her lover’s life.
THE BARGAINED PRINCESS - a Korean princess and her maid, a Chinese Crown Prince and his companion poet, an English soldier of fortune and a shapeshifting magician, mix, match, throw in the Jurchen invasion and sacking of Beijing...
TEN BATTLES IN CHANGSHA - cursed by his own violent act, across 2,000 years an ancient Chinese warrior returns again and again to the war-torn city of Changsha, until finally redeemed by love and the end of conflict in China in 1949.
A STITCH THROUGH TIME - maliciously tipped back in time to 1066 AD and the Battle of Hastings, a young Chinese scientist's only hope for her return to today is to travel halfway around the Earth to medieval China for help from Shen Kuo, the historical figure renowned as "China's Leonardo da Vinci".
THE PIRATE QUEEN OF CANTON - forget Captain Jack Sparrow, the pirate queen of the South China Sea, Ching Shih, rules! The waves, the sea-lanes, every villain in Southern China.
FREE FOR ALL – Balmain’s eighteen-foot skiff boatmen take on the toffee-nosed yachties on Sydney Harbour in the 1920's.
FROM THE GROUND UP – the wasteful heir to a large construction company is sent to a building site to learn the business ‘from the ground up’.
TWO BY TWO - the best friend of a serial killer's most recent victim lures him by assuming the same appearance and lifestyle.
CHAMPEEN - a love triangle set against Australian and American rodeo life and competition.
SQUARED - street-kids in Sydney's Kings Cross break the drugs and sex grip of a corrupt businessman.
© Michael McGennan, 2025