From the early 400s, as the Western Roman Empire collapsed, Germanic barbarians swept across north-east Italy. Attila the Hun led a group that sacked several Roman cities in the Veneto region.
Seeking sanctuary, many Veneti retreated to islands within lagoons along the Adriatic coast. Established on Torcello, during 452, the initial Veneti settlement within the Laguna di Venezia was the parent community from which the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia eventually emerged – during 697.
From these lagoon settlements the Repubblica grew – through its trading prowess, extraordinary administrative skill, and mastery of the sea – into a major world power.
By the late 1700s, while the Repubblica was at its cultural peak, it was a political and military shadow of its former self. Confronted by Napoleon, Venice capitulated without resistance – ending the 1,100-year-old Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia.

Venice 1983 is the first title in Make Books Australia’s planned timeSnaps series. Venice 1983 draws on part of a 1,500 image archive – photos taken by the author during a three-month round-the-world trip.
Photos in Venice 1983 were taken during the second half of September 1983, using colour slide film in an Olympus point-and shoot camera. Title production began in the first quarter of 2021.

The ebook edition, released during winter 2023, is available to readers in more than 50 regions through Apple Books.

Mothlight is a collection of 51 contemporary Australia poems by author and former barrister Brian Walters.

In Mothlight, Brian Walters reveres both the natural world and the power of the clear poetic line. One poem at a time, he edges us closer to seeing, to captivation, to wild play, to progress. At a time of renewed environmental awareness, this collection invites the reader to do the only thing that is left for us to do – a gentle moving through the world.
Amanda Anastasi poet

Gathered under several headings: Candleflame, Featherfeel, Moonray, Orbiting, Metamorphosis, Wingflutter and Imago – each group of poems is complemented by a family of full-page images.

I love these poems, the surprise of them, the wideness and range of vision, the delicate precision of the lens shifting from the personal, the heart, to the glory of the world. The exultation and celebration of the natural world is a constant and marvellous echo of Hardy. There is too, a similar humane heart.
Helen Elliott literary critic and writer

The rich visual setting within Mothlight complements poems that explore our place in a beautiful but damaged world. Mothlight is a third, companion, volume to the author’s two earlier books of poems, Angels, like laundry and Brink.

Two editions of Mothlight are available for purchase. A print version for Australian readers is available through the author’s web site, while a full-colour, interactive, ebook is available in some 50 regions through Apple Books.

Similarly, the two earlier volumes of verse by Brian Walters published by Make Books Australia – Angels, like laundry and Brink – are available to Australian readers in softback editions that can be purchased through the author’s web site, while the multi-media, interactive, richly illustrated ebook editions are available to readers in more than 50 regions through Apple Books.

Treason is a page-turning story of human drama, heroism and sacrifice. It is an intimate and compelling account of individual moral character and physical courage set against tumultuous events.
Treason is the extraordinary true story of exceptional men and women who risked everything in their attempts to rid the world of the Nazi regime and end the Second World War. It is one of the twentieth century’s great narratives.
Treason presents a detailed, historically accurate and intimate portrait of the extensive resistance within Germany to the Nazis.

The first edition of Treason, a multi-media interactive ebook, was published through Apple Books on the 24th June 2014.

September 2022 saw an international print version of Treason become available – through Blurb – for readers outside Australia.

The international print book is:
348 pages
150 by 230 mm
contains diagrams, maps, numerous illustrations, and an extensive bibliography.

While November 2022 saw a Kindle version of Treason, with an abridged bibliography, released.

These two new editions complement a print version for Australian readers that is available through the author’s web site, and the original ebook – with several audio and video elements – which is available to readers in some 50 regions through Apple Books.