MASKIMEDIA

ABN 47 808 070 799

Print publishing and digital media operating out of the Cairns Highlands

North Queensland, Australia

MaskiMedia publishes books and papers

covering the following areas and more:

World War Two

Papua New Guinea

Tamariki and the Whales

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Martin Kerr founder of MaskiMedia

Author

Photo: Tim Kerr 2008

Born and raised in New Zealand, Martin Kerr travelled to New Guinea, joined the Australian Trusteeship Administration as a cadet patrol officer and later operated as a crocodile shooter along the West Papua border. Teaching at Sydney High School for three years he settled in Victoria and moved to north Queensland in 2002. Martin is a first cousin of Roy Kerr (see Fulvio Melia, Cracking the Einstein Code).

 

 

Martin Kerr’s latest novels on CD-ROM:

 

 

 

AMON ONE

373 pages

 

Race, romance and colonialism are keystones

to Amon Mortlake’s colourful life.

He goes to the right school and university:

But intriguing characters

and opportune moments draw him into

the real world.

Protesting the Vietnam War, discovering a lost tribe in New Guinea

Our hero thrives in challenging and creative situations.

 

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Martin Kerr CD-ROM Amon’s Run

 

ISBN 978-0-9804903-4-3 Amon’s Run

 

 

 

AMON TWO

225 pages

 

Amon Mortlake sails across the world for an assignation with the beautiful

but practical Nicole Geneste in the Massif Central.

She is a wily and sensible equestrienne; he is wet behind the ears.

Fêted explorer Gabriel Desforges puts him in contact with a Paris-based mining company.

Amon returns to Papua New Guinea and, with the help of Jana Kim Foon,

sets up a business providing transport and supplies to prospectors.

When Sepik River employees rebel prior to independence, Amon’s influence is

ruthlessly challenged.

 

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Martin Kerr CD-ROM Amon’s Run

 

ISBN 978-0-9804903-4-3 Amon’s Run

 

 

 

AMON THREE

290 pages

 

In the late 1960s the arrival of a professional mining analyst Amon Mortlake on the

Sydney stock broking scene is welcomed, as is his knowledge and collection of New Guinea art.

His student days' sweetheart agrees to join him from France. They marry and start a family.

With the overheated and corrupt market in nickel shares threatening to destroy him professionally,

Amon moves to Melbourne. There he becomes involved with the rough and tumble of inner city politics.

The Mortlakes withdraw to the country. Fighting bush fires,

marriage difficulties and business complications the Mortlake family grows and prospers ...

 

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Martin Kerr CD-ROM Amon’s Run

 

ISBN 978-0-9804903-4-3 Amon’s Run

 

 

 

CHALLENGER

148 pages

 

It was in the late 1960s that a mining boom gripped Australia.

Money could be made by knowing where share orders were coming from and slipping

quietly onto the band wagon. Life was hectic, but in the slums and in the countryside

Aborigines began to stir for basic rights and land subject to mining claims.

Disembarking in Sydney, Thomas Challenger is thrown into

a world of fast-made fortunes and even faster women …

 

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CD-ROM Martin Kerr Diansinkan & Other Stories

 

ISBN 978-0-9804903-5-0 Diansinkan & Other Stories

 

 

 

DIANSINKAN

THE EXILED

252 pages

 

The Indonesians take over Dutch New Guinea in 1962. Rudi van der Sloot is determined

to stay on and marry his girlfriend.  

When Narita is taken as a mistress by an Indonesian army colonel

he is forced to flee to Papua New Guinea.

Spies, missionaries and patrol officers all contribute to the unstable border and

diplomatic situation with Indonesia, culminating in an unsuccessful and

disastrous raid by Indonesian troops on the Papuan Freedom Movement

and their sympathisers at August River in 1974.

 

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CD-ROM Martin Kerr Diansinkan & Other Stories

 

ISBN 978-0-9804903-5-0 Diansinkan & Other Stories

 

 

 

LAST STRAW

152 pages

 

Manus Curzon is unemployed, over-experienced and over-aged. 

He lands a job as casual relief teacher and ends up assaulting two students. 

His future is uncertain as his day in court approaches. 

Throughout this ordeal he considers his limited options, until finally the last straw ...

 

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CD-ROM Martin Kerr Diansinkan & Other Stories

 

ISBN 978-0-9804903-5-0 Diansinkan & Other Stories