Novels:

Houseboating in the Ozarks (first novel) Dufour Editions, click here to purchase on Amazon

click here to read the foreword from Houseboating

Critical comments on Houseboating:

"This oddly graceful book, with its two storms, a real one and one of the soul, and its author, will turn out to be important.  Chris Hooker, deeply distracted in midlife, gets ripped out of himself by the innocent but eerily knowing voices of his kids.  Twins!  A boy and a girl!  Perfect!  This is the grit and rip you never see in books that purport to depict the real lives of men in these crazy, awful, corrupted times.  Heat-Moon, Pirsig, heads up.  This is where we went."

Philip F. Deaver, author of  Silent Retreats

“Gary Forrester has written an insightful, passionate, yet rational book that stays with the reader long after the last page has been turned.” 

Mitch Cullin, author of Tideland

"Houseboating is perfectly engaging . . . the story becomes an extended meditation on the difficulty of preserving familial and social memory, and sustaining and transmitting values and culture in our mobile, throwaway society." 

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Houseboating in the Ozarks is a loving and loveable story of a very interesting man who, midway in life's journey, woke to find himself lost . . . a great book."

Christopher May

Begotten, Not Made (second novel)

click here for the editor's note from the opening pages of Begotten, Not Made

click here for a poem from "Begotten, Not Made" to be published in Spring of 2007 by the University of Nebraska Press, as part of a two-volume anthology of creative nonfiction, featuring the works of Patricia Highsmith, Michael Chabon, Stephen King, Andre Dubus, Richard Russo & others.

The Connoisseur of Love:  The Posthumous Memoirs of Christian Leonard Hooker (third novel)

click here for an excerpt from The Connoisseur of Love

Screenplays:

Houseboating in the Ozarks (based on the first novel) – under agent review.

Non-fiction:

Digest of American Indian Law (hardcover with B. Holt), 138 pp., Rothmans Press, 1990.

Music:

Kamara, music album of original compositions produced by Troubadour Records and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Radio National” in 1992.

Uluru, music album of original compositions produced by Larrikin Records in 1991 (finalist for Australian Country Music Awards, Tamworth, NSW).

Dust on the Bible, music album of original compositions, produced by RCA in 1989 (finalist for Australian Country Music Awards, Tamworth, NSW)

Houseboating in the Ozarks, compact disc of the “greatest hits” from Kamara, Uluru, & Dust on the Bible, to be released simultaneously with the publication of the novel of the same name in April, 2006.