Twenty-five years after Australia's ruthless government is violently overthrown in the wake of a brutal civil war, author Michael Hadley returns to his native homeland for the anniversary of liberation, and to examine how the nation has progressed in the wake of its darkest and most devisive era.

Dropping the reader straight into a narrative recounting the country's turbulent final days in the grip of an authoritarian regime, Hadley then steps back to chronicle the events surrounding Australia's downfall, the savage war that ignited in the nation's east, and the key figures who determined the outcome of the conflict.

Granted unprecedented access throughout Australia's breakaway Esterlands Republic, Hadley is privileged to hear personal accounts of the war never before told from the citizens and combatants who fought and sacrificed everything to defend the separatist territory against all attempts to crush it.

Through his story, Beyond the Mar, Hadley hopes to share with a new generation the the often tragic history of a once proud nation dragged into darkness.

- DM, 2019