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Chilling story of a misfit's clash with parochial values in a small and decaying mining town in Queensland.

A novel of suspense and mystery with romantic overtones.

Stella Templeton is a dutiful daughter and a good citizen, living in Maidenville, population 2,800, a town where nothing much happens. Then one day a truly terrible event changes everything.

Jacaranda Vines had been one of the wealthiest corporations in Australia. But now Joseph Witney, the tyrannical head of the family, is dead. His widow is determined not to sell.

In the September of 1790, Ross Poldark was charged with having plundered two ships. If proven, the sentence would be death.

This controversial book presents the author's landmark research into the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament.

A journey through five eventful decades, this novel is the story of a family whose lives are woven into the fabric of history.

Jinnie is the child from a one-night liaison between Louise Hunter's husband, Ben, and Louise's sister, Susan.

A young man killed in a car accident returns to Earth to visit his mother and to help those he cared for in life.

The author examines her life through her own words and diaries and through those of her contemporaries and critics.

How will Astaria choose between three cousins offered to her as husbands?

When Tam's brother Benjie is wrongly accused of theft, and locked in a prison cell, his sister makes a solemn promise that she will not let the little lad down.

Two paleontologists are invited for the weekend to `Jurassic Park', a theme park where scientists have managed to clone dinosaurs from prehistoric DNA.

Paul Madriani has good reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr.

Six great events from Malta's past, and six selected days from World War Two, are woven into an absorbing story of courage and peril for her people, especially Father Salvatore.