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It is morning in a one-room schoolhouse in the Australian outback. The young teacher (Rachel Ward) calls her class to order. It is a day like any other--until the unexpected occurs.

In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "deep north" of Australia, Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer.

This is the story of Philip Kent.

A bet in half-jest, a ruby and a passionate love affair take a man and a woman in an unexpected direction...

Cowboy Lin McLean rides into frontier Cheyenne, Wyoming, at Christmas time and learns a powerful meaning of Christmas.

Black Glass reveals a first-world city increasingly dominated by surveillance, segregation and civil unrest.

Bea Abbot's domestic agency does not investigate murder - that is, until she finds herself in the company of a dead man dressed as a pantomime dame.

Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. That's Jack Reacher's conclusion. He's adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving.

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom.

Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life.

Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield pursues the undead with a vengeance in the hope that one of her prey will be the father who ruined her mother's life, but her plans go awry when she is capture

When Mary Lanyon takes on the job of temporary housekeeper at Downe, her task is to get the house back into shape for the wedding of the only son and heir, Martin.

Historical crime fiction which brings together art, money, crime, politics and treason in an extraordinary tale set in Australia's Great Depression of the 1930s.

An extraordinary, epic novel set during the French Revolution, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award.

"Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, didn't want to hear about serial killings.