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Sitting in a Vermont jury room, Abby Barnes finds herself actually hoping to be chosen. The trial is sensational.

Personal narrative of the fighting in the second world war. Of life as a POW first under the Italian Navy and then under the German Army

Punctuated by dogs and chooks and the daily tragicomedy of small town life, Bantam follows Mick and his mates as they court disaster and struggle to hold on in the roller-coaster ride of life on th

When the ex-Queen Nicoletta of Hirtenstein, Gregory's redoubtable grandmother, summons him to Rome, he is powerless to refuse.

In the 1870s two remarkable women meet in a remote country town in Western Australia. Ingrid is a botanist, fiercely independent and travelling alone as she collects botanical specimens.

Detectives Isabella and Alec lead the search for a child kidnapped from an Australian country town, but they soon realise that Isabella's safety is also in danger.

Explains how and why surf lifesaving enjoys iconic status across Australia, and remains relevant and popular today.

short stories and fragments of poetry from a wordsmith's half-century love affair with Queensland's Sunshine Coast

At the height of the Cold War an agent is sent to Germany and meets Anna Hartmann. She is a dancer in a strip-club, a suitable lover but also a killer.

A poor family on the Canadian prairie receives an unexpected delivery from the postman on a snowy Christmas Eve.

A young prostitute is found dead in Glasgow's city cemetery, the Necropolis, and Rhona Macleod is called in to review the forensic evidence.

Beautifully crafted stories of psychotherapy--told for the first time from the perspective of the therapist.

The novelization of the incredible final episode of the most successful syndicated television program of all time.

In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments.