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Heartless opens with a girl who is faced with life

An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes.

What has happened to Ingrid? Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune and leaves Australia, and her friends, and Ralph who loves her, to marry Gil Grey and set up home amid the New York art world.

Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginal lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard.

Kenny Fletcher, a lonely only child with an irrepressible spirit, used to bang a tennis ball against the board in his back garden, day and night.

Former army interrogator Jay Ryan is enjoying the quiet life after leaving the military far behind - or so he thinks.

During World War I a friendship between two young Englishmen, Axel and Edward, is forged on the battlefields of France.

The Murray River holds a special place in the hearts of Australians.

Katie Crisp has talent, it's just that the report card hidden in her room doesn't show it.

On Christmas Eve, world famous author Daphne Fields is lost in thought while crossing the street when she is suddenly hit by a car.

America's newest attack submarine, the USS AMERICA, has been stolen by a rogue CIA team - and Jake Grafton is drafted in to investigate.

A bomber, carrying a third nuclear bomb to Japan in 1945, is shot down in the Sea of Japan.

For the President of the United States, the crisis point is approaching fast.

Major Alec Marshall VC, newly back in London, is enlisted to make inquiries into the will of the late Cecil John Rhodes, the wealthiest man in the British Empire.