Voltaire’s Garden: A memoir of Cobargo
- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Voltaire’s Garden is a memoir of creating a sustainable lifestyle, back-to-earth style, on a fifteen-acre cattle paddock in an idyllic pocket of southeast Australia, made famous by the bushfires of New Year’s Eve 2019. Award-winning author Isobel Blackthorn introduces...
Secrets Taken to the Grave (The Strathbairn Trilogy)
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Gothic, Historical
- Era(s): Late Victorian
The Scottish Highlands, 1893. Ingrid Barker arrives back at Strathbairn to attend the funeral of her old employer, Charles McCleod. Every bone in Ingrid’s body screams for her to leave, and as she walks from the graveside, she can’t...
What Happened at the Abbey (The Strathbairn Trilogy)
- Location(s): West of Scotland
- Genre(s): Gothic, Historical
- Era(s): late Victorian
When Ingrid flees a violent husband to become a housekeeper in the Scottish Highlands, she discovers the family she works for has a much darker history than her own. Who haunts Strathbairn? Why are the adult McCleod children at...
- Location(s): Fuerteventura
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Historical 1901
Fuerteventura, 1901. The island, just off the coast of Africa, is in the grip of a severe drought. As merchant and journalist Javier Morales campaigns to reforest the island, Famara, the daughter of an out of work farm labourer,...
- Location(s): Lanzarote
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Retired police officer Marjorie Pierce is on her way to Lanzarote to track down her old informer, Billy McKenzie. Billy ended Marjorie’s career, and she needs an explanation; an apology. Present and past soon collide when gangsters Eric and...
- Location(s): London, Colorado, Japan, Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1914-1920 and 1939
At the dawn of World War Two, German-born nurse Emma Taylor sits by the bedside of a Jewish heiress in London as she reminisces over her dear friend, Oscar Wilde. As the story of Wilde unravels, so does Emma’s...
- Location(s): Fuerteventura
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
English psychic Clarissa Wilkinson is holidaying in the Canary Islands. Hoping to have an adventure, she boards a tour bus bound for Villa Winter, a secret Nazi base on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura. Instead, she discovers a body...