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Bring Me Sunshine

Bring Me Sunshine
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Antarctica, Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sometimes, you just have to take the plunge … When marine biologist, Jenny Payne, agrees to spend Christmas working on the Cape Adare cruise ship to escape a disastrous love affair, she envisions a few weeks of sunny climes,...

Business Wise – Part One

Business Wise – Part One
  • Author(s): M B Clarke
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

All Marie wants is to prove herself in business. She also wants love. When Marie meets Ryan Gallagher it looks as though good fortune is on her side, as fate seems to be giving her both. But there’s a...

Castle of Dreams

Castle of Dreams
  • Author(s): Elise McCune
  • Location(s): Queensland, California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s/ 2000s

A time-split novel. In the 1930’s two sisters’, Vivien and Rose Blake grow up in a castle in the far north Queensland rainforest. During the Pacific War they both fall in love with the same American serviceman. In the...

Celebrant Sleuth; I Do or Die

Celebrant Sleuth; I Do or Die
  • Author(s): Hazel Edwards
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Current day

‘I buried my father, married my sister and sorted the missing will.’ Quinn a celebrant with style and a few obsessions but a good heart, solves quirky problems, mysteries and the occasional murder at weddings,funerals and naming ceremonies in...

Christmas at Coorah Creek

Christmas at Coorah Creek
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contempory

What if you don’t want to be home for Christmas? Spending Christmas away from home is one thing but English nurse Katie Brooks is spending hers in Coorah Creek; a small town in the Australian outback. Katie was certain...

Cold Valley Nightmare

Cold Valley Nightmare
  • Author(s): Anna Willett
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A troubled past resurfaces when an investigative journalist agrees to help find a missing child. The Australian bush is unforgiving, and there is not much hope when a four-year-old boy, Clem, apparently disappears into it without a trace. When...

Command (7)

Command (7)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): Malta, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 18th Century

Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness – he is desperately needed to defend Malta against Barbary corsairs, ferocious privateers and the French who...

Cover The Bones

Cover The Bones
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A body has washed up in an irrigation canal, the artery running through Yuwonderie, a man-made paradise on the border of the Outback. Stabbed through the heart, electrocuted and dumped under cover of night, there is no doubt that...

Crimson Lake

Crimson Lake
  • Author(s): Candice Fox
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

12.46: 13-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop 12.47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her 12.52: The girl is missing . . .Six minutes – that’s all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused...

Dancing Through Life, a Memoir, Volume 2

Dancing Through Life, a Memoir, Volume 2
  • Author(s): Shirley Read-Jahn
  • Location(s): Australia, England, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980's onwards

Still breathless after the whirlwind of Shirley’s early life as she grapples with growing up and maturing, we follow her youthful footsteps to the next stage. We learn more of the men, the marriages, the triumphs and misfortunes that...

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