Blogs in January 2018

Force of Nature 28th January 2018

FIVE WENT OUT. FOUR CAME BACK… Is Alice here? Did she make it? Is she safe? In the chaos, in the night, it was impossible to say which of the four had asked after Alice’s welfare. Later, when everything...

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Picnic At Hanging Rock 21st January 2018

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed...

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The Harp In The South 21st January 2018

Ruth Park’s classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia’s greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money...

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Black Tide 10th January 2018

The second book featuring India Kane, the wilful and independent journalist protaganist of CJ’s first novel Blood Junction. When India agrees to accompany a Greenpeace ship in pursuit of a whaling fleet, she has no idea what awaits her....

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Dead Heat 10th January 2018

Georgia Parish was glad to leave behind the damp heat, the bugs and the deadly wilderness of Nulgarra, in Far Northern Queensland. But after a plane crash she finds herself back there, struggling to comprehend a sinister fact –...

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