A Hope: 5 books

Something’s not right about NatSec agent Jo Modeen’s latest mission, but how can she question orders from team leader Ben Logan VC MG, a man she trusted with her life in the past and wouldn’t hesitate to do so again? She must decide whether to follow her orders … or her instincts. Realising...

Australian security agencies are on high alert in the lead-up to the 2014 international G20 Summit, scrutinising recent activity on the summit website and tightening security measures for the attending diplomats. Despite this intensified vigilance even NatSec Intel can’t know what the terrorist...

For fans of Child, Baldacci, and Blake comes a new action-packed series with a kick-butt heroine. Josephine Dakota Modeen: Beautiful. Noble. Deadly. After passing the gruelling entry programme to become the first woman to be accepted into Australia’s elite Special...

The Island, as its people are in the way of styling it, while not going so far as to deny existence to the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland—the Wight, as it is sometimes called by old writers—has for the first fact in its history that it was not always an island.

Among all the provinces in Scotland, if an intelligent stranger were asked to describe the most varied and the most beautiful, it is probable he would name the county of Perth. A native, also, of any other district of Caledonia, though his partialities might lead him to prefer his native county in...