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A man will do many things for the woman he loves A mysterious man requests a private meeting with Hardington Tachman, university professor and naval intelligence officer. The visitor weaves a tale of intrigue that propels Hardtack, as he is better known, across the Pacific from Mexico to China –...

An autobiographical, historical account of the author’s agricultural and rural development experiences. Includes analyses of historical and socio-political contexts of different countries and institutions. The text is in a relaxed, not strictly academic, style which facilitates easy...

From the lush Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea to working-class inner Sydney... Ruth follows the story of its protagonist, the only daughter of John and Alice Madison, coffee plantation owners. Set in the fifties and sixties, Ruth struggles to rise above the stigma of being an unwed mother...

The novel portrays, with dry humour, delicate irony and a touch of nostalgia, the lives and feelings of young people in the late 1950s. “Erhard von Büren pours out memories of love affairs, of family life, of student experiences or incidents from his readings... His style is spiced with...

The third and final part of the Netherhall Gardens trilogy brings the adventure to a thrilling conclusion as Mark, our young, handsome and sexually liberated hero, becomes the target of a stalker. But when infatuation turns to insanity and insanity to murder, and the police, including our hero’s...

Netherhall Gardens & Beyond is a sexy, dark romp that includes all of your old favourite characters from Book One, plus a fiery mix of new ones, building to another thrilling climax. But, will anyone be on hand this time to save Mark as events spiral out of control…?

The midwife carries 16 year-old Mercedes’ son from a delivery room and that is the last time that she sees him alive. His first cries haunt her but her family refuse to acknowledge the possibility that her child still lives. Their silence represses her young spirit. Ten years later, a woman named...

1989 - the world holds its breath. The Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse, its eastern empire in a state of rebellion. Only a street trader, a drug dealer, a discredited young colonel and a woman, haunted by her past, stand between the world and Armageddon. STROIKA is the story of their friendship,...

This is the hilarious follow-up to Trading Vincent Crow, in which we were introduced to Vincent, who was determined that he had to trade-up his life every three months for a new and better one. This meant a new job, new girl, new wheels, new pad and new threads until he reached the top. In D.C.J....

Strays and Relations follows the story of Dizzy, whose search for her birth parents is sad, humorous, and in parts bizarre. Dizzy learns that she began life as a surviving twin, then was fostered until a permanent home was found.  Dizzy begins her search for her original identity. Why was...

The Ultimate Truth is the final book in Ellen Hardwick’s trilogy, which follows Jane and Mark, a couple with extraordinary spiritual abilities. The reader rejoins Jane and Mark as they are reconnected with people from a former life, and as a result are forced to confront the events of the past in...

A humorous, vampire-themed fantasy action novel, that shifts between the 17th century and today.

Absolutely Galápagos provides an insight into every feature of that famous archipelago – warts and all – and a further insight into the unique and confused mind of Brian. And, of course, he is more ‘at sea’ in this book than in any of those that have gone before… It has to be admitted that...

On a beautiful island in the middle of a vast blue ocean lives Salu. His experiences of growing up in this idyllic setting and the changes he witnesses as he makes his way to maturity act as a mirror. And in this mirror, however improbably, is reflected the experiences of many others who have grown...