From the Walkley Award winning journalist, social commentator and author comes a gripping domestic thriller with a moral dilemma at its core.'A timely, tense and important story that takes you to the heart of a toxic relationship, fighting to get free.' Michael RobothamJust like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just something else she'd now have to take care of herself.Recently widowed, Miriam D...

"I do not remember when I discovered how my mother died, it seems to be something I always knew, a horror I absorbed through my skin." Determined, passionate and headstrong, Elizabeth I shaped the destiny of a kingdom. Her mother; Anne Boleyn, was executed by her father Henry VIII. From that moment on, Elizabeth competed with her two half-siblings for love and for Britain's throne. In the gilded corridors of the royal palace, enemies she couldn't see—as well as those bound to her by blood—...

She would die for her daughter. But could she kill for her?Just like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just something else she'd now have to take care of herself.Recently widowed, Miriam Duffy is a respectable North Shore real estate agent and devoted mother and grandmother. She was thrilled when her younger daughter Ally married her true love, but as time goes by Miriam wonders whether all is well with Ally, as she moves to the ...

Lyrebirds were mimics. They didn't create the sounds they made, only repeated what they had heard. Had the bird actually listened to some poor woman begging for her life? Jessica looked around uneasily. The bush that had seemed so benign and beautiful only minutes before now seemed sinister.Twenty years ago, ornithology student Jessica Weston filmed a lyrebird mimicking the dying screams of a woman in the Barrington Tops National Park. Terrified, she took her recordings to the Mait...

A gripping and page-turning young adult book about one of history's greatest women. The Queen of Scots is dead and they say I killed her. They lie! Just a girl to those around her, Elizabeth is now the Queen of England. She has outsmarted her enemies and risen above a lifetime of hurt and betrayal – a mother executed by her father, a beloved brother who died too young and an enemy sister whose death made her queen. Not knowing whom she can trust, Elizabeth is surrounded by men who give her...

Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story. It explores how the world we lived in-with the pill and a regular pay cheque-transformed us and how, almost in spite of ourselves, we revolutionised the world. It is a celebration of grit, adaptability, energ...

Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as:What is the nature of the universe? Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world? and Where do we find hope?We are introduced to the detail of different belief systems - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - and to the argument that atheism, like organised religion, has its own compelling logic. And we gain insight into the life events that led each author to their current position....

School choice has become one of the most agonizing issues of parenthood; while schools boast of unsurpassed facilities, genius teachers, and stellar academic achievement, parents wonder whether the marketing hype is actually true. Drawing on the authors' experiences and knowledge—one as a school principal and both as parents and advocates—this account compares public, Catholic, private, selective, and comprehensive schools and examines how well each responds to the recurring crises in the ...

Der Pianolehrerin Carmen da Silva eilt ihr Ruf voraus. Man erzählt sich, dass sie eine Koryphäe auf ihrem Gebiet sei und ihren Schülern das Klavierspiel so schnell und effektiv wie keine andere beibrächte. Dies habe jedoch einen hohen Preis, welcher sich nicht ausschließlich auf die horrenden Unterrichtsgebühren bezöge, sondern auch auf ihre Strenge und Unnachgiebigkeit. Sich als Schüler in ihre Hände zu begeben sei das reinste Spiel mit dem Feuer. Trotz dieser Tatsache hat sich Daniel Bac...

MÁS DE 150.000 LECTORES ESPERANLA NUEVA NOVELA DEL AUTOR DE GUERRA MUNDIAL ZGreenloop fue, hasta la inesperada erupción del Rainier, una selecta comunidad ecológica. Ubicada en los bosques del estado de Washington, a poca distancia de Seattle, ofrecía una vida idílica a sus habitantes, gracias a unos avances tecnológicos que estaban en comunión con la naturaleza.Ahora, de entre los escombros y los rastros de sangre de la ur...

Lisa ist Torwart und Kapitän einer Frauenfußballmanschaft der Kreisliga. Ihre ganze Leidenschaft würde ihrem Sport ge-hören, wäre da nicht Alex, ihr Trainer. Um sich einen Ausgleich zu verschaffen, verführt sie ihn immer wieder zu einem geilen Fick. Doch auch von ihren Mädels kann sie nicht die Finger lassen und zusehen tut sie auch gerne. Und so wird jedes Spiel und jeder Sieg zu einer sehr feuchten Veranstaltung.

Every woman has a story of survival. In this revealingly honest collection, successful Australian women talk about the challenges they have overcome, from sexual assault and domestic violence to racism, miscarriage, and depression. While delving deep into these experiences and their personal cost, the contributors also demonstrate the strength and courage they had to move forward with their lives. In a time when bragging about sexual harassment doesn't preclude being elected president of t...