Drawing on contemporary thinking, practices, and real-world applications, this essential guide offers practical guidance and new frameworks of narrative therapy to help clinicians navigate cultural issues and common challenges.Illustrating the nuanced and advanced aspects of narrative therapy combined with contemporary systemic, relational, and cultural thinking, this book equips narrative therapy clinicians with the resources they need to foster agency, empowerment, and decentered...

What You Believe About God Will Change Your LifeIn a world of competing claims and skeptical voices, belief in God can feel difficult to defend—even to yourself. How can you know whether the God of the Bible is real, reasonable, and worth trusting?In The Apologetics Guide to Questions About God, Todd Hampson offers a clear and compelling case for why belief in the God of the Bible makes sense and what that can mean for you today. As you are guided ...

WINNER 2024 Danger Awards - Best FictionSHORTLISTED 2024 Sisters In Crime Davitt Awards - Best Adult CrimeSHORTLISTED 2024 Ned Kelly Awards - Best FictionThey keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder...Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter with a stranger, tea ladies Hazel, Betty and Irene become accidental sleuths, stumbling into a world of ruthless crooks and racketeers in search of a young woman bel...

In Zig Zag Lane, in the heart of Sydney’s rag-trade district, tea ladies Hazel, Betty and Irene find themselves in hot water. Having already solved a murder, kidnapping and arson case, and outwitting an arch criminal, they have proved themselves a useful resource and earned the respect of a local police officer. Now he needs their help to solve a plot that threatens security.As if that’s not enough, Irene gets a coded message directing her to the spoils of a bank robbery, which send...

Why Should We Trust the Bible?Far from being a blind or naïve leap of faith, Christian belief is based in evidential reality. And in the Apologetics Guide to Trusting the Bible, author Todd Hampson makes a compelling case in support of this.Packed with illustrations and interactive features throughout, this user-friendly guide examines the abundant reasons why the Bible can be trusted. As you survey the evidence across multiple disciplines such as ...

Life is too short for compromise …When Maggie, Fran and Rose met in their youth, they had dreams and ambitions. Forty years later, the three friends are turning sixty, each of them restless and disenchanted with their lives.Fran works in a second-hand bookshop. Her lover, one of a long line of disappointing men, is drifting away and her future is uncertain.Maggie married into a volatile family. Her beautiful, indulged twin daughters are causing havoc and he...

Sequel to THE MOON AND THE DESERT!Saving the Marsbase One mission made Glenn A. “Shep” Shepard a hero. Commanding Marsbase itself might get him killed.Colonel Shepard—Earth’s first fully bionic augmentee and the man who once crossed interplanetary space to pull off an impossible rescue (The Moon and the Desert)—finally reaches Mars. His new command sits under the Eumenides Dorsum ridge on Amazonis Planitia, a city hewn into caverns...

Never underestimate a tea lady.Sydney, 1968. When a popular local man is murdered, police are quick to pin the blame on his glamorous model fiancée, who has since disappeared. But Hazel suspects a criminal cover-up and rallies the tea ladies to investigate; a quest that brings danger right to her door.Meanwhile, Merl’s long-buried family secret threatens to unravel her carefully constructed life. When she stumbles on evidence that her detective son-in-law is ...

Murder and Mayhem on the waterfront.It’s time for the Tea Ladies!1967: Hazel’s new job at the docks quickly turns perilous when she stumbles into the criminal underworld that lurks beneath the surface. A million in gold coins has vanished from a cargo ship and a dead body washed up. Suddenly, she’s in over her head.Disillusioned with her life, Betty is led astray by a charismatic new friend and finds herself exposed...

WINNER 2024 Danger Awards - Best FictionSHORTLISTED 2024 Sisters In Crime Davitt Awards - Best Adult CrimeSHORTLISTED 2024 Ned Kelly Awards - Best FictionShe keeps everyone's secrets, until there's a murder...Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter with a stranger, mild-mannered tea lady Hazel Bates becomes an accidental sleuth, stumbling into a world of ruthless crooks and racketeers in search of a young woman...

'Skilfully written, with moments of laugh-out-loud humour, Lovebirds both warmed and broke my heart in perfect measure.' Joanna NellIn their youth, lovebirds Elizabeth and Ray had to fight to be together. Their future was full of promise and, blessed with children and careers, their happiness complete. But a twist of fate changed their lives forever.Now in her sixties, Elizabeth is desperately lonely. She rarely sees her two adult sons and her closest friend is a t...

Mia and Ben, an Australian couple in their early thirties, have relinquished one dream and embraced another, selling their Sydney flat and purchasing an old yellow house in the picturesque village of Cordes-sur-Ciel in South-West France. They soon meet sophisticated neighbours Dominic and Susannah, a British couple in their sixties who welcome them warmly but whose own relationship is in crisis. Mia and Ben are immediately star-struck and impressed by their lavish hospitality. However, thi...