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Set in southern Tasmania, the linked stories in Smokehouse bring into focus a small community and capture those moments when life turns and one person becomes another. As we get to know these characters – a mother whose fresh start leads to a fractured future, a stonemason seeking connection, a woman grieving her adopted mother, a couple torn apart by their daughter's drug addiction – we learn how their lives intersect, in various ways, across time and place. With insight and empathy, Meli...

Caro and Danny grew up side by side at the waterhole. Bound by love, loss and a promise Caro made to Danny' s mother, their lives are entwined. But as Danny spirals into addiction and self-destruction, Caro is caught between loyalty and the need to save herself. She becomes haunted by memories, by the stories she told herself of the life they' d have, and by the waterhole that shaped them both. From southern Tasmania to Lisbon' s winding streets, she searches for escape from lost dreams, u...

British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon had the mistaken notion when he arrived at Innsbruck that he had left behind all connections with Herr Bastien, who had been shot in the railway compartment they shared on the Anglo-Swiss Express. But when he was commanded by a belligerent Austrian taxi driver to dis-robe, and then forced at gunpoint to hike barefoot over the Alps, Hambledon ruefully decided that his vacation was over. With the help of a horse-faced English tourist–and over the op...

From the bestselling author of The Jade Lily comes a compelling novel based on a true story of a WWII European heirloom that brought down war criminals and travelled through history … to be found in an Australian country shed in 2019.**'What a keen eye for a brilliant story! Bestselling author Kirsty Manning sure knows how to breathe life and heart into historical events. Here, she takes a real-life historical story and weaves it into a compelling and mult...

Two unknown amateurs help Tommy Hambledon, a British Foreign Intelligence officer, track down Nazi spies in England.

Jane Austen – novelist, forthright letter writer, daughter and sister of Anglican clergy – had a rarely-matched insight into human character. Like Lent itself, she exposes frailty, caprice and pomposity without losing a profound and compassionate understanding of human nature. Her life was profoundly shaped by the church and Christian spirituality, making her writings an ideal accompaniment for the 40 days of Lent. Rachel Mann introduces Jane Austen, her world and her ideas, and, for each ...

Wildlife photographer Hannah gets more than she bargained for when she camps alone in the wilderness and stumbles upon werewolves Logan and Nathan skinny dipping in an isolated lake.Caught spying on the pair's private moment together, she is unable to evade capture. Confronted by the alpha Logan, her fear and arousal is unmistakable, triggering a blazing desire in the two men.Before she knows it, Hannah finds herself exposed before them--stuffed and...

A glamorous historical mystery of murder, fashion, food, secrets, and danger in 1930s Paris.The inimitable Charlotte 'Charlie' James returns in her second exciting mystery.At a glitzy gala in the ballroom of the Hotel Ritz, young American tourist Maisy Bell meets an intriguing man and accepts his charming offer to take her on a day trip.But when Maisy doesn't return to the Ritz the following day, alarm bells ring and Maisy's aunt Cl...

In a city that flouts all the rules, journalist Charlie James has come to Paris to break news and, even more importantly, to break with her past.'A superb evocation of pre-war Paris ... a mystery I couldn't put down.' Kerry Greenwood'A glittering party, a dead body, and a room full of alluring suspects, this book is everything you are looking for. With deft light strokes, Kirsty Manning takes the reader on ...

Are you struggling to accept God's love?We've bought into the lie that we are worthy of God's love only when our lives are going well. But when life begins to fall through the cracks and things become less-than-perfect, we scramble to present a good front to the world―and to God.God longs for us to deeply believe and know that He loves us and accepts us as we are. He calls for us to remove our masks and establish honest, deep, and trusting relationships with...

She is alone and homeless, he is wealthy and powerful – why is he desperate to erase their past?When Alice arrives home from the school run with her two children to find herself locked out of her apartment, she doesn’t realise at first that she is also locked out of her life. The man she loves is in line for the top job in the country, and a secret mistress and two daughters are not part of the plan.Alice finds herself plunged into a situation that is alien to her and for w...

Imagine a stormy day at sea, your ship yielding to a relentless wind, pummeled by crashing waves, subject to the awesome force of nature. A force that is both fierce and majestic. A power that is nothing short of furious.Such is God's intense, consuming love for His children. It's a love that knows no limits, and no boundaries. A love that will go to any lengths, and take any risks, to pursue us.Renowned author and ragamuffin Brennan Manning presents a love story for the br...