For whatever we lose, it is our self we find in the sea.'The best swashbuckler of the year ... There are echoes of Horatio Hornblower in Nightingale's introspection and doubts. The gay love story is beautifully written and the evocation of life on board the Scylla is equally good' The Times 'An extraordinary work, absolutely breathtaking ... it beggars belief' Conn Iggulden, New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author'Achingly beautiful. A...

I won’t lose her again.But our family secrets could tear us apart…It’s been ten years since I was forced to let Zara go. I joined the military and fought hard to forget her, but since I returned home to become our club’s Sergeant at Arms, I’ve always watched from afar to make sure she’s safe.Now Zara is back in Crown Village on the anniversary of a traumatic event that changed her family forever. And I can’t stay away.I can ...

I’d forgotten my past.But he hadn’t forgotten me...There was a life before the accident—a life that vanished when amnesia erased my first twelve years of memories.With Mom burying her secrets in a bottle, I was left to piece together the fragments of my childhood on my own.Now, back in the town where I was raised, I’m finally uncovering long-buried truths that shake the very foundations of my reconstructed memories.I...

I’m obsessed with her. She’s mine … she just doesn’t know it yet.They say I’m a sociopath, but Ivy makes me feel like I’m worth something. She’s the only one to see past the fake smile that hides how dead I am inside.Ivy is an incredible nurse to my sister and a loving single mom. Which is exactly why she should fear me, because while she saves lives, I end them.And she would, if she discovered I’ve been stalking her, like a man possessed. Because a...

She’s a wager, a game…I’ll pretend she’s mine, such a pretty little lie.I’m exactly the type of guy Elena should stay away from.Sweet, innocent women like her don’t look for relationships in motorcycle clubs. Especially one as classy and out of my league as Elena.I can’t resist swiping right on her dating profile for fun. I never imagined we’d be a match. I know I’d only be a quick thrill for her, but I’m getting tired of th...

A lyrical and honest memoir of a poet's life in Sydney.From Lavender Bay to Lindfield, Geoffrey Lehmann tells the story of his life as a poet, tax lawyer, member of the Sydney Push, single father to three small children, and finally, a happily married man who returns to poetry writing and translation. His life and work crosses with some of the leading cultural figures of the twentieth century and beyond—Les Murray, Judith Wright, Christopher Brennan, and Clive Jame...

I’ve got one month to convince her to be my wife…Until I laid eyes on Sophie, I never planned on marriage. All that changed after our hot night together in Vegas.Now she regrets our impulsive Vegas wedding and is demanding a divorce. But I’m not signing the papers. Hell no! I’ll give up every single one of my womanizing ways for a woman like her.Sophie thinks I’m only infatuated with her looks, except I see how everyone underestimates her. I’m not i...

I let her go once because she wasn’t mine. This time, I’ll die before I give her up…I want her.That smile… those curves.But Ava doesn’t belong to me.Then she arrives in my clubhouse, seeking refuge. My gut churns at the sight of the bruises on her face, the fear in her eyes.Before I was the president of the War Brothers Motorcycle Club, I was a sniper in the military who hunted down evil men like her husband. Now I avoid rel...

This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England. By examining the quarrel it identifies the source of modern liberal, republican and conservative ideas about natural rights and government in the seminal works of the Exclusion Whigs Locke, Sidney, and Tyrrell and their philosophical forebears Hobbes, Grotius, Spinoza, and Pufendorf. This stu...

What happens when your typical teenager suddenly discovers he has superpowers?Kevin Rigby has long heard about the Braxton UFO Incident, after all, he’s never lived anywhere but Braxton. But he had never given the purported incident more thought than he had other local urban legends—until, that is he discovers he is undergoing some unexplainable changes after a class field trip to Eureka Industries. Realizing he suddenly possesses remarkable powers, he decides to apply his new ski...

Recovers a sense of John Locke's central role in the making of the modern world. It demonstrates that his vision of modern life was constructed on a philosophy of human freedom that is the intellectual nerve connecting the various strands of his thought. By revealing the depth and originality of Locke's critique of the metaphysical assumptions and authoritative institutions of pre-modern life, this book rejects the notion of Locke as an intellectual anachronism. Indeed, the radical core of...

I won’t lose her again.But our family secrets could tear us apart…It’s been ten years since I was forced to let Zara go. I joined the military and fought hard to forget her, but since I returned home to become our club’s Sergeant at Arms, I’ve always watched from afar to make sure she’s safe.Now Zara is back in Crown Village on the anniversary of a traumatic event that changed her family forever. And I can’t stay away.I can ...