A classic love story about manners, men and modern romance retold by bestselling Australian author, Fiona PalmerWestern Australia, 2019: The Bennets are a farming family struggling to make ends meet. Lizzy, passionate about working the land, is determined to save the farm. Spirited and independent, she has little patience for her mother's focus on finding a suitable man for each of her five daughters.When the dashing

A poignant novel of heartbreak, adoption and family secretsEmma, a nurse and busy mother of three, has always dreamed of having a sister.Michelle, at 46, wonders if it's too late to fall in love and find her birth parents.Sarah, career woman and perfectionist homemaker, struggles to keep up with the Joneses.Bill, 72, feels left behind after the death of his adored wife.

Life was about living, experiencing and emotions. The good and the bad. You had to laugh to cry. You had to love to hurt. You had to jump to fall or fly.Best friends Abbie, Jess and Ricki are setting sail on a cruise ship, rekindling the excitement of a school excursion they took ten years earlier to the historic port town of Albany, the oldest city on the stunning turquoise coastline of Western Australia....

Speedy is the fastest, cleverest dolphin around Kangaroo Island and to Mike and his fisherman father Ben he is a special friend. However some of the fisherman, including the greedy Boris Butler and big game hunters Darcy Drake and Wolf Haast, don’t like Speedy as much as they believe he ‘steals’ their fish. Set in a small fishing community, Speedy is another of Colin Thiele’s classic stories. Read by Anna Steen, Speedy is a wonderful story about the power of friendship.

Great Australian Aviation Stories is a collection of dramatic true stories and colourful accounts of our fascinating aviation history. These stories also show the 'human' side of aviation... how it changed the lives of ordinary people, workers and travellers. Included are amazing stories of history-making flights by Kingsford Smith and Ross and Keith Smith, and accounts of the exploits of Bert Hinkler, Amy Johnson, Nancy Bird and our early outback aviation pioneers. The daring feats of bra...

The stories and verses in this collection are not just anecdotes, racing history pieces or rehashed feature articles from sports journalists; first and foremost they are good literature. The common thread running through the wonderful Australian short stories featured in this volume is the real Aussie character and passion for life that racing seems to bring out in our culture. There are tales of childhood dreams, great achievements, victory in adversity and also tales of tragedy and heart...

Two families escape the rat race to holiday at a remote coastal retreat, but what lies are they telling themselves and each other? The new family drama by beloved Australian storyteller Fiona PalmerAshley has recently lost her husband. Daughter Emily is being bullied online.Best friend Nikki is holding a huge secret. And why is husband, Chris, receiving so many text messages lately?...

Kim is a creative woman of the land, renowned in her community. But deep down, she’s lonely. She’s already watched the man she loves falls for someone else, and her dream of starting a family feels like it’s slipping through her fingers. Enter Charlie McNamara, visiting Lake Grace on business, intriguing Kim with his mysterious past…

Four perfect strangers. Three days. Can one weekend away change your life? The unputdownable new drama by one of Australia's most beloved storytellersComing together for a writing workshop with bestselling author Jan Goldstein, four strangers converge upon a luxury forest retreat. But along with their notepads and laptops, each of the participants has brought some emotional baggage.Beth is a solo parent and busy career woman haunted by a tr...

Griffin Callahan and Olivia Dawson were inseparable. Everyone in town knew it. But when Griff went off to Ag College, Liv told him it was over and fled her family's farm to study law. Griff had never understood her reasons but eventually accepted that first loves don't last. Until now.Currently back on the farm to help her twin brother with the harvest, Liv is the same gorgeous, laughing, hazel-eyed girl he'd always loved. Yet Griff can sense a difference, an uncertainty playing be...

The first book in the sparkling new Callahans of Stringybark Creek Trilogy. It had been two long years since Lincoln Callahan had found himself in front of the gates to Stringybark Creek. He was in the army then - a lifetime ago. Linc had always been the unsettled Callahan, looking for danger, the one who couldn't wait to leave the family farm. This time he was back for his little sister, Hadley's, wedding. From far and wide, the Callahan relatives were streaming toward Stringybark Creek. ...

When top-flight journalists Hadley Callahan and Mitch Samuals married two years ago, theirs had been declared the celebrity wedding of the year. But, now, Hadley unexpectedly returns to Stringybark Creek alone hiding an explosive secret.While Hadley's in town, the shocking suicide of one of their old school friends brings her and childhood friend, Ollie, together as they mourn their loss and begin a campaign to raise awareness of rural mental health, both wanting to make a differenc...