A love triangle, a mysterious death, a family torn apart ....Willa McPhee's family history research has just thrown up a murdered great-aunt. Obsessed with finding the truth, she flees troubled relationships at home and travels to Ochiltree, a village frozen in time, where she is drawn into the mystery of the powerful Hinchbrook and Henzell families.With the help of the town's eccentric senior citizens, and the dark and brooding Louis, Willa uncovers the tragedies that led ...

They say bad things come in threes...Tragedy forces the teenaged Cleary sisters to join the thousands leaving Ireland for the fabled good life in the colonies. But at the bottom of the world, they encounter dangerous and disconcerting characters, prejudices they thought they'd left behind, and choices that can only drive them apart.Through the eyes of the dutiful and naïve, Roisin; lovelorn stalwart, Grace; and feminist artist Stella, The Darlings of the Downs

An Australian gold-rush adventure novella. Book two in the Downs series.'She wholly believed that he was a heart-breaker, but that didn't stop her from wanting to be his next victim.'It's 1880 and gold fever grips the colony, transforming the barely-there town of Gympie into a Mecca overnight. Gorgeous thief and unapologetic ladies' man, Eamon Phelan, and his gang descend upon the town and are soon offered...

Love's young dream lay in tatters …It's the spring of 1902 and things are looking up for brilliant young engineer, Randolph Henry. He's just landed his dream job and his dream girl. But elation soon turns to despair when he finds his sweetheart in the arms of another, and himself on the run, accused of a vicious attack and a brutal murder.Indomitable publican, Marmie Harris, has just walked down the aisle for the fourth time and is looking forward to quiet retireme...

Somewhere between curiosity and panic lives a familiar question:Do I run?DO I RUN? is a visually striking illustrated wildlife book exploring the most dangerous animals found across the American West. From grizzly bears and mountain lions to rattlesnakes, bison, and desert scorpions, this premium coffee table book highlights the wildlife people most often encounter while hiking, traveling, and exploring western landscapes.Organized ...

Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings together a set of chapters that provide an overview of the political ecology approach, ill...

Set in a post-War period when a well-to-do British family's existence - both outside and inside the house - is ruled by a strict set of conventions, The Second-last Woman in England explores the depth of emotions that are always there in every family but rarely surface. And what happens when they do.In London's South Kensington, in the austere years immediately following the end of the war, Mrs Harriet Wallis is convicted of the murder of her husband, Cecil, and is sentenc...

High adventure from a master storyteller about one boy's attempt to fend for himself among cruel orphan masters, corrupt magistrates, and conniving thieves.In the seaside town of Melcombe Regis, England, 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts wakes to find his father missing and his house flooded by a recent storm. He's alone in his ruined home with no money and no food. Oliver's father has left behind a barely legible waterlogged note: he's gone to London, where Oliver's sist...

The start of a totally gripping 1920s cosy murder mystery seriesA fatal jump. A missing suffragette. An inexplicable murder.London, 1920. Reporter Iris Woodmore lands a headline story when, for the first time, two women compete against each other in an election to become Britain’s next female MP.But she’s forced to confront her past as the House of Commons is where her mother, Violet, died during a suffragette attack on Parliament...

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common po...

Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley’s spellbinding series of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation.Star D’Aplièse, in her late twenties, is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corn...

**Discover the moving novel based on a true story about a woman triumphing against overwhelming odds, from the international bestseller Lesley PearseShe made one mistake, and now she'll never see home again . . .**Mary, a Cornish mariner's daughter, makes the biggest mistake of her short life when she steals a silk hat. Convicted and sentenced to be transported to Australia, she endures horrific conditions aboard ship before landing in a brutal and barbaric country...