"Heartfelt and bittersweet. A delightful read, this beautifully written book comes highly recommended." Goodreads1930s England: and for a group of friends it seems as if the sunny days of sailing, flying and love will never end.A deepwater sailing ship takes restless young Eliza McKee to a new life in glamorous London, but when she meets the handsome star of a talking film it's not quite the life she expects. Eliza's brother Pete yearns to fly, and pilot Bi...

"A beautiful and poignant coming of age romantic tale that kept me reading from start to finish." Goodreads.Lucy Fox is sailing to Melbourne in 1906 with her sister Rosa, when a tragic landfall leaves her life entangled with three seamen: gentle Sam, cynical Danny and beautiful Gideon.After Rosa's scandalous elopement, trader Min-lu draws Lucy into a new world of silks and spices and the silvery pearlshell of Broome: a port in the wild Australian north-west where b...

When Australian journalist Alan Villiers sailed on the last of the giant merchant windjammers in the 1920s and '30s, his writings and photographs made him famous. Villiers crewed on beautiful Herzogin Cecilie and tragic Grace Harwar, took tiny Joseph Conrad around the globe, sailed on Arabian dhows, led wartime landing craft, captained Mayflower II across the Atlantic, and inspired modern sail training and ship restoration projects.Drawn from his ...

"The writing is beautiful and haunting. The characters are drawn with razor-sharp precision ... compelling reading of the highest standard, full of evocative triumph and tragedy." GoodreadsIn the calm of 1937, who could imagine the storms about to engulf a group of old friends at a sunny wedding? Some things are beyond imagination.Fierce pilot Billie is glad she's got a job at last — only trouble is it's in some little dust-up in Spain. Secretive T...

Growing up and growing wiser in Australia's turbulent Vietnam eraFor Jenny it's all about the shoes (Mary Quant), the dresses (mini) and the music (Beatles) — until elusive Asher takes her to a demonstration.Even from distant France, singer Vivy dislikes everything about Vietnam: but there's no denying her bond when she's given a tiny golden fossil.Reporter Claire's one-way ticket to Saigon leads her to André, her guide to the surreal propaganda war...

The war is over. The reckoning is not.It's the hip 1950s on Sydney's shimmering harbour, but how do you reconcile a past that gave — and stole — so much?Tina runs Tempo jazz club at shady Kings Cross, keeping secrets with, and from, beguiling boss Jimmy. And from her lonely husband.Harry yearns to forget his days in a Singapore prison camp, yet his friends won't let him. Nor will his conscience.Ex-pilot Billie now works at the flying-boat ba...

In this absorbing new entry in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is caught up in a twisted web of vengeance and murder.On the north coast of Cornwall, an apparent act of mercy is repaid by an arrest for murder. Four young women have been accused of the crime. A shocked father calls in a favor at the Home Office. Scotland Yard is asked to review the case.However, Inspector Ian Rutledge is not the first Inspector to reach t...

Richard Madeley's first novel plays beautifully into the heart of commercial fiction, a love story with intrigue and betrayal at its coreJames Blackwell is sexy and handsome and a fighter pilot - every girl's dream partner. At least that is what Diana Arnold thinks when her brother first introduces them. Before long they are in love and marry hastily just as war is declared.Then fate delivers what is the first of its cruel twists: James, the day of their wedding, is shot do...

A beautifully written historical novel which has sold well nationwide in paperback. Readers are already enquiring about the promised sequel to this page turner. "It was the hour of five on a winter's morning. The distant toll of a factory bell echoed across the valley striking wakefullness and dread wherever it was heard. For the army of child slaves, compelled to work amongst the ceaseless whirring of a million hissing wheels, another day had begun. Tiny footprints in the s...

"The story of the Titanic has been told many times; this one takes a sociological perspective, with the confident, graceful prose of fine fiction." — Wall Street JournalIt has been over one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people in...

A heart-stopping psychological thriller about a woman running from the aftermath of a gruesome family tragedy--and also from the truth about her part in it. For fans of Gillian McAllister's Wrong Place Wrong Time and The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell.You can run away from your life . . . but you can't hide from murder.Nancy's mother and stepfather have been brutally killed. After a trial that gripped the nation, her stepbrother ha...

Tense, gripping and with a twist you won't see coming, The Split is an explosive new stand-alone thriller from Sharon Bolton about a woman on the run.No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you...The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer – which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd.Felicity lives in fear – fear that her e...