At the age of 34, Gabi discovered she wasn't who she thought she was. Her parents had never told her that she had been adopted at 10 days old. During her efforts to find a birth certificate she had never seen, she was told by a terrified registrar that she had been registered under another name. She was stunned, shocked that her parents had been lying to her for 34 years and she never would have found out if she hadn't been planning to emmigrate to Australia.Her subsequent search t...

When Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones-Bristowe sees a program about ageing and how it can be reversed she decides to turn Rosehill Retirement Home for Gentlefolk into a 1960's luxury hotel. Everyone will benefit from the new '60's decor, the sumptuous food, the posters about music festivals, everything that happened in the 1960s including assassinations and moon landings.The residents are mostly happy to go along with Joan's plan — they don't really have a choice, she is the major shareho...

Life is peaceful and serene at Rosehill Retirement Home until a dashing 73- year-old gentleman checks in after being turned out of his ancestral home. The home's oldest and most long-standing resident takes an instant liking to 'the handsome one,' and sets her sights on making him her fifth husband. Unbeknown to her, another lady has a prior claim and the two long-lost lovers are dragged into a dangerous game.

The residents of Hideaway House, as led by the amazon Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones, are well into the swing of things, Naked parties rule the day until a bedraggled bunch of road accident survivors turn up at their door. Hard on their heels is a category 5 cyclone which all but destroys their Home and forces them to decamp to Rosehill Retirement Home for Gentlefolk in Cairns. But Joan is not quite well. Has she had a stroke? Her behaviour is peculiar and her mind appears demented. How will th...

Rosehill Home for the Elderly is run by the almost evil Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones-Bristowe. The same crowd is in residence, but nothing is quite what it seems. With an eye on the income revenue, Joan decides to turn the clock back after a devastating fire, and redecorates the whole home in retro style, with furniture and music from the sixties, and one extra ingredient grown in the garden. The new brownies served at supper and the porridge at breakfast liven up the inmates, sending them in...

Life is serene and peaceful in Rosehill Retirement Home until a handsome 73-year-old gentleman checks in and triggers a raging competition for his affections. Joan, the self-styled boss of the Home sets her sights on making him her fifth husband but is unaware of another who has a prior claim.Pranks are amusing to start with until the 'boss' lady realises she is losing, and decides to up the ante and let no stone unturned to get her man.

Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the kitchen, a fatal accident leads five survivors to the doors of the newly appointment Aged Care Facility, Hideaway House, where Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones rules the roost much to the irritation of some of the residents.When a Category 5 Cyclone compounds the problem, all hands are called to prepare the Home for the blast. But cyclones are not predictable and all the preparation in the world could not prepare them for the worst....

In the year 1808, a poignant Christmas unfolds as three young convicts are expelled from Mother England on an appalling vessel, The Lady Nora, en route to the distant colonies. The untamed expanse of New South Wales is to become their fateful home, their lives destined to be ensnared in the clutches of forced servitude. Amidst a brutal lashing administered by their slave-driver owner, Captain Richard Kempsie, Dan Watson makes a startling discovery—a cache of tools and equipment meant for h...

Amie Fish, an ordinary English housewife is thrown headlong into a third world African country when her husband, Jonathan, receives a once-in-a-lifetime promotion. Far from the normal Ex-patriot life Amie was expecting, she finds herself deep in political intrigue, indebted to a corrupt African master manipulator and fighting for her life in the African bush.

Book 1: Story 1:Jeminee Hooskin (nickname Mumble) turns 11. Her new neighbour Jem Bunkwith (nickname Jumble) presents her with an extraordinary present, one that only very special people know how to use. When she is called upon to rescue the least pleasant girl in Mumble’s school, she is helped by another wonderful present — a filthy, dirty dog called Shulfi. With Mumble’s Magic presents and her new friend, Jumble, Mumble’s life takes an amazing new turn.Book 1: Story 2:

Left the 20th of Jan. for Germany,in the convoy of women. ,Good health, good morale.Warn the Red Cross to send shoes,warm clothes, and food.Addressed to a French doctor away in service of the war, a scrap of paper bearing twenty-seven cryptic words was tossed from a train as it pulled from the station. Sailing on cold wint...