Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander I are just a few of the characters striding across the landscape in the years 1800 to 1815, holding the destinies of their nations in their hands as they struggle for survival in the Napoleonic era. It was a time when nations struggled to be kingdoms or republics. Sometimes when Republicans and Royalists couldn't agree, they would try a third thing, a tertium quid in Latin. This the second volume in the sweeping historical survey that will span the...

213 performances, 58 countries, 15 months. James Blunt's 'All the Lost Souls' international tour was one of the greatest pop marathons of all time. Journalist and family friend Peter Hardy joined James and his band on their exhilarating and exhausting journey around the world, hoping to discover the man behind the music. From the tour bus to the dressing rooms, from the stage to the after-show parties, travelling with James gave 'Weird Uncle Peter' an access-all-areas pass to his life on t...

This is a story of the European political dynamics that proceeded from the mid-seventeenth century, affecting the destinies of Great Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, their allies and their colonies. This volume provides an introduction to the period, followed by a more detailed study of the years from 1754 to 1799--the years of George Washington. Future volumes will relate the years of Napoleon Bonaparte, Andrew Jackson, and Karl Marx.

When Dougy's sister Gracey is picked for the state athletics championships, not everybody in their small bush town in pleased. 'Aborigines get special treatment', some of the angry white people say. The championships change everything for Gracey and trigger dramatic events in the town too: black and white relations reach explosion point. The time is ripe for the mysterious Moodagudda to seek a victim... In the end, it's up to Dougy to save his family - and to prove himself.

The Dockers are in the finals for the first time, and Greg gets himself to Melbourne for the match against Geelong. Once there he finds himself in trouble.

The thirty-eighth book in the Cliff Hardy seriesThis wasn't Hardy's usual brief--uncover the mysteries of a nineteenth-century shipwreck--but he could do with an easy case and the retainer was generous.But is it ever that simple? Not with a notorious crime family tearing itself apart, and an undercover cop playing both sides against the middle. These and an alluring but fiercely ambitious female journalist give Hardy all the trouble he can handle.'E...

The forty-first book in the Cliff Hardy seriesLegendary PI Cliff Hardy has reached an age when the obituaries have become part of his reading, and one triggers his memory of a case in the late 1980s. Back then Sydney was awash with colourful characters, and Cliff is reminded of a case involving 'Ten-Pound Pom' Barry Bartlett and racing identity and investor Sir Keith Mountjoy.Bartlett, a former rugby league player and boxing manager, then a prosperous prope...

The thirty-seventh book in the Cliff Hardy seriesCliff Hardy has his PI licence back - but does he still have what it takes to cut it on the mean streets of Sydney?Cliff reckons the skills are still there, if a little rusty, and actor Bobby Forrest's case looks promising. Bobby's a nice-enough guy, but why is he being stalked by a red-hot brunette? And why did he have to go online to find a date?When Bobby is murdered, it comes as a shock. Cliff's o...

Outside the wind was blowing the wrong way and the world was filled with the smell of death... Something is wrong at Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighbourhood it appears to be - strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its own, so does the light draw its champions, and Nathanial finds he must confront phantoms from his own past in his battle to stop the Gathering and ...

'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'Cliff Hardy is distracted by a romantic entanglement, but low on funds, and with his private investigator's licence restored, he is persuaded to take on a dubious case - a scheme to claim the reward on an abduction. When one of those involved is murdered, the problem takes a whole new turn.Cliff's relations with the police have never been easy, and the boys in blue are far from helpful as he tries to piece together a puzz...

Politics, murder and sex push Hardy to the limit.'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'When Cliff Hardy signs on as a bodyguard for charismatic populist Rory O'Hara, who is about to embark on a campaign of social and political renewal, it looks like a tricky job - O'Hara has enemies. A murder and a kidnapping cause the campaign to fall apart.Hired to investigate the murder, Hardy uncovers hidden agendas among O'Hara's staff as well as...

Australia's favourite PI, Cliff Hardy is back in a story set against the backdrop of a Federal election campaign.'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'When journalist Louise Kramer hires Cliff Hardy to find Billie Marchant, Hardy heads for unfamiliar territory of the far south-western suburbs of Sydney. Billie claims to have information about media big-wheel Jonas Clement -- the subject of an incriminating expose by Kramer. Clement doesn't wa...