Marrying for money would save the career of a penurious young captain. But winning the daughter of The Wangler, an English tycoon, was a prospect to fear. Author John Ivor delights with this humorous account of bride-seeking in the early 1800s. The characters interact in an unusual, yet richly endowed, county mansion.

Sentenced to hang in 1828 Scotland, Maggie, 9, discovers there are things worse than death.

The kupu bush, unique to a South Pacific island, is habitat to poisonous butterflies yet promises to enable cheap energy, cure disease and end world hunger. When a London conglomerate secures trading rights and sends James Harvey to fetch samples, he faces government spies, commercial rivals and murder – also falls in love. Superpowers contend for the independent island, where Russia plans a naval base. After James agrees to help the island princess regain her throne, they seek justice at ...

This is a fictional autobiography of Sir James Stirling, young hero in Britain's 1812 war against the United States. Later, facing impossible odds and with the Stirling family in disgrace, he overcame ridicule and rejection to found a nation that, eventually, reshaped the world's southern hemisphere.Until Stirling's vision came to fruition, Britain used Australia as its dumping ground for convicted felons. Stirling saw it differently, the unexplored western shore suggesting a haven ...

Fact, not fiction. A sea captain describes destroying American coastal forts and landing a British army to seize the White House. This concise history begins "Captain Striver" ($2.99), a book that reveals how one man beat impossible odds and family disgrace to create convict Australia's first Free Settlement, blueprint for the nation known today.

Before history, humanity begins when a strange fork-legged creature challenges bestial tradition. In making this moral stand, Java and his mate risk all.

The nude painting of a senior officer's wife scandalises Britain's Swan River Colony in the 1830s. Young Maggie from the bakery fears for the mild male artist, her friend, who is challenged to a duel. This is a humorous excerpt from the novel "Great Land of Dreams".

A child sentenced to hang, Maggie flees 1830s Scotland and endures a violent odyssey to womanhood. An original heroine of flawed psyche, her self-taught book wisdom frequently fuels catastrophe. She joins gentryfolk sailing to create an Eden in the wilderness, promoted as a Second America. Deceit and murder predominate instead.

Jeremy Hanwell sets out from England to avenge his father's murder by blackfellas in distant Swan River Colony. Here, Maggie has sworn to protect them.On arrival in The Great Southland of the 1830s, Jeremy's crusade is frustrated by news that the Governor has negotiated a peace with the hostile Noongar Aborigines. Jeremy's behaviour disrupts a delicate balance between white settlers and the blacks, and Maggie condemns him as a violent fool.Fresh trouble sends Jeremy as a volu...

At seventeen, shopgirl Maggie meets the man of her dreams, but her dye-stained cheeks turn the dream to nightmare. This thrilling sequel to Run Maggie Run is set in a class conscious 1830s colony, where Maggie opposes its corrupt British rulers.

Maggie, an interpreter, believes justice can't be achieved without just rulers, so she fights corrupt despots of an 1830s British Colony. And tries not to fall in love with Jeremy, her hot-headed foolish ally. Magistrates commit murder, the natives mistake a missionary as an incarnation of the Rainbow Serpent come to evict white settlers, and Maggie could lose her head - literally!

THE PROTAGONIST WHO DEFINES THE WORD ORDINARY,becomes embroiled in an old and grave story not of hiswanting. With the likeness of the common man, hisdesire for love and acclaim may have misled him a step too far.As unimaginable dark forces escape, as authorities question hisinnocence and his beautiful but begrudging companion in hisface, his odds of surviving are slim if not zero. To c...