A classic love story about manners, men and modern romance retold by bestselling Australian author, Fiona PalmerWestern Australia, 2019: The Bennets are a farming family struggling to make ends meet. Lizzy, passionate about working the land, is determined to save the farm. Spirited and independent, she has little patience for her mother's focus on finding a suitable man for each of her five daughters.When the dashing

A poignant novel of heartbreak, adoption and family secretsEmma, a nurse and busy mother of three, has always dreamed of having a sister.Michelle, at 46, wonders if it's too late to fall in love and find her birth parents.Sarah, career woman and perfectionist homemaker, struggles to keep up with the Joneses.Bill, 72, feels left behind after the death of his adored wife.

A clear, straight forward, unbiased telling of a great story. Canada begins in Newfoundland, and that's the start of this historical, narrative journey. The author traces the contributions of Marco Polo, even the capture of Constantinople in 1453 when people began to look for a new sea route to the East, paving the inspiration for explorers like John Cabot, Champlain, Cartier and others to lay the foundations of Canada.

Speedy is the fastest, cleverest dolphin around Kangaroo Island and to Mike and his fisherman father Ben he is a special friend. However some of the fisherman, including the greedy Boris Butler and big game hunters Darcy Drake and Wolf Haast, don’t like Speedy as much as they believe he ‘steals’ their fish. Set in a small fishing community, Speedy is another of Colin Thiele’s classic stories. Read by Anna Steen, Speedy is a wonderful story about the power of friendship.

Life was about living, experiencing and emotions. The good and the bad. You had to laugh to cry. You had to love to hurt. You had to jump to fall or fly.Best friends Abbie, Jess and Ricki are setting sail on a cruise ship, rekindling the excitement of a school excursion they took ten years earlier to the historic port town of Albany, the oldest city on the stunning turquoise coastline of Western Australia....

Great Australian Aviation Stories is a collection of dramatic true stories and colourful accounts of our fascinating aviation history. These stories also show the 'human' side of aviation... how it changed the lives of ordinary people, workers and travellers. Included are amazing stories of history-making flights by Kingsford Smith and Ross and Keith Smith, and accounts of the exploits of Bert Hinkler, Amy Johnson, Nancy Bird and our early outback aviation pioneers. The daring feats of bra...

The stories and verses in this collection are not just anecdotes, racing history pieces or rehashed feature articles from sports journalists; first and foremost they are good literature. The common thread running through the wonderful Australian short stories featured in this volume is the real Aussie character and passion for life that racing seems to bring out in our culture. There are tales of childhood dreams, great achievements, victory in adversity and also tales of tragedy and heart...

Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy and iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous and outsized antics of his life. Behind that life, and in the midst of those tumultuous times, Ango spoke with a cutt...