Recently widowed, the beautiful and flirtatious Lady Susan Vernon seeks a new marriage to make her way into high society. Jane Austen’s first novella presents a delightful journey of Regency manners through the author’s timeless expression of elegance, charm and wittiness.
Bea nears the end of her convict term and life ahead is unknown. A drover named Jack Barnes arrives and offers to marry her. She accepts and they marry and move to his isolated farm. There life is tough as their home is a small bark hut. It doesnt take long before they confess their love but life is never that easy.
From Boer to World War: Australia's Baptism by Fire
There were many fine British officers in command during the Boer War and WW1, but this book is based on the ones who weren’t. Those, arrogant and inept at modern warfare, who sent thousands of Australian soldiers to the slaughter, using them as cannon fodder in a bloodbath of mindless commands, blunders and butchery. With their host of medals ......
RELEASED IN CELEBRATION OF THE 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST MOON LANDING. Baron Wernher von Braun is one of the most controversial men in history. While he was responsible for the V-2 missile which caused devastation and killed thousands during WW2, he is also celebrated as the man who flew us to the moon in Apollo 11. Was he good or bad?
Travelling between the 19th and 21st centuries, The Country of Our Dreams explores the confusions and delights of contemporary Australia and Ireland, and their shared inheritance - the Irish Land War of 1879 – 1882. A powerful struggle of tenant farmers, landless labourers, women, and the global diaspora for land, food security, and respect.
The world's greatest silent comedian finds his voice in french Indochina
Fictionalised around real events, ‘Charlot’ is a story about how an embittered Charlie Chaplin abandons his silent Tramp in order to find his own voice in the politically turbulent 1930s.
Jess & Marcus meet due to an accident. He falls for her while nursing her back to health. After a mix up she is later arrested and transported. He follows her to Australia and later goes missing.
Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just that. Under a multitude of different names - 'K'tut Tantri' and 'Surabaya Sue' being the best know - she joined in the struggle for Indonesian independence after the Second World War and broadcast its ......
