A romance inspired by true events, Maria and her sisters are thrust into the heady pre-war atmosphere of Brussels in 1815 and encounter love, scandal and drama whilst bearing witness to the most important battle of the 19th Century.
Society said they were insane, and in 1954, that was enough to put someone away in an asylum and separate them from the world. Even here, though, it was possible for souls to flourish. Jakie was one such soul. He was all but lost until he met the girl. She is locked away in a cellar room, but he can feel her presence by imagining he is a small ......
Thomas Wentworth Wills is an Australian Icarus. Having grown up among the Djabwurrung people in western Victoria, he was sent to the Rugby school in England. Returning in 1856, he promptly revolutionised colonial cricket and opened the door for the evolution of the indigenous game we know as Australian football. In 1866, he coached the Aboriginal ......
Nelson's exciting seafaring trilogy concludes. As cries for independence ring through the chambers of the Second Continental Congress, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb and his crew are called upon to engage The Royal Navy.
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.
On the first day of July 1863, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia accidentally crossed swords with George Gordon Meade's federal Army of the Potomac. They clashed at a tiny Pennsylvania crossroads called Gettysburg. Three days later, at least 22,000 Confederate men and boys were dead, wounded or captured, and the Yankees held the field when ......
March 1967: HMS Temeraire, Britain's latest and most advanced nuclear submarine, is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the British fleet against a threat from Red China.
We may have eyes that look - but how clearly do we see? This compelling novel of art and adventure, Julia Grigg's debut, is set in the feverish creativity of mid-sixteenth century Italy. Francesco Bassano wants to find out how and why an extraordinary painting was made; the story traces his quest to discover the secrets of the portrait's past. ......
