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Can a contemporary Australian family find a long-lost boy? Finding Teo, is narrated by three women (Peia, Jo and Anna) from three different generations of a Greek-Irish Australian family. Anna is thirty and feels stuck at work and home. She then lands a job in Athens to cover international news stories and to fly away from her extended Greek-Irish Australian family. Just before she is due to leave, her grandmother has a stroke and the significance of finding Teo begins to surface. Anna discovers in Greece that she had been living in Australia with an international story all her life. Alongside this she is struck by the defined difference between the 2015 international impasse on refugee settlement and the open arms and hearts of Australia and other countries to resettle children after the Greek Civil War.
Izzy knew that some of her choices were foolish, but who could blame her for choosing love? Would she have followed her heart if she had known the consequences? Set against iconic events of the 19th Century - the first illegal settlement of Melbourne, the Irish Famine, the Anglo-Sikh Wars and the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, Izzy''s story brings to life the struggles and resilience of a woman who is powerless to control her own life.Izzy is the illegitimate daughter of an Irish peer and a Spanish serving girl, born just after the siege of Cadiz. When her mother dies in childbirth, Izzy is taken to Ireland and raised in her father''s house. She is educated in domestic skills and surrounded by love from the people who know her best; the servants. Suddenly, at the age of twelve she is sent away, as her father announces his engagement to the daughter of a wealthy family. Izzy realizes that because of her birth she is an embarrassment. A guardian is chosen and Izzy sets out into the world as governess to his children, with no skills or experience to navigate the real world. Perhaps her stable and loving childhood gave her a strong sense of self-worth or maybe she is ''wilful and stubborn'' like her mother, but either way, Izzy is determined not to settle for second best. Even when it brings such heartache.If Izzy had lived in another time and place there would be no story. Women of the 19th Century were legally owned by fathers and husbands, with few rights and limited opportunities to escape the narrow confines of their domesticity and their dependence on men. She meets Dr Bryn Carrick, the first doctor in Melbourne and learns that dependence on men is a risky business. The first settlement of Melbourne is far from her genteel childhood home. Camped on the original Government Paddock (near Queensbridge in the heart of modern Melbourne) Izzy is among the first hundred settlers. Her future looks assured, but it is anything but that. Will she learn from her mistakes? Will she trust the men who control her life? Based on fact and meticulously researched, this is a story of perseverance and determination, a reflection on human strength and weakness and one woman''s fight to succeed, despite the odds.
Loyalty, love, deceit, revenge, politics and money form an explosive mix.Alex Dulaine is a strong willed, independent but vulnerable woman. After Jed Mitchell helped locate her grandfather's aircraft lost in WW2, she's attracted to him but resists commitment. Another adventure will delay the need for any decision. What happens when they become entangled with a Kurdish female warrior, a mercenary soldier for hire, a trophy wife who's a bit smarter than perceived and a journalist struggling to rebuild her career?Alex and Jed travel to Adelaide to investigate the disappearance of the scientist who found an aircraft in outback Australia. Attempted murder and a coded message with links to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the Somerton Man mystery lead them deeper into the mystery. They discover the aircraft was carrying not only evacuees but also diamonds away from the Japanese conquest of 1942. Powerful forces are unleashed to recover that wealth and cover up the shocking crime it provoked.An ex soldier is engaged to help. Jed and Alex take his advice and become unpredictable yet determined to follow the matter to its conclusion. They discover a survivor from the aircraft, now an old woman with a powerful story to tell. Following that story to its logical end becomes a gripping adventure where loyalty is tested to the limit. A professional killer is determined to complete his mission but not all is at it seems. Multiple agendas are at play.Pressure on a trigger at the wrong time on the wrong target can open a world of unwanted problems. Who is the enemy and who may be an ally? Whose perception of events may be closest to the truth?Making sense of this world as the clock ticks relentlessly away is a gripping story that will rivet the reader to its pages until its final conclusion.
"A middle-aged academic finds himself homeless in the middle of winter. How does this sort of thing happen? How do people survive? A haunting account of a life not very well lived."
The Slow Life Project is a manual for living your life with purpose, direction, authenticity and joy.
"He reflected on why he'd come to South Australia in the first place. He realised that he owed it to himself to find out whether having something real with someone could be his, despite his fame. And he owed it to them." The Holiday Romance is a tale of love in the spotlight, taking place in Australia and the United States in the late 1990s. Before taking a well-deserved break, copywriter Kate's dating world collides with that of Josh, a well-known Australian actor who lives in LA. Will they be able to navigate their holiday romance in the limelight when it becomes more than just a fling? Kate is trying to forget a public past break-up when she returns to her home town in country South Australia after two years. Meanwhile, Josh has all-but given up on having a genuine relationship. Being the focus of media attention makes it almost impossible. When Kate and Josh meet at a computer games conference, they cannot deny their connection and their common experience living in the public eye.But as their holiday romance develops in front of a gossiping town, as well as the relentless media, they are forced to revisit their past. Can their romance survive it?The Holiday Romance is a novel of hope and taking a chance to find happiness.
"There''s no deal unless you tell me who killed Lucretia, Thomas! For the love of God, I have to know-""She was shot by an assassin.""But who was this assassin? Who shot her?" he demanded again angrily, leaning forward over the table."I did," I said, after a suitably dramatic pause.He threw his head back and laughed loudly, his arms crossed on his chest. "You?" he said once he''d regained his breath. "You? Thomas Haupner, the violinist? The would-be army officer from some stupid, derelict relic of the British Empire, a trained assassin?"After returning from a secret mission in occupied France for His Royal Highness, George, the Duke of Kent, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Haupner is looking forward to a cup of tea, a hot bath, and the sleepy head of his American lover, Major Henry Reiter on his shoulder when he wakes up the next morning.However, along with items Tommy has recovered for the duke, he has also discovered a secret stash of documents, which, when opened, prove to be a poisoned chalice. Tommy and Shorty find themselves caught up in a dangerous web of lies, enemy agents, assassins, and traitors. In an effort to save the reputations of not only their friends, but men and women high in both society and in the government, they themselves become victims of I.K.S., a former World War One international extortion ring, which has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes of bomb-devastated London.
Unknown is about being pushed to the brink and coming back again, about the power of the human spirit and about discovering through adversity a new and more rewarding way to live.
Joshua Carver and his specialised team thought they had seen it all, an ancient alien device, dimensional portals, lost civilisations and a world wide cartel of evil. Now they find themselves in the middle of a far greater conspiracy, one that will change the world as we know it, forever. On their greatest quest yet, from the depths of a lost Himalayan valley, they uncover information vital to the future of the human race, which they must protect at any cost.
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