When the Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in country Australia, they set the locals talking – and with good reason. From the outside, the seven Templetons seem so bohemian, unusual... peculiar even.
No one is more intrigued by the family than their neighbours, single mother Nina Donovan and her young son Tom. Before long, the two families' lives become entwined in unexpected ways, to the delight of Gracie, the sweetest of the Templeton children.
In the years that follow, the relationships between the Templetons and the two Donovans twist and turn in unpredictable and life-changing directions, until a tragedy tears them all apart. What will it take to bring them together again?
The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London...
An appealing and heartwarming memoir from one of Australia’s leading comic talents
Lessons in Letting Go is an honest, moving and often uproariously funny memoir about how one woman reconciles
love, loss, lack of cupboard space and far too much stuff. It’s an appealing account of the year in which Corinne
Grant decided to do something about her hoarding.
In Jane’s second book,
OMG! I can eat that?, she shares some of her favourite recipes, just without all the unwanted fat.
Chapters include Nibbles, Soups, Piemakins, Chicken & Duck, Beef, Lamb & Pork, Fish & Seafood, Comfort Classics, Vegetables and Dessert.
And these recipes aren’t your typical ‘diet’ recipes either, with delicious meals such as Chicken, Leek and Mushrooms ‘piemakins’ (pies in ramekins minus the pastry), Beef Bourguignon, Boombahfree burgers, and even sweet treats like Rhubarb and strawberry crumble, you’ll forget you’re even eating food minus the boombah!
So many wines, so many labels, so much choice and so little time. Which wines to buy? Which ones offer the best value? Do you have to spend a fortune to get something half drinkable? Don't panic - help has arrived. Quaff 2011 tells you all you need to know about buying the best value-for-money wines and tracking down fantastic bargains. Inside you'll find tasting notes for more than 350 standout wines, all under $15, including: sparkling wines, white wines, pink wines, red wines, sweet wines and fortified wines
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small American town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past.
Beautiful yet unassuming, Katie is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community.
But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her... Eventually, though, Katie realizes that a choice must be made between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards... and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.
61 Hours, featuring the much-loved maverick hero Jack Reacher, was published in March 2010. It ended on a cliff-hanger. What happened to Reacher? Will this new novel provide the answer?
Forensic physician Dr Anya Crichton is presented with a patient who has returned from her honeymoon with multiple sexually transmitted infections.
Her husband has none of them. She tearfully denies having had any other partners and Anya believes her. Is this a medical phenomenon or has something more sinister taken place?
Anya's investigations into the case leads to a ground breaking study that attracts international attention. Her expertise leads to an invitation to New York to address over three hundred football players in the USA Professional League.
The enigmatic private investigator Ethan Rye is assigned to assist Anya during the summit. When an alleged rape involving five football players takes place, Anya is commissioned to investigate.She is immediately thrust into a subculture of violence, sexual assault and drug abuse. No one is what he or she seems.Anya soon discovers a devastating truth about the players that threatens to shut down the eight billion dollar football industry.Now lives, including her own, are in danger.....
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Storytelling is such a wonderful thing. There is literally nothing that exists in the real world, and plenty besides, that can't be part of story. When some writers talk about feeling like God, they’re not describing a mystical experience (at least I hope they’re not); it's like having a model of the entire universe in your head that you can play with as though it were a toy. You can change things, break things, make things up--anything is possible, and we turn to words like “god” to describe that feeling, because it’s so far removed from our everyday experience. The process of world-building is utterly thrilling.
I don’t remember the name of the typewriter on which I wrote my first novel, while I was in high school. It’s no longer in my possession, and I can’t remember where it went. (I’m a bit sad about that, actually. What a relic it would be now!) My next novel I wrote by hand using a fountain pen. My third I wrote on a Brother electric typewriter--on thermal paper, which has now almost entirely turned to brown. (Luckily, I took a copy of it in the late 1980s, but that hasn’t stopped the story itself from being awful.) My fourth novel was written on an Amiga 500 that I bought with a student loan in 1988. I wrote my first few short stories on that machine before moving in 1992 or thereabouts to a PC that a friend built me, on which I wrote my first published novels.
However, in urban fantasy, it has proven to be a problem at times. There are books – Keri Arthur’s for example – where no matter how much I enjoy them (and I do) there’s always a bit of my brain that can’t just relax into this idea of there now being werewolves, vampires and the like wandering around Melbourne. Whereas in Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series, because it’s explained at the beginning that the vampires have come out of the closet and that’s why they’re now wandering around the world, I’m fine.
I wanted them to be from Australia. I really, really did. Except I’ve spent a number of years living and working with Indigenous Australians and I’m very aware of not claiming any sort of ownership over their culture or mythology. I couldn’t come up with a way to have this ancient people develop here and not impinge on Indigenous history. 
Marblehead resident, bakery worker, unlucky in love.and descendant of witches. Life has had a pleasant predictability to it for Lizzy. That is until a tall, black-haired, dark eyed man shows up in a black sports car, touches her hand and leaves a burn mark. His name is Gerwulf Grimoire, also known as Wulf. And he wants what Lizzy has: knowledge. Almost simultaneously comes another man, a different man, but this one just as dangerous in his own way.
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'Budget meals are about being clever, organised and imaginative; the more variety you bring to the table, the less obvious it will be that you're cooking with economy in mind.'
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Day 4: Sunday 5/09/10
Sunday was busy with a Kaffeelatsche with Ducan Lay and then Glenda Larke signings. I got some cool pictures with both Glenda and Mary Victoria, who was there as well.
At 4 Mary Victoria was doing a reading and I needed to go to that. Mary has a wonderful reading voice! She actually does voices for her characters (not sure if she was actively trying to do so) It was wonderful!
On Monday I went to Writing strange lands: other cultures in YA speculative fiction. That was fascinating. I met some of the Voyager Staff, Stephanie Smith and Natalie Costa Bir after that panel and they were two very lovely people.
Day 3: Saturday 4/09/10
I got him to sign my bookplates (I didn’t bring my books, there are wayyyyyyy to many of them) We chatted for the rest of the hour and then I got once more into a line for signings. This time it was for Fiona McIntosh, Michael Pryor. Both are brilliant authors and fantastic funny people. Michael writes the series Laws of Magic, of which ‘Blaze of Glory’ is the first one! And Fiona, well Fiona has too many series to list. Her latest one is the Valisar series, of which; Kings Wrath is the first and last.
I swear this day was the day for signings! I practically lived in the signings room. After the panel I went back and had to wait again, yes you know it, in a line for Gail Carriger who writes the PARASOL PROTECTORATE series. The third Blameless was released for the Con!
