Shortlisted for the National Year of Reading 2012 Award January 1900, and Australia's tropical north just got a little hotter. An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. turner, armed with a microscope, a butterfly net and his lovelorn yet devout colleague, Dr Linford Row, is met with incredulity, not least by local councillors who insist it's only typhoid. Fifty-two possible plague-carriers - including two prominent MPs - are isolated in a dilapidated quarantine station ... View More...
Ever had one of those weeks when you've been soaked, put through the ringer and hung out to dry? On Monday morning, this twice-divorced mother of three was bemoaning her boring life that left her feeling deflated and unhappy. By the end of the week she wishes that was all she had to worry about. In the space of seven days her life is picked up and spun around when she discovers her mother's getting married again (for the fourth time), her older sister is pregnant again (for the fifth time), her younger sister lands the perfect boyfriend (who is very fanciable), her sister-in-law is running a b... View More...
The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves- the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it's a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in conventional... View More...
The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves- the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it's a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in conventio... View More...
When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion... View More...
Matt Stenner is in the prime of life. With a close family, a successful career, friends and wealth, he sees only happiness ahead. But when his student daughter returns home one evening in deep distress, a chain of shocking revelations follow that threaten his rosy future. View More...
Madison Castelli is back! The beautiful and street-smart heroine of L.A. Connections is having problems: her ex-lover who walked out on her is trying to walk back in; her new lover is giving her a hard time; and her father turns out to be a man with deadly secrets. Set between the high-powered world of New York and the manic excitement of Las Vegas, here is a deliciously uninhibited tale of cover-ups, deception and mob involvement. Packed with intrigue, glamour and an irresistible cast of characters, Lethal Seduction will seduce you all the way... View More...
Amy Scott-Simon, a beguilingly pretty young New York heiress, is engaged to marry Max Diamond, an older, powerful real estate tycoon, when at her bachelorette party she runs into Jett, Max's younger half-brother-fresh from Italy, where he is a successful male model.-A one-time drug addict now in the program, Jett has no idea who Amy is.-She also doesn't realize who he is. A one-night fling leads to complications and regrets.Meanwhile, Chris Diamond, a hot L.A. entertainment lawyer, flies into town to meet with his two brothers and Red Diamond, the boys' billionaire father, a dysfunctional, abu... View More...
Cameron Paradise, a stunningly beautiful 24-year-old personal trainer, flees Hawaii and her champion surfer husband, Gregg, in the middle of one of his abusive tirades and makes her way to LA. Tall, blonde, with a body to die for, it doesn't take Cameron long to find a job at an exclusive private fitness club where she encounters LA's most important players. She has plans to open her own studio one day and while every man she meets comes onto her, she is more focused on saving money and working hard than getting caught up in the LA scene of wild parties and recreational drugs. Until she meets ... View More...
ulieanne Gillis's family collects them. An advice columnist for a local newspaper, Julie dispenses wisdom to her readers, but somehow missed the signs that something was wrong in her own home. Devoted to being a good mother and keeping her twenty-year marriage fresh and exciting, she is shocked by her husband's surprise announcement that he needs a "sabbatical" from their life together -- and devastated when he disappears, leaving Julie with no funds to raise two teenagers and a small daughter alone. But it is the discovery that Julieanne suffers from a serious illness that truly crumbles her ... View More...
In the closed society of Japan in 1862, a bitter battle for commercial supremacy rages between the Struan and Brock trading houses. Young Malcolm Struan confronts the complex politics of the Japanese Court and the samurai of the warlords to succeed in love. By the author of "King Rat" and "Shogun". View More...
Capturing Brisbane’s suburban heartland over six decades, this novel is a love letter to those who remember the past and those who want to know the history. Some will miss the old Brisbane; some will be glad it’s gone; while others will understand that change is the only constant. However, many will be left saying, that’s the Brisbane I used to know. View More...
When Jennifer returns to the resort village where she grew up, she finds a series of letters in which her grandmother reveals a huge secret she has concealed for decades: that her great love is not the man she married. Jennifer herself thinks she could never love again, but before she knows it, is caught up in the greatest flight of exhilaration she's ever known. Then, just as suddenly, she learns that this new love comes with an unbearable cost... View More...
Sally has just moved into a Victorian house in London newly converted to provide a garden flat. She's a woman with an outwardly enviable life. Married to banker Edward and mother of two-year-old Louis, the family occupies the house's upper floors. Yet beneath an apparently happy exterior, Sally struggles with the legacy of Edward's past: his ex-wife Pia, a successful and high-profile writer, his resentful step-daughter Hope - and Edward's mixed feelings about the family he left behind. When Sally discovers the house holds a secret, her need to escape the strains of her marriage, coupled with a... View More...
At twenty-seven, Libby thinks there's a lot to be said for a rich husband. So when Nick comes along - lovely, funny, handsome Nick, who has no money whatsoever, lives in a grotty bedsit and thinks the perfect night out consists of the pub and his mates - she decides he's only good for a fling. No strings attached. Investment banker Ed, on the other hand, could possibly be the answer. His house in Regent's Park makes up for his hideous moustache and she can probably overlook his irritating habits, and anyway, he's crazy about her. But does Libby really know what she needs? Is she just in love w... View More...
A new masterpiece from the queen of smart, sexy female fiction Mural artist Tilda Goodnight is struggling to pay off the mortgage on the family art gallery to keep the lid on her family secrets. Her life was complicated enough when all she had to deal with were her daydreaming mother, her split-personality sister and her cross-dressing brother-in-law but when con-man, charmer and sex-on-legs Davy Dempsey enters her life things, begin to get really out of control. Suddenly everyone is faking something. What will happen when all the secrets are out? View More...
It's been almost thirteen years since we last saw Cannie Shapiro, the heroine of Good in Bed, whose journey towards happy-ever-after made millions of women the world over laugh, cry and recognise themselves. The last decade of Cannie's life has brought some surprises. Her life story, in fictional form, became an unexpected bestseller, and Cannie has since retreated from fame's fallout, writing science-fiction under a pen name and praying that all her daughter inherited from her father, Cannie's ex-boyfriend Bruce Guberman, are her curls and her eye-colour, and not his predilection for smoking ... View More...
One woman's struggle against great odds, with a heart tragically divided. Having spent her childhood with a cold, unfeeling stepmother, Lily Clair's life is changed for ever when she is sent as general maid to old friends of her family. Soon into the dull routine comes Joel, handsome son of a wealthy entrepreneur, and for Lily, young and vulnerable, their meeting is a revelation. Riding high on the crest of her new-found happiness she cannot be prepared for the violent attack that comes in the night, or for its devastating, life-changing consequences. But live with the consequences she must as... View More...
The first part of the "Beckman Trilogy", which is the saga of Holly Beckman, who rises from the slums of Lambeth during World War I to become a successful antique and fine arts dealer, and finally realizes where her real priorities lie when her son Chris is shot down in the Battle of Britain. View More...
No picture was ever more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered in a Normandy chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over the Belvedon family-all artists and dealers-for half a century. Now she's locked away in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, increasing her colossal value by the second. All is well until an exquisite stranger turns up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family. Accompanying her is her fatally glamorous American boyfriend, whose agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael. When the painting is stolen, the hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on ... View More...
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