Out among the farmlands and foothills of the Southern Queensland ranges, something very weird is going on. A vintage steam engine is appearing along the abandoned, isolated railways of the tranquil... More > Mirambeena Valley, where connecting lines no longer exist. The giant locomotive is the very image of the Diablo, which crashed in the region 50 years earlier but the mystery runs deeper - the train is now picking up passengers WHO NEVER RETURN! Enter Tessa Scott, a high-profile city lawyer with a longing for the bush and a passion for helping out people in trouble. As more and more eyewitnesses vanish without trace, and a former university acquaintance goes missing, Tess heads for Mirambeena, looking for clues and answers to the question on everyone’s lips – is the Diablo material ... or ethereal?< Less
In the dark forests of 19th century Australia, something big and awful is lurking ... and super sleuths Burke and Wills are on its trail. If you loved Geoff Barlow's latest adventure "Moonlight... More > Express" you'll really appreciate this original yarn.< Less
In 1967 a young geography teacher, David Makepeace, leads a party of 10 high-school students on an ambitious expedition into the Carnarvon Ranges, deep in the inhospitable Australian Outback. At... More > midnight on August 20 at the base of the treacherous Cave Hill, tragedy strikes and a young life is snuffed out. Fast forward to the near present, in 2000, and six of the survivors re-visit the tragic site at Cave Hill. But they are a vastly changed group: the years have worn hard on them, especially the experiences some have endured during the Vietnam War. The story is taken up by original group member now journalist, James Delbridge, as he recalls the excitement, achievements, and life-changing experiences of that arduous trip through the ranges in the Central Queensland highlands, and then what happens next at the reunion. Is that a ghost, a freak of nature, or something more sinister lurking in the wilderness?
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Sheila Irvine was not just any sheila. At a time when Australian women were subordinate and supposedly submissive she sought men on the streets and turned them impotent if they failed to sate her... More > appetite. She believed no man had the right to be a bachelor and married for a joke. She was successfully sued for slander. And she chronicled her life in the white heat of emotion for 68 years. She wrote without euphemisms and no subject was taboo. 'Not Any Sheila: A Woman at War' chronicles Australian 20th century working-class social history.< Less
"Cases that changed the law" is Graham Fricke's plain-English digest of landmark international legal cases which should be compulsory reading for all law students, a useful refresher for... More > practicing lawyers ... and a revealing read for anyone who finds themselves inside a courtroom wondering what is going on!< Less
"Cases that changed the law" is Graham Fricke's plain-English digest of landmark international legal cases which should be compulsory reading for all law students, a useful refresher for... More > practicing lawyers ... and a revealing read for anyone who finds themselves inside a courtroom wondering what is going on!< Less
Mae Rose, is a self-confessed 'nothinger'. Her dad has called her Mae-be from the day she was born. She's his bundle of possibilities. All her life she's proven him right. She gets good grades but is... More > not the sportiest, coolest or cleverest girl in school. Mae-be has no siblings to hate and no history of abuse, self or otherwise. When she finds herself pregnant, Mae-be has a lot to learn. She learns the hypocrisy of some, the kindness of others and the need for making a life after she brings one into the world. Along the way she learns a lot about herself, via her mother's story. Ma, as Mae calls her, had her own, illegitimate child at twenty. In the days when the legal voting age was twenty-one, and women weren't worth educating, she was forced to give her daughter up for adoption. Two weeks after adoptive legislation changes, the phone rings and her daughter wants to speak with her. Mae-be Roses follows a mother's story, from rumour, to truth, to a touching reunion.< Less
Ung Van Anh was born in Vietnam in 1944 and has lived through some of the most turbulent years of Vietnam's recent history. He left Vietnam in 1962 for the US but was deported back there in 1968... More > during the major communist push we now know as the Tet Offensive. His writings were read during the war on Radio Hanoi and he now works as an English teacher in his home town Phan Thiet. Mr Ung's stories about boat refugees, Vietnamese village life and the challenges faced by US nationals in understanding the conflict will surely interest many readers, some of whom will have shared his experiences.< Less
This is the story of a few years in Vierentia Beukes's life through the 1940s and 50s, when she was a girl being reared in a conservative Afrikaner home in South Africa. And the story of how she... More > dealt with the most desperate moment of all, her own death. Her daughter, Annelize Britz, writes: Vierentia, I salute you!< Less
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