"A funny, sharp and wildly relatable women’s fiction novel about midlife reinvention, starting over, and one woman who decides she’s had enough.Perfect for readers looking for a smart, escapist beach read about life after 40, big decisions, and what happens next."‘It’s two months on a Greek island,’ I said, ‘working holiday.’‘The kids didn’t mention anything,’ he said.‘That’s b...

Constantinople, 1919. Joshua Connor, an Australian farmer, arrives in Turkey to fulfil a pledge made on his wife's grave - to find the bodies of their three sons, lost in Gallipoli, and bring them home.In the enemy city Connor meets Orhan, a mischievous Turkish boy, and his mother Ayshe, who is struggling to keep her family hotel afloat and rebuild her life after the war.Connor can trace life-giving water under the earth, but finding his sons at Gallipoli seems impossible w...

When the Great War ends, Joshua Connor, a grieving farmer and sometime water diviner from the Mallee in Victoria, sets out to fulfil his wife's dying wish - to travel to Gallipoli to recover the bodies of his three sons and bury them in consecrated ground. Crescent collides with cross, and hope with reason as he discovers that his eldest son, Art, may still be alive. When Connor makes a desperate dash into the perilous heart of Anatolia one question haunts him: If Art is alive, why hasn't ...

A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and...

A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and...

When the Great War ends, Joshua Connor, a grieving farmer and sometime water diviner from the Mallee in Victoria, sets out to fulfil his wife's dying wish – to travel to Gallipoli to recover the bodies of his three sons and bury them in consecrated ground. Crescent collides with cross, and hope with reason as he discovers that his eldest son, Art, may still be alive. When Connor makes a desperate dash into the perilous heart of Anatolia one question haunts him: if Art is alive, why hasn't ...

A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' KATE MOSSE'Superb storytelling' DINAH JEFFERIESDiscover a brilliant story of intrigue, romance and betrayal in 1930s Italy, from the internationally bestselling author . . . .Italy, 1932 - Mussolini's Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at w...

Journalist Chris Baxter is at a crossroads. When he returns with his teenage daughter to live with his mother Susan in the beautiful township of Neverend, Chris hopes to pick up the pieces after his life takes an unexpected turn.But life in the small town turns out to be far from idyllic. Soon Chris discovers that opportunities for employment are few and far between and it's not long before he finds himself in increasingly dire financial straits.He thinks his prayers are answ...

A riveting story of courage, hope and extraordinary adventure."You will hardly read a more fascinating account of a convict's voyage to Australia" Australian Book ReviewThirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious business.Wh...

"the home grown version of Wilbur Smith" The Sunday AgeIt is 1942 and the war in the Pacific is on Australia's doorstep, changing the lives of the Duffy and Macintosh families as never before.In Sydney, siblings Donald and Sarah Macintosh battle for their father's approval, and control of his empire, while their cousin David fights the enemy across the continents.US Marine Pilot James Duffy defies his grandfather's wishes, and, a n...

Savannah Smith's been hurt by life. She doesn't need people, then she meets Ethan Daly. In the peace of Riverboat Point, magic can happen.From the award-winning author of Right as Rain and Queen of the Road.Savannah has a chip on her shoulder. And no wonder: apart from her tough teenage years, a car accident not only claimed her parents' lives, but left her with permanent injuries.She's not close to her little brother Jax ...