This book unpacks the Michael Chekhov acting technique as interpreted and taught by 2 of the great American teachers - Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan - who have collectively taught the Michael Chekhov Technique for over 80 years across the world and who jointly founded the Michael Chekhov School in 2014.The author brings Pugh's and Sloan's own interpretations of, and first-hand access to, Michael Chekhov to the reader and, through doing so, makes the Technique fluid, simp...

In the heat of forbidden choices, three hearts collide.This collection gathers five romances that refuse to follow the rules. An older woman learns desire doesn’t fade with time it sharpens when shared. A fake wedding date turns into something real when the act feels too close to truth. Two best friends cross the line they swore was untouchable, only to find the bond between them far stronger than they imagined. Rivals meet in the shadows, trading barbs and touches, proving that wa...

They call her 'the gangbuster'.The police force can be a tough place for a woman, but Detective Superintendent Deborah Wallace rose to the top with grace, humour and an iconic sense of style. In her incredible 36-year career with NSW Police, Wallace took on murderers and drug suppliers, and dismantled the state's most nefarious gangs.Tenacious, perceptive and sharp, Wallace commanded a range of police crime squads, bringing order to the wild west of 1990s C...

Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia.The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural origin, ridiculing anyone who dared contradict this view. Tech giants swept the internet, censoring and silencing debate in the most extreme fashion. Y...

From the bestselling author of Family Secrets, with new novel At the End of the Day out now."[A Month of Sundays] demonstrates the capacity of a book to act as a mirror to the soul and an eloquent guide to a more contented future." Weekend AustralianFor over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Until now...Determined to enjoy her imminent retirement,...

A father’s obsession. A daughter’s quest.Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern—too old, now—for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there: an old enmity.When Joshua Grayling is offered the chance for a reckoning with his nemesis, Eliza is horrified. It involves a sea voyage with an uncertain, probably violent,...

SHE’S A WOMAN IN A MAN’S WORLD ... Sydney, 1946. Billie Walker is living life on her own terms. World War Two has left her bereaved, her photojournalist husband missing and presumed dead. Determined not to rely on any man for her future, she re-opens her late father’s detective agency. Billie’s bread and butter is tailing cheating spouses – it’s easy, pays the bills and she has a knack for it. But her latest case, the disappearance of a young man, is not proving straightforward ... Soon Bi...

1850: A sea-chest full of books arrives for Antonio Mateus Carvalho Cabral, the younger son of a family of whalers on the small volcanic island of Pico ...The Carvalho brothers - handsome Marcelinho and clever Antonio - are destined to spend their lives hunting whales. But the arrival of an unexpected gift changes both their lives forever. As the younger Carvalho discovers the fascinating world of the whale, a chasm opens between the two brothers, made all...

Welcome to the world of the Private School Princesses, where our heroine Mim has to do battle with the Car Park Mafia and the Mothers Superior as she drops her children off at the most prestigious school in Melbourne. But in between keeping up with the Joneses - or in this case the Mason-Jacksons - cracks are starting to show in Mim's perfect life as money gets tighter and her husband works ever longer hours. If her two best friends have similar problems, Mim would never know - the Gucci M...

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Enchanting and haunting'RACHEL RODDY'A fable for our times'SPECTATOR'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original'LUCIE ELVEN'A seaside Gothic tale teeming with superstition and mistrust'READINGS MONTHLYGiulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. ...

Love was never meant to be simple and when three hearts collide, rules break.A shared apartment stops being just walls and rent when two roommates realize the woman between them won’t choose. A billionaire’s careful game of contracts and staged affection twists into something real, leaving all three caught between lies and longing. In a quiet town, the minister’s daughter learns sin and salvation aren’t so different when temptation takes on human form. Under the glare of cameras, r...

**'This is a wonderful novel, both uplifting and heartbreaking.' Good Reading Magazine (5 star review)SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2020**You can talk about living in the Mallee. And you can talk about a Mallee tree. And you can talk about the Mallee itself: a land and a place full of red sand and short stubby trees. Silent skies. The undulating scorch of summer plains. Quiet, on the surface of things.But Elise wasn't f...