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The Mademoiselle Alliance Natasha Lester. How did a young Parisienne mother, celebrated for her beauty and glamour, come to lead the largest spy network in France? A powerful, heartbreaking historical novel by the New York Times bestselling author.Morocco, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Madeleine is not the kind of woman who goes through life sitting down, something

No Place Quite Like It: The Family History of Walter Withers and Fanny Flinn David Rathgen – Eltham District Historical Society. Until now there has been no family history of Walter Withers (1854-1914), a notable but underestimated Australian landscape artist of the Heidelberg school. For nearly 200 years his Birmingham ancestors had worked as tailors,

Vanish Shelley Burr. People go to the isolated Karpathy farm looking for a new life… and are never seen again. A chilling thriller from the award-winning and bestselling author of Australian noir, Shelley Burr. Lane Holland’s crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison. With his parole hearing approaching, he faces the grim reality that

The Reunion Bronwyn Rivers. Ten years ago, six teenagers hiked into the Blue Mountains wilderness – and only five came out alive.The survivors have barely seen each other since the tragic bushwalk. Yet when an invitation arrives to attend a 10-year memorial of their friend’s death, Hugh, Charlotte, Alex,Laura and Jack find themselves travelling back

Tracings Barry J Conn. Four brothers and a sister emigrated from Ireland to the colony of Victoria between 1853 and 1858.  They came as part of the gold rush, but not because of the lure of gold. They came to farm the new pastoral and agricultural estates. Life in Northern Ireland during the early 19th Century,

Dancers on the Sea: Stories of Atauro Island, Timor Leste. 1994 – 2002 Gabrielle Samson. Dancers on the Sea This story tells of a woman’s life on Atauro Island, learning its history and culture as she worked with the community to improve living conditions through education. The memoir shares the stories of some of the