Question: What do you get when you cross a not-so-lovable rogue with an uptight lawyer and throw a little Elvis into the mix? Answer: A thoroughly ripping page-turner of a yarn and a permanent residency in Heartbreak Hotel. Ellie Russell could certainly be forgiven for thinking somebody up there doesn't like her. Laugh with her, cry with her - be very glad you're not her!

Charles Stoker, in 1910, is a brilliant young engineer and inventor with a wonderful career before him. Given a unique opportunity by the powerful Collick family to test his inventions and serve his country, he enlists in the Royal Flying Corps. In 1918, Major Stoker returns home to his wife and child, bones and dreams shattered by his experience and refusing any contact with his former life and colleagues. Only after he is shockingly killed, eight years later, does the distraught Milly Stoker begin to discover the truth about her husband's war. ...

This is a fictional plot, set in scenes, of a vivid World War I espionage drama.

Kathryn, a young successor to the power of light, comes home to Centra to take up her rightful place as the next sorceress of the Five Crowns, only to find five Tralian princes missing. One of them is her own brother, Kerwyn. Kathryn's journey to her new home is far from easy as she is chased by bandits for most of the way, but on the way back she is given the magic book of the previous sorcerers of Tralia and through it, Kathryn finds a way home by using one of the seven magic portals, which are hidden around Tralia. As she travels around Tralia, she must ...

A super-rich eminent plastic surgeon, driven insane by grief over the death of his beloved mother who was the light of his life and a celebrity in her own right. Two young, pretty, innocent schoolgirls out riding their bicycles. An FBI criminal profiler assisting a hugely built Chief Superintendent, his handsome young Inspector and attractive female detective constable. These are just some of the characters whose lives become intertwined in this fast-paced, gritty tale of abduction and murder. A gripping and page-turning epic that all tastes will enjoy from ...

Fiction based on fact, this a story of the search by the Germans and British to establish how far the other has reached in the development of a jet-engined fighter plane prior to WW2. In UK, the Germans use a dissident South-African-born engineer who lost both parents in the Boer War and harbours a resentment against the British government. Dogged police work eventually exposes him. In Germany, the British lose their experienced agent and are forced to use two reserve officers to fill the gap. The two are discovered by the German Security Forces in the act ...

In 1912, against a backdrop of growing feminist and national movements, the Australian public united behind a fundraising campaign to send two female swimmers to Stockholm to compete, for the first time, at an Olympic Games. Coogee resident, Mina Wylie, was one of those women, and after winning silver at the 1912 Olympics she went on to become one of the greatest swimmers Australia ever produced. Her career coincided with a growing view of beach culture and swimming as essential to a unique Australian way of life, and Mina became a role model for the vigorous ...

Only a few selected humans know aliens have already invaded Earth, and those who ignore the truth must be kept in ignorance. What would their reaction be? Would it trigger war? Nobody knows and nobody wishes to know, but the relationship held between both worlds slowly starts sinking into an unavoidable conflict. Kyra's identity is kept secret from humans. To them, she must appear normal and anonymous; be no one special, and act like everyone else. But despite her adaptability, her identity always pulls her back to her roots; she isn't made to fit in a narrow-minded ...

Life's a ride. Please keep all love, compassion and positive energy inside the carriage at all times. Thank you. The Measurement of Souls is a book for anyone feeling a little lost or out of place. It's for anyone feeling like the jigsaw piece that just can't find another to click into. It is a book for ordinary people and is the candid gateway into the mind of a young, everyday girl. Exploring themes of love, loss and living life, it aims to bring new perspectives to light and eradicate loneliness. One thing the education system fails to teach is that it's ...

Max and Mason were mischievous boys and always the best of friends. They got into many scrapes. This is the one that most children remember. Who, in all innocence, would attempt to 'steal' a penguin from a zoo?