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Deborah Challinor
The second captivating novel featuring intrepid heroine Tatty Crowe and the fascinating world of Sydney's Victorian funeral business, from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor. Sydney, 1871. Twenty-five-year-old widow Tatty…
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A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker. 'Men have been undertakers for…
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Rowie’s pro-war, her sister Jo’s a protester. And they’re both in Vietnam. The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of From the AshesIn 1969, at the height of…
Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns with a spellbinding novel about a woman living in Sydney’s notorious King’s Cross in 1964.
Includes excerpt from House of sorrows .
A story of love, family, adventure and intrigue, set against backdrops of the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand and the Opium Wars in China.
When Kitty and Rian…
It’s 1969 and Davey lives to surf with his older brother Tom and listen to the latest hits. Daveys most cherished goal is to win the inaugural Newcastle Under-14 Surf…
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Kitty and Rian must battle to be reunited as they fight for their lives and watch friends and enemies alike succumb to the madness of war and the fatal seduction…
When the Yarrowee River bursts its banks, Rian Farrell, a dashing Irish sea captain disappears in the torrential flood. Believing herself a widow, Kitty Farrell’s heart is left in tatters…
‘We were known to the enemy as “grey ghosts”. We could be here, and we could be there.’ - ‘Sniper’ “We were known to the enemy as ‘grey ghosts’. We…
On 3 February 1931, Napier is devastated by a powerful earthquake - and Tamar Murdoch, beloved matriarch of Kenmore, is seriously injured. As she recovers, Tamar is preoccupied with the…
When the first effects of the 1951 waterfront workers’ strike ripple through the country, Ellen McCabe - wife, mother, union supporter - is happy with her life in Pukemiro, a…
An historical romance based on the Ballantynes Department Store Fire in 1947 that killed 41 people, most of them store employees trapped in controversial circumstances.
In a thrilling tale of love and loss from the land wars - when simmering tensions between Maori and the encroaching Pakeha settlements exploded into bloody warfare - love and…
In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war, nurse Rowie Leonard is serving a 12-month tour of duty. She supports the war and is committed to caring for wounded…
On the gold fields of the colonies, enemies are easily made. In the confines of a ship, they can turn deadly.
It is 1863 and Kitty and Rian Farrell have…
