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The wind is whispering in Woody Creek...Change is in the air...It's 1958 and Woody Creek is being dragged kicking and screaming into the swinging sixties. Jenny's daughters, Cara and Georgie, are now young women. They have inherited their mother's hands, but that is where their similarity ends. Raised separately, they have never met. A mistake from Cara's teenage years looms over her future, but she believes emphatically in the white wedding and happily ever after myth. Georgie has seen enough of marriage and motherhood. She plans to live her life as her grandmother did, independent of a man. But life for the Morrison girls has never been easy, and once the sisters are in each other's lives, long-buried secrets are bound to be unearthed, the dramatic consequences of which no-one could have predicted...Described as ‘...very Australian, very real, very country small town and very well written.’ -
The fifth andfinal Steeley adventure. Steeley, Tubby and Brian accept an invitation to help reform and train the air force of a Central American country but soon discover that it is not going to be a straight-forward commercial enterprise but rather an "adventure" or perhaps even a "misadventure". -
Book II of The Century trilogy. This volume picks up immediately after Fall Of Giants. Five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, Welsh - enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits a deed of great courage and heartbreak; American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific; English student Lloyd Williams discovers, in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War, that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism; Daisy Peshkov, a driven American social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set, until the war transforms her life, not just once but twice, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war -but the war to come. Jacket Image: A watch found on the body of a victim of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6 1945. The watch stopped at 8.15 a.m. when the bomb exploded. Getty Images © -
Book I of the Conqueror series. A man without a tribe was at great risk, so the young boy abandoned with his siblings on the harsh Mongolian plains has to struggle for life. He survived both starvation and hostile attack by learning leadership skills and gathering a group of outsiders and outcasts like himself. He dreamed of uniting the tribes into one house, one nation. He became a great warrior who would be a father to his people. He would be Genghis Khan.
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All Evyind has ever wanted is to become one of the greatest Viking warriors - a Wolfskin - and fight for his leader in the name of the Warfather God Thor. But his friend, the strange and lonely Somerled, has other plans. A childhood blood-oath binds the two in loyalty. A world away, Nessa, niece of King Engus of the Folk, begins to learn the Mysteries. Evyind and Somerled seem set to follow different paths - one becomes a fearless servant of Thor, the other a scholarly courtier. But a voyage of exploration led by Somerled's brother Ulf brings the two together as they accompany a group of settlers to the beautiful islands rumoured to lie across the western sea. When a tragic accident occurs on board ship, Evyind suspects that it may not have been an accident. Ulf's new settlement begins in harmony with the natives of the island led by King Engus. When a brutal murder occurs the peace is shattered and Evyind begins to feel the ties of his blood-oath and realises the future Somerled planned all those years ago...
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The sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. Kingsbridge, 1327: two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge - and this time the descendants of Aliena and Jack, and others find themselves at the crossroads of new ideas - medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice - and there are those who are determined to cling fiercely to the old ways.On the day after Hallowe'en, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest, they witness the murder of two men. As adults, their lives become intertwined by desire, determination, avarice and retribution. They will experience the worst natural disaster to befall mankind - the Black Death - and they will also experience prosperity, famine and war. Yet they will always live under the shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day... -
The sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. Kingsbridge, 1327: two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge - and this time the descendants of Aliena and Jack, and others find themselves at the crossroads of new ideas - medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice - and there are those who are determined to cling fiercely to the old ways.On the day after Hallowe'en, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest, they witness the murder of two men. As adults, their lives become intertwined by desire, determination, avarice and retribution. They will experience the worst natural disaster to befall mankind - the Black Death - and they will also experience prosperity, famine and war. Yet they will always live under the shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day... -
The building of a road to link the Sudan with Southern Transjordania, part of which crosses the Sinai Peninsula, is being sabotaged. The local natives are being supplied with weapons and ammunition to stop construction and Cedric Collington of the Foreign Office wants help in finding out who the smugglers are and how the guns are getting into the country. Air Commodore Raymond sends Worrals and Frecks to Alexandria to investigate. Drug smugglers, shady gun and ammunition deals, mysterious strangers and desert sheiks all play their roles in the adventures of the two heroines. -
Fargo 12. Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries. Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on the adventure of a lifetime, hunting the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. But they weren't the only ones. Someone else is after the gold, and he's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way. When Sam and Remi run afoul of a criminal drug-running operation, their hopes of finding the treasure are dashed. But with Sam's ingenuity and Remi's determination, they survive their confrontation with the drug runners, and manage to send one of the key players to prison. Though the cache of gold is never found, life goes on. Sam and Remi marry - and years later return to Greece to find the one treasure that got away. Time becomes their enemy when the kingpin they helped send to prison over a decade ago is released - and he has two goals in mind. Find the legendary hoard of King Croesus, and kill Sam and Remi Fargo. The Fargos know that as long as this gold is out there, no one is safe. They return to Greece for a final showdown - and one last chance to find that elusive treasure.
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