Historical Fiction
Aurelia Rubbini, the only child of a rich merchant in fourteenth century Italy, has been raised to be a dutiful daughter, wife and mother. Then one day, her father brings home from a buying trip an Asian slave boy, Batu, who will reshape Aurelia’s destiny. Aurelia and Batu are inexorably drawn to each other, but Aurelia is destined for an arranged marriage to further her father’s political ambitions. When Aurelia marries Lorenzo de Graziano, a nobleman with a dangerous reputation, Batu goes with her for her protection. But Batu’s presence arouses violent passions that Aurelia, in her innocence, can never understand.
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‘Your Darling, Em’ by Brian Ridden
Your Darling, Em tells a beautiful, inspiring love story, passionate, tender and tough. Washington Roebling knew that without his Emily he could never complete the Brooklyn Bridge. She knew that his sustained illness gave her the opportunity to use her talents in exciting work. But Emily kept secrets to preserve his reputation and because her actions often flouted society’s rules for educated, married women. Your darling, Em explores the intimate story of love and marriage behind the building of the famous bridge. Emily tells her story as it has never been revealed before.
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Towards the end of World War Two, a group of Latvian soldiers escapes the Red Army’s siege of Danzig. Risking the Baltic Sea in unseaworthy river ferries, they land as refugees in neutral Sweden. They are interned and while in detention are repeatedly assured they will be freed. Within weeks of their arrival, the Swedish Cabinet concludes a secret deal with Soviet Russia. In exchange for Polish coal vital to Sweden’s steel industry, the Swedish government will deport to the Red Army all the military refugees who have fought on the Eastern Front. Based on actual events, Castle of Light starkly dramatises the collision between humanity and politics that generates hunger strikes, suicide and murder.
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Colonial Australia
Transported - A Pioneer's Story by Terry Spring
Step back in time to the early 1800s and the story of a real life convict, George Smith, found guilty of stealing a watch in London. Rich in day-to-day detail, a mixture of fact and fiction, Transported tells of his death sentence, pardon and his years as the first white man to survive in the unexplored New South Wales countryside. Sent to a burgeoning colony on the other side of the world, this remarkable man raised himself from poverty to become one of the wealthiest men in Dubbo.
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To Care for Lisbet by Brian Ridden
When slavery was outlawed, plantation owners turned to the exploitive trade in contract labour to work the sugar cane fields of Australia. South Sea Islander, Orrani, is contracted to care for Lizzie after her mother's death. In a climate of wide cultural difference and racial discord, mutual understanding and respect develop over three decades. Then their lives are shattered by treachery as the government launches deportation of Island labourers who have brought it prosperity.
‘Beautiful, enduring... evocative, engaging characters, a brilliant picture of rural colonial life.’
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Jack Yang, orphaned in a horrific incident during the Tai Ping Revolution in China, seeks a new life far away in the tin mines at Emu Flat in Tasmania, as do many of his fellow Chinese. Emu Flat is also a magnet for misfits and fortune-hunters, including the evil Wu Ying, and Terry and Lizzie, two working girls in the guise of English teachers. Terry falls in love with Jack but he, recognising Wu Ying as the one who destroyed his family, is obsessed with exacting a savage revenge.
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The West Coast Saga
West Coast Reins by Beverley Bassett Broad
Georgia Bellamy knew there were family secrets. But it is not until her mother dies that she can easily undertake the search for her ancestral links. In doing so she discovers her great-great-grandmother Emelia’s journals telling of her voyage across the world to the West Coast of New Zealand. But while Georgia is innocently immersing herself in Emelia's life, her search for descendants has alerted others to her existence and triggered a conspiracy born of greed that will put her very life in danger.
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Fools’ Gold by Beverley Bassett Broad
When Louis Benoit disappears from the gold fields of Hokitaka leaving his wife Emelia pregnant, everyone thinks he has been murdered for the gold he was carrying home from a packing trip. However, he has been intercepted by his business partner and ex-girlfriend and persuaded to accompany them to finance a secret mission in search of a large amount of gold lost in the shipwreck of the 'General Grant'.
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Erupting Lies by Beverley Bassett Broad
When her husband, Louis Benoit, absent for a decade, re-enters Emelia’s life, there are secrets each has to hide from the other. Both believe that their future together depends upon keeping hidden the lies of the past. Louis struggles with the spectre of the ex-prostitute, Donna, with whom he spent ten years as her defacto husband, while Emelia hides the truth about her illegitimate daughter Eva.
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The Red Cedar - Red Gold Saga
Red Cedar - Red Gold by Ian Ridgway
When Robert Andrews stepped into the morning cold of the timber village of Brown’s Landing, he could never have imagined how his life would change. With the demons of his wartime experiences dogging every step, the very last thing wanted was a confrontation with the richest man in town – especially since he was falling in love with the man’s fiancée.
Based on true stories, Red Cedar – Red Gold accurately portrays life in the 1920s, showing the old and the new, woven into a story of love, perseverance, courage and humour.
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Burying the Ghosts of the Past by Ian Ridgway
It’s the ‘Great Depression’ and with desperate times come desperate actions and timber baron, Winston Montague, calls upon all his deviousness in an attempt to destroy his bitter rival, Robert Andrews, once and for all.
Throughout all the adventures it is the fabulous red cedar that binds action, history, romance and deception with its golden thread.
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All Things Return to the Beginning by Ian Ridgway
In the exciting conclusion to the Red Cedar – Red Gold trilogy, the people of Brown’s Landing are recovering from six years of war, yet for all the thankfulness and hope in the future, the bitter jealousy of one man surfaces again in a last desperate attempt to gain control of his sworn enemy. As the influx of wartime machinery changes the timber mills forever, it is the quest for the last of the giant timber cedar trees that brings out the worst in one man and the best in another.
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