One Illumined Thread
Sally Colin-James
Paperback 2023
One Illumined Thread is one of those rare books that will stay with you. The historical depth and authentic character development keep your mind (and heart) immersed long after that…
Those Girls
Pamela Rushby
Paperback 2024
A new historical novel by multi-award winning author Pamela Rushby published by Walker Books 3 April 2024. The poster had a picture of a tanned, healthy girl, wearing a regulation…
The Mud Puddlers
Pamela Rushby
Hardcover 2023
Mud larking on the Thames in London can be a dangerous thing … What lies hidden in the mud? What might happen if you look at it too long? And…
Her Sunburnt Country
Deborah FitzGerald
Hardcover 2023
Her Sunburnt Country. The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar The biography of Dorothea Mackellar illuminates the life of a poet who gave Australia arguably the best known and most…
the swift dark tide
Katia Ariel
Paperback 2023
What happens when, in the middle of a happy heterosexual marriage, a woman falls in love with another woman? The Swift Dark Tide is a story of selfhood and desire, of…
To Carve Identity
Susan Steggall
Paperback 2024
Novels traditionally end with a ‘happily ever after’. To carve identity begins with a ‘happily into the future’. In 1949 Ellie Gilmartin returned to her native Glasgow after going to…
Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey
Sally Jane Smith
Paperback 2024
When a long-forgotten, apartheid-era arrest record derails Sally’s plans for a Canadian family holiday, she packs her mum’s 1978 travel diary and sets out solo for Greece instead. As she…
The Wild Date Palm
Diane Armstrong
Paperback 2024
Diane Armstrong is a child Holocaust survivor who arrived in Australia in 1948. She is a prizewinning journalist and the author of eight bestselling books . Her historical novel Nocturne won…