Small, dark and intense, Simon grows up aware that there is something different about him, something that causes late-night quarrels and sometimes tears. With the rise of Hitler in Germany and the coming of war to Sweden's neighbours, the tensions increase. Befriending a young Jew, Isak, who is quickly taken under his mother's wing, enriches Simon's life, but makes it more difficult too - for Isak seems to fit in much better at home than Simon does himself. With the war's end comes the day that Simon, no longer a child, must be told the reason for his affinity for the lake and its surrounding oak trees; for the strange dreams of an old man beneath the waves; for his dark good looks and uncanny musical ability

Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, this remarkable story unfolds like a gothic thriller. For 150 years scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands.

Trapped in an arranged marriage to a veteran of the wars against Robert the Bruce, Lady Johanna FitzHenry has one last chance to escape. If a stranger can be found who is willing to swear to a court that she was secretly wed to him before her match to Sir Fulk de Enderby, Johanna will be set free.
Fleeing bounty hunters after the Battle of Boroughbridge where Edward II's army defeated the rebels, 'Gervase de Laval' is discovered on FitzHenry land and made and offer he cannot refuse.

Business is slow for Stephanie Plum, so when her Uncle Fred goes missing, Stephanie agrees to help look for him. Soon enough, Stephanie realizes that (once again) she's in over her head, and up to her neck in unanswered questions. Stephanie for the first time takes a job with Ranger at his company to make ends meet.
Why are there pictures of body parts in Uncle Fred's house? Why is a nasty bookie following Stephanie around? Could her Uncle's disappearance have something to do with two dollars? Why can't she bring in the certified midget FTA Randy Briggs?
Stephanie's stalker Benito Ramirez, from book one, is released and is back to irritate Stephanie some more.

Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages, and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. Her contemporaries were sometimes scandalised by her behaviour. She had been reared in a relaxed and licentious court - where the arts of the troubadours flourished - and was even said to have presdied over the fabled Courts of Love. Eleanor married in turn Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, and was the mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John. She lived to be 82.

On the 31st October 1999 Jesse Martin, in his yacht, Lionheart, completed the last great adventure of the twentieth century becoming the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. He was eighteen years old and didn't know the meaning of impossible. After 50 000km and 328 days at sea he returned home to Port Phillip Bay and a waiting crowd of 20 000 onlookers, having lived his dream.

With millions of devoted fans, Tom Jones is not only one of the most successful singers of all time but he has sustained his popularity over an incredible four decades. Robin Eggar has talked to close friends, family, business associates in England and the United States, and to Tom Jones himself, and paints a rounded portrait of the man from the Welsh Valleys who has become a pop legend.

In 1952, travelling steerage, Malachy McCourt left a childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, heading for the promise of New York. This is the story of what he brought with him, and what he thought he'd left behind. Armed with savage humour and a gift for story telling, fueled by rage and the desire never to go hunfry again, he ran from the memories of a drunken, vanished father and the humiliations of Angela, his mother.

Life in Japan for a transplanted Californian with a fledgling antiques business and a nonexistent love life isn't always fun, but when the flower arranging class Rei Shimura's aunt cajoles her into taking turns into a stage for murder, Rei finds plenty of excitement she's been missing.

At the Palais Rocco Dr Clare Burtonall is taking dancing lessons withe her young lover Bonn, hired from the Pleases Escort Agency. The vibrant dance hall is a world away from the disused garage across town in which one Terence Dulworth is facing a terrifyingly brutal death. Or is it? For Dulworth, aka Dulsie, was a 'fixer' for important businessmen of the city, including Clare's ex-husband Clifford. A fact not lost on Detective Inspector Hassell, leading the murder investigation......