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Embers at Midnight
"The writing is beautiful and haunting. The characters are drawn with razor-sharp precision ... compelling reading of the highest standard, full of evocative triumph and tragedy." Goodreads In the calm of 1937, who could imagine the storms about to engulf a group of old friends at a sunny wedding? Some things are beyond imagination. Fierce pilot Billie is glad she's got a job at last — only trouble is it’s in some little dust-up in Spain. Secretive Toby has no wish to volunteer for anything: till he finds out for himself what blitzkrieg means. Newlywed Eliza is posted to Intelligence at Singapore — safer there than in London, she thinks. But when fortress Singapore is reduced to embers, it is actress Izabel who is forced to play the role of her life. Embers at Midnight is the second book in the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Non-Fiction.
The Turning Tide
Commandos in Timor 1942. Love in postwar Hiroshima. Promises made and forgotten. In 1982 Mike Whalen reluctantly visits his wartime commando base at rugged Wilsons Promontory, and is shocked to meet Lena, the granddaughter of his glamorous old friends, Helen and Johnny. When Johnny died he left behind a burden of secrets, and as Mike is drawn back into Lena’s family he’s overwhelmed by his past: growing up in wild Broome, tragic guerilla missions in Timor, desire in devastated Hiroshima, betrayal in the jazzy fifties. Before Mike can turn the bitter tides of memory he must rebuild his bonds with wartime mates and confront Helen, and himself, with the truth. A saga of adventure, passion and redemption in WWII Timor and atom-bombed Hiroshima, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Non-Fiction.
Testing the Limits
"Heartfelt and bittersweet. A delightful read, this beautifully written book comes highly recommended." Goodreads 1930s England: and for a group of friends it seems as if the sunny days of sailing, flying and love will never end. A deepwater sailing ship takes restless young Eliza McKee to a new life in glamorous London, but when she meets the handsome star of a talking film it’s not quite the life she expects. Eliza’s brother Pete yearns to fly, and pilot Billie Quinn can teach him. Pete calls her a sarcastic, scowling Amelia Earhart, but it’s Billie who knows how much Pete has to learn. Eliza’s aunt, actress Izabel Peres, hides a secret from the world. Then she falls for lawyer Fel...
The Bachelor's Agenda
First-term U.S. Senator Lance Michaels resists his campaign team involving his high school reunion in a re-election bid. He prefers keeping politics separate from his personal life. But his planned brief visit at the event goes awry when he runs into Kate Taylor. In the guise of a visiting alumna, Kate works undercover in order to jump from tabloid reporter to mainstream media. To succeed she must uncover dirt on the senator before the November election. Their attraction burns hotter than a Washington scandal and could put both their careers in jeopardy. When the smoke clears, nobody can guess who will be left standing.
The Lost Heiress of Hawkscliffe
Katherine Mackenzie agreed to catalogue the Ramsay oriental rug collection before she realized the drama playing out in the famous painter’s mansion. Ramsay’s heir, his exotic mistress Roxelana, had been missing for seven years and was about to be declared legally dead. Katherine wanted no part of the intrigue—until she noticed that in Roxelana’s portrait, the beauty was wearing the same ring that Katherine had inherited. Gothic by Joyce C. Ware; originally published by Zebra Gothic
Harbour of Secrets
The war is over. The reckoning is not. It's the hip 1950s on Sydney's shimmering harbour, but how do you reconcile a past that gave — and stole — so much? Tina runs Tempo jazz club at shady Kings Cross, keeping secrets with, and from, her beguiling boss Jimmy. And from her lonely husband. Harry yearns to forget his days in a Singapore prison camp, yet his friends won't let him. Nor will his conscience. Ex-pilot Billie now works at the flying-boat base. When her old lover Pete turns up with a new wife there's a lot she prefers to conceal. Even from herself. Yvonne rebuilds a life by the harbour with her beloved Klara. But secrets emerge when she publishes Harry's war memoir, and then no one can postpone the reckoning.
Silver Highways
"A beautiful and poignant coming of age romantic tale that kept me reading from start to finish." Goodreads. Lucy Fox is sailing to Melbourne in 1906 with her sister Rosa, when a tragic landfall leaves her life entangled with three seamen: gentle Sam, cynical Danny and beautiful Gideon. After Rosa's scandalous elopement, trader Min-lu draws Lucy into a new world of silks and spices and the silvery pearlshell of Broome: a port in the wild Australian north-west where breaking the rules is a way of life. The Great War begins and Lucy’s lover must go to sea, where ruthless U-boats are stalking the last of the great sailing ships. But even when peace returns, the influenza pandemic comes with it … and Lucy, far from home, discovers how bitterly she has been betrayed. Silver Highways is the foundation novel of the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Non-Fiction.
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HMAS Castlemaine
Fifty-six Australian corvettes went to war in the 1940s. Thirty years later most had been scrapped, and the hulk that was once HMAS Castlemaine was also heading for the breaker's yard. Then in 1973 the Maritime Trust of Australia came to the rescue, and its volunteers took Castlemaine home to her birthplace of Williamstown, Victoria. Over decades they restored her wartime configuration, and today maintain the heritage-registered corvette. HMAS Castlemaine, still afloat, tells her story of conflict in the Pacific - and of the young men who confronted its dangers with courage, hard work and good humour.
Encyclopedia of Microcomputers
"The Encyclopedia of Microcomputers serves as the ideal companion reference to the popular Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. Now in its 10th year of publication, this timely reference work details the broad spectrum of microcomputer technology, including microcomputer history; explains and illustrates the use of microcomputers throughout academe, business, government, and society in general; and assesses the future impact of this rapidly changing technology."
