Recently widowed, the beautiful and flirtatious Lady Susan Vernon seeks a new marriage to make her way into high society. Jane Austen’s first novella presents a delightful journey of Regency manners through the author’s timeless expression of elegance, charm and wittiness.
Melbourne , Australia, it is 1955. A four-year old child, Isla, is seated at a piano. She digs out her scrunched sheet music from her school bag, flattens it out and places it before her. She looks about an unfamiliar room, where windows frame the wild unforgiving
landscape of the Orkney Islands, before resting her tiny fingers on the old upright ......
Is this a novel? Or a biography? Graeme Cohen is so close to his true life subject, that imagined events and conversations seem exactly real. Martin Gardiner, colonial Australia’s most published mathematician, was better at attracting supporters and women than at caring for them, or protecting himself. Cohen’s warts and all story is true to ......
The Heather to The Hawkesbury
Follows Mary Macdonald and her family; her brother Fergus MacKenzie; sister-in-law Caro MacLeod; cousins the Fraser and all their families who have had to emigrate from the Isle of Skye during the “Clearances”. The story follows the four families from Scotland, on the ship out and to the NSW colony in ......
Book 1 in the ‘Lockley’s of Parramatta’ series:- The small town of Parramatta in New South Wales, is a rough place in the early 1830s. Convicts and ruffians galore.
Ex convicts Annie and Sam, ave their lives turned upside down when late in life their famiy history is finally revealed.Finally, they end up back in England, facing their ghosts and discover they are not whom they think they are.
Ricky has always been more comfortable around animals than people, so he is devastated when vandals break into the school and kill many of the animals kept in his classroom, including Bogart, the boa constrictor. Inspired by real events in the author’s own life, Ricky is one of Eric Walters’s most personal novels.
Set during the gold rush days, The Promised Landconcludes Mudrooroos fantastical voyage through the history of Australia around the time of its colonisation by the British. This is satire at its most cutting, and entertaining. Sir George Augustus returns to the Great South Land with his young wife, Lady Lucy...
Thirty new and classic cocktail recipes inspired by the colorful and controversial Winston Churchill. This charming book from the Imperial War Museums features dozens of cocktail recipes, each accompanied by detailed instructions, an ingredients list, and a short description of how the drink is inspired by British former head of state Winston ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423392
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM