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Two years after finishing his tour of duty in the Occupational Forces in Japan, Damson O'Reilly arrives in Siena, Italy. Sight-unseen at a local auction, he buys an abandoned Tuscan farmhouse in which he aims to write, paint, and start a new life. The house, passed over at auction, becomes an impulse buy when it's put up for a final time. He's prepared for a semi-ruin, happy to turn his hand to renovating the house - however, what he's totally...

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I swear to God it was Willoughby. My brother stood not two feet away from me, called me Lina to my face, and pulled Harley into his arms, saying he was sorry, sobbing, and calling him his boy." An apparition in Sydney's fruit and vegetable market leaves the mother of one of Clyde's best friends believing that her brother, hanged for murder twenty-four years beforehand, has somehow risen from the grave and confronted her. She is adamant that th...

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There's no deal unless you tell me who killed Lucretia, Thomas! For the love of God, I have to know-" "She was shot by an assassin." "But who was this assassin? Who shot her?" he demanded again angrily, leaning forward over the table. "I did, " I said, after a suitably dramatic pause. He threw his head back and laughed loudly, his arms crossed on his chest. "You?" he said once he'd regained his breath. "You? Thomas Haupner, the violinist? The ...

Six deaths, if we include his, my father's, and Fabrice's, Andy, " I whispered. "All because of a simple, insignificant error of judgement-Fabrice Evans just gave the wrong address to a madman."A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, "Australia's Son", the most renowned operatic baritone of his day.It is 1902, and Edward has just returned to the Metropole Hotel after a performance of La Bohè...

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As bombs rain down over London during the Blitz, Major Tommy Haupner negotiates the rubble-filled streets of Bloomsbury on his way to perform at a socialite party. The explosive event of the evening is not his virtuosic violin playing, but the 'almost-blond' American who not only insults him, but then steals his heart.The Seventh of December follows a few months in the lives of two Intelligence agents in the early part of World War Two. Set ag...

Six deaths, if we include his, my father's, and Fabrice's, Andy, " I whispered. "All because of a simple, insignificant error of judgement--Fabrice Evans just gave the wrong address to a madman."A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, "Australia's Son", the most renowned operatic baritone of his day.It is 1902, and Edward has just returned to the Metropole Hotel after a performance of La Boh...

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The House With a Thousand StairsWarrambool.In Gamilaraay, the language of the Kamilaroi peoples of north-western New South Wales, it's the word for The Milky Way. It's also the name of Peter Dixon's homestead and sheep station, situated in the lee of the Liverpool Ranges.In 1947, Peter returns from war, his parents and younger brother dead, the property de-stocked and his older brother, Ron, having emptied out the family bank account and nowhe...

I'm sorry I have to tell you this, Harry, but Daley Morrison was murdered. It was no heart attack. He was stabbed through the heart and then staked out, naked, in the middle of the Sydney Cricket Ground as some sort of warning to someone." Harry Jones almost fell into his chair, such was his shock.Clyde Smith is brought into the investigation by his former colleague, Sam Telford, after a note is found in the evidence bags with Clyde's initials...

Six deaths, if we include his, my father's, and Fabrice's, Andy, " I whispered. "All because of a simple, insignificant error of judgement-Fabrice Evans just gave the wrong address to a madman."A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, "Australia's Son", the most renowned operatic baritone of his day.It is 1902, and Edward has just returned to the Metropole Hotel after a performance of La Bohè...

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The Boys of Bullaroo is a collection of six short stories, each set a decade apart, spanning the period from the Great War to the Vietnam conflict.All of the main characters have a connection in some way with a mythical Australian outback town, Bullaroo, somewhere west of the Great Dividing Range. They appear as protagonists in their own stories, and then are sometimes woven into other tales peripherally, or as minor characters.In the days bef...