Historical Adventure Fiction

<\strong>A lyrical tale of the struggle for women's rights, and following your heart to unexpected places, from a master storyteller. For readers of Fiona McIntosh, Nicole Alexander and Natasha Lester.<\strong><\p> Sydney, Christmas, 1901. Federation has been achieved but Austral...ian women are yet to gain the right to vote in their new nation's elections. <\p> Bolshy, boisterous Frankie Merriweather is a passionate advocate for women's rights, determined to dedicate herself to the cause, never marrying or becoming a mother. She can't understand her artistic sister Ivy, who wants a life of ease and beauty with her soon-to-be fiance, law student Patrick Earle. <\p> Meanwhile, their married sister Aggie volunteers in an orphanage, decrying the inequality of Australia's social classes ... and longing to hold a baby in her arms. <\p> When an accident takes Ivy, wounded and ill, into the violent and lawless zone of the Hawkesbury River, a year of change begins. Ivy's burgeoning friendship with her saviour Riley Logan, a smuggler, and his sister, the poverty stricken but valiant Fiona, will alter the lives of all three women forever. <\p>
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Nick Miller is Central Division's maverick Detective Sergeant. Disliked and distrusted by friends and foes, he works alone. He gets physical. And he gets results.

AD 105: Dacia. The Dacian kingdom and Rome are at peace, but no one thinks that it will last. An authentic, action-packed adventure set on Rome's Danubian frontier.

AD 173. Against the might of Imperial Rome, Sarmatia stands alone. After a disastrous battle on the frozen Danube, a band of Sarmatian horsemen try to keep their nation alive in the face of Rome's overwhelming might. A quest that will take them over the sea, far to the North and ...into legend.
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Set across Paris, Amsterdam and London, Kate Mosse is back for the second novel in The Burning Chambers quartet, as the Joubert family find themselves caught up in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.