First Australians

Officer Lucy is panty-melting hot, but I can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t right. Can I really trust her? When Sarah follows her best friend to live in the big city away from the small outback down they had both called home their entire lives, Sarah quickly learns about the perils of city living. Her first night she witnesses a police drug operation that will change the course of her life forever. Officer Lucy attends her colleague Officer Daisy’s (of Protecting Her fame) house party to find herself face-to-face with the gorgeous femme witness of a crime she has been ...

Is there anything sweeter than the love and adoration of two men? Craving excitement in her life, Mel shares a fantasy with her boyfriend which will change the course of her life and her relationship forever. Mel: I had fantasized about having two men for a long time, but was sure it would never happen. Who wants to share their girlfriend with another man? As if that’ll ever happen! Joel: Mel and I had been seeing one another for some time. Things were amazing between us! We had great sex, she was sweet as pie. When she told me she wanted two men though, I didn’t know what to feel. But ...

Stacey and Laney are twins—mirror images of each other—and yet they’re as different as the sun and the moon. Stacey works hard at school, determined to get out of their small town. Laney skips school and sneaks out of the house to meet her boyfriend. But when Laney disappears one night, Stacey can’t believe she’s just run off without telling her. As the days pass and Laney doesn’t return, Stacey starts dreaming of her twin. The dreams are dark and terrifying, difficult to understand and hard to shake, but at least they tell Stacey one key thing—Laney is alive.

Two Captivating Journeys Through Australia’s Past — One Unforgettable Book Step into the heart of Australia’s rich history with this powerful two-in-one volume—featuring fascinating images that bring every story to life. From the timeless legends of the First Nations to the rise of modern Australia, this book offers a fascinating look at a land shaped by resilience, culture, and story. Whether you're a history lover or mythology enthusiast, you’ll uncover gripping tales and eye-opening truths that most people never learn. With vivid imagery and engaging storytelling, it’s more ...

On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened in the next hour changed the course of history. This brave battle and the extraordinary adventures that led to it are brought vividly to life by Australia's greatest storyteller, Peter FitzSimons.

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold. Years later, heavily pregnant with her own first child, she learns what really happened that day. It’s a tale that exemplifies many of the events of her early life, where circumstances sometimes dictated that things be slightly different from how they might seem–including what is meant by her dad being away for ‘work’ and why her legal last name differs from her family’s.

To fall in love is easy. Sharing all your secret desires, not so much. Lindsay is an Australian tourist who picked up some work on his ranch in the Deep South of the USA. Billy is the cowboy everyone was surprised was still single. Attractive and charismatic, no-one knows what sort of heart beats underneath his macho exterior. Lindsay has a secret she can’t tell him, a secret she is keeping to protect his friends. But Billy has his own secret, a fetish he was never sure he would be able to share with anyone. Will Lindsay be able to trust Billy with her secret? Will Billy be able to ...

“I love food” Nakkiah Lui says, and in the next breath whispers “so give us back our land”. In First Eat, a confrontational, raw and highly personal exploration of food politics, power and body sovereignty, Nakkiah Lui asks how our meals would look different if First Nations people owned the land from which the food came. First Eat is about more than just food, it’s an aural feast for a rich future.

On September 15, 1944, the United States invaded the tiny Pacific island of Peleliu, located at the Southern end of the Palau Islands. Boasting a large airfield from which the Americans could mount bomber campaigns, Peleliu was a strategically essential part of Gen. MacArthur's long-awaited liberation of the Philippines. With the famed 1st Marine Division making the amphibious assault, Pacific High Command was confident that victory would be theirs in just a few days. They were drastically wrong.

A mysterious - and smoking hot - man arrived in my lab today, he could burn everything down and I would dutifully hand him the matches. Cleo has worked hard to be taken seriously, not an easy feat when you’re a young female science professor but she’s managed to pull it off with flying colors. When her classroom is invaded by sexy and mysterious William though, she can’t seem to hold her ground and tell him to leave. There’s just something about William, the professor visiting from Sweden - or so she thinks - has her feeling more like a teenaged girl than a strong independent career...

Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar parenting styles yet have fundamentally different personalities, interests and even different careers as adults? Birth order! The implications for parents, teachers and adults involved with children are many. First published in 2003 to great acclaim, this fully revised and updated edition seeks to increase the listener's understanding of birth order theory.

Using his family farm and story as the foundation of his yarning, a young, entrepreneurial, farming Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future

Mark Dapin was still in school when he met his first murderer—a boy called Ian. In reporting the murder Ian eventually committed, newspapers used the cliché that it ‘shocked even those who knew him best.’ But it didn’t shock Dapin, because he knew Ian in real life, not in clichés. The First Murderer I Ever Met is the truest true crime—it’s what actually happened.

In December 1932, as the Depression tightened its grip, the body of a woman was found in Queens Park, Sydney. It was a popular park. There were houses in plain view. Yet this woman had been violently murdered without anyone noticing. Other equally brutal and shocking murders of women in public places were to follow. Australia's first serial killer was at large.

In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The controversial book that Helen Garner wrote about the resulting Ormond College sexual harassment case caused a social media storm. Prominent feminists were outraged at Garner's perceived support for the man involved, but many saw her approach a necessary and much welcome nuance towards the power dynamic between men and women.

A thriving monarchy had ruled over Hawaii for generations. Taro fields and fish ponds had long sustained native Hawaiians but sugar plantations had been gradually subsuming them. This fractured, vulnerable Hawaii was the country that Queen Lili‘uokalani, or Lili‘u, inherited when she came to power at the end of the nineteenth century.

The Freemason's Family, a novel of family adventures set in nineteenth-century Australia, is the sequel to Bill Jackman's The Freemason's Daughter. Beatrice has now married Charles, her childhood sweetheart, and at the beginning of the novel they emigrate to Australia on the SS Great Britain. Charles has started a sheep farm in Australia and soon has problems with rustling on the farm. But there is worse to come when the family become involved in the Boer War and its tragedies. Beatrice's son Norman is press-ganged into a Merchant Navy ship and sails the seven seas, experiencing many ...

‘Without Precedent’ is the military biography of army commando and fighter pilot, Phillip Zupp. One man who served in two very different wars. During World War Two, he saw combat on the ground in the Pacific before patrolling Hiroshima and Tokyo at the war’s end. In Korea, Phillip flew 201 combat sorties amid intense ground fire and the ever-threatening MiG fighters. Peace brought an aviation career that spanned the globe and the skies above it. All the while, aviation history had overlooked this intriguing story of the search for a downed airman, a damaged jet and the first ...

Learn from everyday Aussie success stories and get the strategies you need to reach your goal of home ownership sooner. The Australian Guide to Buying Your First Home is an indispensable handbook for assessing affordability, setting realistic goals and taking control of your future.

Amy Holt's radio career just hit rock bottom. But navigating wormholes, Bigfoot interviews, and her sister's ex might be even worse. After a slip-up on air leaves Amy jobless and desperate, she seizes a chance at her dream job - even if it means working for her sister's charming ex. But when she discovers the radio station sits atop a wormhole, granting access to infinite realms, Amy's world gets even more chaotic. From interviewing mythical creatures to traversing apocalyptic wastelands, Amy's new gig is far from ordinary. But it's dodging the irresistible charm of her sister's ex, Ryan, ...