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By Monica McInerney. 2001
Maura Carmody's off on the trip of a lifetime. A talented chef, she's travelling around Ireland for a month to…
promote Australian food and wine. Maura's expecting a straightforward business trip. But what she gets is a whirlwind of mishaps, misunderstandings, rivals and revelations - and Dominic Hanrahan, who's giving her plenty of food for thought.By Christine Darcas. 2010
Ginny and Barb might be mother and daughter but as far as Ginny is concerned they are very different. At…
thirty-three, Ginny has her own apartment in New York, a prestigious job in an advertising agency and an on-again/off-again romance with Simon. Ginny sees herself as a realist and resents her mother for allowing her to dream big as a child. Things might have worked out ... until Simon cheated on her, her boss fired her and emotionally burnt out Ginny decides to take a break. She doesn't consider crossing the globe to visit a friend in Australia for three months running away. But then she meets Lachlan and is forced to choose between career or love, New York or Melbourne. Her mother and best friend have their opinions about what she should do but Ginny is determined to make her own way ... not realising that everything she does is shaped by her lifelong insecurities.By Lisa Walker. 2013
Have you ever felt the need to start again? Dumped by text message, Edie flees Sydney for the refuge of…
her childhood home, taking only a wilting bonsai as a reminder of her failure. But in this small coastal town, shy, awkward Edie has always lived in the shadow of her surf champion father. How can she move on from her ex -- and from her past? Her best friend and life-coach, Sally, is full of dubious advice, but Edie finds there are many ways to mess things up all by herself. A new-found talent for erotic writing, a job drawing crab larvae, unrequited lust for a professor with hidden depths and a maddening musician with troubles of his own add to her swag of problems. And then things get complicated ...By Marsha Moyer. 2002
Lucy Hatch is thirty-three years old when she is suddenly widowed, and forced to face what her life has become.…
Like many before her, Lucy married a good man who turned out to be the wrong man. When she decides to return to her home town, her world is turned upside down. The last thing she expects to find is the first man to sweep her off her feet. Before Lucy can follow her heart she must do battle with an irate former lover, a false arrest, the worst flood in twenty years and the watchful eye and wagging tongue of everyone in town.By Jessica Rudd. 2011
When she gets the email announcing her redundancy, Ruby Stanhope hopes to maintain the composure expected of your average London…
investment banker. Instead, the next day’s hangover brings two unfortunate discoveries. First, her impromptu reply to the bosses has gone viral, published everywhere from Facebook to the Financial Times. Second, she has a non-refundable, same-day ticket to Melbourne thanks to a dangerous cocktail of Victorian pinot noir, broadband internet and a dash of melancholy. Landing in Australia, Ruby plans a quiet stay with her aunt in the Yarra Valley - but a party at the local winery results in an unexpected job offer: financial policy adviser to the Federal Leader of the Opposition. Intrigued, Ruby heads to Melbourne for morning coffee with the Chief of Staff - and finds herself in the middle of the Treasurer’s overthrow of the Prime Minister and the announcement of an early election. Rookie Ruby, dubbed ‘Roo’ by her Aussie colleagues, is thrown into the campaign and spends four weeks circumnavigating Australia while trying to stay afloat in the deep end of politics.By Wendy Harmer. 2009
Nina, Meredith and Annie have been friends for a long, long time. Like most old friends, they can't quite remember…
what initially drew them together. Elegant Meredith, motherly Nina and the determinedly single Annie are as unlikely companions as you could find. But like a matched set of 1950's kitchen canisters of Flour, Sugar and Tea, they always seem to end up together. Now each is facing the various trials of middle age: divorces, less than satisfactory marriages, teenage kids, careers going nowhere and unexpected bouts of tears. One night, over one too many Flaming Sambuccas during a reunion dinner, they somehow find themselves agreeing to take a road trip to Byron Bay in a RoadMaster Royale mobile home, to attend Meredith's daughter's wedding. Fights and friendship, tears and laughter - not to mention the possibility of finding Mr Right along the way - this trip might tear them apart or it might just save their lives.By Fleur McDonald. 2009
After the death of her husband, Adam, in an horrific plane crash, Gemma Sinclair defies community expectations - and Adam's…
dying words - by deciding to hang on to Billbinya, the 10,000-hectare station he bequeathed to her. As if Gemma's grief and the job of looking after Billbinya aren't enough, a wave of innuendo soon sweeps the community that Adam's plane crash was no accident. Police officers confirm the rumour when they visit Gemma and tell her Adam's death was almost certainly related to his involvement in a cattle and sheep duffing ring. And not only that, but Gemma is indirectly implicated because Billbinya was used as the holding station for the stolen stock. Intent on clearing her name, Gemma sets out to get to the bottom of what Adam was doing. In the process, she's stunned at the depths of her husband's wrongdoing and shocked at the identities of his criminal associates.Struggling to put the past behind her, Gemma wonders if she'll ever be able to love again.By Fleur McDonald. 2013
Anna and Matt Butler were childhood sweethearts with a dream of owning their own land, a dream they achieved through…
hard work and determination. But as the seasons conspire against them and Matt is involved in a terrible accident, the couple face financial ruin and the loss of their farm. As they fight for everything they hold dear, they suddenly find themselves caught up in events much bigger and more dangerous than they could ever have imagined.By Anita Heiss. 2011
Libby is on a man-fast: no more romance, no more cheating men, no more heartbreak. After all, she has her…
three best girlfriends and two cats to keep her company at night and her high-powered job at the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra to occupy her day - isn't that enough? But when fate takes Libby to work in Paris at the Musée du Quai Branly, she's suddenly thrown out of her comfort zone and into a city full of culture, fashion and love. Surrounded by thousands of attentive men, nude poets, flirtatious baristas and smooth-tongued lotharios, romance has suddenly become a lot more tempting. On top of it all, there's a chauvinist colleague at the Musée who challenges Libby's professional ability and diplomatic skills. Then there's Libby's new friend Sorina, a young Roma gypsy, desperate to escape deportation. Libby must protect her work record and her friend, but can she protect herself from a broken heart?By Ilsa Evans. 2005
Unlike her best friend Camilla Riley, compulsive list-maker Terry Diamond prides herself on her organisational abilities. Also unlike Camilla, Terry…
is tall, blonde, self-confident, and has a chest that could stop traffic - or at least do wonders for airbag design. None of this stops chaos bursting into her life when her daughter not only gives birth on the living-room rug but decides to move home with infant in tow. Meanwhile, Terry is starting to suspect her pink-overall-wearing boyfriend may not even be Mr Right for now - especially as she has just fallen in love with a mysterious stranger. Will all this mayhem make the play-it-safe Terry do what she needs to do to turn her life around?By Anita Heiss. 2007
Alice Aigner is successful, independent and a confirmed serial dater - but at her ten-year school reunion she has a…
sudden change of heart. Bored rigid by her married, mortgaged and motherly former classmates, Alice decides to prove that a woman can have it all: a man, marriage, career, kids and a mind of her own. She sets herself a goal: meet the perfect man and marry him before her thirtieth birthday, just under two years away. Together with her best friends Dannie, Liza and Peta, Alice draws up a ten-point plan. Then, with a little help from her mum, her dad, her brothers, her colleagues and her neighbour across the hall, she sets out to find Mr Right. Unfortunately for Alice, it's not quite as easy as she imagines...By Karly Lane. 2012
Since her divorce a year ago, Kate Thurston feels like she's lurched from one disaster to another. Her teenage daughter,…
Georgia, seems to have morphed into a monster overnight, and her son Liam breaks her heart with his sad brown eyes. When Kate receives news that her grandfather has bequeathed her North Star, the vast property which has been in her family for generations, it feels like the perfect opportunity to flee the hectic pace of city life for a calmer rural existence.By Loretta Hill. 2015
All families have their problems. No more so than the Maxwells of Tawny Brooks Winery. Situated in the heart of…
the Margaret River wine region, this world-renowned winery was the childhood home to three sisters, Natasha, Eve and Phoebe. Today all three women are enmeshed in their city lives and eager to forget their past - and their fractured sibling relationships. Until Phoebe decides to get married at home …Now the sisters must all return to face a host of family obligations, vintage in full swing and interfering in-laws who just can’t take a hint. As one romance blossoms and others fall apart, it seems they are all in need of some sisterly advice. But old wounds cut deep. Somehow, the Maxwell sisters must find a way back to one another - or risk losing each other forever.By Moya Sayer-Jones. 2004
Julie Trinker has just discovered her career as The Daily Post's Stain Guru is over. And she suspects the rest…
of her previously predictable life is in deep trouble too - including her marriage. What she can't anticipate is the disastrous way she'll become entangled with the charming Art Storey. Art has his own problems: a studio full of unfinished sculptures, an empty bank account, a brother in a coma, and an ex-wife whose long, unforgettable legs keep walking back into his life. He's desperate enough to involve Julie in a deception that can only end in tears.By Wendy Harmer. 2007
"Dear Francie, My boyfriend left me for my best friend a year ago and now he wants me to come…
to counselling with him to help him get over the guilt. What do you think?' Of course once Francie would have thought it was a good idea. Two people sitting down like adults and resolving their conflict, moving on, being happy. But not now. She typed: Take to his car with a hammer and tell him the only place you'll go with him is to a panel beater." Francie writes the Seriously Single column for the Sunday Press. Nick - the man she thought she'd spend the rest of her life with - has dumped her for an older woman. To say that Francie is annoyed would be a serious understatement. Struggling to deal with the bleak landscape of her new life, Francie signs up for therapy and moves into a shared household with a trio of supposedly swingin' singles. But Francie has a secret. A dirty little secret of nasty revenge. Her nightmare is that one day all will be revealed. That couldn't happen ... could it?By Melinda Houston. 2014
"Suddenly a dark blur dropped through her line of vision, followed by a thump behind the glass. Kat saw first…
the faces of the extras. Then Peru, the prettiest contestant, fixed in horror and disbelief. There was a high, thin, sustained scream. Finally Kat shifted her gaze to the street, where a body lay at all angles in an extravagant splatter of blood. ‘Oh dear,’ she said. Then started, helplessly, laughing..." Kat Kelly reckons she's got life sorted. She has a man who cooks and does the dishes. A stepdaughter she adores. And her dream job: scouting locations for a TV production company. All the big dramas are behind her, right? Before she knows it, Kat is out of love and has nowhere to live. Between her ditzy new intern and an amorous ex-footballer, work isn't much better. And just when things couldn't get any worse, disaster strikes Kat's set, sending her spinning totally out of control.By Maggie Alderson. 2008
Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy - a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good…
looks and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most - a baby. Ed, her husband, is funny, affectionate and sophisticated but simply not interested in parenthood. He likes his life neat and tidy. And he likes having a wife who attends solely to his needs. As she approaches 37, Amelia is faced with a life-changing decision, aided and abetted by Kiki, her hopelessly disorganised but ridiculously rich friend. Should Amelia stay in her nearly happy marriage, or expose herself to the vagaries of single life and the distant possibility of meeting someone who wants to start a family?By Loretta Hill. 2014
"We can’t choose who we fall in love with. It could be our best friend - or our worst enemy."…
Emily Woods counts cracks for a living. Concrete cracks. So when her long-term boyfriend dumps her, she decides it’s time for a change of scenery. Her best friend, Will, suggests joining his construction team in Queensland. Working next door to the Great Barrier Reef seems like just the sort of adventure she needs to reboot her life - until she realises that Will is not the person she thought he was. Charlotte Templeton is frustrated with the lack of respect FIFO workers have for her seaside resort. But picking a fight with their tyrannical project manager, Mark Crawford, seems to lead to more complications than resolutions. The man is too pompous, too rude, and too damned good looking. As both women strive to protect their dreams and achieve their goals, they discover that secrets will come out, loyalty often hurts, and sometimes the perfect man is the wrong one.By Loretta Hill. 2013
Wendy Hopkins arrives in the Pilbara to search for the father who abandoned her at birth. Getting mixed up in…
construction site politics at the Iron Ore wharf just out of town was not high on her 'to do' list. But when she takes a job as their new Safety Manager she becomes the most hated person in the area. Nicknamed 'The Sergeant', she is the butt of every joke and the prime target of notorious womanizer, Gavin Jones. Giving up is not an option, though. For, as it turns out, only Wendy can save these workers from the impending cyclone, find a man who wants to stay buried and ...put a bad boy firmly in his place.By Loretta Hill. 2012
'Let me burst your city bubble for you. This is the Pilbara. And it's the Pilbara that makes the rules…
...' Lena Todd is a city girl who thrives on cocktails and cappuccinos. So when her boss announces he's sending her to the outback to join a construction team, her world is turned upside down. Lena's new accommodation will be an aluminium box called a dongar. Her new social network: 350 men. Her daily foot attire: steel-capped boots. Unfortunately, Lena can't refuse. Mistakes of the past are choking her confidence. She needs to do something to right those wrongs and prove herself. Going into a remote community might just be the place to do that, if only tall, dark and obnoxious Dan didn't seem so determined to stand in her way...