Cirrus@Austlit

'Rose leaves her home and her children in the Philippines to work with four other young women overseas. The work Rose is confronted with is far from anything she could have imagined, even in her worst nightmares. Rose’s one desire is to earn enough to escape from her captors and return home. But what is her family back home up to while she is gone?

'Then she meets a potential client, Mister Bob, an optometrist from Sydney who is dealing with his own escalating health issues while he develops and expands his business. Will he help Rose escape?

'And what are his motives?'  (Publication summary)

'What really happened to Mima Joan McKim-Hill in 1967? Author Shirley Eldridge and Mima Joan McKim-Hill were friends and colleagues working for the Capricornia Regional Electricity Board in Rockhampton in 1967 when Mima disappeared while on the job. She had been abducted, raped and murdered and her body abandoned.
'Shirley tells this deeply personal story, starting with the events leading up to the abduction, and continuing through to the 40 years later, with the re-evaluation of the evidence, the unravelling of lies, and finally the naming of the killer.
'Mima is a uniquely gripping tale of dogged persistence during the exhaustive investigation by a few who cared.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

'From weathered sailor to fencer to businessman to mayor to magistrate, the inimitable Edwin Macaree, with a passion for phrenology, Shakespeare and the stage, stormed Rockhampton in its early days, often cutting corners in his quest for power, wealth and status. Arriving in Rockhampton with a wife and just seven shillings and sixpence in his pocket in 1861, he initially struggled to survive. His great achievements were seriously threatened by the 1890’s financial crisis, forcing tough decisions. Family tragedies were not unknown to the Macarees whose lives were interwoven with the Fraser pioneering family. Though a tad younger, the Frasers were no less extraordinary.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

'How could life in a mining town be this dangerous?

'"The sweltering heat of a Central Queensland summer proves to be a moody backdrop to Shirley Eldridge’s story which is part thriller, part psychological study and part story of intense mother-love.
'The characters come alive and the relationship that develops between the lead character Cherie and Georgie-Girl is touching and delightful.
'‘Georgie-Girl’ is also an interesting insight into the politics and petty jealousies of mining communities and also into the fascinating world of telephone psychological counselling."
'Jacquie Mackay, ABC Capricornia'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

'Twenty-Four Seven psychologist and telephone counsellor Cherie Dexter is on call; not only to clients in distress but also to her aging father Tom, who is rapidly slipping into dementia. On top of the daily chaos, she must fight to keep her business afloat and her hare-brained partners under control. Just when she thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong, it does, and Cherie finds herself embroiled in a life and death situation that puts all her skills and training to the test.Could telephone counselling really be this dangerous?'

(Source: publisher's blurb)