Cirrus@Austlit

'It is October 1937 and Vere, Roger and John all catch the 10am Taronga Zoo ferry, interested to see why they have been invited to stay at The Hermitage on Sydney Harbour. On the pier they are met by a golden retriever named Daphne.

'When they arrive their hosts, Bernard Halliday and Celeste Williams, realise there has been a mistake with the party. Two are from 1937 but one guest is from twenty years earlier and will prove to be a challenging case.

'Despite the beauty of the Hermitage, Roger quickly discovers that no-one can leave and all three guests are having trouble with their memory. Vere, a lover of mysteries, decides they are trapped in a locked room mystery of their own, but can she solve it before it is too late?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'BookCrossing, a real online bookclub, is in many ways a parallel universe. It is a place where someone in the US may buy a book for a BookCrosser in Australia, without the two of them ever meeting. It is about finding books on the end of a pier, at Paddington Station, at your favourite park and unless you are on the site you don't know these books are there. People walk past them oblivious; some pick them up briefly but then leave them behind. BookCrossers know to catch these books to find out where they have been, read them and then release them. At BookCrossing, books are registered and released with an individual tracking number. A good many drop off the radar and then turn up years later at the strangest of places. In Crossing Paths, the main character Jane disappears - for the other characters who are worried about her the clues to where she might be are on her BookCrossing bookshelf. Russell Dark, a book store owner and Jonathan Fairlight, a new age writer, begin to track her through the books she leaves behind. Within these pages eight people who cross paths with Jane Townsend will have their lives changed forever.'(Publication summary)

'In 1942 Peggy Ashburn meets an American soldier, First Lieutenant Tom Lockwood, who is based at the Shoal Bay Country Club, Port Stephens. The attraction between them is immediate and intense and the couple enlist the help of Peggy's neighbour, Sarah Linden, to act as go-between.

'By 1972 when Peggy arrives back home from the US for the funeral of her estranged mother, her marriage is in tatters and she has a lot of soul-searching ahead of her. When she begins to go through her mother's house she discovers not only a letter that has been lost for thirty years but that her mother kept an incredible secret from her.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.