Cirrus@Austlit

'Explore an Australian country town through time.

'Drawing on the experiences of many real towns, Country Town tells the history of a fictional inland Australian town in pictures. From a First Nations people's camp by a river crossing through to the present day, and with many major Australian history themes woven in, this picture book makes a wonderful classroom asset and a great starting point for discussions on the past.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Two young women on opposing sides find their lives wrecked by battle ... can they be restored by love?

'As sister to Warwick the Kingmaker and cousin to the new young King Edward IV, Kate Neville finds herself on the winning side of the latest bloody battle of the War of the Roses – and under pressure to marry again. Kate’s family want to ensure her new husband will be someone they control, such as the king’s handsome chamberlain, Lord William Hastings, but Kate is refusing. Hastings has a reputation as a womaniser and she wants a man who won’t betray her like her first husband did. But the debonair Hastings is determined to win her heart. Can she thwart her brother’s plans for her?

'Elysabeth Woodville is a beautiful young woman, much adored by her husband, Sir John Grey, but when he is killed in battle on the losing side and named as a traitor, his estate is seized by the Yorkists and she finds herself penniless and friendless. In her desperate struggle to restore her sons’ inheritance, she finds herself not only kneeling before her enemy but winning his heart. Is she is too proud to become his mistress? Or does the King of England love her enough to ignore his friends’ advice and make her his queen?

'In the precarious peace of a bloody civil war, can love heal the wounds and reunite families? ' (Publication summary)

'PARIS 1793 - a young new republic struggling to survive

'Adored by the heroes of the French Revolution, Fleur, a beautiful aristocrat, is playing a hazardous game of double deception.

'Who is this lovely widow who runs the Parisian cafe Le Chat Rouge and keeps company with a python, a mysterious cross-dresser and the daring actress La Coquette? Handsome deputy Raoul de Villaret is determined to find out the truth, But as he and Fleur play a cat and mouse game of seduction, the journalist Marat is using people power for his own ends, and when Fleur's friend, Charlotte Corday, arrives in Paris, all hell breaks loose. For Raoul and Fleur, as the city plunges into chaos, falling in love is the greatest risk of all.' (Publication summary)