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Fiction Titles: Authors C-D
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Author |
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Blackwattle Road |
| by Ann Charlton |
| Published by Hodder Headline |
| Liona is looking back over her life. She has been a witness - and sometimes
an unwilling participant - to Australia's twentieth century. In many ways her
story has mirrored Australia's own. There have been wars, hardship, depression,
moments of salvation and triumph. Blackwattle Road is an unforgettable
first novel by a writer who understands, as Ruth Park does, the bittersweet nature
of family and love and the way a new country can be built on old longings. |
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| The Wild Colonial Girl |
Ann Clancy |
Pan |
| Rebel Girl |
Ann Clancy |
Pan |
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The Last Maasai Warrior |
| by Frank Coates |
| Published by HarperCollins. |
| An ancient Maasai legend tells of a child born holding a stone in its palm. The story is an ominous – warning let no one betray the traditions of the tribe. Now, here on the riverbank, is a newborn holding a stone in not one but each of his tiny fists… In 1904, the British government promised the Maasai control of their traditional lands – for so long as they shall exist as a people. Seven years later, that promise is broken, and the Maasai must choose between war and perilous trek to the land allocated them by the government. |
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Roar of the Lion |
| by Frank Coates |
| Published by HarperCollins. |
| Love or empire; ambition or greed? What drives a man to walk from the Cape to Cairo? Ewart Grogan, known to the Africans as Bwana Simba - the man with the cold stare of the lion - is a man of unwavering confidence. He risked all to trek across darkest Africa for the woman he loves, and has gone on to dominate the business world of the burgeoning new colony ofr British East Africa. Now, the Great War points its bloody finger towards Africa. And Grogan faces his greatest ordeal - and his most wrenching choice... |
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Beyond Mombasa |
| by Frank Coates |
| Published by HarperCollins. Also published in Germany |
| In 1897 Ronald Preston attempts the seemingly impossible – building
a railway line from exotic Mombasa, on the coast of Africa, to Lake Victoria,
deep in the continent’s dark and wild heart. His new bride insists upon
joining him. Yet ahead lie hostile tribes, dense jungles, floods, drought, man-eating
lions, political intrigue, disease…and the strain on their marriage. Based
on a true story, Beyond Mombasa takes the reader on a heart-stopping
adventure across Africa. |
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In Search of Africa |
| by Frank Coates |
| Published by HarperCollins. |
| The tide of history turns, and Africa is irrevocably
transformed. Terror drives colonial Kenya reluctantly toward independence, while
in Uganda, a family flees the horror of civil war, only to find that human frailties
can also fracture family bonds. Out of the horrors of war, across the boundaries
of time and race, two survivors discover that their lives are mysteriously linked.
The clue lies in a broken trinket. And the paths they travel alone, and ultimately
together, lead them inexorably to their greatest discovery. |
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Tears of the Maasai |
| by Frank Coates |
| Published by HarperCollins. Also published in Germany |
| In the aftermath of a bizarre mishap, Jack Morgan takes up a UN posting in
Kenya, hoping to find obscurity on the anonymous streets of Nairobi. Instead he
finds the American 'Bear' Hoffman - a man equally at home in Nairobi's racy nightlife
as in the Kenyan bush. Jack's hopes for seclusion are dashed as he is seduced
by its adventure, the majesty of the landscape and by a beautiful Maasai woman
named Malaika who has dark secrets... |
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| Kurikka's Dreaming |
Craig Cormick |
Simon & Schuster |
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Dangerous Deception |
| by Sandy Curtis |
| Published by Pan |
| Prof John Raymond lies paralysed and unable to speak. His colleague, Breanna
Montgomery, is attacked by a shotgun-wielding stranger. Before the night is over,
the man is dead, and Breanna is fleeing from someone even more ruthless and deadly.
Meanwhile, Rogan McKay’s search for his missing brother forces him into
a dangerous act of deception as the trail leads him to Breanna – and very
close to her family’s dark secrets. Some secrets are worth dying to protect… |
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Until Death |
| by Sandy Curtis |
| Published by Pan |
| In a war-torn African country, a mercenary slits the throat of a young native
girl. 14 years later in Sydney, Libby Daniels finds two men crouched over her
mother's battered body and them say 'Libby did it'. She takes refuge on the doorstep
of Conor Martin, a man with his own horrifying secrets. Libby and Conor are wary
of each other, until past and present collide in a violent attack that forces
them to confront their enemies...and their deepest fears. |
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Deadly Tide |
| by Sandy Curtis |
| Published by Pan |
| When her father is arrested for murder, Samantha Bretton takes over as skipper
of his fishing trawler, the Sea Mistress, determined to clear his name. Brisbane
cop Chayse Jarrett, guilt-ridden by the death of a young woman on his last assignment,
goes undercover on the vessel, and soon realises that Samantha is hiding something.
Secrets that could implicate her father in more than murder. Secrets that Chayse
becomes reluctant to uncover. |
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Dance With the Devil |
| by Sandy Curtis |
| Published by Pan |
| In the eye of a storm, as Dr Emma Randall prepares to bury one man, another
enters her life with the force of the cyclone gathering around them. Drew Jarrett,
his feet and hands torn by nail wounds, has stumbled onto her isolated farm in
the O'Connor Valley, with no clue to the identity of the man who has injured him.
But he will come to know that someone wants to kill him - and that he wants Emma
more than he has ever wanted any woman. |
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| Black Ice |
Sandy Curtis |
Pan |
| Daughter of the Dark - Vol 2 Shadows through
Time Trilogy |
Louise Cusack |
Simon & Schuster |
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Destiny of Light Vol 1 Shadows through Time Trilogy |
| by Louise Cusack |
| Published by Simon & Schuster |
| To fulfil her destiny as The Light - the woman whose child will join the Four
elemental Worlds - Khatrene must overcome her amnesia and regain her childhood
memories while thwarting the plans of an ethereal Shadow Woman, a mysterious tattooed
man, a warrior woman of the Plainspeople, Ennae's best swordsman and ultimately,
Khatrene's own beloved brother. |
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| Who Killed Camilla? |
Emma Darcy |
Pan Macmillan. Also available on audio by Bolinda Publishing. |
| Who Killed Bianca? |
Emma Darcy |
Pan Macmillan. Also published in Japan. <font color="EB30CA">Available on audio by Bolinda Publishing.</font> |
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Who Killed Angelique? |
| by Emma Darcy |
| Published by Pan. Also published in Croatia. <font color="EB30CA">Available on audio by Bolinda Publishing.</font> |
| When someone cuts short the life of international model Angelique Lanci
in a hail of bullets, K.C. Gordon, successful romance novelist, knows she'll get
her own hands dirty unravelling the truth of who killed Angelique?
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| The Secrets Within |
Emma Darcy |
Mira |
| Bush Oranges |
Kay Donovan |
Penguin |
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The Silver Road |
| by Grace Dugan |
| Published by Penguin |
In the peasant village of Obrel, Zuven, a young foundling,
wants nothing more than to devote her life to religious service. But there's
a mystery to Zuven's past. Something that others have taken great lengths to
keep from her... As political upheaval leads to fighting and danger in the capital,
Zuven leaves for the country, hoping to escape her fate and find peace. But,
as battles are fought and corruptions exposed, she will learn that destiny is
a compelling force...but not even destiny can overcome the individual.
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