How well do you really know the one you love? With her customary page-turning style and potent themes, this is Caroline Overington at her thought-provoking best. 'Why do some people decide to get married when everyone around them would seem to agree that
One woman.Two husbands.Four trials.One bloody execution.The last woman hanged in New South Wales.In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol (jail) and the last woman hanged in
Sisters of Mercy by Caroline Overington is the haunting story of two sisters - one has vanished, the other is behind bars...Snow Delaney was born a generation and a world away from her sister, Agnes.Until recently, neither even knew of the other's existen
In 1982 Victorian police were called to a home on a housing estate an hour west of Melbourne. There, they found a five-year-old boy lying on the carpet. There were no obvious signs of trauma, but the child, Jacob, died the next day.The story made the head
Garry Hartshorn and Softie Monaghan were never love's young dream. Not even on their wedding day.Softie was sophisticated, a career woman, who owned a nice apartment overlooking St Kilda Beach. Garry had a few rough edges, plus one failed marriage and an
Tempting tales by some of Australia's best writers...Travis is going to be a big know in the door business... Lucy's love life becomes Jude's pinata... A minion makes a meal of Robert 'Nancy' Mitford...Whether you like a comedy, romance or something quite
It was four o'clock in the morning.A young woman pushed through the hospital doors.Staff would later say they thought the woman was a new mother, returning to her child - and in a way, she was.She walked into the nursery, where a baby girl lay sleeping. T
