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With stories by Suzanne McCourt, Lauren Foley, Carla Caruso, Marian Matta, Janey Runci, Susan Midalia, Kathryn Hummel, and a host of established and emerging talent, Crush puts romantic love under the microscope and finds there is no limit to the ways people fall in and out of love.'Poignant, funny and heartbreaking, these short stories delve deep into secret longings, desires and love in all its ... Read more

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With stories by Suzanne McCourt, Lauren Foley, Carla Caruso, Marian Matta, Janey Runci, Susan Midalia, Kathryn Hummel, and a host of established and emerging talent, Crush puts romantic love under the microscope and finds there is no limit to the ways people fall in and out of love.'Poignant, funny and heartbreaking, these short stories delve deep into secret longings, desires and love in all its
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The Cat's Miaow: a Waverley story

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Waverley is a small cat with a big miaow and he lives with Mr and MrsTurner and their son Jonathan at number 10, Marten's Drive.Waverley likes the house at number 10, Marten's Drive because it haslots of good places to sleep and a back garden that seems to go onforever. Beyond the wooden fence at the bottom of the garden there isa children's playground, green fields, and then the woods. All
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It's 1925 and change is everywhere, even in rural Australia - but is Flora ready? Includes bonus material from Kimberley Freeman's captivating new Jazz age novel, Evergreen Falls. Flora Honeychurch-Black awakens on the day of her engagement party excited yet somehow unsettled. Throughout the day, despite the well-meaning attention of her friend Liberty and the distraction of the household's many ... Read more

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Killer Women: Crime Club Anthology #2

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Something Special, Something Rare

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Something Special, Something Rare presents outstanding short fiction by Australia’s finest female writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary.A sleepy town is gripped by delusory grief after the movie being filmed there wraps and leaves. A lingering heartbreak is replayed on Facebook. An ordinary family walks a shaky line between hopelessness ... Read more

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Intrusion

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