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1 Rant! Kate Belle , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Author , June vol. 47 no. 1 2015; (p. 29-30)
1 1 y separately published work icon Being Jade Kate Belle , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2014 7160368 2014 single work novel romance fantasy

'Jade is a wild woman, a she-devil nobody believed would ever give up on life. But she has. Banjo, her husband of over twenty years, is dead, killed by a hit and run driver after walking out on a fierce fight with her. He had always been the stable one, the one she came back to, the one who accepted her for her untamed ways. But in a fit of pride she let him go and now Jade lies in bed, refusing to eat or speak, while Banjo’s spirit watches her and waits.

'Their daughters, gentle Lissy and feisty Cassandra, struggle to come to terms with their obstinate mother and her will to die. As the police search for the person who killed their father, Cassandra discovers Jade’s Book of Lovers, a secret, artistic journal chronicling Jade’s extra-marital relationships. Desperate to save her mother Lissy contacts some of the men with whom Jade shared her body and heart in the hope that one of them might have the power to lure her from her wilful stupor.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Bloom Kate Belle , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2013 Z1908543 2013 single work novel 'Thirty-six-year-old Emma's life looks as perfect as could be. She loves her solid, straight-laced husband Gary, who has given her three beautiful, if spoilt, children and a secure life. But something is missing. Gary is always absent. He hardly notices her anymore and she feels frumpy and invisible. Her friend, Lisa, talks her into joining a social boot camp class at the local gym. Emma immediately recognises their instructor as the gorgeous runner she sees each evening while walking her dog in the park. He introduces himself as Ramon Mendez. In spite of herself Emma is besotted.

Before long her mind is filled with guilty fantasies of him. One evening, when things at home have become too much to bear, she bumps into him alone in the park. An opportunity presents itself and no one need ever know. Ramon promises and delivers everything that's missing from her marriage - passion, romance and excitement - but Emma must discover if they are the things she really wants.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Breaking the Rules Kate Belle , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2013 Z1908540 2013 single work novel 'Grace is a beautiful woman in complete control of her world. A long time ago she chose a career - as Associate Professor of Social Science - over children and marriage, and has never regretted it. Then Ramon Mendez walks into her office. Ramon is about to commence his PhD, a work on erotic literature, and from the outset there is something about him that makes Grace's blood run hot. Aware of the need to maintain her professional reputation, she rejects his advances, but he persists. And during their intimate supervision sessions, her defences start to crumble, for Ramon's work is exposing desires within Grace she never knew existed...' (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon The Yearning Kate Belle , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster , 2013 Z1908537 2013 single work novel 'It's 1978 in an Australian country town and a dreamy fifteen-year-old girl's world is turned upside down by the arrival of the substitute English teacher. Solomon Andrews is beautiful, inspiring, and she wants him like nothing else she's wanted in her short life.

Charismatic and unconventional, Solomon easily wins the hearts and minds of his third form English class. He notices the attention of one girl, his new neighbour, who has taken to watching him from her upstairs window. He assumes it a harmless teenage crush, until the erotic love notes begin to arrive.

Solomon knows he must resist, but her sensual words stir him. He has longings of his own, although they have nothing to do with love, or so he believes. One afternoon, as he stands reading her latest offering in his driveway, she turns up unannounced. They must make a decision and its consequences will haunt them until they meet again twenty years later.' (Publisher's blurb)
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