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2 y separately published work icon Dead Lovely Helen FitzGerald , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 2009 Z1475854 2007 single work novel mystery

'Krissie Donald has no desire to 'settle down'. Committed men are hers for the taking, but she prefers explosive liaisons to any sort of full-blown relationship. Krissie's best friend, Sarah, couldn't be more different. Married to a good-catch-doctor in her early twenties, it isn't long before Sarah's dying to start a family.

'Krissie and Sarah's relationship starts to go awry when Krissie becomes pregnant after a holiday dalliance in Tenerife. For Sarah, who's been trying to conceive for what seems like forever, Krissie's pregnancy can't help but seem a little unfair.

'Things between Krissie and Sarah go from bad to worse during a holiday in the Scottish Highlands with Sarah's husband, Kyle. What starts out as an enjoyable and much-needed break soon becomes a nightmarish combination of sexual tension, murder and mayhem. Fast-paced and brilliantly told, with wickedly observed characters and a spectacular denouement, Dead Lovely is a compulsive read from start to finish.'  (Publisher's blurb)

1 y separately published work icon The Major's Minion Linden Salter , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 2003 Z1433963 2000 single work novel historical fiction romance
1 y separately published work icon The Lady and the Luddite Linden Salter , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 2003 Z969560 2000 single work novel historical fiction romance A heroine from Bronte country, and a Robin Hood of the Industrial Revolution: two people powerfully attracted to each other, on opposite sides of a little-known class war that saw the ruin of England's green and pleasant land...Shirley Keeldar is a 'brave, true, beautiful lady' in the eyes of Tom Mellor, the leader of a band of strong men in their doomed fight against the machines that are destroying their lives. But in the class-ridden, war-torn Regency world of 1812, she's also his enemy. (Libraries Australia record).
1 y separately published work icon Love is a Gambler : A Romance Maysie Greig , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1999 Z1073012 1958 single work novel romance
1 y separately published work icon A Court for Owls Nara Lake , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1996 Z1109415 1979 single work novel romance
11 11 y separately published work icon The Lovers Morris West , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1994 Z216185 1993 single work novel

'On Bryan Cavanagh's birthday, a sealed letter from Rome arrives, bearing the arms of the ancient house of the Farnese di Mongrifone. Affectionate, even imperious, it is a summons from the woman he loved—and lost—in the turbulent, opportunistic world of postwar Europe.

'Beset by his memories of an extraordinary voyage on a private yacht on the Mediterranean forty years earlier, Bryan returns to Rome, where he discovers a closely guarded secret

'In The Lovers, Morris West spins a glowing thread of love lost and regained, woven through a rich tapestry of intrigue, betrayal, suspense and murder.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

1 1 y separately published work icon Death on a Hot Summer Night Anne Infante , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1990 Z537240 1989 single work novel crime thriller
1 1 y separately published work icon The Challenge E. V. Timms , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1984 Z161200 1952 single work novel historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon The Valleys Beyond E. V. Timms , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1984 Z276134 1951 single work novel historical fiction
2 3 y separately published work icon Forever to Remain E. V. Timms , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1983 Z161400 1948 single work novel historical fiction adventure 'The Swan River Settlement was in its infancy when the London Lass set sail with its cargo of emigrants to this strange new world. Proud or humble, adventurous or ambitious, those who rubbed shoulders in this perilous journey were so diverse that their passions and frustrations were bound to end in more than one human tragedy...it is a colouful gallery, implicit with the drama of conflicting personalities. High adventure is the keynote of this story of a fateful journey to Western Australia.' (Back cover.)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Beckoning Shore E. V. Timms , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1983 Z161301 1950 single work novel historical fiction
16 16 y separately published work icon Summer of the Red Wolf Morris West , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1983 Z529597 1971 single work novel

'A famous writer travels to the remote, windswept islands of Scotland's Outer Hebrides looking for peace of mind and a chance to dispel his inner demons.

'On the way, a car accident throws him together with the raven-haired doctor Kathleen McNeil. He also falls in with the Red Wolf, a man who lives by the old codes—some of them violent. As a love triangle develops, the refined, civilised writer finds himself pitted against the rough-hewn man of nature.

'Summer of the Red Wolf is an epic story for a modern age; a fast-paced narrative in a rugged landscape, driven by the timeless themes of love and jealousy.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

1 1 y separately published work icon The Pathway of the Sun E. V. Timms , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1983 Z274046 1949 single work novel historical fiction
16 y separately published work icon Proteus Morris West , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1981 Z1407023 1979 single work novel

'Big John Spada is a self-made millionaire. From his headquarters in New York, he directs enterprises around the world with military precision. Privately, Spada also funds Proteus, a clandestine movement that works to free political prisoners and combat tyrants wherever they may be.

'Then news arrives from Argentina that the Buenos Aires secret police have arrested Spada's daughter Teresa, a doctor, after she performed emergency surgery on a man with gunshot wounds. They then take her husband Rodolfo whose outspoken editorials have angered the country's fascist government.

'A scheme is hatched by Proteus to rescue them, but soon the enemies of Proteus begin to target Spada himself.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

8 1 y separately published work icon Kundu : A Novel Morris West , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1980 Z528050 1956 single work novel

'In a valley deep in the highlands of New Guinea lives a small colony of Europeans. One of them is Kurt Sonderfield, a doctor with a shady past who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

N'Daria is a hauntingly beautiful native girl whom Sonderfield has trained in the art of seduction. Kumo is a young sorcerer who has fallen under Sonderfield's sway. Only two dare oppose Sonderfield: the old French missionary Pere Louis, and Gerda, the wife Sonderfield has betrayed.

'As the passions and power plays of the Europeans collide with ancient highland magic, the beat of the kundu drums thunders through the valley, bringing the story to an explosive climax.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

11 4 y separately published work icon Beyond the Black Stump Nevil Shute , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1980 Z275102 1956 single work novel Set on a station in the North West of Western Australia, in Perth and in the USA. It is a curious patchwork of fiction, distortion, half-truth and social criticism ... And the honest history graduate from the University of Western Australia would have to agree that Mr Shute would do well to enrol as a student in the Department of History if he is not to perpetrate further travesties of the truth. (F. K. Crowley, Westerly No. 3 1956, pp41-3.)
21 17 y separately published work icon The Salamander Morris West , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1977 Z529698 1973 single work novel

'An Italian general is found dead in his apartment Next to his body is a small card inscribed with a salamander in a bed of flames. Is it suicide or murder?

Dante Matucci, a captain in the Italian secret service, begins an investigation that leads him into a maze of political violence and intrigue. He meets the general's former mistress, Lili Anders, and embarks on a dangerous affair with the beautiful one-time spy. Soon he is drawn into the net of the great Salamander himself, millionaire industrialist Bruno Manzini, who is pitting his wits against the elaborate machinery threatening Italy's government.

'In a game of high stakes, how much is Matucci prepared to pay to survive?'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017)

25 15 y separately published work icon A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1976 Z564787 1950 single work novel

'Nevil Shute’s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.

'Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean’s search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.' (Publication summary)

13 2 y separately published work icon The Far Country Nevil Shute , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1976 Z522246 1952 single work novel

'When a young Englishwoman named Jennifer Morton leaves London to visit relatives on their sheep ranch in the Australian outback, she falls in love both with the gloriously beautiful country and with Carl, a Czech refugee who was a doctor in his own land and now works as a lumberjack. They are brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, but their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage International ed.).

5 y separately published work icon So Disdained Nevil Shute , Leicester : Ulverscroft , 1971 Z98210 1928 single work novel
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