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Megan Rogers
When her mother rings just before Christmas, she doesn’t follow the usual script. Instead, she tells Layla that there’s something she needs to tell her about her much-loved father. In response, Layla drops everything to rush to her childhood home on the wild west coast of Tasmania. She’s determined to finally confront her mother – and find out what really happened to her father – and lay some demons to rest.

Rachael Amphlett
When Detective Sergeant Blake Harknell is seconded to an active investigation in the hinterland of south east Queensland, he discovers the police station understaffed and the local population wary of his presence in Hangman’s Gap. After a body is found in suspicious circumstances following a bush fire, the victim of a three-month old fatal car accident may be the only clue to recent events in the small rural town.

Jamie Stonebridge
This collection of 101 short stories is perfect for readers in their later years, with tales of courage, adventure, and resilience set in the old Wild West. A well-designed book tailored for seniors. Seniorality books can help improve mood and language skills.

Jacinta Price
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was nine months pregnant and due to give birth the night she attended her high school formal. With her baby tucked in her arms, she completed year 12 from her hospital bed. Early in their relationship, she took her future husband, Colin, to the Alice Springs morgue to identify the body of a family member who’d been killed.

Lily Arthur
At sixteen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between the women’s liberation movement of the ‘swinging sixties and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society’s ‘moral codes’. For the ‘crime’ of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in the notorious Holy Cross Home for ‘wayward’ girls in Woolloowin, Brisbane as a ‘prisoner’ of the state. Lily spent her entire pregnancy performing unpaid labour in its infamous Magdalene Laundry.

Christine Newell
Christine thought a year in South Korea would hit the pause button on her messy life. Her dad’s death had left her anxious and depressed, and her career in musical theatre had reached a new low of shopping-centre kids’ shows. When she found herself pulled over by the side of the road, dressed as a dinosaur and sobbing uncontrollably, it was clear something had to change.