Gathers recipes for appetizers, soups, chowders, and main dishes featuring fish and seafood, and offers advice on buying and keeping fish

Novel exploring current issues surrounding asylum seekers, and the use of detention centres in Australia. In a marketplace in Afghanistan a young man sees his father die at the hands of the Taliban. Racing home to protect his wife and children, Karim Mazari finds that he is too late. Grief stricken, he knows that he must flee his homeland if he is to have any chance of survival. In Australia, Layla, an Afghan migrant, begins an underground campaign to help those imprisoned in detention centres. Meanwhile, there are reports of a mysterious virus. Is Australia being targeted for its involvement in world affairs? By the author of 'Safe Haven' and 'Delicate Indecencies'.

Makedde Vanderwall is back - and trouble's not far behind... Eighteen months after her ordeal at the hands of the sadistic 'Stiletto Murderer', fashion model and forensic psychology student Makedde Vanderwall must confront her demons when she returns to Sydney for the trial. But just as the verdict is handed down, the unthinkable happens - the killer makes a daring escape, aided and abetted by a twisted accomplice whom no-one suspected. Mak is terrified, and her ex-boyfriend, Detective Andy Flynn, who has a bad habit of employing more madness than method in his work, isn't helping. She decides to leave the country, but the Press dogs her every move, hindering her safe passage and unknowingly helping the Stiletto Murderer, who's busy rekindling an old fetish - her. Where can she run? Whom can she trust? And have she and the police underestimated Australia's most notorious serial killer yet again? Sharper than a Manolo six-inch heel, sexier than a Versace fashion show, and riskier than all seven deadly sins, Covet will set your pulse racing.

Makedde Vanderwall is back - and trouble's not far behind... Eighteen months after her ordeal at the hands of the sadistic 'Stiletto Murderer', fashion model and forensic psychology student Makedde Vanderwall must confront her demons when she returns to Sydney for the trial. But just as the verdict is handed down, the unthinkable happens - the killer makes a daring escape, aided and abetted by a twisted accomplice whom no-one suspected. Mak is terrified, and her ex-boyfriend, Detective Andy Flynn, who has a bad habit of employing more madness than method in his work, isn't helping. She decides to leave the country, but the Press dogs her every move, hindering her safe passage and unknowingly helping the Stiletto Murderer, who's busy rekindling an old fetish - her. Where can she run? Whom can she trust? And have she and the police underestimated Australia's most notorious serial killer yet again? Sharper than a Manolo six-inch heel, sexier than a Versace fashion show, and riskier than all seven deadly sins, Covet will set your pulse racing.

Through their own words, the sisters reflect on their work, their vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience and what these mean in the modern world. Always interesting and sometimes surprising, this book is an invaluable social and historical document and a wonderful read.

It still amazes me what they allowed us to do without their supervision or help. Climb trees, from the age of four or five? No problems. Drive the tractor from the age of six or seven onwards? Good luck to you. Peter Fitzsimons account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s.

Ten days before Christmas. A room of children, napping on mattresses in their day care centre, waiting for Santa to arrive. It