Tea Cooper
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A woman's bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations uncovering secrets, lies, and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus.
A woman's bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations uncovering secrets, lies, and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus.
1808...
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From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really shaped Sydney? Who is the talented Mrs Greenway?
1814 Sydney When Mary Greenway, freshly arrived from the old country, steps into the maelstrom of Sydney Town with three children at her skirts, she has high hopes of a new beginning, despite having...
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From a bestselling Australian author comes a tale of double-dealing, adventure and the dark underbelly of 1920s Sydney...
In the aftermath of World War I, Sydney is no place for the fainthearted. Sly grog shops thrive, the cocaine trade flourishes and brothels abound. Into this big dark city comes fresh-faced country girl, Dolly Bowman, ready to risk everything in pursuit of her dreams. After all it's the 1920s - time to turn her back on her terrible...