Di Morrissey

Monsoon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405038188
RRP: $32.95
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Monsoon... is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place. Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears it end, she is reluctant to leave so she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday and discover its beautiful tourist destinations. Both girls have unexpl...

The Islands
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405038560
RRP: $32.99
QBD: $9.99

It's the psychedelic 70s and social conventions are being challenged. When Catherine Moreland from rural Australia goes on her first trip abroad, a handsome American naval officer sweeps her off her feet and she goes to live in beautiful, romantic Hawaii with her new husband. At first, the magic and loveliness of the Islands lead Catherine to believe she is living in paradise. She befriends K...

The Silent Country
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405039390
RRP: $32.99
QBD: $9.99

The Silent Country is a vast and beautiful wilderness, a place which holds secrets and stories that are rarely spoken. TV producer Veronica Anderson travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that had set out 50 years earlier to film the outback, but which mysteriously ended in tragedy. Of the group, led by the eccentric Maxim Topov, few are still alive and they are...

The Opal Desert
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781742610351
RRP: $32.99
QBD: $14.99

Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her dreams. Shirley, approaching 80, believes she was betrayed by her lover many years ago and has retreated from the world, becoming a recluse living in an underground dugout. Her new friends cause her...

The Plantation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330404204
RRP: $19.99

When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared from the family, 60 years before? What caused such a severe rift? Julie is invited to stay with her cousins who run the plantation founded by her great grandfather in Malaya ...

The Plantation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405039987
RRP: $32.99

When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared from the family, 60 years before? What caused such a severe rift? Julie is invited to stay with her cousins who run the plantation founded by her great grandfather in Malaya a...

The Silent Country
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330425919
RRP: $19.99

The Silent Country is a vast and beautiful wilderness, a place which holds secrets and stories that are rarely spoken. TV producer, Veronica Anderson, travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that had set out fifty years earlier to film the outback, but which mysteriously ended in tragedy. Of the group, led by the eccentric Maxim Topov, few are still alive and th...

The Islands
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330425216
RRP: $19.99

It's the psychedelic 70s and social conventions are being challenged. When Catherine Moreland from rural Australia goes on her first trip abroad, a handsome American naval officer sweeps her off her feet and she goes to live in the beautiful Hawaiian Islands with her new husband. At first, the magic and loveliness of the Islands lead Catherine to believe she is living in paradise. However, as...

Follow the Morning Star
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424509
RRP: $19.99

Queenie and TR return in Di Morrissey's sequel to the bestselling Heart of the Dreaming. Queenie Hanlon has a perfect life. She's the mother of two adoring children, the wealthy owner of a thriving outback station and the wife of handsome bushman TR Hamilton. Then one day, Queenie's perfect life comes crashing down... Her bitter and vengeful brother returns from Italy to lay claim t...

Heart of the Dreaming
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424516
RRP: $19.99

The book that launched Di Morrissey as Australia's most popular female novelist. At 21, Queenie Hanlon has the world at her feet and the love of handsome bushman TR Hamilton. Beautiful, wealthy and intelligent, she is the only daughter of Tingulla Station, the famed outback property in the wilds of western Queensland. At 22, her life lies in ruins. A series of disasters has robbed her of ev...

Scatter the Stars
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424554
RRP: $19.99

A mesmerising novel of the film industry and one man's life that charts a path for all of us. Larrikin Australian actor Randy Storm had it all. Swept up by Hollywood in the 1950s, he had the looks, charm and talent to take on the world. But by the 1990s he's forgotten, burned out after a life of movie star excess. When producer Michael Matthews meets the once great Randy Storm, he is sur...

The Last Mile Home
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424530
RRP: $19.99

From one of Australia's finest storytellers comes a classic love story... It is 1953 in a small Australian country town, a time of post-war prosperity and hope. The Holtens are wealthy, yet austere, graziers who have lived on the land for generations. The McBrides are a large and loving shearer's family who are new arrivals to the district. When the McBrides eldest daughter falls in lov...

The Last Rose of Summer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424547
RRP: $19.99

A compelling story of two remarkable women connected across the decades by the men who love them... and the magic of a place called Zanana. Kate, a strong-willed heiress determined to defy Edwardian convention, must pay the ultimate price to keep the home she loves so much... Odette, an independent and idealistic young journalist, is caught in a fierce battle to save Zanana from ruthless develop...

The Songmaster
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424561
RRP: $19.99

A timely and profound novel that entrances and entertains. In Melbourne, a baby girl is found abandoned in the Victorian Art Gallery. She is wrapped in a shawl decorated with a motif that links her to ancient rock paintings in the Kimberley... In Los Angeles, a movie producer's dying daughter is haunted by nightmares after visiting the Kimberley... And it is to the Kimberley that ex-nun Bet...

When the Singing Stop
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424592
RRP: $19.99

The journey that changes her life... A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world... Guyana, South America. Captivated by Guyana's wild, unspoilt beauty, Madison Wright Jones joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corporate exploitation. But her new-found commitment soon plunges Madison into a mire of murder, drug smuggling and political corruptio...

Barra Creek
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424479
RRP: $19.99

An outback family saga that will knock your hat off. It's funny, poignant and completely unexpected. You won't be able to stop thinking about it. Di's 12th novel opens in New Zealand in the 1960s. The Mitchell family has run a prosperous sheep farm for generations and the youngest daughter, Sally, has just turned 20. She rides to the hounds and leads an indulged life. That is until sh...

Kimberley Sun
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424523
RRP: $19.99

The sequel to Tears of the Moon a favourite for all Di Morrissey readers. The Kimberley from the red desert to the remote town of Broome is the backdrop for Kimberley Sun. This is the enthralling story of modern relationships and the unbreakable ties we all have to the past. Lily Barton is beautiful, adventurous and 50-something. She is looking for a complete life change. Sami, her daught...

Monsoon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424011
RRP: $19.99

Monsoon is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place. Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears its end, she is reluctant to leave so she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday and discover its beautiful tourist destinations. Both girls have unexplor...

Tears of the Moon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424578
RRP: $19.99

Two inspiring journeys. Two unforgettable women. One amazing story. Broome, Australia, 1893: It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets dashing pearling master Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the pearl. Sydney, Australia, 1995: Lily Barton embarks on a search for her family...

The Bay
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424486
RRP: $19.99

The Bay is a beautiful and peaceful town on the Australian east coast, a melting pot of city escapees, alternative life-stylers, feral dropouts, lost kids, backpackers, and men and women in search of love and a new sense of identity. When Sydney corporate wife Holly Jamieson turns 40, she shocks her husband by buying an old house in The Bay and transforming it into a charming B&B. What began ...

The Reef
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424608
RRP: $19.99

Beneath the calm aqua waters of the Great Barrier Reef, there is an on-going war of survival. It is a war of survival among the creatures, the life-forms and the coral that make up the reef. It is so threatened it could disappear within 30 years. Above the reef on a small coral cay Branch Island two communities come together in an uneasy alliance: a tourist resort and a scientific research sta...

The Valley
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424585
RRP: $19.99

FROM AUSTRALIA'S QUEEN OF FICTION COMES A PAGE-TURNING STORY OF FAMILY SECRETS AND LIES... The valley is nestled between rugged peaks, divided by a magnificent river. Within its peaceful green contours are held the secrets of generations of tribes, families and loners who have come under its spell. But some secrets are never shared, never told. Until one woman returns and begins asking ques...

When The Singing Stops
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330359856
RRP: $19.95

A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world . . . Guyana, South America. Captivated by Guyana's wild, unspoilt beauty, Maddison Wright joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corparate explotation. But her new found commitment soon plunges Maddison into a mire of murder, drug smuggling and political corruption. And finally, an unexpected love tha...

The Last Mile Home
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732908041
RRP: $19.95

From one of Australia's finest storytellers comes a classic love story . . . It is 1953 in a small Australian country town, a time of post war prosperity and hope. The Holtens are wealthy, yet austere graziers who have lived on the land for generations. The McBrides are a large and loving shearers' family who are new arrivals to the district. When the McBrides' eldest daughter falls ...

Follow The Morning Star
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330274036
RRP: $19.95

Queenie Hanlon has a perfect life. She's the mother of two adoring children, the wealthy owner of a thriving outback station and the wife of handsome bushman T R Hamilton. Then one day, Queenie's perfect life comes crashing down . . . Her bitter and vengeful brother returns from Italy to lay claim to his inheritance. Her precious daughter is seduced by her uncle into giving up all Queen...

Heart Of The Dreaming
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330272834
RRP: $19.95

At twenty-one, Queenie Hanlon has the world at her feet and the love of handsome bushman TR Hamilton. Beautiful, wealthy and intelligent, she is the only daughter of Tingulla Station, the famed outback property in the wilds of western Queensland. At twenty-two, her life lies in ruins. A series of disasters has robbed her of everything she has ever loved. Everything except Tingulla - her ancest...

Barra Creek
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330364768

Di's twelfth novel begins in the 1960s in the beautiful South Island of New Zealand where the Mitchell family have run a prosperous sheep farm for generations. Sally Mitchell has just turned 20, rides to the hounds and leads an indulged life. That is until she shocks her family by becoming involved with an inappropriate older man. Her parents take drastic steps and try to pack her off to Engl...

Barra Creek
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732910990

Di's twelfth novel begins in the 1960s in the beautiful South Island of New Zealand where the Mitchell family have run a prosperous sheep farm for generations. Sally Mitchell has just turned 20, rides to the hounds and leads an indulged life. That is until she shocks her family by becoming involved with an inappropriate older man. Her parents take drastic steps and try to pack her off to Engl...

Blaze
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330362979

International publisher Nina Jansous is the epitome of grace and style. It is these qualities that have helped her New York-based magazine, 'Blaze', become one of the most successful general interest magazines in the world. Now, at sixty years of age, Nina wants to return to Australia where her extraordinary career took off and re-launch a new Australian edition of 'Blaze'. Aliss...

Blaze
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330424493

International publisher Nina Jansous is the epitome of grace and style, and Blaze, her New York-based magazine has become one of the most successful in the world. Now Nina wants to return to Australia and re-launch an Australian edition of Blaze. Alisson Gruber, not yet 30, is unimpressed by Nina's decision to appoint her as editor of the Australian Blaze. Larissa Kelly, the 30-something chi...

Blaze
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732910150

Life, love, career. A tough choice, at any age. Especially in the magazine world . . . International publisher Nina Jansous is the epitome of grace and style. It is these qualities that have helped her New York-based magazine, 'Blaze', become one of the most successful general interest magazines in the world. Now, at sixty years of age, Nina wants to return to Australia where her extra...

Buster And The Queen Bee
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197789

'This story is unusual with an ending of its own and could change the course of nature if it was widely known. Beehives are built for Queen Bees where the workers are all males but this story is about a king whose workers were all females. And did it cause some problems that had not been seen before! Especially when this King announced that he would go to war. It was lucky that sweet Beatrice ...

Kimberley Sun
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330364188

The remote town of Broome, the desert and the Kimberley coast - Australia's last frontier and a land of ancient beauty - are the backdrop for 'Kimberley Sun', the sequel to Di Morrissey's international bestseller, 'Tears Of The Moon'. Lily Barton, now 53, is beautiful, adventurous and looking for a life change. Sami, her daughter, is driving alone through the outback to fi...

Kimberley Sun
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732911454

The Kimberley - from the red desert to the remote town of Broome - is the backdrop for 'Kimberley Sun', the sequel to 'Tears Of The Moon'. This is an enthralling story of modern relationships and the unbreakable ties we all have to the past. Lily Barton is beautiful, adventurous and 53. She is looking for a complete life change. Sami, her daughter, is 30, driving alone through ...

Scatter The Stars
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330361583

Larrikin Australian actor Randy Storm had it all. Swept up by Hollywood in the 1950s he had the looks, charm and talent to take on the world. But by the 1990s he's forgotten, burned out after a life of movie star excess. When producer Michael Matthews meets the once great Randy Storm, he is surprised to find a man who is at peace with himself. Both he and researcher Janie Callendar set out...

Scatter The Stars
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732909451

Larrikin Australian actor Randy Storm had it all. Swept up by Hollywood after starring in a film set in Papua New Guinea, he had the looks, charm and talent - as well as the love of an exotic woman - to take on the world. But that was the 1950s. In the '90s he's forgotten, burned out after a life of movie star excess and wild living. When TV producer Michael Matthews bumps into the once...

Tears Of The Moon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330357814

Two inspiring journeys. Two unforgettable women. One amazing story. Broome Australia 1893. It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets the dashing pearling master, Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the pearl. Sydney 1995. Lily Barton embarks on a search for her family root...

Tears Of The Moon
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732908331

Two inspiring journeys. Two unforgettable women. One amazing story. Broome, Australia, 1893: It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets dashing pearling master Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the pearl. Sydney, Australia, 1995: Lily Barton embarks on a search for her family...

The Bay
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330363440

The Bay is a beautiful, peaceful town on the Australian east coast, a melting pot of city escapees, alternative life-stylers, feral dropouts, lost kids, backpackers, and men and women in search of love and a new sense of identity. When Sydney corporate wife Holly Jamieson turns forty she shocks her husband by buying an old house in The Bay and transforming it into a charming B&B. Holly soon d...

The Bay
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732911133

The Bay is a beautiful and peaceful town on the Australian east coast, a melting pot of city escapees, alternative life-stylers, feral dropouts, lost kids, backpackers, and men and women in search of love and a new sense of identity. When Sydney corporate wife Holly Jamieson turns forty she shocks her husband by buying an old house in The Bay and transforming it into a charming B&B. What beg...

The Last Rose Of Summer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330273572

A compelling story of two remarkable women connected across the decades by the men who love them...and the magic of a place called Zanana. Kate, a strong-willed heiress determined to defy Edwardian convention, but she must pay the ultimate price to keep the home she loves so much . . . Odette, an independant and idealistic young journalist caught in a fierce battle to save Zanana from ruthless ...

The Reef
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330422154

On a small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef two communities come together in an uneasy alliance: a tourist resort and a scientific research station. At first glance, the island is a sexy resort, a naturalist's dream, a diver's delight. But the island holds secrets and dangers as Jennifer Towse soon discovers. When world-famous Isobel Belitas arrives, Jennifer learns to see the world ...

The Reef
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405036221

Secrets, emotions and dangers collide on the Great Barrier Reef. On a small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef two communities come together in an uneasy alliance: a tourist resort and a scientific research station. At first glance, the island is a sexy resort, a naturalist's dream, a diver's delight. But the island holds secrets and dangers as Jennifer Towse soon discovers. When world...

The Songmaster
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330360456

In Melbourne, a baby girl is found abandoned in the Victorian Art Gallery. She is wrapped in a shawl decorated with a motif that links her to ancient rock paintings in the Kimberly . . . In Los Angeles, a movie producer's dying daughter is haunted by nightmares after visiting the Kimberley . . . And it is to the Kimberley that ex-nun Beth Van Horton brings a disparate group of travellers whos...

The Songmaster
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732909055

In Melbourne, a young woman abandons her baby girl, wrapped in a shawl, in the Victorian Art Gallery. The only clue to the baby's origin is the shawl's motif which links her to an ancient rock painting in the Kimberley. In Los Angeles, a movie producer's dying daughter is linked to the Kimberley for very different reasons. Her life has been haunted by nightmares since returning from ...

The Valley
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405037600

From either side f the ridges the valley was hidden. The undulating green landscape slashed by the magnificent river seeking the sea. But those who knew this place knew its magic. From its first inhabitants who roamed the hills, rivers and valley, it was a country of ceremony, corroboree and creation. Then came the white settlers with horses and cattle, who carved first bush homes and found a...