The Tin Ticket : The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women

Deborah J. Swiss

Featuring accounts of courage, determination and endurance, The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century, and explores the lives of women arrested and sent into slavery in Australia and Tasmania. Discarded by Britain, they arrived as little more than property, but succeeded in forg...

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs'. "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the evolution of the writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels", through his work at the magazine that he help...

Blindness

José Saramago

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental as...

Ironheart

Jodi McAlister

Pearl Linford is stuck. Her best friend won't talk to her. She's promised never to lie to her siblings again, so she's not exactly talking to them. And she's waiting for the right moment to forgive Finn Blacklin, but she doesn't know when that is. In Ironheart, the follow-up novel to Valentine, Pearl an...