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  Cloud the Color od Skin

  Nebojša Lujanović

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  When a fire at Zagreb’s Three Palms café tragically takes the life of the owner’s son, everyone joins the search for a culprit. And there can only be one: the young Roma man—Enis—employed as a waiter at the café.With all eyes on him, Enis is forced to flee, his face looming large on the front page of every newspaper and channel. The only place where he can think to take refuge is in Bosnia, in the settlement where his estranged father lives. Meanwhile, the event, which coincides with the outbreak of the wars of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia, draws a crowd to surround the Roma settlement in Zagreb, turning it into a ghetto. The protesters blame the Roma collectively, seeing danger in their differences.Weaving between Zagreb and Bosnia, between past and present, between a Roma ghetto in the heart of Zagreb and the lesser-known ghettos of the Roma Holocaust (or Porajmos), and between an imagined better life and the blaring trumpets of war in reality, Nebojša Lujanović’s Cloud the Color of Skin tells a story of guilt and justice, victimhood and violence, peacetime and war—and the Roma in the midst of it all.The book Cloud the Color of Skin was published as part of the Growing Together project, co-financed by the European Union.

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  Short Stories Set on The Sea -...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, H G Wells,...

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  From placid and glimmering to foaming and raging the sea is a perfect mirror of the human condition.  Our authors often place their characters on or about this vast mass that can be either friend or foe.  This liquid character has many dimensions, many ways of speaking.   
   
  01 - Short Stories Set on the Sea - An Introduction 
  02 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  03 - The Sea Raiders by H G Wells 
  04 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo 
  05 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 
  06 - A Saga of the Seas by Kenneth Grahame 
  07 - Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant 
  08 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 
  09 - South West and by West Three-Quarters West by Frederick Marryat  
  10 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale 
  11 - Captain Rogers by W W Jacobs 
  12 - Devereux's Last Smoke by Izola Forrester 
  13 - The Sea Voyage by Charles Lamb 
  14 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope

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  The Secret World of Connie Starr

  Robbi Neal

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  A stunning evocation of Australian life through the war to the 1950s, this novel is intimate and sweeping, immediate and dreamlike - a magical rendering of darkness and joy, and the beauty inherent in difference. For readers of Sarah Winman's Still Life, Trent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies and Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker. 
    
  Connie Starr was always a difficult child. Her mother knew as soon as Connie entered the world that day in Ballarat in 1934 and opened her lungs to scream, there was more chaos in the world than before and it wouldn't leave until Connie did. From the safety of a branch high in her lemon tree where she speaks to angels, she sees the world for what it is - a swirling mass of beauty and darkness, of trauma and family, of love and war and truth and lies - lies that might just undo her and drive her to a desperate act. 
  This ambitious, complex and insightful novel intertwines numerous stories of lives from before World War II and beyond, recreating with intimacy and breadth a world that is now lost to us. This book is a brightly coloured patchwork quilt of everything from shoes to polio, lemon trees to rivers, death to life that melds into one beautiful, luminous work of art. 
  'The Secret World of Connie Starr will set the literary firmament ablaze. This brilliant, quintessentially Australian ode to difference, transcends time and place - it's an achingly lovely tale that shines long after the last page.' Karen Brooks, author of The Good Wife of Bath  
  HarperCollins Australia 2022

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  Taboo

  Elizabeth Gage

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  Plunge into the glamour, fame, dark secrets, and sordid lives of three high rollers living in Hollywood's gilded age. Kate Hamilton uses her hard-boiled pride and sensual beauty to hide her shameful past. Eve Sinclair is a child superstar who has carefully choreographed her climb to the top, coolly using anything or anyone to secure her rise. Finally, there's Joseph Knight, a writer and self-established Hollywood prodigy, whose predatory passion wreaks havoc in both women's lives. Expertly weaving intrigue and deception, Taboo is a thoroughly engrossing tale about bright Hollywood comets who blaze and fall to earth.

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  On Blazing Wings

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  American fighter pilot David Duane believes in but one cause — his own. Duane heads off to war in Europe, selling his deadly skills to the highest bidder. But now he's about to take off on a flight that will open his eyes — and his heart. Sometimes you have to make a choice, and for Duane, making the wrong one could cost him the woman he loves. Soar to new heights of adventure as the award-winning audio version of On Blazing Wings puts you on the front line of a battle between love and death.

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  Daughter of Destiny - A...

  Lizzie Lane

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  The first in an explosive series featuring the Strong family and a legacy of lies that leads to passion, love, murder and heartbreak… 
  Barbados 1818 One fateful night, a terrible tragedy occurs at the Strong family sugar plantation on the paradise island of Barbados. The Strong family quickly move to keep the shocking event a secret. But secrets can’t stay hidden forever… Twenty-two years later Blanche Strong, the living, breathing proof of that night, is left following her mother's sudden death. Now, alone in the world Blanche is determined to get answers about her past.  Otis Strong, the second eldest son of the Strong Sugar dynasty arranges for Blanche to travel to Bristol and be installed in the Strong family home at Marstone House, where they can keep her under their watchful eye.  Lulled into a false sense of security and harbouring her own suspicions surrounding her parentage, Blanche dreams that she will be acknowledged as the daughter of one of the three sons. But her hopes are dashed when on arrival she is treated as nothing more than a servant. Only her friend, Captain Tom Strong, adopted son of Jeb Strong, youngest of the three brothers, shows her any kindness. Whoever her father is remains a secret. One of many that the Strong family wish to keep to themselves. Perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies and Fiona Valpy 
  Previously published as Like an Evening Gone by Jeannie Johnson and Daughter of Destiny by Erica Brown 
  Don’t miss the rest of the Strong Family Sagas: 1. Daughter of Destiny 2. The Sugar Merchant’s Wife 3. Secrets of the Past

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