Joan Phipson

Lucille Aitkin was the kind of woman who encouraged men to run around after her and most men were more than happy to do so - so why did she suddenly want to learn to drive rather than being chauffer-driven in style? And why was Chester Scott's Cadillac covered with bloodstains on the wrong side? And at the same time, why was patrol officer O'Brien run over on a deserted beach road when he should have been on duty on the highway? It seems that somebody knows how these events are connected, and whoever it is seems intent on blackmail.

A twelve-year-old girl, youngest of four children, adopts an orphaned, unlikely foal named Rosinante just before she leaves for her first year of boarding school, and, with the vision of her own horse to inspire her, beings to gain assurance and maturity.

The Barker children discover a gang of thieves operating near their sheep station in New South Wales.

Australian children's novel. Four teenage girls spend the night in a house reputed to be haunted.

Though the other children can't see it, Polly's tiger walks beside her giving her confidence to face the problems of a new school.

Jim thought his luck was in when he won the lottery. He couldn't help telling everyone about his windfall. But Jim's luck changed when he and his brother accepted a lift from Kevin and Socker. They were suddenly being kidnapped. Kevin had pulled a gun. The car was headed out into the wild country of the Australian bush. But the bush has a way of turning the tables. Miles from anywhere, in a world of scrub and shanty, the kidnappers become the victims of a wild and terrible enemy that lurks in the mists...

Two young Australian children raise a motherless calf.

Fifteen-year-old Kitty's special interest in an old man's garden links her to a seemingly dangerous young man who covets the land and whose mind and Kitty's seem to be opposite sides of a coin.

In despair over his angelic looks, a twelve-year-old Australian boy adopts a tough name and attitude and inadvertently gets into trouble with the police.

Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d'Angelo and his wife want only to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son's indiscretion implicates him in a tragic accident, their eldest daughter must pay the price. To buy the silence of Sebastiano Rovere, they must give beautiful Bianca to him in marriage. But Bianca flees this cruel union, and then her husband's shocking murder frees Bianca to love at last...

He Was Taught How To Kill Even behind bars, serial killer Harvey Day Smith exudes menace. Psychologist Jolene Granger has agreed to hear his dying confession, vowing not to let the monster inside her head. And Harvey has secrets to share--about bodies that were never found, and about the apprentice who is continuing his grisly work. . . And Now He'll Teach Them He buries his victims alive the way his mentor Harvey did, relishing their final screams as the earth rains down. And as one last gift to the only father he knew, he'll make the most perfect kill of all. How To Die Everything about this investigation is unnerving Jo, from Harvey's fascination with her to the fact that she's working alongside Texas Ranger Brody Winchester, her ex-husband. Harvey's protege is growing bolder and more vicious every day. And soon the trail of shallow graves will lead them to the last place Jo expected, and to the most terrifying truth of all. . .

When Mai feeds the caged birds at a Buddhist temple in Vietnam, her simple act of kindness starts a chain of thoughtful acts that ultimately comes back to her. Includes author's note explaining the Buddhist concepts of karma and samsara, or the wheel of life.

During a thirty-six hour flight from Australia to England, fourteen-year-old Margaret uncovers a smuggling plot among her seatmates

When a series of strikes and labor disputes immobilize the Australian city where they live, a young boy and his sister join their cleaning lady and her crippled husband and try to make their way out of an increasingly hostile environment.

The adventures of a young city girl spending her first summer with country friends on their Australian farm.

During a thirty-six hour flight from Australia to England, fourteen-year-old Margaret uncovers a smuggling plot among her seatmates.

Four Australian children befriend the immigrant owner of a formerly deserted house and discover he is being harrassed by a motorcycle gang who consider his house their headquarters.

James Parker won't give up on his wife, Bella.Not after everything they've been through together. What started as an unlikely marriage between a blue blood and a rebel blossomed like the gardens Bella cultivates.But she can't remember any of it. Miles from home, afflicted with amnesia, she's safe in the care of a kind doctor--and safe from the memory of the betrayal that made her leave. Now it's up to James to remind her of their wonderful life together, to help her fall in love again...and to help her find the way home.