Wakefield Press imprint: 111 books

A Royal Murder

A Rebecca Keith mystery

by Sandra Winter-Dewhirst
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018

"The duffle bag appeared to be made from expensive silk, embossed with what Rebecca thought was Chinese calligraphy. She was in no doubt that the bag contained a body. The protruding bloodied leg was a giveaway." A macabre murder during the Women's Austra
by Patricia Sumerling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

Bertha Schippan, beautiful but headstrong daughter of a WendishGerman family, is murdered on New Year's Day, 1902. A posse of Adelaide police arrive at the family's lonely Murray Flats farm thirty-six hours later, but by the time an Aboriginal tracker can start his work, a gale has blown all clues away....

The Fourth Season

A Sandra Mahoney mystery

by Dorothy Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013

When the body of young female environmental activist and science student, Laila Fanshaw, is found floating in Lake Burley Griffin, private investigator Sandra Mahoney's life is turned upside down, not least because her partner, Ivan, was in love with Laila. Ivan is a suspect and has no alibi for the...
by Steve J. Spears
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012

All internationally renowned "lady showbiz detective" Stella Pentangeli wants, is to solve a simple literary riddle: did William Shakespeare belong to a blood-thirsty 17th century cult which resurrected dead people? All enigmatic and brilliant Investigator Ng wants, is to find out why a relentless monster...
by Alison Whitelock
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

Alison Whitelock dreamed of shooting her father with a sawn-off shotgun. Her brother planned to use the longest knife in the cutlery drawer, and her mother tried to poison him with out-of-date tranquillisers. This wee book is a bittersweet account of growing up in Scotland in the strange and brutal kingdom...
by Wendy Scarfe
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

It is 1916. The Australian community is riven over a referendum to conscript more troops for the killing fields of Europe. Nine-year-old Matthew's family, divided politically and sinking into poverty, reflects the social conflict. Handsome, generous Edwar
by Dorothy Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013

"I should ask your department's accountant whether he's missing nine hundred thousand bucks." This is the anonymous message that will change Sandra Mahoney's life. When a powerful but unpopular bureaucrat is accused of theft and computer fraud, Sandra is convinced that the charge is false....

A Case to Answer

The story of Australia's first European war crimes prosecution

by David Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018

On Australia Day 1990, a seventy-three-year-old man was plucked from the Adelaide suburbs and accused of helping massacre nearly nine hundred men, women and children in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The trial of Ivan Polyukhovich stretched across the world as witnesses gathered to testify from Ukraine, Israel...

Plein Airs and Graces

The life and times of George Collingridge

by Adrian Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

This book examines the extraordinary life of George Collingridge de Tourcey, a landscape painter of the late nineteenth century, just ahead of the Australian impressionists. When he emigrated from France to Australia he grew passionate about the possibilities of his new country, and worked tirelessly...
by Margaret Merrilees
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018

"They surged across King William Street, around and up onto the bronze Boer War horseman at the corner of North Terrace. Ro linked arms with the woman next to her. 'Take the toys from the boys', they sang. The hero almost disappeared under a festoon of women, but clung valiantly to his rifle,...
by Sharon Kernot
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013

Damien, Edith, Kenneth and Mary are residents of a single street whose lives are ordinary to the last degree and as such encompass addiction and domestic violence, quiet achievements and small acts of kindness and treachery. Jack and Mary, locked at uncomfortably close quarters on Jack's retirement,...
by Cassie Flanagan Willaski
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016

"That's the thing about climate change, it comes home to you. In our case, literally - the fifth night after my husband's departure, while the children and I were sleeping in the front bedrooms, the old tree next door gave way and smashed through the kitchen roof at the back." Brave and beautifully written,...

Green Australia

A snapshot

by Steve Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

"Green Australia: A Snapshot" examines the ways in which Australians are attempting to reduce their ecological footprint both at home and at work. In 2009, the CO2 Energy Emissions Index found that Australia had overtaken the USA to become the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases...
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