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Blood Ties by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Fiction
Kath is very close to her grandmother and keen to uncover her grandmother's mysterious past. But what starts out as an innocent investigation into her family's history becomes a matter of life and death for Kath. This is an exciting time-slip novel set in Australia and the UK. Ages 10+
Follow That Lion! (Aussie Nibbles) by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Early Reader | Series: Aussie Nibbles
Hector's mum does some very strange things, but even he is astonished when his mum brings home a lion, and expects it to be a vegetarian. The lion wants meat desperately, and so follows a mad chase.
Forgotten Footprints by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Children's
Description In 1712 a ship belonging to the Dutch East India Company sails for Java. It is wrecked on the Western Coast of Australia. Those who reach the coast can only survive with help - but is there anyone who can help them? A fictional account of a true event.
Ghost Ride by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Children's Fiction
What a grand place it must have been, standing alone on its hill, surrounded by parkland, with racehorses grazing in the paddocks. But, further back in history, what was the land like before the house was built, when it was home to the Wurundjeri-william clan? Ella is about to find out. She is lonely an ...Show more
Holly & the Dream Fixer: Aussie Bites by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Fiction | Series: Aussie bites
Mixing It by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Children's
Fatimah is a devout Muslim. Steve is a regular guy who has never given much thought to faith. Fatimah and Steve happen to be walking in the same street when a terrorist bomb explodes. Steve is badly injured and when the emergency services arrive, Fatimah is cradling his head in her lap, talking to him, ...Show more
Payback by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Young Adult
Like other young Muslim girls of 18, Halima has moved with her family to London and her horizons are beginning to expand. Then, just as she is about to start university, she discovers her father's plan: to marry her to the son of a distant relation in Pakistan who once did him a favour. Halima is to be ...Show more
The Blue-Eyed Aborigine by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Early Reader
This is the story of a cabin boy called Jan Pelgrom and a soldier involved in a notorious mutiny after the shipwreck of the Batavia off Western Australia in 1629. Unlike most of the other mutineers who were hanged, the two men were marooned on the Australian mainland and become Australia's very first Eu ...Show more
The Blue-eyed Aborigine by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Young Adult Fiction
It is 1629, and there is mutiny in the air aboard the Dutch ship Batavia as she plies her way towards Java with her precious cargo. Jan, a cabin boy, and Wouter, a young soldier, find themselves caught up in the tragic wrecking and bloody revolt that follow. But worse is to come! Based on the diaries of ...Show more
To the Edge of the Ocean by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Fiction | Series: Troubled Waters Ser.
Abbie's brother Jim has been missing, presumed drowned on his way by boat to Australia, for nearly 20 years. The twin boys he left behind are almost men now. Their mother has always claimed that Jim is dead, but one of the twins, Amos, is certain that he is still alive and living in Australia. Amos le ...Show more
Troubled Waters - Troubled Waters Trilogy Part 1 by Rosemary Hayes
Category: Fiction | Series: Troubled Waters Ser.
Part 1 of this trilogy begins in the late 19th Century with 12 year old urchin Jim and his sister Abbie, who make a living selling bits and bobs in the street to earn their keep a home. Then Jim is falsely accused of stealing a gold watch and he is charged and sent to Australia, to the recently founded ...Show more
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