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What if Elizabeth Macarthur – wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney – had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What follows is a playful dance of possibilities between the real and the invented. Grenville's Elizabeth Macarthur is a passionate woman managing her complicated life-marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her own heart and the search for power in a society that gave her none - with spirit, cunning and sly wit.

AN UNIMAGINABLE APOCALYPSE. A SCARED YOUNG GIRL. A STUBBORN OLD WOMAN. NEITHER WILL SURVIVE WITHOUT THE OTHER. Pam is in her mid-seventies, widowed and hiding from the world behind a caustic sense of humour. Her health is declining, and she’s afraid of dying alone, but her most pressing...

'Sororicidal didn't so much move me as arrest me. It stopped me in my tracks. A far more powerful thing.' - Angela O'Keeffe Sisterhood is a mirror. It can also be a weapon. In the vineyards above Edwardian Adelaide, Mary dazzles while Margot trails in her shadow. But Mary's malice will soon find...