Beneath the Southern Cross (76 page)
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Authors: Judy Nunn
The Glitter Game
Edwina Dawling is the golden girl of Australian television. The former pop singer is now the country's most popular actress, an international star thanks to the hit TV soap
The Glitter Game
. But behind the seductive glamour of television is a cutthroat world where careers are made or destroyed with a word in the right ear ⦠or a night in the right bed.
The Glitter Game
is a delicious exposé of the glitzy world of television, a scandalous behind-the-scenes look at what goes on when the cameras stop rolling.
Centre Stage
Alex Rainford has it all. He's sexy, charismatic and adored by fans the world over. But he is not all he seems. What spectre from the past is driving him? And who will fall under his spell? Madeleine Frances, beautiful stage and screen actress? Susannah Wright, the finest classical actress of her generation? Or Imogen McLaughlin, the promising young actress whose biggest career break could be her greatest downfall â¦
Centre Stage
is a tantalising glimpse into the world of theatre and what goes on when the spotlight dims and the curtain falls.
Araluen
On a blistering hot day in 1850, brothers George and Richard Ross take their first steps on Australian soil after three long months at sea. All they have is each other.
A decade on, and they are the owners of successful vineyard, Araluen, nestled in a beautiful valley near Adelaide. Now a successful businessman, George has laid down the roots of a Ross dynasty, born of the New World. But building a family empire â whatever the cost â can have a shattering effect on the generations to come â¦
Pacific
Australian actress Samantha Lindsay is thrilled when she scores her first Hollywood movie role, playing a character loosely based on World War II heroine Mamma Tack.
But on location in Vanuatu, uncanny parallels between history and fiction emerge and Sam begins a quest for the truth. Just who was the real Mamma Tack?
Kal
Kalgoorlie. It grew out of the red dust of the desert over the world's richest vein of gold
⦠From the heady early days of the gold rush, to the horrors of the First World War in Gallipoli and France, to the shame and confrontation of the post-war riots,
Kal
tells the story of Australia itself and the people who forged a nation out of a harsh and unforgiving land.
Heritage
In the 1940s refugees from more than seventy nations gathered in Australia to forge a new identity â and to help realise one man's dream: the mighty Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. From the ruins of Berlin to the birth of Israel, from the Italian Alps to the Australian high country,
Heritage
is a passionate tale of rebirth, struggle, sacrifice and redemption.
Floodtide
Floodtide
traces the fortunes of four men and four families over four memorable decades in the mighty âIron Ore State' of Western Australia. The prosperous 1950s when childhood is idyllic in the small city of Perth ⦠The turbulent 60s when youth is caught up in the Vietnam War ⦠The avaricious 70s when WA's mineral boom sees a new breed of entrepreneurs ⦠The corrupt 80s, when greedy politicians and powerful businessmen bring the state to its knees â¦
Maralinga
Maralinga, 1956. A British airbase in the middle of nowhere, a top-secret atomic testing ground â¦
Maralinga
is the story of Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner, who accepts a posting to the wilds of South Australia on a promise of rapid promotion, and of adventurous young English journalist Elizabeth Hoffmann, who travels halfway around the world in search of the truth.
