Simon Nasht
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins - Australia's Unknown Hero

South Australian Hubert Wilkins is one of the greats of history. No one before or since has discovered more previously unknown land and sea. A pioneer of photography during World War I, he was described by one general as ‘the bravest man that I have ever seen’ and is the only Australian war photographer to be decorated in battle … twice. He was the first man to fly in the Antarctic and the first to navigate a submarine under polar ice. The Last Explorer details the astonishing exploits, intelligence and tenacity of an authentic hero – a truly extraordinary man.

Robert Dessaix
Twilight Of Love: Travels With Turgenev

For forty years, Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest novelists of Russia’s Golden Age, was passionately devoted to Pauline Viardot. Yet as far as we know the relationship with Pauline was chaste. What, then, did Turgenev mean by ‘love', the word at the core of his life and work? Robert Dessaix has had his own forty-year relationship with Turgenev, first as a student of Russian, then as a teacher, and now as what he calls a close friend. In a truly remarkable work of memoir, literary biography and travel writing, Robert Dessaix has found the pulse that still quickened Turgenev's age but has failed in ours.

The neat suburban homes of the peninsula seem like an improbable setting for sex parties, blackmail and murder. When Detective Inspector Hal Challis is called to investigate the brutal murder of Janine McQuarrie, shot in a deserted country lane as her seven-year-old daughter looks on, his progress is hampered by lies and secrets. It doesn't help that Challis's superior—bureaucrat, golfer and toady Superintendent McQuarrie— is Janine's father-in-law. Or that Challis has his own personal demons to confront. Everybody has something to hide, something to lose. And someone in Waterloo is determined to kill again.