AustLit

'Spinster aunts and uncles, bachelor sons – no wonder they were called the 'non-marrying' Whilstacks. When Jean Bedford became the family's music teacher, she watched Hugh and Anthony Wilstack, the most eligible bachelors within hundreds of miles, fend off determined girls far more beautiful than she. Jean vowed she would not join the husband-hunting crowd that pursed them – but she could not stop herself from falling in love...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

A Virginian colonist sails to Europe on a trading mission and becomes involved in King Charles' War of 1648.

'Though he had once rejected his wealth, Rupert Royce now accepts his responsibilities and takes a commanding role in the shipping company his family owns. A possible deal with the Soviets would bring great profits but might also weaken the British Naval power in the long run.'

Source: Spy Guys and Gals (http://spyguysandgals.com/sgShowChar.aspx?id=669#bk_2582) (Sighted: 6/8/2018)

Novelised by Strutton from his own television script for Doctor Who, screened as 'The Web Planet' early in the same year.

'In a valley deep in the highlands of New Guinea lives a small colony of Europeans. One of them is Kurt Sonderfield, a doctor with a shady past who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

N'Daria is a hauntingly beautiful native girl whom Sonderfield has trained in the art of seduction. Kumo is a young sorcerer who has fallen under Sonderfield's sway. Only two dare oppose Sonderfield: the old French missionary Pere Louis, and Gerda, the wife Sonderfield has betrayed.

'As the passions and power plays of the Europeans collide with ancient highland magic, the beat of the kundu drums thunders through the valley, bringing the story to an explosive climax.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

'The lives of three Australian children are cruelly affected when a bushfire known as the February Dragon sweeps across the countryside.'

Source: Blurb.