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Set in 1928 in Victoria, Australia. The Thornton family made its money in the goldfields during the 1850s and the antiques trade. Thornton Park is their lavish mansion close to Melbourne. They also own a home and a goldmine in Daylesford, in the heart of Victoria, where their close friends, the Bassetti family, are part of a thriving Swiss-Italian community.Alexandra Thornton has married Benedict Archer. On their honeymoon in Daylesford, Alexa...

Benedict Archer, who is manager of Thornton Antiquesin Melbourne and who has been secretly helping Alexandralearn more about her family business, is also invited.Alexandra asks Benedict and Edith Blackburn, her friendsince childhood, to be with her when she approaches her father. When Edith claims that Benedict is inlove with her, Alexandra can't believe it. In all the timethey'd been at Thornton Antiques together, he'd never saida word. Now, ...

A Dragon statue. An ancient sword. What treasure is worth killing for? It's 1927 in Victoria, Australia. A hedonistic time after the Great War when young people knew they could enjoy life without the threat of war hanging over them. A time when women have more options opened to them. Alexandra Thornton was born in to a wealthy pastoralist family, who made their money on the land, the Victorian goldfields and in antiques. Alexandra ...

This unique, sensitively written novel for young readers about life on a modern farm skillfully interweaves two stories, one from the animal perspective of a cow named Emily and the other from the human viewpoint of a twelve-year-old boy named Chris. Author Nicholas Read eloquently describes how two very different lives encounter similar disruptions and are ultimately brought together in a life-and-death adventure.Though Emily's early experien...