Joan: The colourful memoir of the remarkable, ground-breaking Joan Child, the Australian Labor Party's first woman Member of the House of Representatives and the first woman Speaker of the House and Australia's Permanent Delegate to the European Parliament. At the same time she managed to care for her frail and elderly parents who lived with her Joan Child entered Parliament in 1974, midway through the boisterous times of the Whitlam Government - sitting in the House on the day of infamous Dismissal - and left as Paul Keating was challenging Bob Hawke for the Prime Ministership. She gained...

This is the third book in the trilogy - Lover Husband Father Monster, Her Story; Lover Husband Father Monster, His Story and now, Lover Husband Father Monster, The Aftermath. In Books One and Two, the story is told in two voices - his and hers - of how Stuart Hoare's abuse and control of Jennifer, his wife and mother of his three children for fifteen years, culminates in a tragic family disaster. Stuart is a successful businessman, the family live in an upmarket Dublin suburb and the children attend good schools. Jennifer, previously a successful environmental lawyer, is an 'at-home' mother...

Told in two voices, Lover, Husband, Father, Monster is a powerful tale of love, deception and shattered dreams that reaches a chilling climax as a well-intentioned, conventional marriage collapses. In Book 2, His Story, Stuart, a conservative businessman, outlines his recollections of the development of the relationship, marriage and family life with Jennifer. He sees himself as the captain of a ship. Sometimes it encounters rough seas and at other times enjoys calm waters. Either way, somebody must be at the helm and Stuart considers that it is only right that it is always him. But he...