An account of a group which rescues dogs from war-torn countries and rehomes them. 

The Great Northern

The Great Northern was a particularly nasty Medieval weather phenomenon, the reason why the Dark Ages were considered to be so dark, and its history of disasters was manifold, until, unaccountably, it died down eventually, leaving people wondering exactly why it ever happened. 

For the term of his natural life

In the 1820s, an English gentleman is wrongfully convicted of crime and sentenced to penal servitude in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) "for the term of his natural life". What the authorities don't know is that he is in fact an immortal and a shape-shifter. After surviving the brutal conditions of the penal colony unscathed and outliving all his captors, he embarks on an extraordinary series of escapades in a wild variety of guises, the most notorious of which is as a giga-star housewife from Moonee Ponds... oh, hang on, I may be getting my Aussie icons a bit mixed up here...  

True History of the Kelly Gang

A riveting yarn about how a couple of escaped convicts called Kelly, (or was it Buckley?) turned bushrangers, & along with others like Captain Thunderbolt of Uralla, raided settlers' homes for dinner ware, blankets, & food supplies, with the help of the Aborigines who had sheltered them, previously, thus starting the Black Wars, at places like Myall Creek or Pittwater, sometime in the 1830's, somewhere to the south-east of New Holland, which were so ashamed of the massacres in both places, that the name of the colony of Van Dieman's Land was changed in 1856 CE.  

The potato factory.

Bored kids use a bag of potatoes to make artworks, models, electricity, and finally a book depicting all their creations.

Farmer Giles Of Ham

Farmer Giles of Ham was famous for his piggery, but as a side business he also cured hams, & thus wrote the definitive book on all the methods to cure ham with honey, or Virginia style, triple & double smoked hams for Christmas, including preparing turkey hams as an extra.

The Dutchman Bold

An account of Vincent van Gogh's previously unknown double life as a secret agent and master of disguise (codenamed The Yellow Sunflower).

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

@courtenay 

When the Black and Smith families become connected in a marriage, an aunt who is a composer writes a special song for the couple. The tune is too difficult for them to sing, so it becomes a chant, next used at the baptism of their baby James (known as Jimmie).

The Pinhoe Egg

The hunt for the Pinhoe Egg was an intriguing & dangerous adventure when it turned out to be a heavily disguised but much bejewelled Fabergé egg, once owned by the last Tsarina, Alexandra, worth millions of dollars & missing since the Russian Revolution, of 1917.

Crime and punishment

A law student studies hard to pass her Criminal Law exams, while her journalist sister works as a court reporter to see the other side of it.

Cabbages For The King

The story of an unfortunate cabbage merchant, who run into obstacle after obstacle as he tries to deliver his cabbages to the king.

Dandelion Fire

A gardener's book which tells of a rare variety of dandelion that encourages the spread of fire in untended bushland or in rural properties. 

The cloister and the hearth. 

A book discussing places people lived in Medieval Europe and what made them home.

The Lantern Bearers

An anthology of British World War 1 poetry, with themes of fair play, to be passed on, like a relay, to succeeding generations.

Spare  

A book about second-chance victories in bowling and other sports.

The Black Stallion