Attention! Reunion of Garth, Gough, Bellette & Harper
Mark your diaries. October 27,28 and 29 2023 there will be a reunion in Hobart, Tasmania, of descendants and for anyone who is...
Past the thin blue line
It is a joyful thing, Susannah thought as she watched her children with the Belletts. We are more like family than friends. They want for...
A curse?
"Two weeks after we went ashore, when Ed was chosen to go to Norfolk Island, I implored Lieutenant King to let me join him, but I was...
From some unearthly place
And Susannah thought, 'when love comes from some unearthly place, when it comes from a place where forces unseen bring two people...
Forged from love and tenderness
In the days when his flesh had burned with pain, she had cared for him with such genuine devotion he had been moved by her and from this...
It is not death I fear
“I knew that others had faced the noose for crimes less than this. I’d always heard talk of God and the hereafter. I don’t think I am...
Creatures of the Sun
Susannah marvelled at them, they were creatures of the sunlight. They wore skin as gold as honey and grew taller and stronger than would...
Of Angels and Eagles - more snippets
Susannah had brought his cot into the open air while she scrubbed the washing across the washboard in the wooden tub, wringing it and...
Excerpt Book 1 Garth Trilogy 'Of Angels and Eagles'
And there, right in front of her were the images of her dreams, the tall straight green pines, thick and woody, covering the island....