Bøger af Kate Lance

The war is over. The reckoning is not.It's the hip 1950s on Sydney's shimmering harbour, but how do you reconcile a past that gave - and stole - so much?Tina runs Tempo jazz club at shady Kings Cross, keeping secrets with, and from, her beguiling boss Jimmy. And from her lonely husband.Harry yearns to forget his days in a Singapore prison camp, yet his friends won't let him. Nor will his conscience.Ex-pilot Billie now works at the flying-boat base. When her old lover Pete turns up with a new wife there's a lot she prefers to conceal. Even from herself.Yvonne rebuilds a life by the harbour with her beloved Klara. But secrets emerge when she publishes Harry's wartime memoir, then no one can postpone the reckoning.

"The writing is beautiful and haunting. The characters are drawn with razor-sharp precision ... compelling reading of the highest standard, full of evocative triumph and tragedy." Goodreads.In the calm of 1937, who could imagine the storms about to engulf a group of old friends at a sunny wedding? Some things are beyond imagination.Fierce pilot Billie is glad she's got a job at last - only trouble is it's in some little dust-up in Spain. Secretive Toby has no wish to volunteer for anything: till he finds out for himself what blitzkrieg means. Newlywed Eliza is posted to Intelligence at Singapore - safer there than in London, she thinks.But when fortress Singapore is reduced to embers, it is actress Izabel who is forced to play the role of her life.Embers at Midnight is the second book in the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction.

"Heartfelt and bittersweet. A delightful read, this beautifully written book comes highly recommended." Goodreads1930s England: and for a group of friends it seems as if the sunny days of sailing, flying and love will never end.A deepwater sailing ship takes restless young Eliza McKee to a new life in glamorous London, but when she meets the handsome star of a talking film it's not quite the life she expects. Eliza's brother Pete yearns to fly, and pilot Billie Quinn can teach him. Pete calls her a sarcastic, scowling Amelia Earhart, but it's Billie who knows how much Pete has to learn.Eliza's aunt, actress Izabel Peres, hides a secret from the world. Then she falls for lawyer Felix with his buccaneering smile, and a case of shellshock he believes is behind him. Doctor Harry Bell, Eliza's old shipmate, loves fascinating Charlotte, but Charlotte just loves flirting and gambling - especially with flyboy Pete's heart.For Eliza's friends, the days of contentment are fading before the gathering dusk of war. And when a great white barque encounters the coast one foggy night, more than an era of sail finds itself tested to the limitsTesting the Limits is the first book in the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction.

"A beautiful and poignant coming of age romantic tale that kept me reading from start to finish." Goodreads.Lucy Fox is sailing to Melbourne in 1906 with her sister Rosa, when a tragic landfall leaves her life entangled with three seamen: gentle Sam, cynical Danny and beautiful Gideon.After Rosa's scandalous elopement, trader Min-lu draws Lucy into a new world of silks, spices and the silvery pearlshell of Broome: a port in the wild Australian north-west where breaking the rules is a way of life.The Great War begins and Lucy's lover must go to sea, where ruthless U-boats are stalking the last of the great sailing ships.But even when peace returns, the influenza pandemic comes with it ... and Lucy, far from home, discovers how bitterly she has been betrayed.Silver Highways is the foundation novel of the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction.

WINNER OF THE MOUNTBATTEN MARITIME AWARDSecond edition, revised and with over 100 photographs.When Australian journalist Alan Villiers sailed on the last of the giant merchant windjammers in the 1920s and '30s, his writings and photographs made him famous.Villiers crewed on beautiful Herzogin Cecilie and tragic Grace Harwar, took tiny Joseph Conrad around the globe, sailed on Arabian dhows, led wartime landing craft, captained Mayflower II across the Atlantic, and inspired modern sail training and ship restoration projects.Drawn from his personal diaries, this award-winning biography of the author-adventurer reveals both his mythmaking and his achievements. It is a tribute to the greatest sailing ships ever launched - and to the extraordinary man who loved them.