Carol Baxter

Baxter, Carol

Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 13/05/2015 - 12:00am by Karen

He was the gentleman bushranger ... she was the woman who rode with him. This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady.

'Bail up!' demanded Captain Thunderbolt before he shouted the bar with the inn keeper's own profits. Driven into banditry by injustice, this...Read more

An Irresistible Temptation

BOOK ADDED: Mon, 31/10/2011 - 2:34pm by Karen

In 1829 at the Supreme Court in Sydney, the bewitching Jane New was sentenced to death. Her crime: shoplifting a bolt of printed French silk. But was she guilty? Many had their doubts.

Although a legal technicality soon quashed Jane's sentence, the autocratic Governor Ralph...Read more