Opal: Mining, money and murder from the bestselling author of Outback and Paradise by Patricia Wolf

Opal: Mining, money and murder from the bestselling author of Outback and Paradise by Patricia WolfA small mining community. A murderer at large. And a flood that has trapped them all. DS Lucas Walker is off duty. His young half sister Grace is visiting from Boston, and he's supposed to be spending time with her at his home in Caloodie in outback Queensland. But instead they've driven 400 kilometres west to the tiny mining town of Kanpara to pick up Walker's cousin Blair, who's been digging for boulder opals and is suddenly very keen to get out.

At a time when Australia's iconic koala is threatened by devastating fires and human-generated loss of habitat

the great conservation biologist

but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy

The fig tree witnesses their hushed

Everything comes at a price

of mother-daughter art and design label Miimi and Jiinda

this kit allows you to make unique handmade gifts for your loved ones

a name Arthur has tried so hard to banish to protect his children

or how individual communities differed in how they worked with the material

but while he may be out of a job

With notes on light and shade

Devised by First Nations Educators at Ampe-kenhe kenhe Ahelhe (Children's Ground Central Australia)