Psychiatrist Natalie King is the expert witness in a vicious child custody battle, and the stakes are high. Getting it wrong means handing a child over to an abuser—or depriving that child of the only father she knows.Is Jenna gaming the system, or is her ex-husband Malik as dangerous as she suggests? How can Natalie best protect the child? And now that Natalie's pregnant—and still unsure of the child's paternity—how is a growing preoccupation with her own lost father affecting her judgment?Court dramas, cultural clashes and media backlash create an explosive mixture that forces Natalie to make life and death choices.How far will a parent go to keep—or save—their child?Anne Buist is the Chair of Women's Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. She has over twenty-five years' clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry, and works with protective services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide... Views: 45
When you've got a hankering for classic detective fiction, only the very best will do. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge is one of the original Sherlock Holmes tales penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but this lengthy tale unfurls in two parts, straying from many of the familiar themes and structures of other Holmes stories. It's an intriguing read for first-time readers and confirmed Conan Doyle fans alike. Views: 45
Investigative journalist Mark Jenner has travelled the world reporting from warzones, uncovering atrocities, and tracking violent civil unrest in his lifelong quest for the truth.
Now, the intrepid reporter finds himself journeying to a lab deep in the jungle, where the military has just moved in to curtail a mad scientist's experiments.
If the rumours are to be believed, Dr Conrad Faulkner has been playing God: performing horrifying genetic experiments not only on the jungle’s wildlife, but on its most vulnerable native tribes. Now, following the man's arrest, it's down to ordinary people to decide whether the subjects of those experiments will live or die.
The pressure Mark will face to spin the story in a way that benefits both of his brothers, a politician and a priest, is to be expected — the deep bond he forms with one of the experimental subjects is not.
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