The Liberator's Birthday
They brought their old-world conflict with them to the new land.   The Orange and the Green focussed their antagonism on neighbourhood pubs in 1875, at a difficult time on the famous Ballarat goldfields. Jill Blee skilfully surrounds her characters with the flavours of time and place.   The mines and mining tragedies loom in the background while the belligerence of miners and lorrymen, together with their imported patriotism and religious bigotry threaten the desire of the Farrell family to achieve wealth and respectability This special day in the life of their pub becomes life itself, filled with contemporary spleen, beautifully described household routines, and relentless social climbing that threatens Tommy Farrell's chance of finding love.

Written with attention to the big picture, but infused with telling detail, this book offers time-travel to a former here and now. Weston Bate (President, Royal Victorian Historical Society)
Brigid
Jill Blee's second novel, Brigid, is at once a travel story and an historical novel set in modern Ireland, where Jill's first visit to her ancestral homeland is hijacked by the very real presence of her long-dead great aunt, Brigid.

Brigid has some unfinished business which quickly becomes Jill's main quest, through which she is brought into a much deeper experience of the great famine than her history books could ever give her.
The Pines Hold Their Secrets
Elise Cartwright and her sisters arrive at Norfolk Island, in the mid-nineteenth century, when it was still largely a settlement of male convicts.  She is attracted to O'Shaughnessy, one of the Irish convicts, in spite of what the rest of her family thinks.  What happens to the Cartwrights reflects this microcosm of a society obsessed with wealth, guilt and class.

In this historical romance, the secrets which lie on the island are uncovered and you will see what they poignantly reveal about us.