With a failed relationship behind him, and no career to speak of, Essington Holt is only too happy to answer his rich aunt’s summons and leave Sydney for the south of France. Holt finds himself mixed up in the complex world of art forgery and deception, where brute force and nerves of steel are the only things that can help him. The first of four ......
Nothing is quite what it seems in this tall tale; dubious science meets equally dubious myth making. Welcome to the Society of the Wolf, the re-creation of Tasmania’s Great Western Tiers within a vast snow-jar constructed in the Victorian Museum. A tale of love and redemption, deep ecology and the dreams we live by.
Dave Allenson, a security guard, stops Peter Hore from tearing down the net of the Iranian goal in the 1997 play-off against Australia, setting off an alternate timeline of Australian football. This book traces the course of "what if".
Considered the greatest western of all time— "When you call me that, smile!" finds its origins in the book—this classic tells the story of the Wyoming ranch foreman known only as the Virginian, his courtship of school teacher Molly Wood, and his encounters with the murdering cattle rustler, Trampas.
A daring and thrilling journey into a fantastical world of shamans and vampires where Aboriginal dreaming and Gothic horror are woven together in early Australian colonial history.
The Punjabi migration provides the material for the first Indo-Australian literary work, first published in 1965. Set in northern New South Wales this is something of a rural idyll, recording a cross-communal marriage and settling in to life on a sheep farm with a cast of typical bush characters.
Hugh Watson draws on experience of Federal politics to weave a gripping political thriller, against the backdrop of rural NSW. The residents of Gwydir and an intuitive detective, Susan Swift, must deal with a troubling series of murders. Barry Kingscliff, a power broker from the city, appears to be at the centre of it all.
The book contains the final Chapter of Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, removed before publication, despite it giving the reader knowledge of what happened to the schoolgirls lost at the St Valentine's Day picnic in 1900. First illustrated edition.
This is the seventh novel in the Nathan Peake series of nautical historical fiction set during the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. The war moves to the Americas as Captain Nathan Peake, freed from service in the Royal Navy, is secretly commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to command a naval operation in the Caribbean Sea and ......
