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Sometimes the bad notes resonate longest For a while Lawrence Martin had everything. He was the keyboard player in a successful rock band; he had money, his choice of women. It was all a long way from the British boarding school where he met Roly, the charismatic...
Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most a baby. Ed, her husband, is funny, affectionate and sophisticated by simply...
'Sharp, witty and not a word out of place . . . think David Sedaris on folic acid.' READINGS MONTHLY She's back. And this time, she's not alone . . . Now living in Melbourne, Isabelle and Dr Jack are expecting their first child. And, naturally, Isabelle is the very...
'One of the most extraordinary writers of her generation' The Age Henry and Muriel Bell lead a peaceful lifewith their two small daughters in England on the cusp of the Second World War. When Muriel'sMr Hawthorne drops by unexpectedly one Sunday aftrnoon, the visit...
'A wonderful story full of hauntingly vivid characters and landscapes. The romantic touches are likely to cause swooning... This is addictive, highly recommended reading for teens and adults.'Sydney Morning Herald Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher,...
Internationally acclaimed novelist Robert Drewe returns to the short-story territory he has made his own. Set against the backdrop of the Australian coast, as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between...
BOUND BY LOVE, BUT SWORN TO KILL . . . GUARDIAN ROSE HATHAWAY'S LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. The recent attack on St. Vladimir's Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A...
'The story of an ordinary man who discovers he's not so ordinary. Pascoe is one of our finest writers.' Ray Lawrence Jim Bloke's your typical Aussie, sort of. Being an orphan he's done it tough in the past, but he knows how to take care of himself and he has an...
Peter Goldsworthy's high-octane, fourteen-year-old narrator Robbie Burns has creative energy to burn . . . . . . physical and mental, sexual and literary, constructive and destructive. Coming of age in a small town peopled with big characters, he finds his new teacher...
I used to thinkI didn't fit in, but nowI realiseI do. We all have our place; some just never find it. When awkward teenager Charlie Hudson is beaten up during a family holiday at the beach, beautiful Tess Bailey rescues him and sets the unusual course for his life. In...
Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn...
Scarcely out of print since the early 1870s, For the Term of His Natural Life has provided successive generations with a vivid account of a brutal phase of colonial life. The main focus of this great convict novel is the complex interaction between those in power and...
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the...
Isabelle Simpson longs to take over the family farm, but her ailing father won't give her a chance. The stand-off between them threatens to tear the family apart. Handsome neighbour Will Timmins holds the secret to building bridges between them, if Izzy can forgive him...
Ruth Park's classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia's greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy. ...
The mid-seventies: at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and, ultimately death. With honesty and insight...
Dad? Zombie. Mom? Long gone. Me? Well, that's the scary part. The Real World is a frightening place. Just ask sixteen-year-old orphan Dru Anderson, a tough girl who has taken down her fair share of bad guys. She's armed, dangerous, and ready to kill first and ask...
When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England as young newlyweds, they have with them just a couple of suitcases and Sabine's prized green bicycle. Their intention is to stay for not more than three years, but George falls in love with the island....
'One of the sharpest fictional visions of the country and its people' Gideon Haigh English writer Richard Lovat Somers seeks broader horizons than those of fading post-war Europe, and so, with his wife Harriet, he travels to Australia to discover for himself the people...
In the beginning there had been only High Peaks, the MacLeod family property in the heart of Australia's rugged high country. Andrew and Anne MacLeod struggled on the land to give David, their only son and heir, a better life. Wracked by grief following his father's...
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