Eternity For Sale is Renate Yates’ fourth novel. It is a black comedy and continues her exploration of the many ways people find to manipulate time, situations and events which leave themselves vulnerable to a sharp pen. It is both stylish and intriguing. The lives of a very eccentric family Sir Basil and Lady Clarissa Hare Bell and their children ......
An Australian couple of mixed German-Chinese origin with their six-year old son Maximilian leave their settled life in Sydney to move to California. The boy's Mandarin name is Xiaolong, meaning Little Dragon, and the dream of his mother is that he will one day become the number one golf player in the world.
Its theme is simple: a tale of Miss Susan Brady, a woman with ideas above her station, who is spurned, and whose jealousy corrodes her life and drives her to try and sabotage the happiness of John Iredale, the prosperous South Australian grazier who has broken her heart...
Magic realism set in the Mildura area, from the author of Still Life with Allen Keys. The squawking parrot knows it all, the secret keeper of this land, of wine and river, war and love, and dreams men brought to river bank. Part family saga, part love story, and told over three generations by an unreliable parrot. “A most marvellous tale.”
A very detailed and intimate description of the life, personal and tribal, of the Central Australian Aboriginals; their characteristics, beliefs and superstitions; their tools and weapons; together with a discussion of the results of their contacts with the whites, their present condition and their probable future. Dr Chewings writes with the ......
Includes stories published in small magazines in Australia in the 1870s and 1880s. All deal with the human motivation and interaction of colonial life in Australia from women's points of view. The later stories resonate with experience of life on the continent, far away from Australian gullies.
In the year 1890, Stevenson was living at Apia in Samoa, where he had purchased some three hundred acres in the bush, two miles behind and six hundred feet above the level of the town, and on which he proposed to build a cottage for himself and his family. Why did he almost immediately leave Samoa to pay his first visit to Sydney? The answer, as ......
By the time Frank Pryke’s ashes were buried at Samarai in 1937 there was little of Papua New Guinea he had not seen in his search for gold. He, more than any other, could have confirmed the miners’ lore: ‘There’s gold in New Guinea but there’s a lot of New Guinea mixed with it’.
Best known for his "Australian Slanguage", Hornadge this time writes of all those from settlement to the present who have sought their own idea of Paradise, either on our shores or on such famous expeditions as those to Paraguay. This is a bible of beachcombers and Paradise hunters, from Mary Gilmore to Cedar Bay Bill.
