Before Raffles, before Rajah Brooke, there was Francis Light, the 18th-century trailblazer in the Malay Archipelago. His subsequent adventures as a naval officer and merchant sea captain take him from India to Sumatra, the Straits of Malacca to Siam, through shipwreck, sea battles, pirate raids and tropical disease.
In the wake of the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, the world learned some big lessons. But not enough. Life eventually returned to normal, affluence and profligate activity increased – it was The Best of Times. But then the gap between the Haves and the Have-Nots grew. Finally, halfway through the 21st century urban riots, drone warfare and nuclear ......
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.
Mudrooroo's classic novel of Aboriginal teenagers in Perth was published to great acclaim in 1987. This is the story of their young leader invoking the spirit of the mythic hero Sandawara, as they speak of revolution, revenge, justice and black power.
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 ......
The sixth volume in the award-winning series profiling the American perspective in the Age of Sail, No Sacrifice Too Great, chronicles the swashbuckling adventures of the Cutler family as the United States takes on Great Britain in the War of 1812. Richard Cutler and his two sons, William and James, serve in the US Navy, weak in number of ......
The Hundred Acre Wood in the Ashdown Forest, Sussex, is under attack from a new road, but an unlikely group, inspired unconsciously by Winnie the Pooh, fights back as true NIMBYs. Touches lightly on the themes of life, death, nature, the human spirit and meaning.
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.
Insightful stories from the heart about the tears and laughter, the rise and fall, the love and pain felt by women in Malaysia and Singapore. Intimate collection of autobiographical essays every woman should read.
A cypher that looked like a childs game of noughts-and-crosses; a strip of hessian bag; the rhythmic clanging sound of the turning windmill suddenly breaking the silence of the night; the minister who seemed out of place as a churchman: these were some of the more puzzling aspects of the case of the murdered swagman
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.”
Regaining consciousness after an accident, Robert Harper is devastated to find his mind has been copied into a robot named Rob. As an intelligent machine, Rob feels that nobody believes he has the right to determine his own future. Worse, an arms manufacturer wants his technology for use in their weapons systems. What will Rob do?
By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-time Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enough to worry the police into calling for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.
One of the great novels of early settlement in Tasmania, seen through the eyes of the shaman Jangamuttuk, who battles for the survival of his tribe in a world of white ghosts.
