“All I need is three days of fog,” Napoleon told his admirals, and they would have his greatest enemy at their mercy and the world at his feet.
It is 1803, and Britain and France are on the eve of war. Captain Nathan Peake, still in command of the sloop Falaise, is recruited to coordinate a secret operation to land agents and weapons ......
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.
Actor Sam Beresford is on the way up, serious about his work, yet terribly unsure and in need of praise, love and emotional support. As he struggles to develop the roles he plays with a classical company outside London, Sam experiences the quick, intense relationships of theatre's transitory world.
As Freddy gazes at the majestic river gushing past him in the depths of a Scottish winter, hes ready to jump in and end his life. But what happens next is not what Freddy expects.
In Mudrooroo's unforgettable novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece, the author evokes with fullest irony the bewilderment and frailty of the last native Tasmanians, as they come face to face with the clumsy but inexorable power of their white destroyers.
The central character and narrator is Henry Barraclough, recently retired as Head of English at a British public school. Enraged at what he sees as his grossly unfair treatment by the school, he uses seven leftover exercise books to tell his side of the story. It is a brutally honest account of an intensely sexual, secret love affair that destroys ......
Echoes of footsteps in the hallways make Anna wonder whether rumours of the house being haunted are true. A place with a dark history. Anna bumps into Salimah, and their lives intertwine in unexpected ways. Tensions rise as the houses haunting presence grips both women and threatens to upset an already fragile friendship.
Travelling between the 19th and 21st centuries, The Country of Our Dreams explores the confusions and delights of contemporary Australia and Ireland, and their shared inheritance - the Irish Land War of 1879 – 1882. A powerful struggle of tenant farmers, landless labourers, women, and the global diaspora for land, food security, and respect.
A five-year story of love between ordinary people who survived World War II on just 49 days spent together. How did they do it? This true story based on real lives explores the conundrum.
