Collection: Fiction

Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; but it is not so much a tale of this period as Herbert's analysis and indictment of the steps by which we came to the Australia of today.

Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's North. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal....

The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancee, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the flats where they live in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead...

When a cabdriver finds that his drunken passenger has been murdered, Samuel Gorby is called in to investigate the killing...

Set in the goldfields of Australia and the Omeo disaster, it is seen not only through the eyes of the immigrant gentry, but also from the stand-point of Gerty Hillyar, who believes England is a nasty, cold ugly and dirty place.

The Ridge and the River is a vigorous, straightforward story of an Australian commando patrol, a handful of men threading their way through the jungle for a few memorable days that span a lifetime of violence, terror, hope and despair.

A collection of short stories and poetry by Rudyard Kipling

Young Kimball O'Hara is orphaned during the war and left to fend for himself on the streets of Lahore in India, but for Kim, all roads lead to adventure....

A selection of Rudyard Kipling's stories and poems

After the funeral of Sir Normington Winthrop, Mrs Pargeter sets out to discover the connection between Sir Normington and her late husband. Her investigations will draw her into a shady world of gun-runners, shifty politicians - and a kidnapped vicar.