Collection: Fiction

Henry Lawson's short stories are as fresh, moving and funny today as when they were first published. ""The drover's wife"", ""The loaded dog"", and many other Lawson classics have become part of the Australian legend.

After a car crash, writer Paul Sheldon is saved by his number one fan. She brought him home, splinted his mangled legs, and all he had to do in return was write a very special book, one all about her favourite character...

Henry Lawson's works expressed the essential qualities of a nation, and nowhere is this more evident than in his humourous stories. This edition presents his stories accompanied by the paintings of Samuel Thomas Gill

England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up in a rural idyll. The beekeeper's daughter, she knows her place and her future - until her father dies and leaves her alone. Alone, that is, except for one man who she just can't shake from her thoughts...

Jude Shelley, daughter of a prominent cabinet minister, had her whole life ahead of her until she was attacked and left to drown in the Thames. Miraculously, she survived. A year later, her family ask psychologist Alice Quentin to re-examine the case.

Harvey Cheyne, pampered son of an American millionaire, is saved from drowning by the New England fishing schooner We're Here. On board, the captain and crew treat him the way they would any stowaway...

Accompanying a group of veteran soldiers on an expedition to the North Pole should be a simple job for ex-deniable operative Nick Stone. But when they're intercepted in their tracks by hulking men with powerful weapons and an enormous ice-breaker ship claiming to be US Navy, Stone immediately und...

A shy privileged elder son, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything...

Jude Fawley, poor and working class longs to study at the university fo Christminster, but he is rebuffed and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead.

1947. Charlie Berlin rejoins the police force. Sent to investigate robberies in rural Victoria, he soon discovers that World War II has changed even the most ordinary of places and people. He goes to Albury-Wodonga but suspects he's being set up to fail