Collection: Fiction

Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena's heart and remove her from the limelight?

In 1881 Big Jim Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour...

A shy heiress, Catherine Sloper, falls prey to a handsome fortune-hunter. Her father loses her affection when he tries to foil the suitor, and Catherine's aunt has dangerously meddlesome ways.

Irish widow Kate visits Mexico, and is drawn towards a revolutionary movement built around the old, pre-Christian snakebird god of Mexico, Quetzalcoatl. She finds herself hostile to much that she encounters, but is soon forced to abandon her Western ideas

Prosecuted for obscenity and banned on the first appearance in 1915, the book's sensuous immediacy and frankness, especially in its revolutionary treatment of women, remain as vivid today as they were then.

The novel is set in Nethermere and is narrated by Cyril Beardsall, whose sister Lettie is involved in a love triangle with two young men, George and Leslie Temple. She eventually marries Leslie, even though she feels sexually drawn to George.

Henry Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's 'greatest short story writer'. This book contains fifty six of his classic short stories

George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned...

From within the womb, Sal and Brian's unborn child relates his experiences: multiple threats to his existence, including the apparent end of his parents' marriage and his father's desire to have him aborted.(Nancy Pearl)

It's 1954 and Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin to work for the French or hang for murder. Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany and snag one Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS