Бренда Уокер4.0 In 1915 a troopship of Light Horsemen sails from Fremantle for the Great War. Two women farewell their men: Elizabeth, with her background of careless wealth, and Bonnie, who is marked by the anxieties of poverty. Neither can predict how the effects of the most brutal fighting at Gallipoli will devastate their lives in the long aftermath of the war.
The Wing of Night is a novel about the strength and failure of faith and memory, about returned soldiers who become exiles in their own country, about how people may become the very opposite of what they imagined themselves to be. Brenda Walker writes with a terrible grandeur of the grime and drudge of the battlefield, and of how neither men nor women can be consoled for the wreckage caused by a foreign war.
Кейт Гренвилл4.1 «Тайная река» — роман о моральном выборе и его последствиях, мощнейшее произведение антиколониальной литературы, созданное на основе семейной истории писательницы.
В 1806 году Уильям Торнхилл, английский бедняк и человек вспыльчивого нрава крадет дрова, и его вместе с любимой женой Сэл депортируют в Новый Южный Уэльс (будущая Австралия). Невероятная любовь Уильяма к обретенному ими экзотическому уголку нового мира омрачается тем, что Уильям понимает: создать дом для своей семьи означает лишить земли тех, кто здесь живет.
Хизер Роуз0.0 Winner of the Davitt Award – Crime Fiction Novel of the Year 2006
In November 1974 a young English nanny named Sandra Rivett was murdered in London's West End. Her employer, Lord Lucan, was named as her attacker. It was widely assumed he had mistaken her for his wife. Lord Lucan disappeared the night Sandra Rivett died and has never been seen since.
Henry Kennedy lives on a mountain on the other side of the world. He is not who he says he is. Is he a murderer or a man who can never clear his name? And is he the only one with something to hide?
Set in Tasmania, Africa and London's Belgravia, The Butterfly Man is an absorbing novel about transformation and deception, and the lengths to which we will go to protect the ones we love.
Кэрри Тиффани0.0 It is 1934, the Great War is long over and the next is yet to come. Amid billowing clouds of dust and information, the government 'Better Farming Train' slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land. The train is on a crusade to persuade the country that science is the key to successful farming, and that productivity is patriotic.
In the swaying cars an unlikely love affair occurs between Robert Pettergree, a man with an unusual taste for soil, and Jean Finnegan, a talented young seamstress with a hunger for knowledge. In an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism, they marry and settle in the impoverished Mallee with the ambition of proving that a scientific approach to cultivation can transform the land.
But after seasons of failing crops, and with a new World War looming, Robert and Jean are forced to confront each other, the community they have inadvertently destroyed, and the impact of their actions on an ancient and fragile landscape.
Shot through with humour and a quiet wisdom, this haunting first novel vividly captures the hope and the disappointment of the era when it was possible to believe in the perfectibility of both nature and humankind.
'Beautifully written . . . kindly, sometimes hilarious and ultimately very sad' "Times Literary Supplement"
'A peach of a first novel by a writer with a deep understanding of relationships and the outside pressures that wear away the good soil' " Sunday Times"
