Allen & Unwin
Dreaming the Enemy
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Dreaming the Enemy starts when 19-year-old Johnny Shoebridge, an Australian country boy from a hard-working, traditional community, returns from Vietnam.…
The Pearl-Shell Diver: A Story of Adventure from the Torres Strait
It is 1898, and 13-year-old Sario lives on an island in the Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia. His…
Maggie’s Kitchen
In London during World War Two, Maggie Johnson opens one of the many British Restaurants, an initiative of the Ministry…
Harry Mac
South Africa is an exciting, dangerous place to live in the 1960s. Tom’s Dad is Harry Mac, a journalist using…
Racing the Moon
It’s 1931 and Joe Riley, ‘on the wrong side of thirteen’, lives in Sydney, Australia. It’s the Depression, and Joe…
The Railwayman’s Wife
Anikka (Ani) Lachlan is the title character in this novel, which is set after World War II in Thirroul, a…
Half the World in Winter
Set in 1880, the novel begins with a train accident in which three people are killed. The life of bereaved…
Betsy and the Emperor
The tagline on the Australian edition, “The true story of Napoleon, a pretty girl, a Regency rake and an Australian…
Palace of Tears
Adam Fox is owner of the Palace, an exclusive resort hotel in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. In…
Endurance
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Photographer Frank Hurley needs little introduction to anyone fascinated with early 20th century Antarctic exploration, or who has ever been…
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