Early Australian history written as a narrative and factual. Interesting, lively and essential reading. Book 5 of the series "The Australians".
Historical Fiction
- Auteur:STUART, VivianSommaire:
- Auteur:CARTLAND, BarbaraSommaire:
Frank Swinton is an adventurer, a man determined to raise himself above the drudgery of a nine-to-five job. So when he hears of the death of a wealthy financier's son, he goes along to the man's home to offer his condolences...
- Auteur:HAWKINS, AlisSommaire:
It is 1385 and master mason Simon of Kineton is building his magnum opus : a great college to rival any in England. Six hundred years later, in the same city, Damia Miller has been employed to promote penniless Kineton and Dacre...
- Auteur:GOWER, IrisSommaire:
Rosie, sixteen, beautiful and vivacious, is in love with Watt Bevan, the manager of the famous Mainwaring Pottery. But Watt, unaware of her feelings, is becoming increasingly drawn into the problems facing pottery owner Llinos...
- Auteur:MCKINLEY, TamaraSommaire:
Miriam Strong had been looking forward to her family arriving at Bellbird Station to help her celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday. Yet with the discovery of the first tangible clue to her stolen inheritance, has come the knowledge...
- Auteur:Hill, PamelaSommaire:
The story of Charlotte, illegitimate daughter of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and her own illegitimate son. Set in 18th and 19th centuries.
- Auteur:Jacobs, AnnaSommaire:
Frederick Hallam is dying, yet he is sure to make secret plans to smooth the future for his beloved wife Annie. Her sister, Joanie, finds that life brightens up when a dashing new suitor crosses her path, but a spurned lover is...
- Auteur:Rodale, MayaSommaire:
They are sworn enemies... Theodore Prescott the Third, one of Manhattan's Rogues of Millionaire Row, has really done it this time. The only way to survive his most recent, unspeakably outrageous scandal is marry someone respectable....
- Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:
His Majesty's Ship Sutherland - of two decks and seventy-four guns - is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Horatio Hornblower and, with his crew from the Lydia, look set to take on...
- Auteur:Cornwell, BernardSommaire:
Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt the rescue of a senior British officer who has been captured by the Tippoo of Mysore's forces, providing him with an escape from the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. Sharpe is the man you...
- Auteur:CORNWELL, BernardSommaire:
Sharpe has lost his command but is determined to win it back in an assault on the fortress town of Badajoz. Heroism and action in the Napolenoic wars by a masterful storyteller.
- Auteur:CORNWELL, BernardSommaire:
It is 1811 and the intrepid Richard Sharpe and his riflemen find themselves in one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular War.
- Auteur:THOMPSON, E. VSommaire:
When the copper mines of Cornwall began to close down at the end of the 1870's many men left for the golden land of Australia, intending to earn enough money to bring their families out. Sam Hooper was one such emigrant.
- Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:
There is no joy in Helen Merlin's household, no love. Her mother cowers to her severe and controlling father and Helen tries to follow suit. But she yearns to be loved and made to feel special. When she meets an actor - whose...
- Auteur:SHREVE, AnitaSommaire:
It is a house on the beach. Honora doesn't mind renting-despite its age and all its flaws, the old house is the perfect place for a new marriage. She and Sexton throw themselves into fixing it up, just as they throw themselves into...
- Auteur:Hawthorne, NathanielSommaire:
The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter
- Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:
In 1820 Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his best workers. Annie Gibson's family is one of them, but when Annie's mother dies her world changes and not all for...
- Auteur:PIETRONI, Anna LawrenceSommaire:
This is the tale of three women, one witch, one mermaid and one missing and how Ruby was caught up in between. When Isa Fly appears in the doorway of Captin Len's Fried Fish Shop, fourteen year-old Ruby is entranced. Isa comes from...
- Auteur:PLAIDY, JeanSommaire:
Catharine Howard's dainty charm quickly attracts Henry VIII. Overwhelmed by his attentions she is blind to his true nature, until she discovers that her new husband will not tolerate playful flirtation.
- Auteur:Robbins, David, Compton, RalphSommaire:
In the Sweet Grass Valley, Kent Tovey's Circle T ranch and Dar Pierce's DP ranch sit on either side of the Rio Largo River. Tovey and Pierce have no beef with each other--until a no-good schemer instigates a bloody feud between the old...