Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which British colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous peoples in south-west Australia and Prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period,...
Australia
- Author:Nettelbeck, Amanda, Smandych, Russell, Knafla, Louis A., Foster, RobertSummary:
- Author:Groom, Susan OvensSummary:
- Author:Lord, GabrielleSummary:
It is morning in a one-room schoolhouse in the Australian outback. The young teacher (Rachel Ward) calls her class to order. It is a day like any other--until the unexpected occurs. Four masked gunmen break into the school house, kidnap...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is summer festival. Corinna loathes the festival and the heat. She is a...
- Author:Marti, SteveSummary:
For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization on the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. Steve Marti shows that collective acts of patriotism strengthened communal bonds, while...
- Author:Pilkington, Doris (Garimara, Nugi)Summary:
A young aboriginal woman travels across Western Australia following the rabbit-proof fence to reach her people.
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
The second in the classic Phryne Fisher series from Kerry Greenwood, featuring the irresistible heroine Phryne. Whether she's foiling kidnappers, seducing beautiful young men or simply deciding what to wear for dinner, Phryne handles...
- Author:Keneally, MegSummary:
Jenny Gwyn has proven herself a survivor. Faced with destitution after the death of her father, she toughens her skin to become a highwaywoman in order to support her impoverished family. But one fatal mistake leads to her arrest, and...
- Author:Fox, Candice, Patterson, JamesSummary:
Sam Blue is accused of three murders. The only person who believes he is innocent is Detective Harriet Blue, his sister. She's determined to prove it, even when reassigned to the Australian Outback. Meanwhile, a young woman in...
- Author:Moriarty, JaclynSummary:
Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of wacky notes left on the fridge. On top of...
- Author:Beazley, Kim E.Summary:
The inside story of one of Australia’s longest serving and most influential Ministers in Federal Parliament. Kim E Beazley threw off the shackles of a poor childhood to become a teacher, a Union Leader and the Member for...
- Author:Tachna, ArielSummary:
Langs Down, tome 1 Caine Neiheisel è intrappolato in un impiego senza prospettive e alla fine di una relazione che di prospettive non ne ha più, quando all’improvviso gli si presenta l’occasione di una vita: sua madre eredita un...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and banker. That is, until she walked out on the money market and her dismissive and unpleasant husband James, threw aside her briefcase, and doffed her kitten heels forever. Now she is...
- Author:Ames, TamSummary:
The year 2089 finds Australia split between east and west, with a wall to ensure the east stays safe. College student Aiden Taylor is traveling from Perth to Sydney to see Men at Work, who have been revived after cryogenic freezing....
- Author:Bennett, WayneSummary:
A biography of coach Wayne Bennett
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
If there’s one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can’t abide, it’s people not eating well—particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered...
- Author:Jacobs, AnnaSummary:
The final part of the Blake sisters saga set in Lancashire and Western Australia in the 1860s
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
The nice men at P&O are worried. A succession of jewelry thefts from the first-class passengers is hardly the best advertisement for their cruises. Especially when it is likely that a passenger is the thief. Phryne Fisher, with her...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
Phryne Fisher needs a rest. It’s summer. She packs up her family and moves to Queenscliff, a quiet watering place on the coast. Where she meets with smugglers, pirate treasure and some very interesting surrealists, including a parrot...
- Author:McClymont, KateSummary:
We all know Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but none of us expected to read about a Sydney businessman being shot in the back of his head, in his driveway, in front of his nine-year-old son, in Cremorne. Nor that the order would...