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Set predominantly in the Highlands of Scotland and their majestic scenery, this is a colourful and evocative romance which follows two people's search for fulfilment as they try to find the ke

For Mary Callaghan, marriage has brought heartaches and disappointment.

Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops.

Claire can't wait to escape the harshness of ranching life for college and a career in the big city. And Sydney in the 1960's seems much more exciting than Warratah Cattle Station.

Bodie Gant's six-man gang robs the Wells Fargo office in Wind River and kill the Manager.

Saturday 1 October 1938. Two men meet. One is elderly, the other in his twenties. One will become the most revered man of his time, and the other known as the greatest of traitors.

Nothing can stop Beatrice from investigating the disappearance of the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite from her uncle's home, or her uncle's death.

Author's spirited account of the exploits of a group of land army women during WWII in Britain.

In 1905, Emma Hart is sixteen, single and pregnant. By 1968, she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler of a business empire stretching from Yorkshire to America and Australia.

Story goes back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamour in a vast silk factory from dawn til dusk.

Louise and Ben Hunter have a happy, loving marriage, marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. But, when Ben's father, Ronnie dies, their whole world changes.

Presents a selection of Ted Egan's hilarious, very true tales. This is classic, down-to-earth humour.

Emmet Keogh, a young Irish gunman, is saved from the noose only to face death a dozen or so more times at the hand of the most dangerous man in Mexico.

Crew of the 'Sea Witch' board a steamer bearing down on them to find a solitary man aboard. A series of events follow, culminating in a struggle for survival.

Humorous Australian short stories.