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Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria.

In this novel, Kalgoorlie is brought to life through the lives and times of two families, one Australian and one Italian.

A fire destroys the modest coal haulage business their father Jack has built, leaving Jack broken and his family wondering how they will survive.

Clare Hamilton is just nine years old when her childhood is abruptly ended with the death of both her parents in the typhoid epidemic of 1946.

Fictional account of station life in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia during early settlement.

On location in Vanuatu, young Australian actor Samantha Lindsay plays a character based on the life of 'Mamma Tack', a World War II heroine who was invaluable to both the US forces and th

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an imcompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for the younger children.

Cornwall in the 1780's... After a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family.

In the wealthy town of Ostia, Marcus Didius Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday.

When Matthew Taylor exchanged his job as a butcher for a career as a local insurance agent he never anticipated that on his first day he would deliver a stallion foal and kill seven pigs - all with

An historical novel of Israel, from pre-history to the present. Religion, society, politics - fact and conjecture are interwoven.

It is 1385 and master mason Simon of Kineton is building his magnum opus : a great college to rival any in England.

Fictional account of pioneering life in the Swan Valley.

She came with courage and determination. This is the story of a young girl who came to the Avon Valley in Western Australia to be married at the end of the nineteenth century.

'Twopenny rainbows' continues the story of the younger sisters of Keara Michaels, the heroine of 'A Pennyworth of Sunshine', following their fortunes from nineteenth-century Ire