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It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high - a tempest created by such a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm".

Raphaella loves her ageing husband and grieves that a stroke has incapacitated him. Almost against her will, she falls in love with Alex, a virile young California attorney.

A detailed honest appraisal of Peter Finch as an actor and a man, an absorbing profile of an extraordinary man.

In this sequel to `Flowers in the attic' the surviving children plan revenge on the grandmother who locked them away and the mother who tried to murder them.

A steamy, erotic tale of life amongst the varied inhabitants of Peyton Place.

An analysis of, and commentary on, the socialist philosophy of Karl Marx and his stressing of the antagonism between labour and capital.

Lorrie looks forward to taking her young nephew Davey on a camping trip even though it's been arranged for the sole purpose of keeping him out of harm's way while his father testifies.

The vivid story of Maggie Lilly and her family, great pioneers of the rugged north west of Australia, bringing to life the struggles and triumphs of the early days of settlement, and the many fasci

A collection of the best of the author's columns from the "Australian" newspaper.

This, the fourth novel in the "Earth's Children" series, tells of Ayla and Jondalar's epic journey across the windswept grasslands of Ice-Age Europe.

Whether you're an explorer or tourist, the journey often proves to be more exciting than the place your arrive at.

When Imogen Jameson is injured in a London bomb blast and mistakenly reported as one of the fatalities, she sees this as an opportunity to escape from a violent marriage and assume the identity of

Sacked by the Federal Security Agency, Crawley plays dangerous games in the Melbourne underworld.

Ben Cartwright possessed courage and a big heart. He refused his neighbours nothing, treated his friends like family.

Joseph Heller, author of the cult classic Catch-22 died in December 1999. This is his last novel, coincidently a novel about a man struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career.