One of Australia's best loved classics, in constant demand for students and general readers. The new Halstead Classics edition is the best paperback edition ever published, and the only one in print. The annotations explain its many treats with learning and humour.
The tensions between nature and development, between reality and hopes are mirrored in the lives of people at the Passage. A Halstead Classic, republished after 70 years.
From the author of Seven Little Australians. Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls, and the story of a country doctor who was busy with a family of his own. Ethel Turner takes us straight into a young people's world of a hundred years ago. Age 12+
A powerful family saga, which begins in pre-war Poland with a Jewish couple and a tight-knit community. In 1925 the couple move to Melbourne to a life acutely different to their old one. Distant Land goes to the heart of Australian cultural identity.
A collection of fiction, travels and poetry. Focusing on the forces that send people away from home and lead them back, the writers discover that much more lies below than on the surface - and that it's never what you'd expect.
“Thompson's city is Sydney, and perhaps the most impressive feature of his writing is the way the physical reality of the city is caught throughout the prose, and the power with which Thompson draws the skin of human relationships over this brutal and jagged landscape that cuts and moulds them.” Neil Armfield, ABC Radio.
The third thriller by this Australian artist and novelist featuring Essington Holt, "failed hustler turned millionaire," who is intrigued when an old friend from the Outback contacts him after 30 years claiming to have a Van Gogh
With a failed relationship behind him, and no career to speak of, Essington Holt is only too happy to answer his rich aunt’s summons and leave Sydney for the south of France. Holt finds himself mixed up in the complex world of art forgery and deception, where brute force and nerves of steel are the only things that can help him. The first of four ......
Essington Holt, in his second adventure, finds himself caught up in the complexities of Balkan nationalist groups, the French police and the ASIO while investigating the murder of an old Yugoslav lady. His investigations take him from the south of France to Venice and the Australian outback. The second in the Essington Holt Mystery series dealing ......
