Once enthralled by the grand vistas of travel, Frederic returns, a man cored out by experience and flight as Europe is about to burst into the fire...

An awakening... two occupied homelands... a young woman's personal growth. Melati's journey took her from a cloistered Swiss boarding school to the...

Did Candy want to be found with heroin in her baggage at Bangkok airport? Or is she just another Western drug trafficker caught by the Thai authori...

This is a novel set in China, a personal account of the turbulent years of Mao's continuous revolution, including the social and political upheaval...

In 1956 Lydia is alone with her frustration which she acts out aggressively with her children. Forty years on, her children suffer serious depressi...

Set in the summer and autumn of 1938, "Body and Soul" is eighteen-year-old disabled Lilbet Marks' very biased account of the love affair between Fe...

Dewi Anggraeni wrote this book because she saw that many things which did not fit the ethnic Chinese stereotype in Indonesia were rarely brought to...

Jill Blee's second novel is at once a travel story and an historical novel set in modern Ireland, where Jill's first visit to her ancestral homelan...

Charlotte Badger became the first white woman to live in New Zealand, after taking part in a mutiny which followed two vicious floggings on board a...

This book brings to life for many Australians, the close connection between Australia and East Timor. In 1941-42, Archie Campbell was a lieutenant ...

Recent books attacking religion have held the headlines. Now this book presents the beliefs of ordinary people. This book features: Interviews with...

This is a novel of friendship, love and corruption. Set in Brisbane during the disastrous 1974 flood, two very different men, the immunologist Mark...

Gillian Hindmarsh is an Australian researcher, investigating architectural history in Penang, Malaysia. From a city archive, she souvenirs a photog...

Published to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Catholic Education in the Diocese of Ballarat, this book presents the history of...

A shocking phone call from their distraught daughter-in-law was how Lynda and Richard Langley learnt that their son had started his transition from...

Motivation, persistence and perseverance are the distinct traits of determined and dedicated individuals who can make things happen. It's always po...

When Maryati leaves her village in Central Java to live in Melbourne with her Australian husband Trevor, she suffers the intense pain of separation...

After her son hanged himself, Janis Tait searched for written material to help her cope with the overwhelming emotions. The few books available tol...

Valerie Kirwan's sharp observation and sharper wit presents us with these four cameos of love loved and love lost in the last decades of the twenti...

In the autumn of 1870, Nikolai Miklouho Maclay, a young marine biologist, left his home in St Petersburg to travel to the remote territory of New G...

After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, Niqi Thomas, a young Czech Australian woman, returns with her father to Prague, to visit her ancestral city an...

The so-called mail order bride phenomenon developed to fill the needs of lonely men, particularly in regional Australia. But the marriages did not ...

While Indonesia and Australia form the focus and location of Dewi Anggraeni's works, this collection of short stories explores themes shared by peo...

Lia and Frederic meet as children, never declare their love for one another, yet remain inseparably bonded. From the comfort and security of her Je...