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We worry about our children in school. We think about how school can help our children to learn, and we trust teachers to do their best so that our children can gain the best grades when they leave school. This is what we focus upon. We do not focus upon and most do not know what the real purpose...

'I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius.' In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet. This curious young captain of the marines was an effortless...

Amy Witting was a master of the short story, the genre in which she felt ‘most at home’. Her subjects—childhood and school, marriage and loneliness, the cruelty of men and women—are rendered in a crisp, understated style, at once compassionate and unsentimental. This new selection of twenty...

Kate Douglas captivated the world of erotic romance with her groundbreaking Wolf Tales series and today she continues to push boundaries with the Demon Lover series. “. . . Kate Douglas provides a Mercury-hot paranormal erotic romance that will burn the readers’ fingers (and a few other...

A passionate and controversial novel, set in turn-of-the-century Europe. Henry Handel Richardson's debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world. Among them is Maurice Guest, a young Englishman,...

Second in the Triptych collection: a trio of erotic novellas from the acclaimed author of Affection. Leda's first love brings tenderness, heartbreak and a powerful sexual awakening at the behest of Paul and Rachel - two very different best friends. Transgressive, sardonic, lyrical, comic;...

Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town, and her three infant children, and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of an office job and a house of her own....

In his rage, Chaos destroys the world he created. From his destruction,Order is born. Order brings forth pure beings known as Sentinels. From the Sentinels comes the One True Child.   Carling, raised as a normal daughter of The People, was brought up to believe...

A group of Jewish refugees are thrown together on board a dilapidated freighter charting a course for Australia. Fleeing terrible scenes of destruction in Europe, they are bound by a deep sense of loss and the uncertainty of their fate. As the ship lists, inner conflicts burst to the surface...

Winner of the 2015 Aurealis Awards for Best Horror Novel and Best Fantasy Novel.  Mark is a Day Boy. In a post-traumatic future the Masters—formerly human, now practically immortal—rule a world that bends to their will and a human population upon which they feed. Invincible by night,...

Lillipilly Hill is a delightful coming-of-age story that is all at once sweet and adventurous, sensitive and exciting. Lillipilly Hill is the story of Harriet Wilmot and her family, who have come to live in an inherited house in the New South Wales town of Barley Creek at the end of the nineteenth...

The Getting of Wisdom is the classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl's coming of age. The Getting of Wisdom was first published in 1910 and has continued to sell well. Germaine Greer's introduction, of course, makes this edition even more appealing...

It has never been my way to say much about my private life. Rightly or wrongly, I believed this only concerned myself. And I trusted to my husband to supply, on my death, any further information that might be asked for. Now that he is gone, however, there is no one to take his place, and so I propose...

Previously published as Women in Black now a major film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Julia Ormond, Angourie Rice, Rachael Taylor, Ryan Corr, Shane Jacobson, Susie Porter, Alison McGirr, Noni Hazlehurst and Vincent Perez. At the very end of the Ladies’ Frocks Departments, past...