Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story?
Philomena is requisitioned from a Dorset field in the summer of 1914, and serves with the yeomanry in Egypt and Palestine until the end of the First World War.
Now a major motion picture starring Sarah Gadon, Logan Lerman and Ben Rosenfield, and adapted for the screen by James SchamusDuring the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, law-abiding Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College.
In the speculative fiction story Minerva's Oath, set in the Middle Ages, Minerva and her husband are deities who have lived amongst humans on different continents for millennia, and have witnessed the rise and fall of some of the greatest civilizations in history.
Rosey O'Flanagan discovers something about her own past that changes everything she thought she knew, a stranger comes to the village with a claim on the O'Flanagan land, and Dean faces the hardest journey of all: not a road outward, but one that turns toward home.
What if the greatest victories of World War II were shaped not only on the battlefield… but behind closed doors, in whispered meetings, in risks no history book ever recorded?
Triage Before Church ServiceWhat the Body Carries Before Worship Beginsby Yram HossooSome believers arrive at church carrying invisible emergencies long before the first song starts.
Main Plot: Dean O'Flanagan sets out on a journey that will test everything he has been built being lured by the prospect of his nationalism by Colm Reilly.
When the legendary Apache warrior Cuchillo Oro crosses the deadliest desert in the American West, he faces not only scorching heat and starvation, but ruthless bounty hunters, deadly outlaws, and the bitter hatred of the white world that refuses to forget his past.
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France s greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence.
Elmore Leonard s gritty western Hombre is accompanied here by his famous short story of rough justice and survival, Three-Ten to Yuma, both of which have been made into classic filmsJohn Russell, known simply as 'Hombre', is a mysterious loner raised by Apache Indians, on the last wagon out of Sweetmary, Arizona, along with a motley group of travellers including a doctor, a traumatised girl and a brutal stranger.
It is a sad fact, but the truth is that the female contribution to Western society has, for the most part, been ignored - this means that, in effect, females have been hidden from history because of the absence of records.
'Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction' GILES COREN, THE TIMES'Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER'Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century's first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNGBefore there was Jaws, there was.
When their summer settlement is flooded without warning, a family of S mi women must fight for their way of life in a changing world, in this powerful, haunting novel.
THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING, GOLDEN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED CLASSIC, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ELIF SHAFAKClaudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.
The second in the highly praised Emily Grey seriesEmily Grey proves so engaging that I hope she'll keep going into the Cold War', JakeKerridge, Daily TelegraphAt the height of the First World War, Emily Grey finds herself far away from the action, collating Swiss rubber imports in a hut in the middle of St James Park.
'I was mesmerised' LAURA SHEPPERSON, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Heroines'This gripping, vividly evoked novel takes the reader to the dark heart of the 16th century .
