But on the ship bound for Australia, she meets Dr. Tristan Faulkner, who awakens her heart to desire--and dares her to want more. Surrounded by a primitive aboriginal culture, Hallie fights to carve a future from the exotic wilds.

    The settlers discover that the quickest road to wealth lies in laying claim to vast tracts of cattle-grazing land - though this soon brings them into conflict with fierce Aborigine tribes. Aristocratic Jasin Heselwood, forced to flee England to avoid gambling debts, will stop at nothing to join the elite ranks of cattle kings. Double-crossing friend and foe alike, he starts a feud with the Irish squatter Pace MacNamara that has tragic consequences for both their families. But it is the women who are the true pioneers: Jasin's spoilt wife, Georgina, who refuses to be crushed by his ruthlessness or by his infidelities; and the convict girl Dolour, who is to be his Nemesis...

    Book by Kapral, Zdena

    Gumbles, on the other hand, are friendly and cheerful and can be squashed into any shape without being hurt. This volume contains four stories of adventures.

    Visit a future where terraforming, genetic engineering and formidable mental sciences are commonplace, and tribal satellites look down on unending wars between rival Ab'O States. Travel with Tom Tyson through a land of merging cultures and philosophies, of myth and dream made real, a land of absolute possibility...."Think of an imagination steeped in the stories of Cordwainer Smith, J.G.Ballard, and Jack Vance, then grant that Terry Dowling has his own formidable intelligence, and you'll get a notion of the riches this book offers ... Rynosseros places Dowling among the masters of the field." - LOCUS"For richness of social and textual detail, Dowling's work rivals that of Jack Vance and Gene Wolfe ... Rynosseros is an intricate and fascinating work of Australian SF." - SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK REVIEW ANNUAL"Rynosseros accomplishes what the very best spec-ulative works achieve: it creates a world so alluring that you ache to go there yourself, not to escape the rigours of life, but in order to participate more thoroughly." - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

    This book includes three of Paul Jennings' classic short stories (including The Great Spaghetti Pig Out and The Copy), as well as the low-down on how the television series was made.

    AUSTRALIAVast and untamed, it was a land that tested the boundaries of a man's courage, and rugged Ian Lavery reveled an the struggle as he pitted himself against bushrangers, wild dingoes and drought.THALIABeautiful and provocative, she tried the limits of a man's endurance, but Ian sensed there were exquisite pleasures to be had in claiming the penniless emigre.ROSES AFTER RAINWild and sweet, their passion went beyond the bounds of propriety, yet neither would deny a love as unconquerable as the continent itself

    All that stands between her and the primitive forces of man and nature is the raw strength and courage of her partner, Ashton York.

    Text and pop-up illustrations depict animals of Australia, including the kangaroo, emu, desert frog, and echidna.

    The novel is set in 1868 and fleeing from double tragedy, Katherine Carron leaves Dublin to seek refuge in Australia. After five years she returns home to help her family through their troubles.

    Graeme Dixon's ballards speak out on comtemporary and controversial issues, from Black deaths in custody to the struggles of single mothers. Contrasted with these are poems of spirited humour and sharp satire. In "Holocaust Island" a powerful new voice emerges from a history of displacement.

    It discusses the development of the armed forces as institutions and examines the relationship between governments and military policy. This book is a revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. It is the only comprehensive, single-volume treatment of the role and development of Australia's military and their involvement in war and peace across the span of Australia's modern history. It concludes with consideration of Australian involvement in its region and more widely since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the waging of the global war on terror.

    

    This is the story of a race… the longest, toughest and craziest race in the world… a 10,000 mile event, right around Australia.

    It is believed that the land-mass which is now Australia was taken to each of the poles twice, and this turbulent geological journey is reflected in its unique wildlife and in its fossil heritage.

    He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life.Boyd's was a complex personality: witty, generous, sociable, yet deeply reserved. He looked for his 'home of the spirit' in many places: an Anglican monastery, London's West End clubland, a Cambridge village, an old family house in Harkaway, Victoria, and among English expats in Rome.In a fine study of a man and his work, Brenda Niall re-creates the Melbourne in which Boyd grew up, just before WW1, and traces his development as a writer during his restless expatriate years.

    

    Five short stories written in 1987 plus the writer's thoughts and details of her activities recorded in journal form for that year.

    This edition of The Insects of Australia presents the research of over 70 contributing authors, all specialists in their respective fields.

    

    From the author of Waiting for Childhood.

    I also thought I moved with what was called the Fast Crowd but I have begun to face up to the slowing of the Fast Crowd. My friends now not only move with a more leisurely pace, I observe, but with an undignified lack of urgency, are slower to rise from their chairs, and also, I have noticed, they have begun to procreate. The Late Family had arrived in my life. For some of my friends the Late Family had replaced the Late Show. THE MOVIE This is a story about how the flow of life is made into stories, how stories become films, how the making of stories and films itself becomes stories, and how stories become the flow of life. THE CABARET VOLTAIRE It occurs to me that the telephone answering machine is something of a wall, albeit a friendly wall. Robert Frost's neighbour says that good fences make good neighbours. Good greetings on a telephone answering machine make good telephone neighbours. But as Frost says, 'Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I suppose some people do not like the wall to joke. There will always be those types. The telephone answering machine could be seen as the dog Cerberus barking at the gates of Hades. The dog Cerberus didn't stop people coming into Hades - he stopped people going out. The telephone answering machine is Cerberus trying to prevent the people who come down the dark tunnel of the telephone from getting away. It holds them by their voice, seizes them by their throat.