The sequel to the 1999 CBC Book of the Year "Deadly Unna?", this book continues following the story of fifteen-year-old Blacky, who isn't sure what he wants or where he's going. The one thing he does know is that he wants to escape the small country town he's grown up in, but for the moment, he's stuck.

For ages 15 and over.

Deutsche Übersetzung: Blacky, Lovely und der ganze Bullshit

Australia’s pre-eminent comic Renaissance man turns his genious to novel writing. Having conquered television, radio, theatre and film, Shaun Micallef produces a novel of breathtaking brilliance.
Suppose you were murdered and then woke up 300 years earlier in someone else’s body. Wouldn’t you want to put yourself in suspended animation and be re-awoken in time to prevent yourself being murdered in the first place? This is the extraordinary tale of an ordinary man in a race across Time.

Hardcover Edition

In Australien kennt jedes Kind diesen Hund: Red Dog. Sein Eigensinn und seine überaus grosse Reiselust haben ihn quer durch den fünften Kontinent geführt. In den acht Jahren seines abenteuerlichen Hundelebens hat er viele Freundschaften geschlossen, von denen noch heute so mancher stolz zu berichten weiss.
Louis de Bernières, der von einem sonderbaren Hund gehört hat, fuhr zweimal nach Australien und machte sich auf die Spurensuche. Mit seinem neuen Roman setzt er Red Dog ein literarisches Denkmal.

Deutsche Übersetzung: Der rote Hund

'In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines; 16 years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. This dramatisation of an edge-of-the-world encounter between the "civilised" and the "primitive" is outstanding: a deft and economical evocation of an entire nascent society, punctuated by moments of dazzling, revelatory language and unforgettable images.' (Independent on Sunday)

Buch 3 von 3 in der Thornhill Family-Serie

In the final book of a trilogy that began with her bestselling novel, "The Secret River," Commonwealth Prize-winner Kate Grenville returns to the youngest daughter of the Thornhills and her quest to uncover, at her peril, the family's hidden legacy.

Sarah is the youngest child of William Thornhill, the pioneer at the center of "The Secret River." Unknown to her, her father--an uneducated ex-convict from London--has built his fortune on the blood of Aboriginal people. With a fine stone house and plenty of money, Thornhill has re-invented himself. As he tells his daughter, he "never looks back," and Sarah grows up learning not to ask about the past. Instead her eyes are on handsome Jack Langland, whom she's loved since she was a child. Their romance seems destined, but the ugly secret in Sarah's family is poised to ambush them both.

As she did with" The Secret River," Grenville once again digs into her own family history to tell a story about the past that still resonates today. Driven by the captivating voice of the illiterate Sarah - at once headstrong, sympathetic, curious, and refreshingly honest - this is an unforgettable portrait of a passionate woman caught up in an historical moment of astonishing turmoil.

Eine dramatische Liebe in Australien.
Australien, Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts: Sarah, jüngster Spross einer großen Siedlerfamilie, ist ein junges Mädchen voller Neugier und Abenteuerlust. Als sie sich in Jack verliebt, schmieden beide begeistert Zukunftspläne. Doch für Sarahs Stiefmutter Meg kommt Jack niemals als Schwiegersohn in Frage. Denn er ist ein Aborigine-Nachkomme und würde den gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg der Familie gefährden. Und so setzt Meg alles in Bewegung, um Sarah und Jack von einer Heirat abzubringen ...

Deutsche Übersetzung: Sarahs Traum