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The Company is based on the true story of the Batavia, flagship of the Dutch East India Company, which foundered off western Australia in 1629. Jeronimus Cornelisz, a thirty-year-old apothecary, creates a brutal dystopia among the survivers, steadily chipping away at their ever-dwindling numbers with his demonic trickery and stash of arsenic.

Haunted by the disappearance of her twin brother in Hong Kong, photographer Anna Frasier travels home to Sydney. Beginning a photographic study of fossilised ammonite shells she meets Seth LaMarque, a blind palaentologist, and his sister Rachel, a lawyer working with the homeless. As Anna's work progresses she finds herself drawn deeper into Seth and Rachel's lives. But her brother's absence binds her to a past she cannot escape, until she returns to Hong Kong to find him.

In 1871, a ship sails into Melbourne Harbor, bringing Joanna Drury to Australia. She has come to find property left to her by her mother -- and also to trace mysterious aspects of her mother's past, a past that has begun to haunt Joanna's life and dreams.

Joanna meets fascinating Hugh Westbrook whose sheep station, Merinda, is developing into a vast frontier empire, and she falls deeply in love with him. But increasingly her life is plagued by peculiar reversals, and Joanna notices that Aborigines react to her in strange ways. With the help of a young native girl named Sarah, Joanna begins to delve into Australia's past and to search out the tragic events that have marked her family's destiny, and her own life -- events that happened long ago, back in the time the Aborigines call "the dreaming.

What the critics say:

"A Great Summer book.  It has everything - good characters, love, adventure, mystery and mysticism."  - Los Angeles Daily News

"Magnificent . . . everything a historical novel should be: Big, Bold, with larger-than-life characters chasing their dreams, and demons with equal fervor.  THE DREAMING has all that and more."  - Orange Coast Magazine

Nach drei gescheiterten Ehen ist Harley ziemlich enttäuscht vom Leben. In der Hoffnung auf einen Neuanfang zieht sie ins australische Provinznest Karakaook. Dort plant sie ein Heimatmuseum aufzubauen und eine alte Brücke als Touristenattraktion zu vermarkten. Eigentlich eine leichte Aufgabe, wäre da nicht der Ingenieur Douglas, der eben jene baufällige Brücke abreißen soll. Doch obwohl Harley und Douglas beruflich die größten Widersacher sind, nehmen sie eines Tages all ihren Mut zusammen und wagen ein Rendez-vous ...
Ausgezeichnet mit dem renommierten „Orange Prize“.

Deutsche Übersetzung Eine Ahnung von Vollkommenheit

The Man is Back! Jim Craig has been away on the plains droving and gathering a large mob of horses to breed in his high country. Now he is returning to claim his heritage and the woman he loves. The Man from Snowy River II continues the legend and brings to life again a man whose simple strengths will endure forever.

The story of the film "The Man From Snowy River II".

Writing from Vietnam

This Anthology, named after one of Vietnam’s most poetic waterways, draws together writing ´from Vietnam´ in every sense. The writers live in Vietnam and a number of other countries. Some are of Vietnamese background, some not, but for all Vietnam has defined itself as a voice of inspiration, of homeland, memory and discovery.

There are stories and poems on home, displacement, war, migration, new spaces, modernity and tradition which give us insight into the beauty and complexity of modern Vietnam and its diaspora. Included are some of its most notable voices: Pham Thi Hoai, Lam This My Da, Ho Anh Thai, Nam Le and many others.

Readers are offered perspectives on Vietnam from both inside and outside the country. The diverse array of writers include renowned authors of the Vietnamese literary canon, second-generation expats based in Australia and America, and non-Vietnamese authors who have special ties with the country and its culture.

Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city – and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness.

Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers – variously shooting, strangling, stabbing, bludgeoning and hacking his victims and running them down with cars – an innocent Perth was changed forever.

In the middle-class suburbs which were the killer's main stalking grounds, the mysterious murders created widespread anxiety and instant local myth. 'The murders and their aftermath have both intrigued me and weighed heavily on me for three decades. To try to make sense of this time and place, and of my own childhood and adolescence, I had, finally, to write about it.'

The result is The Shark Net, a vibrant and haunting memoir that reaches beyond the dark recesses of murder and chaos to encompass their ordinary suburban backdrop.