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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

"This is the story of two families – branches of the Solomons – transported to an alien land, both of whom eventually grow rich and powerful but who, through three generations, never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other. It is also the story of our country from the beginning until we came of age as a nation.

I have learned a great deal about Australia and those things which concern us as a people and make us, in many ways, who we are today. To write this book, I visited Gallipoli and came away deeply saddened by the terrible waste of our young blood. We would never be quite the same again. It has been a grand adventure and I hope that you will find Solomon's Song a good and powerful story. No writer can possibly hope for more."

Bryce Courtenay

'Rest in peace Ikey Solomon and thank you, Bryce Courtenay, for concluding your absorbing trilogy on such a stirring note.' Canberra Times

'Courtenay superbly manages to put the reader in the thick of the bloody battles that took so many young lives in Turkey … Hard to put down.' Daily Telegraph

The Todds seemed to be ideal weekend guests for the holiday business the Days run at their isolated home. Even Chrissie finds the Todds' son, Tiger, strangely attractive. But guests should know when to leave, and the Days realise too late what it is that the Todds really want.

Ben Elton’s earth-shattering début novel, a satirical thriller.

Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying. Deep in Western Australia where the Aboriginals used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot is taking shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent: a pommie poseur; a brain-fried Vietnam vet; Aboriginals who have lost their land...not much against a conspiracy that controls society. But EcoAction isn't in society: it just lives in the same place, along with the cockroaches. If you're facing the richest and most disgusting scheme in history, you have to do more than stick up two fingers and say 'peace'. 

Murray Whelan thinks the everyday life of a political advisor is complicated enough: but now there are intimations of intrigue among the party powerful and his ex-wife is mounting a custody battle over his beloved son. So when you throw in a Turk snap-frozen in a local meat plant, drugs planted under the bed, fascist funeral rites, a killer car and blood-sucking parasites, things are suddenly spinning wildly out of control. That's when red-hot Ayisha knocks on the door...

Miriam Strong had been looking forward to her family arriving at Bellbird Station. Yet, with the discovery of the first clue to her stolen inheritance, painful memories of the past arise. Jake Connor is a lawyer who crosses Miriam's path and she enlists his help. So begins the quest for truth.

A bunch of Aussies have spent the day at the beach. They wind up in one blokes backyard, where the barbie is firedup and loaded with grub steaks and veg and such. Later, over a cold drink, one bloke starts telling stories.

They are some of the best known and best loved stories in the world; stories that have been told on every continent on earth; stories that have been circling the world for 2,000 years. They are stories about the carpenter who changed history as he traveled the Outback with his mates. This time those stories are retold in real, fair dinkum, Aussie English.

With its own Australian take on "In the beginning...", The Aussie Bible starts off with the world-known and disarmingly friendly, Gday! that Australians are famous for. Then sets out retelling tales in a manner and style that will have you reading, and sometimes laughing, out loud. From A Gigantic Picnic (The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes) to an Aussie-style Psalm 23 to the Glossary, The Aussie Bible is a smash hit pageflipper for all ages that has already sold over 110,000 copies worldwide.

Achtung: Exemplar aus dem Antiquariat mit einer überklebten Widmung auf der ersten Innenseite

With an election looming, a homicide cop on his heels, adultery in the air and a gun buried in his backyard, political minder and spin-meister Murray Whelan is in for a frenzied few days. Politics and crime are about to collide in a taut thriller full of humour.

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.