The Orange Prize–winning author KateGrenville recalls her family’s history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the st
Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one m
One Life is the story of Nance Russell, whose life spanned a century of tumult and change. In an act of great imaginative sympathy, her daughter KateGrenville has drawn on the fragments of memoi
Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. M
The Commonwealth Writer's Prize-winning author of The Secret River presents a follow-up set in late 18th-century New South Wales that finds misfit Daniel hoping to find his place in life when he joins
In this "startling, fasciniating, disturbing" (Library Journal) companion to Lilian's Story, KateGrenville takes on a daunting challenge: to imagine, from the inside out, how an apparently respectab
KateGrenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty—then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around u
In the final book of a trilogy that began with her bestselling novel, The Secret River, Commonwealth Prize?winner KateGrenville returns to the youngest daughter of the Thornhills and her quest to unc
A final entry in the trilogy that began with the best-selling The Secret River continues youngest daughter Sarah's efforts to uncover the Thornhill family's hidden legacy, which is complicated by the
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONIt is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur, she soon realises she has made a terrible
A stunning follow-up to her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning book, The Secret River, Grenville's The Lieutenant is a gripping story about friendship, self-discovery, and the power of language set
Ideal for writing a short story, essay, review, or report, this guide provides beginning writers with the hands-on direction they need to improve their writing techniques and ability. Using a six-ste
