Product Description: An extraordinary tour de force that examines the impact of faith and fanaticism on a community beleaguered by war Set during the early part of World War II, this novel follows the fortunes of Campbell and Gig, two children who move to a shipbuilding town, with their alcoholic father...read more

Product Description: A charming, deeply moving portrait of an unlikely friendship between a well-to-do widower and a young homeless woman that helps both overcome their tainted pasts and rediscover happinessChristopher is a decent, elderly, suburban Londoner learning to live again after his release from a loveless marriage following the death of his wife...read more

Product Description: This powerful story is a tale of the gritty, hard working North East of England, in the first years of the twentieth century, when life had never been harder. Set among the dockers and workers of the close-knit Irish community, this is a novel of hard times and violence, but also of the powerful bonds of family and a strong Catholic faith that can unite the group against a rough and hostile world...read more

Product Description: At the turn of the last century, in the north of England, a family struggles to survive. It could be the story of any number of real people, and indeed, it just may be . . . 'Da' has gone to India with the army, leaving Ma to fend for the children...read more

Product Description: Historian Michael Cannon describes hundreds of cases in which this controversial Australian law firm has exposed social evils and tried to remedy them. The text also covers recent much-publicised cases. It shows how one legal firm achieved its lifelong reputation as a representative of the Aussie battler against powerful organisations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Glasgow's Borough, a tight-packed maze of streets and interconnected lives, wanders an observer who bears witness to a strange tale. Love and pride, bigotry and compassion are the threads which bind a sad man, a hard man, a bigot and a young woman in this lament of hopelessness and redemption...read more

Product Description: Lazy, feckless and unfaithful, Jamie sets out aiming to be everything he was taught not to be: as far as he's concerned, his parents' work ethic is useless. So he blazes a hedonistic trail, sustained firstly by hormonal imperatives, and secondly by a desire to get one over on the world...read more

Product Description: Boom or bust? What was the truth of the great land booms that swept Australia in the 1880s and 1890s? How was it that some speculators amassed prodigious fortunes, while others went so spectacularly broke? Seventy years after the events, historian Michael Cannon began sifting through thousands of records and documents, long since filed and forgotten...read more

Product Description: A classic of Australian history, this book provides the detailed story of the men who created or were caught up in the land boom fever, and of their personal triumph or destruction. It tells the story of colonial Victoria, made rich by gold and populous by the immigrants who followed...read more