William Thornhill, un ancien bagnard jeté hors de son pays, a refait sa vie en Australie du Sud, le long du fleuve Hawkesbury, sur des terres hantées par le souvenir d'anciens occupants aborigènes méprisés et massacrés. Malgré son acariâtre belle-mère, sa fille Sarah mène une vie heureuse auprès de ...

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It is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur, she soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Forced to travel with him to New South Wales, she arrives to find Sydney Town a brutal, dusty, hungry place of makeshift shelters, failing crops, schem...

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A dramatic historical novel set between the slums of 19th century London and the convict colonies of Australia. This book joins a tradition of grand historical action. It etches the intense light and scribble of the Australian bush, making them the backdrop to a story about ownership, belonging and ...

Kate Grenville's The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of reade...

Sarah and Jack have never doubted that they are made for each other. But there is someone in Sarah's family who will not tolerate the relationship. The reason lies in both the past and the present, and it will take Sarah across an ocean to a place she never imagined she would be. Kate Grenville take...

As a boy, Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. At school he learned to hide his clever thoughts from his cruel peers; at home his parents were bemused by their bookish son. Daniel could only hope - against all the evidence - that he would one day find his place in life. By 1788, Daniel has become Li...

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 Kate Grenville has drawn on the fragments of memoir Nance left, to create an intimate account of the patterns in her mother's life. In many ways Nanc...

With an introduction by Evie Wyld The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville is a funny and touching romance between two people who've given up on love. Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook, New South Wales, pop. 1374, it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a gawky engineer with jug-...

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William Thornhill, batelier illettré au sang chaud mais au grand coeur, vole une cargaison de bois. Il est banni en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud en 1806. Comme beaucoup de condamnés, il est amnistié après quelques années et s'installe au bord du fleuve Hawkesbury. Peut-être le gouverneur lui fait-il ca...

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Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. Daniel could only hope - against all the evidence - that he would one day find his place in life. By 1788, Daniel has become Lieutenant Rooke, astronomer with First Fleet as it lands on the unknown shores of New South Wales. But the place where they have landed w...

Daniel Rooke est un enfant exceptionnellement doué. Ses maîtres l'envoient étudier à l'Académie navale de Portsmouth où il se trouve embarrassé par son origine trop modeste et son intelligence trop vive. Son horizon s'élargit quand il découvre la navigation et l'astronomie. L'Astronome royal, qui ...

Dark Places tells the story of this man – two parts monster to one part buffoon – and of his growing obsession. As the horror mounts, we gain a terrifying glimpse of the male ego’s dark side, and of the destruction it can wreak upon itself and others. Yet at the same time Kate Grenville keeps alive ...

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 marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. They meet in the little Australian town...

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