This is the story of seven incorrigible children living near Sydney in the 1880’s with their military-man father, and a stepmother who is scarcely old...
"If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852, 20 year old cl...
Australia Felix is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson that tells the story of Richard Mahony, a Scottish doctor who emigrates to Australia during the...
Set in the aftermath of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, *History of Emily Montague* provides a glimpse into the nascent British colony of Quebec...
This classic of Australian history provides an intelligent and humane description of life in the Sydney colony from its earliest days. Watkin Tench sa...
Old Times in the Colonies is a book by Charles Carleton Coffin that provides a glimpse into the daily life of colonists in the New England region of t...
