AustLit

A good deed reveals the true character of young Kitty Parker's suitor - and she refuses his proposal. Light tale with moral undertone (PB).

A Melbourne clerk forges a bank cheque and when it is detected blames a fellow clerk whom he dislikes. (PB).

Romance begun in Versailles under Louis XVI in 1775 and ending with the Revolution. An heiress' love for a poor clerk is frustrated by her scheming step-mother. (PB).

A happy wife mending her husband's coat discovers a package of letters which she reads. Believing him to be having an affair she procures what she believes to be rat poison and takes it. (PB).

Fannie Pleasaunton discovers the sick poverty-stricken country girl she nurses loves and was loved by Fannie's fiancee. She reveals to him the girl's situation and renounces their engagement ... Moral tale of true love rewarded. (PB)

A foundling rescued from a shipwreck grows up in a fishing village but runs away with a city man just before she marries a good strong fisherman. A few years later she returns to die, leaving her child to Bill. But further tragedy follows ... well-written and at times moving first-person narrative from a rough, honest, sailor persona. Avoids the merely sentimental. (PB)

A Melbourne lawyer and his daughter Adelaide return to Sunbury where they meet a neighbouring landowner Harold Clifton. He falls in love with Adelaide and they are to be married until a scorned suitor reveals the secret that Clifton's father was a criminal in the USA ... Some promise but an overly sentimental ending (PB).

A poor villainous selector murders his rival who pegs out the land before him - but a trooper's detective work and his victim's ghost find him out. (PB)

Young Violet Dale is married to a loving 60 year-old doctor when - unaware - she falls in love and her life changes. (PB).

An orphan gives up her suitor to care for her two younger sisters and her intellectually disabled brother, but years later it appears she was not completely forgotten. (PB)

Collection of thoughts, anecdotes and vignettes on military 'retreats'. (PB).

Satiric account of a wild ride with a Detroit butcher intent on injuring carriages and taking lives. (PB).

Adhere to truth but do so pleasingly. (PB).