AustLit

A prying old maid persuades the village clergyman to investigate the relation of her new neighbours - to her subsequent humiliation. (PB)

Tale related by an Irish trooper in search of the NSW bushranger Lowry on the road to Melbourne. Recounts the robbery, derring-do, and domestic revenge of an earlier Victorian bushranger - Wilson. (PB)

A sculpture competition in renaissance Florence tests a young sculptor's love for his noble model against his ambition. (PB)

On the sensible limits to sharing everything in marriage. (PB)

Jenny Stormonth returns from her Melbourne boarding school to keep house for her widowed doctor father in the little country township he serves. She quickly meets the artistic and cultivated Brandon Arthur of Narramboluc station and his dashing visitor Captain Bracebridge, both of whom are attracted to her. A cricket match at their township, Euramba, a visit to Narramboluc, and a horse-breaking exhibition allow Bracebridge to win Jenny's heart - but he has to wait two years before they can marry. Slowly his letters dwindle until he does not reply to Jenny's last letter, and she on a picnic is lost and saved by Brandon at the cost of his own health ... Unsentimental romantic theme developed amid domestic and bush scenes. (PB)

Composed mainly of quotes and a few brief reflections on his love of music. (PB)

Margaret Morse keeps store for her often drunken father, Eli, refusing permission for her to marry her lover. One night Eli is murdered, and his murdress, his illicit distillery partner, comes to visit Margaret ... Set in a harsh, remote, mountainous region of Australia. (PB)

On its positive and negative aspects. (PB)

A new husband out-manoeuvres his intefering mother-in-law. (PB)