Sorted on book title (not in series order)
Melbourne, 1893. Banks are crashing, businesses failing, the unemployed and starving marching in the streets. The aftermath of the greed and corruption of the 1880s is "an inferno of dishonesty and ruthlessness".
In this splendidly interconnecting novel, a combination of...Read more
In Melbourne in 1888, at the height of a land boom, William Boyd, a wealthy young man, finds himself distracted from business affairs by an involvement with a young female artist. His position as director in a new bank is threatened when and old enemy of his father involves him in an...Read more
Madame Midas -- that is what they call Mrs. Villiers, living in the Australian mining town of Ballarat. She once possessed enormous wealth, built up over the years by her loving father -- and then learned the least pleasant of lessons, marrying an Englishman whose true colors were soon...Read more
Fergus Hume's sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia's original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel.
First published in 1886, it was an overnight sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and being translated into...Read more