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4 2 y separately published work icon Where the Willows Weep Patricia Shaw , London : Headline , 1993 Z476140 1993 single work novel historical fiction In the 1860s, in Australia, a woman faces a dilemma. The man she loves is married and might never leave his wife. In the meantime she is penniless and a wealthy widower is proposing marriage. Keep waiting or marry? The background is a war against the Aborigines.(OCLC record).
1 2 y separately published work icon Twisted Echoes David Sale , London : Headline , 1993 Z400003 1993 single work novel
1 3 y separately published work icon Mayfield Joy Chambers , London : Headline , 1992 Z89934 1992 single work novel historical fiction
4 1 y separately published work icon The Feather and the Stone Patricia Shaw , Rydalmere : Headline , 1992 Z89743 1992 single work novel historical fiction Tragically orphaned at sea, cast adrift in an alien land, Sibell Delahunty applies for the post of secretary-companion to Charlotte Hamilton and undertakes the arduous journey to Black Wattle Station in the Northern Territory to join her employer. The rigours of an isolated cattle station come as a tremendous shock to the gently brought-up English girl, and she is viewed with suspicion by Charlotte's sons. Only Charlotte's own kindness makes life tolerable, helped, in time, by increasing interest from the unmarried son, Zack. When a horrific disaster deprives the station of its mistress, Sibell takes charge of the domestic arrangements, and despite some early mishaps, she earns the grudging respect of the family. She also discovers within herself an unsuspected strength and resilience. But the harsh and unforgiving land is not finished with Sibell yet: her courage and endurance are to be tested to the utmost before she feels truly at home in her adopted country. (Publisher's blurb, back cover).
2 5 y separately published work icon Brain Child George Turner , London : Headline , 1992 Z504839 1991 single work novel science fiction crime

'David Chance, the unknowing offspring of a long-forgotten experiment that produced genetically engineered child geniuses, learns terrible secrets about his own conception and discovers the horrifying course that human history is taking.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
4 2 y separately published work icon River of the Sun Patricia Shaw , London : Headline , 1991 Z151612 1991 single work novel historical fiction When Perfection Middleton catches the eye of Darcy Buchanan, all hell breaks loose. Joint heir to the vast estate of Caravale in North Queensland, he's a catch all right, and far too good for a housemaid whose parents came over on a convict ship. That's what his family thinks, anyway, and his brother Ben dreams up an ingenious plan to prevent the marriage. It's a plan that goes tragically wrong...Lew Cavour is very taken with Perfy too, but he gets caught up in the gold rush and the race to stake a claim on the river of gold, as does Ben Buchanan, who sees it as the only way he can buy out Perfy's share of Caravale. But their journey to the river of gold is dogged by disease, madness and murder... (Source: Trove)
1 y separately published work icon Felimid's Homecoming Keith Taylor , London : Headline , 1991 Z1439280 1991 single work novel science fiction
1 y separately published work icon Bard IV : Ravens' Gathering Keith Taylor , London : Headline , 1990 Z1439041 1987 single work novel science fiction

'HE IS FELIMID MAC FAL, once a bard of Ireland. Now he uses his wits and his magic in the service of his lover, the most notorious pirate on the seas of ancient Britain.

'SHE IS GUDRUN BLACKHAIR, the lusty, legendary pirate chieftain who commands the sorcerous ship "Ormungandr" and numbers the shape-shifting Children of Lir among her crew.

'Together they've sailed through adventure after adventure, and never known defeat. But Gudrun's many enemies are gathering, and Odin himself will lead them into battle against her. How can a poet and a pirate hope to defeat a god?'

Source: Blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Bard III : The Wild Sea Keith Taylor , London : Headline , 1990 Z1439017 1986 single work novel science fiction

'I am called Felimid mac Fal. I am a bard of the old blood, a lesser degree of Druid. Where I come from, bards have been knows to sing armies to defeat or victory and kings off their throne or on to them. Descended from the faery folk, the Tuatha de Dannann, my line's been poets and harpers in Erin since the world was new, and magic's in our heart-marrow.

'She is called Gudrun Blackhair...as well as names a good deal less polite. She is the most dangerous pirate on the open seas, master of the enchanted ship Ormungandr, and the woman of my heart. If you wish to know more than that, ask the ballad singers and gossip mongers at any tavern. Half of what you hear will be fact, half will be lies, and even I can no longer separate the two. Yet this story, perhaps the strangest of them all, of shapeshiters and sorceresses and the sea-dwelling Children of Lir, is naught but the gods' own truth...on my honor as a bard.'

Source: Blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Generation Andrew MacAllan , London : Headline , 1990 Z229259 1990 single work novel Ian Crabtree is determined to show the world he too can be up there with the winners; he goes walkabout to seek his fortune. His journey takes him from the harsh emptiness of the Northern Territory, through Hong Kong's teeming streets to the wealth and hedonism of the Bahamas. Ian's journey turns out to be one of self-discovery. Can it be a fair exchange to barter ancient Aboriginal values for the suppurating corruption he finds endemic to the pursuit of wealth and power? This question is faced, though rarely satisfactorily answered, by a host of subsidiary characters. The astonishing stories of their lives and deaths are woven skilfully into this tapestry of adventure, romance and intrigue.
1 y separately published work icon Bard II Keith Taylor , London : Headline , 1989 Z1439004 1984 single work novel fantasy
1 y separately published work icon Bard Keith Taylor , London : Headline , 1989 Z1438957 1981 single work novel fantasy
2 y separately published work icon Succession Andrew MacAllan , London : Headline , 1989 Z1240676 1989 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Balkenna Gary Shearston , Michael Thomas , London : Headline , 1989 Z230050 1989 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Players John Duigan , London : Headline , 1988 Z91387 1988 single work novel
1 5 y separately published work icon The Woman in the Picture Viki Wright , London : Headline , 1988 Z237933 1988 single work novel
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