Mary Durack

Mary Durack's Kings in Grass Castles is an Australian classic. Since it was published in 1959, it has continued to sell as new generations of readers discover the pastoralist saga of the Durack family and their cattle spreads across the continent. Now, nearly 25 years later, we have the sequel we have been waiting for... The second generation of Durack...

The best saga of pastoral Australia ever published... hard to describe without superlatives... in a hundred years the book will still be a classic. - Meanjin ... far better than any novel; an incomparable record of a great family and of a series of great actions. - The Bulletin When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he...

Keep Him My Country is a powerful novel of a young man's experience of the harsh beauty of the outback, growing up, and the difficult learning experience that accompanies it. When 19-year-old Stan Rolt strikes out for the Northern Territory, determined to manage an ailing family cattle station, he plays into the hands of his manipulative grandfather. Intending to spend...

To Be Heirs Forever is a fascinating and lively account of early Australia from the author of the bestselling Kings in Grass Castles. In 1829, Eliza Shaw exchanged her world of English drawing-rooms and embroidery for the brushwood huts and backbreaking labour of a pioneer settlement in Western Australia. She left Leicestershire with her husband Will, six children, two servants,...