Books like Swords and Crowns and Rings
Jackie Hanna, a boy who stops growing, and Cushie Moore, the girl he loves, grow up together in a small New South Wales town before the Depression drives them apart.
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The Harp in the South
The Darcys, a poor Irish Catholic family, live in a crowded terrace in Surry Hills in Sydney in the 1940s, where Roie, the elder daughter, is growing up.
My Brother Jack
David Meredith grows up in a Melbourne suburb after the First World War in the shadow of his tough, generous older brother Jack, and becomes a journalist while Jack's luck runs the other way.
Half a Lifelong Romance
Shen Shijun, a young engineer in 1930s Shanghai, falls for Gu Manzhen, a colleague, and over the years their love is pulled apart by family and circumstance.
Beware of Pity
A young Austro-Hungarian lieutenant's thoughtless kindness to a paralysed girl entangles him in an impossible engagement on the eve of the First World War.
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Raif Efendi, a meek clerk in Ankara, leaves behind a notebook that tells of his youth in Berlin in the 1920s and his love for Maria Puder, a painter.
My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn, a fiery girl on a struggling farm in the New South Wales bush, wants a life of art and books, and refuses to marry.
Journey to the Stone Country
Annabelle Beck, leaving her marriage in Melbourne, goes home to north Queensland and travels into the hinterland with Bo Rennie, a Jangga man she knew as a child, to survey Aboriginal sites.
The Idea of Perfection
In the New South Wales country town of Karakarook, Douglas Cheeseman, a shy engineer sent to pull down an old bridge, and Harley Savage, a gawky museum consultant, are drawn to each other.
Monkey Grip
Nora, a single mother living in shared houses in inner Melbourne in the 1970s, falls in love with Javo, a junkie actor who keeps disappearing.
Desertion
In 1899 an Englishman, Martin Pearce, stumbles out of the desert into a small town on the East African coast, is nursed back to health by a shopkeeper's family, and falls in love with the shopkeeper's sister.
Victoria
Johannes, the miller's son, has loved Victoria, the daughter of the manor, since childhood, and when he comes back a famous poet the gulf of class is still between them.
Chéri
Léa de Lonval, a celebrated courtesan nearing fifty, has kept Chéri, the beautiful son of an old friend, as her lover for six years, and his mother has arranged for him to marry a young heiress.