It’s the 1930s. Fran Addicott runs a country pub with her husband, Sam, in Victoria’s Mallee region. It’s not a glamorous life: the pub is old; the town struggling; and her husband—her second, she was widowed—is not all he could be. Life is a constant uphill battle, but what can she do? What should she do?‘Fine Australian Novel’ declared The Australasian‘s reviewer, Habakkuk, on The Wind on the Water‘s original publication. ‘Miss Myra Morris is ...

The Complete Novels of George Orwell gathers the full arc of Orwell's fiction, from the colonial disillusionment of Burmese Days to the prophetic austerity of Nineteen Eighty-Four. These novels move through satire, social realism, political allegory, and dystopian fable, exposing imperial hypocrisy, class anxiety, economic humiliation, and the corruption of language by power. Orwell's prose is famously lucid, disciplined, and morally charged, standing within traditions of English realism w...

Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.In this book:Lark RiseOver to CandlefordCandleford Green

It is the end of WW II and the household of Mrs. North, a well-to-do widow with a country cottage, is very busy. War circumstances brought both of her daughters home: loud but good-hearted tomboy, Violet, and highly-strung and over sensitive Heather with her two small children. Mrs. North is also taking care of her young niece, Evelyn, a lively child who loves to play on the local farm and has a great passion for animals. But at the center of all this is Oliver, Mrs. North's only son who l...

A beautiful actress of the 1920s faces painful decisions about her lovers and her future in Rebecca West's posthumously published semi-autobiographical novelStar of the stage, Sunflower has everything but the attention she craves from her long-time—and married—lover, Lord Essington, a brilliant and intense man occupied with more intellectual thoughts. Eager for a more rewarding experience, Sunflower must decide whether another "great man," the Aus...

Mills & Boon are excited to present The Anne Mather Collection – the complete works by this classic author made available to download for the very first time! These books span six decades of a phenomenal writing career, and every story is available to read unedited and untouched from their original release. Wild at heartHelen can’t believe her eyes when, stranded in the snow, she finds herself confronted by a leopard! Luckily, it’s a tame one, and its own...

Louisa is a clever, self-reliant woman who has just been discharged from her duty as an officer in the British Army during World War II. In a London pub one afternoon she meets Gordon: a slight, peculiar psychiatrist with queer eyes and a strange charisma. Within an hour, Louisa has been sexually conquered by him on a garden bench. So begins an affair in which Gordon compulsively violates Louisa’s body and psyche, while Louisa matches his onslaughts with an insolent submission. As their en...

A poignant and emotional love story set in the 1950s and 1960sIn the summer of 1954, young George West, qualified as an architect but completing his National Service, meets 17-year-old Josella Grace, daughter of a retired colonel. He falls passionately in love with this reserved but beautiful girl – a love that seems destined never to be fulfilled.Their story, and its dark secrets, alternates between George's tale of first love in 1954 and Josella's bitter-sweet pe...

An autobiography of "Laura" - as the author calls herself - which describes in detail her delightful life in a country village. Her self-sufficient world of farm labourers and craftsmen working to the rhythms of the seasons and enjoying their traditional festivities is preserved for readers in this interesting and entertaining narrative.

Henry Handel Richardson was the pen name of Australia Author, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (3 January 1870 – 20 March 1946). This collection comprises all her Short Stories and 5 of her novels, including all three novels from her famous trilogy "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony" which details the slow decline, of a successful Australian physician and businessman and the effect this has on his family.

Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love.

Being brought up by an overbearing, competitive mother has left Virginia with an altered view of men and relationships. She rushed in to marriage to escape her mother, but her new husband, Joe, is difficult and unpredictable, but Virginia is determined to make their relationship work.When Joe reveals a darker side that twists married life into something damaging, drawing her into one humiliating situation after another, Virginia is forced to admit that her romantic dream has turned...