Books from Sceptre
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The Crossing
By Andrew Millerslightly better than she did when she arrived), then goes over to smoke with the crane driver. 'Your busy time now,' he says, and the crane driver nods. On the boat's topside Robert Currey is bolting shut the sling.
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When the Floods Came
By Clare Morrall'Roza, Roza, I can never be too early to see your beauty, to gaze into your blue, blue eyes—' 'Brown actually,' I say. 'I'm just here, in front of you. You've only got to look.' '—lose myself in your brown, brown eyes and balance the ...
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How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love
By Bernardine Evaristo, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Carys BrayCarys Bray is the author of a collection of short stories, Sweet Home, and two novels, A Song for Issy Bradley, which was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, and The Museum of You. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of the novel ...
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How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love
By Bernardine Evaristo, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Carys BraySeven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize.
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By the Line
By Thomas KeneallyRefreshingly unsentimental, this is the funny, ultimately tragic story of a boy struggling to understand a world in which concepts like innocence and guilt, good and evil are clearly open to interpretation.
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Blood Red, Sister Rose
By Thomas KeneallyThe story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh.
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Crimes of the Father
By Thomas KeneallyFather Frank Docherty has had his run-ins with the church authorities: in the early 1970s, he was expelled from the Sydney archdiocese for preaching against the Vietnam War and has...
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The Dickens Boy
By THOMAS. KENEALLYThis vivacious novel is classic Keneally: historical figures and events re-imagined with verve, humour and compassion.
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Bettany's Book
By Thomas KeneallyEven her more detached sister Prim, an aid worker in the Sudan, becomes intrigued as the story unfolds of how John Bettany carved out a living in the wilds of New South Wales in the 1840s, and of the internment in the notorious Female ...
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The People's Train
By Thomas KeneallyBased on a true story, Keneally's enthralling novel takes us to the heart of the Russian Revolution through the dramatic exploits of one inspiring man.
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Homebush Boy
By Thomas KeneallyIn this vivacious memoir, Thomas Keneally conjures up his youthful self at a pivotal period in his life - as a red-haired teenager who idolised Gerald Manley Hopkins, had visions of being a sporting hero, and dreamed of winning the heart of ...
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The Book of Science and Antiquities
By Thomas KeneallyA novel of breath-taking reach and inspired imagination, drawing on the discovery of Australia's oldest known human inhabitant.
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The Office of Innocence
By Thomas KeneallyThomas Keneally. To the memory of Sergeant Thomas Keneally, Third Australian Squadron, North Africa, World War Two Acknowledgements The author's thanks go to the customary midwives:JudithKeneally, wife.
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The Fatal Tree
By Jake ArnottIn spite of all his talents as a ken-miller Jack yet had no idea as to what to filch and how best to dispose of what was spoken with. And when I pattered to him that we should use Wild to fence our booty, and so keep in with the ...
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Hidden Knowledge
By Bernardine BishopBut it is Betty Winterborne, forced to re-examine the death of her son Mark twenty years before, who has the courage to face the truth. There are the lies we tell others, and the lies we tell ourselves. This is a story about the difference.
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The Street
By Bernardine BishopThere's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise .
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The Nerve
By Melvyn BraggWritten in 1971, Melvyn Bragg's sixth novel draws a remarkable portrait of a man's courageous fight to keep his mental balance and regain a sense of identity amid the stress and intoxication of modern city life.
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Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and Abelard
By Melvyn BraggBringing the true story of Heloise and Abelard to vivid life, this engrossing novel conveys the powerful emotions and beliefs that drove them.
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The Maid of Buttermere
By Melvyn BraggIn this compelling novel, Melvyn Bragg brings to life a true story of the Romantic Age, which intrigued Wordsworth and Coleridge and captured the imagination of the time.
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Now is the Time
By Melvyn BraggIn this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.