Wydawnictwo Książnica Wydawnictwo Książnica i(A106943 works by) (Organisation) assertion
Born: Established: Katowice,
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Poland,
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Eastern Europe, Europe, ;
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15 11 y separately published work icon The Dressmaker Rosalie Ham , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2000 Z668510 2000 single work novel (taught in 1 units) Dungatar is a small town like any other in the Victorian wheatlands - except that the women dress like Paris models. This is the story of the exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, who returns from Europe to Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twenty years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills. Gradually, she wins over the town with her fabulous creations. Then she falls in love and things start to go terribly wrong. (Source: Trove)
4 1 y separately published work icon Between the Lives Jessica Shirvington , Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2013 Z1913087 2013 single work novel young adult thriller

'The perfect life or the perfect love? You choose.

'Sabine isn't like anyone else.

'For as long as she can remember, she's had two lives. Every twenty-four hours she 'Shifts', living each day twice.

'All Sabine has ever wanted is the chance to live one life. When it seems like this might finally be possible, Sabine begins a series of dangerous experiments to achieve her goal. But is she willing to risk everything - including the one man who might actually believe her?' (Publication summary)
4 1 y separately published work icon Valley of Lagoons Patricia Shaw , Elwood : Greenhouse Publications , 1989 Z1399720 1989 single work novel historical fiction
— Appears in: Reader's Digest Condensed Books : 1994 1994;
7 y separately published work icon Orchid Bay Patricia Shaw , London : Hodder Headline , 1999 Z1170663 1999 single work novel
— Appears in: Reader's Digest Select Editions 2000;
— Appears in: Snubletrad / Lee Child [and]Orkidebukten/ Patricia Shaw [and]Isriket / William Dietrich 2001; When young governess Emilie Tissington is approached by Mal Willoughby in the streets of Brisbane, her proper English upbringing prevents her from encouraging conversation. Later, another chance meeting with Mal will involve her in a controversy of murder and intrigue that will ruin her reputation. (Source: Trove)
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).
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)
4 1 y separately published work icon Fires of Fortune Patricia Shaw , London : Hodder Headline , 1995 Z92812 1995 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).
29 189 y separately published work icon His Natural Life For the Term of His Natural Life Marcus Clarke , 1870-1872 Z1032375 1870-1872 single work novel (taught in 15 units)

'Scarcely out of print since the early 1870s, For the Term of His Natural Life has provided successive generations with a vivid account of a brutal phase of colonial life. The main focus of this great convict novel is the complex interaction between those in power and those who suffer, made meaningful because of its hero's struggle against his wrongful imprisonment. Elements of romance, incidents of family life and passages of scenic description both relieve and give emphasis to the tragedy that forms its heart.' (Publication summary : Penguin Books 2009)
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