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A 'new chum' from England is hired at Circular Quay, Sydney, by the owner of a station near Mt Bulwa 95 miles from the city, as storekeeper. He discovers the secret of the squatter's depression when an escaped convict leaves him a chalked message ... Interesting portraits of ex-convicts and tramps. (PB)
A noble-woman marries her game-keeper's son but after a few years is crippled in a hunting accident. Her husband falls in love with her maid and marries her after his wife dies. His first wife's revenge is carried out nevertheless ... Light, slight gothic note. (PB)
Two English gentlemen go to Galway, Ireland, for the hunting season. Staying at Consadine Blake's crumbling castle, they learn of his past and his ill-treatment of his wife and step-daughter. Romance follows, for one of the 'double' ... (PB)
Set in England, romance between a rich Australian, Chester Martyn, and Sadie Holman - the daughter of his business partner. When news arrives of the latter's murder Martyn returns to Australia but the murderer comes to England ... Unremarkable - though very strongly Anglo-Australian compared to usual stories which separate them. (PB)
A luckless New Hampshire gold-digger's voyage to Australia in 1853 - from New York to Melbourne - full of incident and a tyrannical captain. Told in 1868 when he returns to the USA. Seems based in fact. (PB)
Light. Romance begun on a hot day in the Australian countryside when Ned rescues a damsel from a pig ... Touches of originality and sprightliness. (PB)
A widow at he Slab Hut Gully diggings in Australia tells of her husband's death in a cave-in after a quarrel with her. And of the death of their two children - the first in Otago, New Zealand, and the second after her husband's death. (PB)