At four months old he loved water so much he was always loathe to leave it. Wrapping him in a towel she hurried to the veranda to watch the arrival of Sunny Ah Wei’s travelling emporium. She hoped he’d have new bolts of winter fabrics and news of the outside world. Drawn by a horse in a harness l...
Every Friday the band took up its stance outside the Diggers’ Rest and the sweet-faced girl in the dark uniform and bonnet trimmed with burgundy sang cheerful hymns set to modern melodies. Without asking for donations, her bucket was generously filled with coins by men passing in and out of the h...
My life is a disaster. Mungo moved heaven and earth for me to attend the Governor’s ball – but I betrayed him. She stood defeated at the side entrance to Jane’s cabin, watching the woman who had befriended her bustling as usual to prepare breakfast for her as well as herbal remedies for Kentigern...
Isabel decided that an Australian summer needed a fresh vocabulary to define adequately its contrast with the northern summers of her childhood. Muted sounds came from the sprawling convict village beyond the house but although the air was languid it also seemed charged with some electrical curre...