Patricia Shaw Livres

When Emilie and Ruth Tissington find themselves destitute in London, they set sail for Australia where they have been offered positions as governesses. After a traumatic voyage, they arrive to find their jobs do not exist. Then Emilie meets charming Mallachi Willoughby, and there is trouble ahead.

The Hamilton and Oatley families, the owners of massive cattle stations in Australia's Northern Territory, rely on the annual monsoons to restore their parched land after the long, exhausting dry season. But this year the ominous storm clouds only serve to remind them of trouble brewing - an Aborgine guerilla fighter in the district with some of his men is causing havoc indiscriminately and placing both Zack Hamilton and William Oatley in great danger. As the days drag on, the Aborigines' struggle for survival involves them all in a vicious waiting game until men with revenge in their hearts have to face the truth about themselves.

Patricia Shaw's magnificent saga celebrates the pioneering spirit of the men and women whose courage and ambition laid the foundations of modern Australia

As the luxury China Belle enters Australian waters, its passengers have little idea of the tragedy that awaits them, particularly Mal Willoughby, who is returning to his native land to start a new life with his Chinese wife Jun Lien. The crew, led by First Officer Jake Tussup, mutinies off the coast of Australia, taking the passengers hostage. By the time the horrific ordeal is over and the crew have escaped to the goldfields of the Palmer River, Mal's beautiful wife is dead and the lives of all the survivors have been altered for ever. A close bond develops between the passengers as they try to put the traumatic experience behind them and as Mal struggles to come to terms with his grief, he vows to hunt down Jake and his accomplices and avenge his wife's death. Mal's search for justice takes him from the exotic mountains of China, to the rising new town of Carins and on to the squalid and teeming goldfields; but will he ever be able to break free from the past?

Set against the turbulent excitement of the goldrush, a story of courage, ambition and desire. Following the tragic death of their father, Clem Price and his sister Alice take over the running of Lancoorie sheep station in Western Australia. Despite his youth and inexperience, Clem is determined to see the farm prosper. When wealthy Dr Carty suggests that Clem marry his daughter Thora, Clem cannot afford to refuse the handsome dowry she will bring. And although he knows that Thora is carrying another man's child, he is enchanted by his beautiful young bride. Yet Thora proves to be flighty and demanding, disappointed that her husband is not as wealthy as she had imagined. Desperate to please her, Clem joins the goldrush to Kalgoorlie to seek his fortune. But his prolonged absence enrages Thora further and, despite Alice's warnings, she travels to Perth to find her husband. Her dramatic reunion with Clem is to have shocking consequences from which those involved might never recover...

Father Beitz has a dream. From his home in 1870s Hamburg, he plans to pioneer an idyllic German community in faraway Australia, in a backwoods hamlet, barely settled, called Bundaberg. He soon finds other dreamers eager to join him, thrilled by the prospect of a sunny clime, cheap arable land, and their own Lutheran society.But when they arrive they find the land, bought for them by Father Beitz, is nothing but a jungle, and before long it seems the trials of their new home may force the community to disintegrate. As time passes, a combination of courage and determination carries the pioneers beyond their fears, but a new threat awaits. Only an elderly Aborigine mystic sees the evil that threatens them, but can he warn them in time?

Ten years after he first took shelter with the Queensland Aborigines, Jack Drew - an escaped convict - has decided the time has come to return to civilisation. He finds employment on a back-country farm called Emerald Downs, and when the owner, Major Ferrington, is ordered to roust the Aborigines who have been terrorising the area, Jack is horrified to find he must go with him as a scout. The farm is left in the hands of Adrian Pinnock - the brother of Major Ferrington's fiancée, Jessie - but when Jessie herself insists on accompanying him dealings on the once well-ordered estate take a very different course. It soon becomes clear that the shattering events of these frontier times will give new meaning to all their lives...

Im Jahr 1898 verläßt Bodie Court seine irische Heimat, weil sie ihm kein Auskommen mehr bietet. Er geht nach Australien und begegnet dort gleich nach der Ankunft der Liebe seines Lebens: den geheimnisvoll leuchtenden australischen Opalen. Sofort faßt er den Entschluß, auf Opalsuche zu gehen. Er hat Erfolg und wird zum wohlhabenden Mann. Ein schrecklicher Unglücksfall und die Begegnung mit einer außergewöhnlichen Frau verändern sein Leben von Grund auf.

Australien, 1878: Als ihre Mutter stirbt, erben die drei Brüder John, Paul und Duke die Familienfarm Kooramin. Weil John unbedingt will, dass Kooramin im Famillienbesitz bleibt, Paul und Duke aber andere Pläne haben, entbrennt ein heftiger Streit zwischen den Brüdern. Es kommt zum Eklat, als Duke eigenmächtig eine Hypothek auf die Farm aufnimmt, um endlich eigenes Land zu erwerben: Mango Hill! Seine Freude über das riesige Gut wird von einem heftigen Streit mit seiner grossen Liebe Lucy Mae überschattet. Als sie ihn verlässt, ahnt Duke nicht, dass Lucy Mae ein Kind von ihm erwartet. Und während die Brüder um ihr persönliches Glück ringen, brauen sich noch andere dunkle Gewitterwolken am Horizont zusammen: Die Konflikte zwischen den Aborigines und den Weissen führen zu blutigen Unruhen, in die das Schicksal vor allem Paul verwickelt. (Weltbild)