Patricia Shaw comenzó su carrera de escritora de ficción a los 52 años. Su extensa obra, a menudo centrada en la colonización del interior australiano, le valió el apodo de "Cronista de Australia". Aunque sus novelas alcanzaron una popularidad considerable, especialmente en Alemania, donde fue apodada "La Poetisa de Frankfurt", su distintiva voz literaria sigue resonando. Shaw aporta una profunda exploración de la vida en la frontera a sus narrativas, capturando el espíritu de la colonización australiana con notable empatía y destreza narrativa.
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
A tumultuous story of revenge and betrayal from 'one of the foremost writers of Australian historical novels' says Historical Novels Review
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...
Notgedrungen muß Brodie Court seine irische Heimat verlassen. Bei seiner Ankunft auf dem fünften Kontonent sieht er zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben Opale und ist von ihrem Anblick so fasziniert, daß er beschließt, nur noch nach diesen geheinmisvoll leuchtenden Edelsteinen zu suchen ... Machtvoll schildert Patricia Shaw das Leben eines Mannes, der aufbricht, um in Australien sein Glück zu versuchen.
Australien 1878: Drei ungleiche Brüder entbrannt im Streit um das Familienerbe. Zwei verfeindete Völker im Kampf um Recht und Eigentum. Ein weites Land, das Blutvergießen am Horizont aufsteigen lässt … Patricia Shaw at her best: ein Australien-Epos voller Gefahren, heimlicher Leidenschaften und falscher Versprechen.
Im Jahre 1898 läßt Robert MacIntyre in den Urwäldern Australiens für seine über alles geliebte Frau Catherine den Palast Zanana bauen. Doch als Catherine bei der Geburt ihrer Tochter Kate stirbt, zerbricht das Glück, das über Zanana schwebt, und seine Bewohner zerstreuen sich in alle Winde. Die verlassene Villa verfällt - bis sie mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert später von einem spielenden Mädchen entdeckt wird. Der verwunschene Ort läßt Odette nicht mehr los, und so macht sie sich Jahre später als junge Frau auf, endlich das Geheimnis von Zanana zu lüften ...
