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Mysteries from the past resurface here, a woman vanishes from a Cape York cattle station during World War Two (The Disappearance of Christine Holmes), and a struggling trainer wins a town's premier race with a horse that everyone considers only third-rate (Mum's Secret Revealed). Court transcripts reveal how a lawyer defends a young man accused of murder (The Trial of Peter Halvorsen).Most of the stories in this collection are contemporary, an...

Eighteen new stories in this prize-winning Australian writer's crisp and engaging style, set this time in his country's giant northern State. There is the battle, step by step, between wily cattle buyer and equally wily grazier, with victory for either party in doubt until the very end - the wonderful change a group of elderly sisters effect on the lives of a young city couple visiting for a weekend - the surprising and unanswerable response b...

Eighteen stories of rural Australia - and it's all here - drama, adventure, humour, love lost and won - and just battling on with life. Ron Iddon's Murray River Collection is chock-full of characters that some would say could only be Australian. Here you find the country's greatest cricketer (but no-one knows of him), a Lothario who believes he has found his true love but who is met only with hostility, a young sheep station owner who gives hi...

Once again Ron Iddon has given us sharply drawn characters, placing them this time in an inland Australian town, and wrapping around them stories that engage us to the end. Here is Georgia, born to an Aboriginal woman, and the best stockman in the district, Errol, who manages a motel and his enterprising love life with equal dexterity, the visiting Duchess, welcome member of the Royal Family, Bobbo, the boy/man with unexplained powers, Maggie,...