Elisabeth de Waal

Set in Vienna in the 1950s, the novel follows five people returning to the city they lived in before WWII. It's a novel about exile, return and re-establishing a past life.

Sally Carson

Written after the author visited a friend in Germany in the early 1930s. It tells the tale of a happy family against a background of economic hardship and political turmoil.

Virginia Woolf

This classic non-fiction book is all about creativity and the creative impulse. It's based on a series of talks that Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University in the 1920s.

Betty Gilderdale

A closer look at the author of Station Life In New Zealand, Lady Barker. Her time in NZ was just one chapter of a fascinating life. She wrote 18 books, had six children and lived through the abolition of slavery and the Crimean War.

Mary Findlay

Fascinating, if bleak, true life account of Mary Findlay's struggle to survive in a New Zealand hit by the 1930's Depression.

Evelyn Hosken

A wonderful first hand account of life farming in New Zealand's Mackenzie country in the early 1900s. From dog trials to home nursing and homesteads.

Jane Smiley

Pulitzer prize winning novel about a farmer in Iowa who hands down his farm to his three daughters and partners. Beautifully written, always insightful.

Mona Anderson

The second book by Mona Anderson who lived at the remote Mt Algidus Station. This book looks back at the history and the women that lived there over the years.