Belinda Castles: 2 books

Emil and Hannah live their lives amid the turmoil of twentieth-century history. Emil, a German veteran of the Great War, has returned home to a disturbed nation. As inflation and unemployment edge the country near collapse, Emil's involvement with the resistance ultimately forces him from his family...

Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2006. An engrossing novel of secrets, small communities and the consequences of living with the past. Set in a small riverside community, The River Baptists tells the story of Rose, bunkered down in a borrowed house overlooking the river,...