"Readers cannot but feel the force of what remains one of the most important novels of the post-war years." Times Literary Supplement

'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year.

It is also one of the most vivid stories of human endurance ever written. Henri Charriere died in 1973 at the age of 66.

Pigling sets off from home and, among his adventures, helps Pig-wig escape from Mr. Piperson. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

In the backstreets and dives of Hobart Town, Mary learns the art of brewing and builds The Potato Factory, where she plans a new future. But her ambitions are threatened by Ikey's wife, Hannah, her old enemy.

Richard Morgan finds romance and adventure on the continent of Australia.

In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.

Retain, not only because this is a famous book, and it is well-written, but because of sex in prison passages, e.g., pp. 77, 79, 92-95.--Don.