Mr Midshipman Hornblower

C. S. Forester

1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . . .As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of...

The Eye of the Storm

Patrick White

A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships- her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itse...