The Stone Angel

‘A truly absorbing book filled with secrets and conflicts’ - WOMAN'S DAY

‘A beautifully descriptive read and a soul-searching take on human relationships’ - NEW IDEA

‘Scholes shows a rare ability to understand people in their specific geographical context and find within them the great surging passions of humanity’ - SUNDAY TASMANIAN

‘Full of passion, fine writing and interesting observations about the way potent events that help shape one generation have an impact on the next. Wonderful stuff’ - AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY ‘Book of the Month’

‘Scholes has … masterfully captured those fateful moments that can change the course of many lives… The Stone Angel touches the senses with its rich descriptions of coastal Tasmania and emerges as a lovingly crafted account of a home we can never run away from’ - GOOD READING

‘Scholes crafts her fiction with such care and subtlety’ - WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN

The Rain Queen

'Utterly bewitching' - THE INDEPENDENT(France)

' A magnificant portrait of a passionate woman, a superb romantic saga. The Rain Queen takes us into the spectacular landscape of Africa, to discover an unknown magical world.' - ELLE (France)

' With the subtley of Doris Lessing for the depiction of feminine nature and the vision of Karen Blixen in bringing alive a continent of dark ancestry and ancient cultures, the author of The Rain Queen has given us an intense vision of grief, solitude and the comfort of strangers.' - 'Book of the Week' Michel Grisolla - L'EXPRESS (France)

'Disturbing and enthralling - an authentic African voice, exotic and magical. An amazing book. Fabulous reading.' - MADAME FIGARO (France)

'This most moving book, whose every breath is a love-song for Africa and her people is a faultlessly woven cloth.' - LE MONDE - LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (France)

'3 out of 3 stars' - LE TRIBUNE (France)

'A superb novel.. wonderful reading' - WOMAN (Germany)

'Beautifully written, lively and sympathetic.. an adventurous and highly entertaining read.' - BOOKSHOW (Germany)

The Number One Bestseller - MIDI LIBRE (France)

Book of the Summer - LIRE(France)

Make me an Idol

'Filled with surprises..' - MACH MALPAUSE (Germany)

BOOK OF THE WEEK - DIE ZWEI

BOOK OF THE SUMMER - 'A superb novel' - COTE FEMME (France)

The Blue Chameleon

'Brilliantly interwoven..' - THE AGE

Winner of the Ethel Turner Prize - NEW SOUTH WALES LITERARY AWARDS

The Boy and the Whale

Shortlisted - The German Children's Literature Award 1991

Shortlisted - 1986 Junior Book of the Year, Children's Book Council of Australia

Winner - Best Children's Fiction 1986 Whitley Book Awards

Awarded 'Luchs 48' by the jury of the German weekly newspaper ZEIT

Named 'Book of the Month' Radio Breman

Selected - White Ravens International Youth Library - Munich