Eleanor Dark was one of the most highly regarded and widely read writers in Australia during the 1930s and 1940s, two decades that were crucial in the development of Australian writing and literary culture. She published ten novels, as well as writing essays, poems, stories, plays, and radio scripts. Her work was published in the United Kingdom and the United States as well as in Australia and translated into French, German, Swedish, and Italian. The Timeless Land (1941) was a best-seller in Australia and the United States by the standards of the time. Her work was admired by her writer contemporaries at the same time as it was widely read. Her novels combine the influences of European modernism and psychoanalytic insights with elements of the popular genre the romance novel; her work reflects the major social changes and intellectual debates of the time but remains accessible to the general...