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Lorrie looks forward to taking her young nephew Davey on a camping trip even though it's been arranged for the sole purpose of keeping him out of harm's way while his father testifies.

The vivid story of Maggie Lilly and her family, great pioneers of the rugged north west of Australia, bringing to life the struggles and triumphs of the early days of settlement, and the many fasci

A collection of the best of the author's columns from the "Australian" newspaper.

This, the fourth novel in the "Earth's Children" series, tells of Ayla and Jondalar's epic journey across the windswept grasslands of Ice-Age Europe.

Whether you're an explorer or tourist, the journey often proves to be more exciting than the place your arrive at.

When Imogen Jameson is injured in a London bomb blast and mistakenly reported as one of the fatalities, she sees this as an opportunity to escape from a violent marriage and assume the identity of

Sacked by the Federal Security Agency, Crawley plays dangerous games in the Melbourne underworld.

Ben Cartwright possessed courage and a big heart. He refused his neighbours nothing, treated his friends like family.

Joseph Heller, author of the cult classic Catch-22 died in December 1999. This is his last novel, coincidently a novel about a man struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career.

From a very early age Chloe always got what she wanted. At the age of eighteen the northern town of her birth was definitely not what she wanted.

When Spanish power declined in the West Indies, France and Britain schemed to fill the vacuum. A young English officer is sent to stir rebellion against France in her islands.

What does a robot have to do to prove its humanity?

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms.

Ikey, his brothel mistress wife Hannah and Mary his sometime mistress, are transported to Van Dieman's Land where the two women raise separate families.

A novel of a small boy's triumph over cruelty and loneliness. Set in the turbulent 1940's in Southern Africa. An epic of survival in the best of dramatic traditions.