When young Spit MacPhee came to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen feared for his future. For Fyfe MacPhee was a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit had to fend for himself along the riverbank where they lived. While some people believed that Spit could look after himself, there were those who believed he would be better cared for in a boys home - and when old Fyfe died after one of his 'turns' a fierce battle to decide Spit's destiny began.

Something is wrong with Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighbourhood it appears to be - strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its own, so does the light draw its champions, and Nathanial finds he must confront phantoms from his own past in his battle to stop the Gathering and its creator....

The Red King controls his forest kingdom not just by force of arms, but by spreading disease. All who question his authority are infected with the deadly red fever. Who would dare oppose such a man? Only a tiny band of entertainers - a magician, an acrobat, a monkey and a bear...... How could so unlikely a group possibly challenge the Red King in his stronghold? How could they hope to survive, let alone win?

It seems simple enough for David and Jem to release the two baboons from the experimental research station where they are doomed to die. But when they discover the baboons are no longer capable of looking after themselves in the African bush, David and Jem are forced to stay and protect them. And that's when their problems truly begin....

The earth of our distant future has become a strange and frightening place. Now, thousands of years later, two off-worlder humans, Anna and Joe, are sent back to the wild and unpopulated planet to try to begin human life all over again. But what they discover is a world far more confusing, far more powerful, than they'd ever imagined. Rats that seem to reason for themselves? Creatures that communicate in ancient human codes? What is going on?

Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen, illegitimate, and in her final year at a wealthy Catholic school. This is the year her father comes back into her life, the year she falls in love, the year she discovers the secrets of her family's past and the year she sets herself free.

Seventeen year old Col leads a double life. In public he plays football and drinks with the town gang, but in private he escapes to his secret place in the forest. When the greenies come to Col's tiny timber town, he feels trapped. If the logging stops, the local workers will lose their jobs and the town will die. Yet if the logging continues, the brown scars will soon destroy Col's green land....

Nobody in the Australian country town of St Helen knew who Lola MacKellar was - least of all Lola herself. All they knew was that she had come from a foster home in Melbourne and that her real name was Lorelei. It was a puzzle too why the wealthy Eyres had brought her to their vast riverside property yet lodges her with the Scobies like an outcast. For a while it didn't matter. But Lola couldn't remain the free young spirit she was forever. One day the questions about her identity would begin....