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.

Growing up in an Australian country town before World War 1, Jackie, Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other. But Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie is condemned by her parents. This is the story of their life-long odyssey, and of the triumph of a special kind of courage.

A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world......Guyana, South America. Captivated by Guyana's wild, unspoilt beauty, Madison Wright joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corporate exploitation. But her new-found commitment soon plunges Madison into a mire of murder, drug smuggling and political corruption

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.

Richard Derrington's doing it tough. Since Anna trashed him his job seems pointless. Tuesday seems moderately fucked by ten, his tennis is appalling, long periods of complete crap, punctuated by flashes of a very random glory and the future bleak. This is a hiatus? There I was thinking I was sinking and it's just a hiatus. Apart from his friends, the only thing keeping Richard going is his wicked sense of humour. Then things look up.

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....

Mary Abacus, tenacious, spirited and a woman of independent mind, has arrived in her new land under the most onerous of circumstances. Sometime mistress of the notorious London criminal Ikey Solomon, Mary has been transported to Van Dieman's land for running a bawdy house. She is soon joined on the convict settlement by Ikey and his wife Hannah, herself a strong minded woman, consumed by warring passions, a great love for her children and a loathing for her husband and his mistress.

Demon's land they called it - a bastardisation of Van-Dieman's land - a place where men rotted or starved or were flogged to death. The maximum security hard labour camp at Macquarie Harbour was the end of the line for prisoners - a hell on earth for convicts and gaolers alike - and when, in 1833, it was decided to close the settlement, ten desperate and ruthless men seized the ship that was to transport them, and made their final bid for freedom. This book is based on one of the most exciting incidents in the bloody history of the penal colonies.

From Banjo Paterson's immortal ballad comes the novel - the stirring tale of the boy who became the man from Snowy River. Jim Craig is eighteen years old and cannot return to his mountain home until he has proved himself a man. Jessica Harrison is the beautiful, impetuous daughter of the wealthy cattleman whose expensive colt runs off to join the brumby mob. And then there is the stallion, leader of the brumbies for almost twenty years, ranging free and proud in the mountains, whose very existence is like a dark thread running through the lives of so many people...

Is brilliant young film maker Carmel Wise the innocent victim of gangland violence or is she enmeshed in a pornography racket as the press and the police imply? Carmel's businessman father hires Cliff Hardy to find the real reason 'the video girl' was shot dead outside the Greenwich Apartments in Kings Cross.