Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering behind this young man's life. Damon's story is one of lifelong struggle, his love for Celeste, the compassion of family and a fight to the end for integrity.

I Can Jump Puddles' is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood - a happy world, in which, depite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early this century: rough riders, bushmen, farmers, rouseabouts, and tellers of tall stories