Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, 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...

A fortune of gold bullion was mysteriously swindled from the Royal Mint in the Australian west coast city of Perth in 1982. No-one saw the swindler - No violence occurred, and no individual victim suffered loss. A true story of...

On the south coast of Western Australia a battle begins between conservationists and the people of a local community. The environmentalists are attempting to save an endangered whale species from extinction whilst the community faces an...

Alana Cook is born in the early hours of Christmas morning in 1922 as a furious cyclone batters the town of Port Hedland in Australia's North-West. On the same wild night the town loses its much-loved doctor.

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 fascinating characters who made up these...

The author takes the beloved rascal of Mad as Rabbits, her Uncle Charlie, and tells of his adventures and misadventures, his good deeds and his misdeeds, his unconventionalitites and his eccentric manner. Whether she writes of his odd...

In 1954 Pat, Jim and their three sons found themselves living on "the banks of the Condamine". Surrounded by floodwaters without either a phone or boat for the first six months, pregnant and often alone except for their...

This is a delightful, wry and amusing collection of columns by Keith Dunstan, who for thirty years has been one of Australia's most-read and loved columnists.

The exciting years when `our Glad' was a well-known personality on the Australian stage, and the earlier years of her childhood.