Lana Darling had been home for ten minutes and she already wanted to run away.
When my book Young Digger was launched at the Australian War Memorial, a friend, Norma Allen, suggested I should tell the story of ‘Horrie the Wog Dog’ – another wartime waif who was...
September 1939, Sydney, Australia Sandwiched between two policemen, the woman descends the gangplank of the ship.
1964 Melbourne, Australia Anna switched off her electric typewriter and slipped her diary into the top drawer of her desk.
Jax loved a good what-if, especially the kind that offered a bit of safe, imaginary action.
Max turned at the lake’s edge and took his eyes off the road to absorb the one hundred and eighty degrees of stunning, hot pink sunset in front of him.
Carly scrambled from bed, stumbling and snatching at the darkness, caught between fight and flight.
That muggy morning in July my partner, Rich Conklin, and I were on stakeout in the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco’s sketchiest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods.
Autumn 1907 Billy Cameron sets out for Makatote A Sunday in May 1907 Billy Cameron, fourteen years old, his spirits as lively as the fiery red of his hair, set out through the bush towards Andersons’...
In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her.
In the Beginning Nelson, New Zealand Here Julia and I are, down by the creek below the yellow house the last summer she is with us.
It is quite well understood that a clinically depressed person will show little, if any, interest in constructive activity concerning future events or outcomes.
The Good People of Goleen Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoleague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church...
Prologue Parramatta, November 1825 He really must do something about that door, he thought as he crossed the yard back to his quarters.
Longhope Railway Station, New South Wales 10 January 1945 The train carrying the prisoners of war was overdue.
If there’d been any other way, Leah would have taken it, welcomed it with open arms.