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Cuba, 1959: In the final year of Errol Flynn’s life, he found time for one last adventure. The dashing star of many Hollywood films had always longed to be a real hero. Fidel Castro was the genuine article, and now he was looking for fame. What each man had the other wanted, and as revolution [...]

From Brisbane’s sleazy Sin Triangle to drug busts in the wild far north, former undercover cop Domenico ‘Mick’ Cacciola tells his incredible tale of underworld crime and police corruption. After joining the Queensland Police Force in the 1960s, Mick risked his life infiltrating illegal gambling dens.

Thea Farmer, a reclusive and difficult retired school principal, lives in isolation with her dog in the Blue Mountains. Her distinguished career ended under a cloud over a decade earlier, following a scandal involving a much younger male teacher. After losing her savings in the financial crash, she is forced to sell the dream house [...]

David’s entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources [...]

Can civilisation survive the 21st century? Professor Ian Lowe, author, pre-eminent scientist and president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, thinks we have a chance – but we have to act now, and not just on global warming. 

A recent chapter in the history wars has returned a colonial-era mystery to the limelight: the existence of several tribes of Pygmy Aboriginal peoples in the Cairns and Yarrabah Peninsula regions in Queensland. Despite a general belief in their extinction, their descendants still live around Cairns, as archaeologist Peter McAllister found on a recent research [...]

Observations of a life over 60 years reveal what it ws like to leave Ireland, arrive in Australia in 1947 as a Sister of Mercy, train as a nurse – and end up as Administrator of Brisbane’s Mater Hospital. 

Australia is a dynamic multi-cultural society, viewed by many as the world’s most desirable place to live. Here Frank Welsh traces Australia’s intriguing and varied history to examine how this society emerged, from its ancient Aborigine tribes and earliest British convict settlements to today’s modern nation – one that retains strong links with its colonial [...]

Senator William Patterson, wealthy and influential, hides a scandal form his past that could ruin him.  Stefan Muller, a young penniless immigrant, seeks a promised new life in a land that does not welcome him.  When the senator’s cherished daughter Elizabeth falls in love with the impoverished Stefan, it creates a family conflict that threatens [...]