Barbara Duncan

Portsmouth, 1832. Once the pride of the British East India fleet, the Veritas has fallen on hard times.

Kate Webster is a loveable larrikin who likes to play hard now and worry about the consequences later. She can’t help mucking up the opportunities life gives her.

Local Whitby girl, Colette Shipley has become fascinated by the mysteries of the new art of photography and begins to create a record of her scenic home town with its tall ships and twin lighthouses, street urchins and weathered old fishermen.

Sammy Adams is always on the look-out for a new business opportunity. When he hears from his son David about the new-fangled supermarkets that are becoming all the rage in America, he immediately starts looking for a suitable site in South London.

On a small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef two communities come together in an uneasy alliance: a tourist resort and a scientific research station.

The latest body was discovered very near Inez Ferry’s antique shop in Marylebone. Someone spotted a shadowy figure running away past the station, but couldn’t say for sure if it was a man or a woman. There were only two other clues.

Elvin Beauregard is ethereal! The problem is that he’s in year twelve and Petula is only in year nine, so attracting his attention is proving quite difficult. And that’s not Petula’s only problem. There’s a possibility that her father is going to want to marry Pongo, the Speaking Carrot, and Petula definitely does not want [...]

David Williamson has been in the public gaze for almost forty years. Plays such as Don’s Party, The Removalists, The Club and Emerald City – and films such as Gallipoli – have made him a national treasure.