Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders was determined to complete the map of the coast of the continent we now call Australia. His story is packed to the gunwales with adventure – storms and shipwrecks, death and danger, and an exciting race to beat the French.
Putting Australia on the Map
Australia is a big place. It covers 7.7 million square kilometres. You'd think it would have been easy to find, but it stayed hidden from everyone but its First Nations People for a very long time.
Middle grade
Inheritance
The past holds a dark and shocking secret that haunts the land and the people who live there. Nic wants to change history. But is that possible?
Dragonkeeper
Dragon Dawn
Prequel to the Dragonkeeper series. Danzi is a youngster in dragon terms. A peaceful visit to a friend doesn't go the way he planned.
Dragonkeeper
A slave girl saves the life of an ageing dragon and escapes her brutal master.
Garden of the Purple Dragon
Dragonkeeper 2. Ping thinks she is safe hiding in the shadow of the Tai Shan mountains, but even here enemies find her and Kai.
Dragon Moon
Dragonkeeper 3. Ping and Kai have travelled far, but their journey is not over yet.
Blood Brothers
Dragonkeeper 4. Kai is 465, a teenager in dragon years. His search for a dragonkeeper has led him to Tao ... a novice Buddhist monk.
Shadow Sister
Dragonkeeper 5. Tao must prove he is worthy of the name of dragonkeeper. But the road west is never straight and nothing for Tao and Kai is what it seems.
Bronze Bird Tower
Dragonkeepr 6. After a long journey, Tao and Kai have arrived at the Dragon Haven. What they find is not the sanctuary Kai has described.
Non-fiction
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders was determined to complete the map of the coast of the continent we now call Australia. His story is packed to the gunwales with adventure – storms and shipwrecks, death and danger, and an exciting race to beat the French.
Putting Australia on the Map
Australia is a big place. It covers 7.7 million square kilometres. You'd think it would have been easy to find, but it stayed hidden from everyone but its First Nations People for a very long time.
Ten Pound Pom
Between 1945 and 1982 around one and a half million people emigrated to Australia under an assisted migration scheme. I was one of them. This is my immigration story.
Atmospheric
What is putting our climate at risk? What can we do about it?
The Games
The Games is the real story of the modern Olympics
Fromelles
The story of this battle, and the men who took part in it, is told with compassion and respect, without glorifying war
Ned Kelly’s Jerilderie Letter
Ned Kelly in his own words: wicked, angry, vividly descriptive
The Dragon Companion
Dragons come in all shapes and sizes – within the pages of The Dragon Companion you will find all sorts of dragonish information, illustrated with gorgeous images by Dean Jones
Picture books
The Night We Made The Flag
This is my story of what might have happened the night the Eureka flag was made.
For young adults
Stagefright
Velvet S Pye is about to begin a really bad day, a miserable year. Things get even worse when she meets the students in her Cultural Studies class. A musical version of a Shakespearian tragedy? They must be kidding.
Sugar Sugar
Jackie has left Australia with a psychedelic suitcase and a dream to become a world-famous fashion designer. She knows exactly where she’s going and how she’s going to get there. So how does a weekend in Paris send her spinning off course? How does she end up somewhere she couldn’t find on a map?
Ramose
Set in Ancient Egypt, this series of books follows the adventures of Prince Ramose as he fights for his position as the pharaoh's rightful heir
Ramose: Prince in Exile
“Prince Ramose was very interested in this funeral. It was his own…”
Ramose and the Tomb Robbers
“Ramose fought furiously against his bindings but he couldn’t break free...”
Ramose: Sting of the Scorpion
“‘Tell me what you see.’ ‘Some things I see, others are unclear…’”
Ramose: Wrath of Ra
“‘Ra will leave us in eternal darkness. It’s the end of the world.’”