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Terry Delaney leads a relatively satisfying life as a security guard and as a passionate rugby player with a shot at pro-team success. But Terry's life is shaken beyond recognition when he falls obsessively in love with Danielle Kabbel, the daughter of his employer, Rudi Kabbel. Rudi, a half-mad/half-charming immigrant from Eastern Europe, suffers from visions of an impending apocalypse and from the demons of a tormented childhood. The family madness runs deep, from the Kabbel family patriarch, Stanek, a Nazi collaborator who betrayed his wife to save his own neck, to Rudi's traumatic childhood in which he was a pawn between the Nazis and the Russians. It is into this maelstrom of devastating history and present day insanity that Terry is drawn - to his own desperate peril. -
Quite a rollicking tale of corrupt soldiers and starving convicts, set in a South Pacific penal colony in 1790. Into this alien world comes Corporal Phelim Halloran: Innocent and lover, poet and scholar and soldier-by-accident who attempts to make a world for himself in this non-conducive setting. First published in 1967. -
Hijackers representing a a Palestinian faction take over an airliner flying between New York and Frankfurt. But nothing is straightforward...they find they must consider one particular group of passengers who may well identify with their cause - The Barramatjara Dance Troupe on their world tour. -
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Krakow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker, and a bon viveur - the least likely missionary that could be imagined - but to those who lived in terror of the Nazis he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy. -
Jimmie is a young half-blood Aborigine who is made conscious of his white heritage by a missionary. He leaves his tribe to find acceptance in the white man's world. He fails, through no fault of his own, and explodes in a fateful 'declaration of war' - the white man's way, as he has learnt, of acquiring license for revenge and violence. The story is set at the turn of the century, but the chant doesn't end there....
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Forty years ago, Alec Ramsey survived a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic...or did he? His body survived - but did his mind? For years he's been harried by a sense of guilt about the fate of the expedition's leader - a guilt that seems to shut out atonement. Lately it has worsened, being pushed to a climax that threatens his sanity. Ramsey must return to the ice to see if he survived at all.
