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In the Kimberley water is plentiful but in the city it is precious and political. Government minister Michael Money has cooked up a secret plan to bring water from the monsoonal north of Australia to the south. But he needs to find out what opposition he might face around the river valley.

A secret plan is being cooked up to bring water from the monsoonal north of Australia to the south. But Government minister Michael Mooney needs to find out what opposition he might face around the river valley. He sends Kate Kennedy, his young, career-minded Chief of Staff, and political fixer J...

"This is Stephen Scourfield's world: Delhi in the rain, paddling in the Yukon, lotus weaving in Burma, a lion's roar in the Masai Mara, family meals in Italy, whale sharks on the Ningaloo Reef. Stephen Scourfield, author, travel editor and photographer, has travelled extensively throughout ...

It includes contributions from talents such as Kate Auty, Peter Bibby, Lesley Corbett, Steve Hawke, Donna Bing-Ying Mak, Stephen Scourfield, Pat Mmanjun Bananga Torres, and Jacqueline Wright, and will appeal to a wide range of readers—travelers, fans of indigenous works, and those interested ...

Raw, forceful and intensely masculine, this is a powerful novel of land, blood and history. Set in the mythic, remote country of the Top End, Other Country tells the story of two young brothers, Ace and Billy, and their struggle to overcome the bitter legacy of their brutal father. Bound by blood...

Their story, set in a landscape as harsh as the lives lived in it, is both desperate and filled with hope. There’s the other country that is out there, and there is the other country within; what you make of each is up to you.

Linked by a common hatred of their violent Old Man, The Ace and his younger brother Wild Billy Parkes hit the road into northern Australia to make their own history. Two very different brothers, one held by the past, the other grasping for the future, they grow into men among tough blokes who pre...

Unaccountable Hours is a collection of three novellas that follow the fortunes of a maker of musical instruments, the ethical dilemma of a biologist and birdwatcher, and the romantic friendship between a young man and an aged woman - all firmly set in and defined by the Australian landscape. In T...