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Author and CEO Dennis Perkins is a veteran of the Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race, known as the Everest of offshore ocean racing. With Syncretics Director of Client Services Jillian B. Murphy, Perkins recounts how the AFR Midnight Rambler won the daunting race in the most perilous of conditions.

Now that they are lovers, Challis and Destry must guard their affections closely, for romantic relationships are against department regulations. This complicates matters as they investigate the brutal assault on a private school chaplain as well as the murder of a public official.

A young girl has been abducted on Australia's Mornington Peninsula and Sergeant Ellen Destry takes the case in Inspector Hal Challis' absence.

Chistopher Chubb, an arrogant poet in 1950's Australia, creates a fictitious poet. Only the phantom poet comes to life to taunt, haunt and otherwise destroy his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter ending in the tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur. The Creature steals Chubb's life, eclipsing him as a poet and a man.

Surviving a vicious massacre, the Aboriginal boy, Mandawuy is the last of his tribe. He will face the ultimate choice - to join with the white man, or to rebel alongside the warriors who are waging a war against them, pitting their stone-age weapons against guns. When George Collinson meets Eloise at the Governor's Mansion in Sydney, it is love at first sight. But Eloise is married to Edward Cadwallader - George's nemesis and a man capable of great brutality, a man who will never let Eloise or their son leave him alive...

After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hoping to make his fortune in the goldfields in New South Wales. On the voyage, he meets Euphemia Smith and they conduct an indiscreet affair aboard. After various problems, Caldigate literally strikes gold and returns to Sydney where he meets Euphemia again and they settle, living as man and wife. After a time, they quarrel and Caldigate returns to England.

50,000 years ago: The People, who for time immemorial have lived in the Javanese rainforests, are driven from their ancestral hunting grounds by the invaders they call the Newcomers. So begins the epic journey that will bring them to Australia.