« Je ne peins pas ce que je sais mais ce que je vois. » William Turner

Julian Moreland, aged 12 3/4, lives in Darwin with his widowed father, Craig, a colonel and helicopter flying instructor in the army. They have a close relationship, sharing a love of fishing and flying...

Having survived the blizzard together, and settled their differences, Wesley, Graham and Scott are a tight group. They are going on an overnight canoe trip on a lake in the following January with Wesley's...

Jake travels with his mother to visit relatives in Tromso, northern Norway. Knowing they were close to the North Pole, he was hoping he might see Santa Claus, which happens on his first night when one...

Julian returns home to face a storm of controversy over the dangers he had faced at the fire front whilst under eighteen, originating mainly with California's child welfare agencies, and also a plague...

Three months after their escape on the lake, at Easter, Wesley, Graham and Scott, Wesley's mother, Pam, and English exchange student, Emily Pontington-Hunt travel to an outback property near Broken Hill...

Wesley Auld, his best friend Graham Finlay, worst enemy, Scott Willis and sixty other classmates take part in a hike up a mountain track in the Victorian high country in late September during a Year Eight...

Julian arrives in Los Angeles to be met by the whole Clifford family, except Colin, who is in hospital with complications. He is especially pleased to see Alison. They drive him to the hospital to visit...

Emily's father, Sir Nigel, is so grateful for Emily's rescue from the terrorists who abducted her that he invites Wesley, Graham and Scott to go to England with Emily as his guests. Only Wesley and Graham...

Julian, now doing Year Eleven at a private school, is celebrating his seventeenth birthday. Due to a compromise, he has obtained his fix-wing licence, and is now about to commence his rotary-wing (helicopter)...

Kendal Kirby is a morbidly obese fourteen-year-old boy living in Melbourne in a somewhat dysfunctional relationship with his widowed mother after his father's suicide. Taunted and tormented at school...

Jake returns from Norway on New Year's Eve. Next day, despite more jet-lag, he goes looking for his best friend, Cooper, plus Ben and Ken. They end up at the home of aboriginal elder, Grandpa Lionel,...

Julian Moreland, aged 12 3/4, lives in Darwin with his widowed father, Craig, a flying instructor in the army. They are very close, sharing a love of fishing and helicopters. Craig retires, moves to Melbourne...

Part I   STORM RIDGE.Wesley Auld, his best friend Graham Finlay, worst enemy, Scott Willis and sixty other classmates take part in a hike up a mountain track in the Victorian high country in late September...

A three-part story of 15,900 words about an Australian boy, Jake, nine years-old, who lives in a seaside town called Coconut. Part one, Jake's Magical Easter Adventure - Jake spends his Easter holiday...

Australian boy Jake is nine years-old and lives in a seaside town called Coconut. Jake spends his Easter holiday with a backpack exploring his home-town and the world beyond, where he meets very strange...

The Pythagoras’s Theorem is one of the famous and earliest theorems widely used and learned at school. According to legend, Pythagoras was so happy when he discovered this theorem that he would have...