Also by Judy Nunn

By the same author

 

The Glitter Game

Centre Stage

Araluen

Kal

Beneath the Southern Cross

Territory

Pacific

Heritage

Floodtide

Maralinga

Tiger Men

Children’s fiction

Eye in the Storm

Eye in the City

 

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Other titles by Judy Nunn

Beneath the Southern Cross

In 1783, Thomas Kendall, a naïve nineteen-year-old sentenced to

transportation for burglary, finds himself in Sydney Town and a new life in

the wild and lawless land. Beneath the Southern Cross is as much a story of

a city as it is a family chronicle. With her uncanny ability to bring history to

life in technicolour, Judy Nunn traces the fortunes of Kendall’s descendants

through good times and bad to the present day . . .

Kal

Kalgoorlie. It grew out of the red dust of the desert over the world’s

richest vein of gold . . . From the heady early days of the gold rush, to the

horrors of the First World War in Gallipoli and France, to the shame and

confrontation of the post-war riots, Kal tells the story of Australia itself and

the people who forged a nation out of a harsh and unforgiving land.

Heritage

In the 1940s refugees from more than seventy nations gathered in

Australia to forge a new identity – and to help realise one man’s dream: the

mighty Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. From the ruins of Berlin

to the birth of Israel, from the Italian Alps to the Australian high country,

Heritage is a passionate tale of rebirth, struggle, sacrifice and redemption.

Territory

Territory is the story of the Top End and the people who dare to dwell

there. Of Spitfire pilot Terence Galloway and his English bride, Henrietta,

home from the war, only to be faced with the desperate defence of Darwin

against the Imperial Japanese Air Force. From the blazing inferno that was

Darwin on 19 February 1942 to the devastation of Cyclone Tracy, from the

red desert to the tropical shore, Territory is a mile-a-minute read.

Pacific

Australian actress Samantha Lindsay is thrilled when she scores her first

Hollywood movie role, playing a character loosely based on World War II

heroine Mamma Tack. But on location in Vanuatu, uncanny parallels

between history and fiction emerge and Sam begins a quest for the truth.

Just who was the real Mamma Tack?

Maralinga

Maralinga, 1956. A British airbase in the middle of nowhere, a top-

secret atomic testing ground . . . Maralinga is the story of Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner, who accepts a posting to the wilds of South Australia on a

promise of rapid promotion, and of adventurous young English journalist

Elizabeth Hoffmann, who travels halfway around the world in search of the

truth.

Floodtide

Floodtide traces the fortunes of four men and four families over four

memorable decades in the mighty ‘Iron Ore State’ of Western Australia.

The prosperous 1950s when childhood is idyllic in the small city of Perth . .

. The turbulent 60s when youth is caught up in the Vietnam War . . . The

avaricious 70s when WA’s mineral boom sees a new breed of entrepreneurs

. . . The corrupt 80s, when greedy politicians and powerful businessmen

bring the state to its knees . . .

Tiger Men

Van Diemen’s Land was an island of stark contrasts: a harsh penal

colony, an English idyll for its gentry, and an island so rich in natural

resources it was a profiteer’s paradise. Its capital, Hobart Town, had its

contrasts too: the wealthy elite in their sandstone mansions, the exploited

poor in the notorious Wapping slum, and the criminals who haunted the

dockside taverns. Hobart Town was no place for the meek. Tiger Men is the

story of Silas Stanford, a wealthy Englishman; Mick O’Callaghan, an

Irishman on the run; and Jefferson Powell, an idealistic American political

prisoner. It is also the story of the strong, proud women who loved them,

and of the children they bore who rose to power in the cutthroat world of

international trade. A sweeping saga of three families who lived through

Tasmania’s golden era and the birth of Federation and then watched with

pride as their sons marched off to fight for King and Country.

 

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