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Ikey Solomon is very successful indeed, in the art of thieving. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from 19th century London to Van Diemens Land. In the backstreet...

The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds hims...

Thommo and the surviving members of his platoon return from the Vietnam War to an Australia that regards them as mercenaries guilty of war crimes. Suffering from physical and mental problems, they band together to plot revenge.

A young English boy, orphaned in a foreign land and terrorized for his political belief, turns to boxing. As he grows up fighting with his fists and leading with his heart, he takes on the system and the social injustices around him--finding that one person really can make a diff...

Based on an episode from the Children's Crusade of 1212, one of history's strangest and most tragic events, this is the story of a determined young woman who prevailed over the poverty, brutality and bigotry of medieval times.

An Australian saga, inspired by real events, that spans eighty years and four continents. Three very different people--a soldier and small-time professional fisherman, a woman hiding from an ambiguous past in Shanghai, and a former New York gang leader--unite to reap a vast and n...

A modern day story of a city, its crime, the plight of the homeless and the politics of greed and perversion. It is also a story of the human heart, with an enchanting glimpse into our past from the viewpoint of a famous cat.