Wakefield Press: 112 books

Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors. More than any other injustice, the abuse of Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party...

In the violent and despairing years of Australia's Great Depression, Judith Larsen grows up on a coaling hulk in the Port Adelaide River. The Australian political landscape is changing and unemployment, hunger, protests and police reprisals spawn new radical ideas for managing society. Judith falls...

Obstetrician Magnus Anderson, enticed to work in a mission hospital in Africa by the beautiful Sally Harms, is reluctantly back in Sydney. His estranged wife is critically ill and needs his support; Sally lives half a world away. Only a chance meeting reu

Geoff Goodfellow has performed his poetry to prisoners and primary-school children, in tiny pubs and at international literary festivals. "Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze" showcases Geoff's personal favourites, poems that audiences have requested time and again. "People's poet Geoff Goodfellow...

Who remembers the onlookers on the sidelines of big events? Such bystanders as the deposed queen Vashti, the blood-stained murdering grandmother Athaliah, the bluff soldier in King David's army, or the desperately searching mother Phoebe? In "Bystanders" Valerie Volk has created fifteen...

"It's hard to imagine a job that requires less education than that of government minister," says John Hill. "It's also hard to imagine a job where the occupant is less likely to seek help than that of government minister." John Hill knew when he quit as a government minister that what he had learnt -...

The green and lovely Clare Valley is one of Australia's finest wine regions. A fortnight's holiday among the vines convinces social planner Burt Surmon and his new wife Jeni to make a life-changing decision. They will quit the city grind to grow grapes, make wine, open a cellar door, art gallery and...

Mico Millevic is a young man struggling with his past and trying to fulfil the potential of his future. His best mate, Couper, keeps dead people's cremated remains in his driveway and gets into fights with blokes in wheelchairs. His girlfriend, Nina, suffers from severe stomach pains, and refuses...

Hidden in the outback, somewhere near Ecstasy Lake, is a massive gold deposit worth billions of dollars. Steve West, mining engineer and ex-AFL footballer, is the third person to know about it. The second is his good mate Tasso - loud, brilliant, filthy rich and just possibly mad. The first has just...

Mix Elmore Leonard with a pinch of Tarantino, a hint of farce and a dob of Agatha Christie and you've got "Murder at The Fortnight". Introducing Stella Pentangeli - Lady Showbiz Detective - and Investigator Ng - The Last Honest Cop. "Murder at The Fortnight" is a darkly hilarious tale of murder, greed,...

Magnus Anderson, a world-weary Sydney obstetrician separated from his wife, is smitten by Sally, a beautiful but straitlaced Australian midwife. On her way to a woefully under-staffed mission hospital in Africa she convinces Magnus to join her as a short-term volunteer, despite his doubts. Life in...

"The blood of Adonis, thought Sarah, remembering the church that was built like a pagan temple. Coquelicot rouge - the symbol of a dying man whose blood stained the hillside in the spring." Sarah Lane, abandoning her French lover for the brilliant Lebanese sunshine, believes that the day will belong...

In "Innocent Murder", Investigator Ng and Stella Pentangeli work different sides of the crime fence. Ng's case is one of triads, sex slavery and murder. Stella's case is a showbiz trifle - she must discover who is stealing plotlines from the hugely successful soap "The Young and the Naked" and selling...

Heidi knows there is something wrong with her son, but she is young and inexperienced and doesn't know where to get help. Caro, her doctor and sister-in-law, has moved to the town looking for a way to redeem herself after the death of her husband. Heidi and Caro are separated by age, but share a restless...