Simultaneous release of the thrilling new volume of true stories from airmen of the Second World War, from the author of Flak. Michael Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person...

September 1942 marked the high point of Axis conquest in World War II. In the Pacific, Japan's soldiers had seemed unstoppable. However, the tide was about to turn.   On Sunday, 6 September 1942, Japanese land forces suffered their first conclusive d...

Turning Point

The epic World War II story of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days when these brave and barely-trained pilots fought alone against the Japanese.  In March and April 1942, RAAF 75 Squadron bravely defended Port Moresby for 44 days when Australia...

44 Days

The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.   For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has pass...

Hell Ship

It's a life-changing trip. Take it! John Ahern had a high-flying job, big house, loving wife and two great kids. But if this was success, why did he sense he was failing as a husband and father? So John did something insane. He quit the corporate wor...

On the Road with Kids

It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river o...

Heroes of the Skies

The Forgotten Islands is an incredible, evocative listen that shines a light on this little-known part of Australia and its extraordinary history.  The more I learned, the more I realised this was an Australia I hardly knew. This was stormy weather A...

The Forgotten Islands

A delightful, sweet, and funny novel from best-selling novelist Tess Evans, Mercy Street tells the heartwarming story of curmudgeonly pensioner George, who, since his wife's death three years ago, is living a life that is no more than the sum of his ...

Mercy Street

This audiobook is now a major motion picture titled Ned Kelly starring Heath Ledger. Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative re-creation of the inner life of Ned Kelly, the National Hero a...

Our Sunshine

In the forest, armed men from the new settlement ventured to investigate strange lights and found three fires burning, with a child at their center, tethered to a stake. The boy appeared to be white, perhaps three or four years old, unable to speak. ...

Wildlight

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Michael Veitch spent much of his youth writing and performing in television sketch comedy programs, before freelancing as a columnist and arts reviewer for newspapers and magazines. For four years he presented Sunday Arts, the national arts show on ABC television, and produced two books indulging his life-long interest in the aircraft of the Second World War, Flak and Fly. He lives in Hobart, where he presents ABC radio. Books:Hailing from a family of journalists, Veitch wrote Flak – True stories from the men who flew in World War II published in 2006 by Pan Macmillan and later, Fly: True stories of courage and adventure from the airmen of World War II published by Penguin Australia in August 2008. A third book, The Forgotten Islands, exploring the lesse/>:

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