Literary/General Novels for Adults

Steal Away (1987)

The Stencil Man (1988)

The Sunken Road (1996)

Past the Headlands (2001)

 

Short Story Collections for Adults

Approaches (1981)

The Difference to Me (1988)

Flamingo Gate (1991)

Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine (crime stories, 1997)

 

Crime Novels for Adults

1/. The Wyatt Novels

Kickback (1991)

Paydirt (1992)

Deathdeal (1993)

Crosskill (1994)

Port Vila Blues (1995)

The Fallout (1997)

Wyatt (forthcoming early 2010)

Text publishing will publish nos. 5 and 6 in an omnibus edition, 2009

 

2/. The Challis and Destry Novels

The Dragon Man (1999)

Kittyhawk Down (2003)

Snapshot (2005)

Chain of Evidence (2007)

Blood Moon (2009)

In Plain Sight (working title: forthcoming late 2010)

 

Young Adult Fiction

Blame the Wind (illustrated, 1995)

Restless: Stories of Flight and Fear (1995)

The Half Dead (illustrated, 1997)

The Apostle Bird (1997)

The Divine Wind (1998)

From Your Friend, Louis Deane (2000)

Moondyne Kate (2001)

Eva’s Angel (2003)

Two-Way Cut (crime, 2004)

 

Children’s Fiction

The Bamboo Flute (1992)

Ratface (1993)

Ermyntrude Takes Charge (later published as Good One, Erm, 1995)

Walk Twenty, Run Twenty (1996)

Maddie Finn (2002)

Switchcat (picture book, 1994)

 

Short-Story Anthologies (as editor)

The Man Who Played Spoons (1987)

Personal Best (1989)

Personal Best 2 (1991)

Below the Waterline (1999)

 

Writers’ Handbooks

Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft (1993, new edition in 1998, complete revision and a much better book, 2001)

Writing Professionally: The Freelancer’s Guide to Writing and Marketing (1989)

 

Australian History Textbooks (for schools)

Wretches and Rebels: The Australian Bushrangers (1981)

Bushrangers (1984)

Total War: The Home Front, 1939-1945 (1985)

Australia Then and Now (1987)

 

Anthologised Short Stories

Echoes of Henry Lawson (1981)

A Bundle of Yarns (1986)

Arrivals (1987)

Not Drowning But Waving (1988)

Expressway (1989)

Uneasy Truces (1990)

Crimes For A Summer Christmas (annual, crime stories, 1990-1995)

Microstories (1993)

Crosstown Traffic (1993)

Dark House (YA, 1995)

Shadow Alley (YA, 1995)

Crossing (YA, 1995)

Bonescribes (1995)

Strange Fruit (1995)

Lust (1995)

Original Sin (1996)

Out West (1996)

Contemporary Classics (1996)

And the Winner Is… (1997)

My One True Love (1999)

The Penguin Century of Australian Stories (2000)

The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000)