This, the third and final volume of a landmark, award-winning series, gives an account of Australia's settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the 18th century to the end of World War I. It also tells the story of Australian Federation and the war with a focus, as ever, on ordinary habits of thought and feeling. In this period, for the first time the settler people began to grasp the vastness of...

Acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson – author of the award-winning Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm – pieces together the life of Penelope Lucas and the pivotal role she played in building the Macarthur empire. While she is known as the family governess, Atkinson reveals that Penelope was primarily an accountant whose bookkeeping work made an important difference to the Macarthurs' success. Penelope Lucas came to Australia in 1805, in her thirties, unmarried – she was the ...

Alan Atkinson has worked for the ABC for more than 20 years and is currently Day Editor in the Adelaide ABC newsroom. He has also worked for newspapers in Australia and overseas, including the Sydney Morning Herald and the Adelaide Advertiser, the London Guardian and the Scotsman in Edinburgh. He is married with two children - his family was with him in Bali on holiday when he was woken with news of the bombing. He was one of the first Western journalists on the scene. His radio and tV bro...

The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century 'communications revolution' Atkinson casts new light on the way Australia first found its place in a 'global' world.

A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia's most respected historians.Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth's life...

A life can change in a second. ‘The Innocent and the Beautiful’ is a deeply moving true story of love and tragedy, of injustice and the courage to endure. In 1981 Alan Atkinson took his perfect family on holiday to Florida. As night fell in the Everglades another driver, drink in hand, reversed directly in front of the family’s rental car… and in an instant Alan lost his beautiful wife and three wonderful children. Beginning in the early 1960s, ‘The Innocent and the Beautiful’ tells of Ala...

The first of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment. Atkinson examines, as few historians have done before, the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking.

Jericho Hansen has succeeded at his goal of becoming a member of America's most prestigious superhero team, Force Majeure. He's thrown in at the deep end almost immediately, when he has to investigate the brutal murder of a conspiracy theorist whose sights were set on Force Majeure itself. The investigation yields more questions than answers, but eventually those questions are answered, at least in part, by a not-so-chance meeting with an old acquaintance. More answers arrive in shocking f...

Utopia City.Rebuilt from the ashes of America's most horrific terror attack and transformed into a paragon of technological advancement, this city stands as a beacon of possibility where almost anything can happen.Jericho Hansen certainly hopes so; as a gay superhero in the deep South, his ambition is to achieve lifelong recognition by joining Force Majeure, America's best-known superhero team. But to do that, he must first travel to Utopia and learn the hard way if he's go...

This book is a collection of four science fiction stories, each unrelated to the others, but all focusing around the need to rely on one another to beat the odds and win the day. They range from a relatively hard sci-fi look at transhumanism on Mars, to a hapless human tourist caught in an alien civil war, to an alien patrol vessel seeking to save Earth from being wiped out, to a human soldier looking to go behind enemy lines on an alien planet for a very good reason.

This book is a collection of four science fiction stories, set in different universes but with a common theme throughout; specifically, the fact that teamwork gets a lot more done than trying to go it alone.The first story, Martian Walker, is a relatively hard sci-fi look at a transhuman teenage girl on Mars and what happens when her world is shattered.Secondly, we have Bug Eyes, the story of a hapless tourist and amateur photographer who's caught up in a civil war on an al...

Jericho Hansen has succeeded at his goal of becoming a member of America's most prestigious superhero team, Force Majeure. He's thrown in at the deep end almost immediately, when he has to investigate the brutal murder of a conspiracy theorist whose sights were set on Force Majeure itself. The investigation yields more questions than answers, but eventually those questions are answered, at least in part, by a not-so-chance meeting with an old acquaintance. More answers arrive in shocking f...