In 1787 a handful of people - convicts, marines and government officials - sail across the world to settle a new colony and call it New South Wales.In 1801 Mary Pitt, a widow with five children, migrates to New South Wales from her home in Dorset to live among these same convicts.Why?Two hundred odd years later Mary’s great great great great granddaughter travels to what is now Australia to discover the answer to why her ancestress risked the lives of her e...

In the 19th century Australia went from struggling penal colony to a thriving community with a bright future.George Matcham Pitt's life spanned the greater part of this century. A larger than life character and a master of rhetoric, fond of quoting from classic poets, opinionated and generous to a fault, GM, as he was known, went from humble farmer to landowner, auctioneer and the founder of one of Australia's first and best-known stock and station agents Pitt, Son...

'Love is like a red red rose' - beautiful, desirable, prickly and not always easy to find.A collection of stories about love in adversity: Love unrequited, or unwanted. Love obsessive, love unexpected; love that makes the world go around and turns people mad.If all we need for a peaceful and happy world is to love one another, why don't we simply do so?Why does a simple thing like love have to be so complicated?

1920s England. One conventional society lady's life is about to change forever.Claudia is a fifty-something super-respectable mother of three who has never put a foot wrong in her life.But now, rattling around her too-big family home, her daughters fled the nest and her husband working overseas, Claudia faces a blank future.Then an unexpected event shakes her out of her torpor in an unexpected way, and urges her to venture into the world with a fres...

WHY were men and women in New South Wales once ordered to wear skirts for sea bathing?WHAT did famous writers such as Mark Twain and Anthony Trollope have to say about Australia?HOW did the miracle known as the Sydney Opera House ever see the light of day?WHAT'S the point of family history?Australia And How To Find It is a mixture of odds and sods about that weird, eccentric country...