Judy Nunn

Judy Nunn's latest compelling novel, compassion meets bigotry, hatred meets love, and ultimately despair meets hope on the windswept shores of Australia....

In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naïve 19-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town and a new life in the wild and lawless land beneath the Southern Cross....

An epic story of love, sacrifice and revenge swept along on the winds of war....

A breathtaking story of disaster, courage and passion and that Top End spirit that never says die....

In 1881, ‘Big Jim’ Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest sugar mills in Queensland....

Floodtide is a character-driven, merciless rush of blood from the pen of Judy Nunn, one of Australia's master storytellers....

"This town is full of tiger men," Dan said. "Just look around you. The merchants, the builders, the bankers, the company men, they're all out for what they can get...."

In a time when desperate people were seizing with both hands the chance for freedom, refugees from more than 70 nations gathered beneath the Southern Cross to forge a new national identity.... 

In this spellbinding new best seller, Judy Nunn takes us on a breathtaking journey deep into the red heart of Australia....

During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided ... without its people's knowledge....