Peter Watt

When war correspondent Ilsa Stahl's plane goes down in a terrible storm over Papuan waters and she is taken prisoner by the Japanese, Ilsa prepares for the worst. Her father, Jack Kelly, will stop at nothing to save her – even if it means risking the life of his only son Lukas.

When Jack Kelly, a captain in the Australian army, shows compassion towards his prisoner Paul Mann, a brave and high-ranking German officer, an unexpected bond is formed.

An epic tale of two families, the Macintoshes and the Duffys, who are locked in a deadly battle from the moment squatter Donald Macintosh commits an act of barbarity on his Queensland property....

Narrated by Audiofile Golden Voice, Rupert Degas Sometimes the fate for which you are destined is not your own... 1845, a village outside Sydney Town. Humble blacksmith Ian Steele struggles to support his widowed mother. All the while he dreams of a life in uniform, serving in Queen Victoria's...

Soldier of fortune Michael Duffy returns to colonial Sydney on a covert mission and with old scores to settle, still enraged by a bitter feud between his family and the ruthless Macintoshes....

Jack Kelly and Paul Mann have survived one world war – will they survive another? When the Japanese threaten to invade the Pacific, the two men know that they must do everything in their power to protect their adopted country of Papua as well as their loved ones from an ambitious and merciless enemy

It is 1918, a year when the War will end, but an even greater killer will arise....

Narrated by Audiofile Golden Voice Rupert Degas Danger, passion and bravery in nineteenth-century Australia, Europe and onto the battlefi eld of Kandahar. As the son of 'the Colonial', legendary Queen's Captain Ian Steele, Josiah Steele has big shoes to fill. Although his home in the colony of...

When Major Patrick Duffy's beautiful wife, Catherine, leaves him for another, he is propelled out of the Sydney Macintosh home and into yet another bloody war. However the battlefields of Africa, fighting the Boers, bring him in contact with one he thought long dead and lost to him....

To Ride the Wind follows Peter Watt's much-loved characters as they fight to survive one of the most devastating conflicts in history—and each other....

Private Patrick Duffy was forced to flee Malaya as a child and was left orphaned when his mother died in a Changi prison. Now, returning to fight a fearless enemy, he must confront the ghosts of his past if he is to find any hope for the future....

Narrated by Audiofile Golden Voice, Rupert Degas In October 1863, Ian Steele, having taken on the identity of Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting the Pashtun on the north-west frontier in India. Half a world away, the real Samuel Forbes is a lieutenant in the 3rd New York Volunteers and is facing...

Peter Watt brings to the fore all the passion, adventure and white-knuckle battle scenes that made his beloved Duffy and Macintosh novels so popular. It is 1857. Colonial India is a simmering volcano of nationalism about to erupt. Army surgeon Peter Campbell and his wife Alice, in India on their...

Narrated by Audiofile Golden Voice, Rupert Degas It is 1885. After a decade spent fighting for Queen and Country across the globe, Colonel Ian Steele is enjoying the quiet life in the colony of New South Wales, reunited with his friend Conan Curry and watching over his children and numerous...

A deadly family curse holds two families in its powerful grip....

After fighting in two world wars, Tom Duffy's purchase of his ancestral property Glen View means a home for the next generation of Duffys. But the Macintosh family won't easily surrender this land, and when they challenge his ownership, he knows he's in for one hell of a fight....

Two families experience loss, greatness and tragedy, and romance blooms in the unlikeliest of hearts under the gathering clouds of war....

In 1914, the storm clouds of war are gathering. Matthew Duffy and his cousin Alexander Macintosh are sent by Colonel Patrick Duffy to conduct reconnaissance on German-controlled New Guinea....