A YOUNG GIRL'S COMING OF AGE IN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA: Motherless and raised by their father, Dr. Charles Allen, Fiona and her younger brother, Ainsley, spend their days on the family farm at Parramatta in the British penal colony of New South Wales, Australia. The year is 1819, and Fiona must learn to sew and keep house like an English lady, while Ainsley does school lessons with his tutor. Both Fiona and Ainsley prefer riding around the bushland surrounding their home as they search for the unique wildlife that Ainsley is eager to sketch. Kyle Sutherland - a young convict sent to Australia for...

Caitlin's Country follows the adventures of a fifteen-year-old American girl from Texas who moves half-way across the world to live with her father in modern day Australia. Caitlin tries her best to fit into her new life in the quaint, historic town of Emu Plains in New South Wales. Her father, an antique dealer, lives in a very old cottage which was part of a farm in Australia's early convict days. One afternoon while she is wearing a colonial costume for History Day at school, Caitlin is unexpectedly befriended by a young artist who has never heard of Texas or seen a modern wrist-watch. As...

Hamish MacDowell, handsome and intelligent, is a school boy in Edinburgh, Scotland. Deciding to lie about his age, he joins the Royal Navy, and is swept into the misery of World War I. When the war is over, Hamish realizes all he knows is life on board ship, and so he transfers to the British Merchant Navy. Half way around the world, his ship berths in the South Pacific and, having found paradise, he decides to "jump ship" in Australia. Soon, he will meet the love of his life, but as an illegal immigrant.