Biography of Lachlan Macquarie and his wife, Elizabeth, who arrived to govern the colony of New South Wales in Australia in 1810. In just over a decade, the couple transformed the prison colony into a proto nation.

Patrick Glover's brother, who is living in Australia, has to leave home suddenly in connection with his work. Worried about leaving his two teenage daughters alone to fend for themselves during his absence, he makes an urgent telephone call to Patrick, in England, to ask for his help. Patrick agrees to come to the rescue - and he and Nanny travel to Australia, where they find Patrick's stunning brunette-haired nieces are very similar, in nature, to Patrick's own daughters - and that they even have the same breed of dog, as their own 'H.G.', as a pet. The girls are not at first impressed with having their uncle staying in the house with them, as they had been looking forward to the freedom of being left to their own devices without any adult supervision.

The ancient land mass of the Australian continent has been battered and buffeted by wind and water over the eons. Monsoons roll in from the north, tropical cyclones spin across the Pacific, cold fronts reach icy fingers into the south and heatwaves from the doldrums lumber across the continent. Scientists are only just beginning to realise the Australian climate may turn on a number of long term cycles, rather than the four seasons of Europe - and they could reveal more order than chaos, once their mysteries are explained. Australian plants and animals have developed strategies for coping with these long term cycles.

Fresh out of law school, Kevan Harris is hired by her dead father's ex-partner, Frank Murchison, and immediately 'falls into bed' with him. She then falls in love with his son, Gregory, who is fighting his father over his mother's will. Along the way, she learns about her father and his relationship with the ruthless Murchison.

Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.

In 1965 a bomb was planted in a Church in Alabama, killing four black girls. Thirty years later, Tom Cherry breaks his silence to discredit his father's alibi for the night in question.

Dominic Noonan is released from prison and tries to regain control of his criminal empire.

At his brother's wedding, the best man attempts to deliver his speech after an encounter in the hotel bathroom with the father of the bride.

Captain James Sutherland was a hockey pioneer who believed Kingston, Ontario could be the ‘Cooperstown’ of hockey. What he unleashed was a battle over the origins of the game and where best to honor hockey's greats. Eventually two “Halls of Fame” were established; one in the hockey metropolis of Toronto; the other in Kingston, Ontario. This is the Battle for Hockey's Hall of Fame!

A father raises his daughter in the post-apocalypse after monsters attack. But when the daughter ventures outside to save her father, cracks in what she’s been told to believe appear.