Ivan Southall

It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste of independence: camping, just the three of them. When they accidentally light a bushfire, no one would have guessed how far it would go. The fathers go off to fight the fires and mothers help in the first aid centres. The children...

Ivan Southall was one of Australia's best-loved writers for children, known for writing real adventures with a gritty edge. In To The Wild Sky, five teenagers are heading for a remote outback station for a weekend of adventuring. However, when the pilot of the small plane they are travelling in suffers a sudden heart attack, the adventure becomes all too...

On a fateful day in Hills End, a timber-milling town in the mountains of Victoria, seven children and their teacher set off to explore caves in the nearby mountains said to contain ancient Aboriginal rock art. While they are deep inside the mountain caves, a storm of tremendous violence all but sweeps the town away and threatens to leave them...