Judy Nunn

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A sweeping story of wealth, power, privilege, and betrayal, set on a grand sugar cane plantation in Queensland. Legacy in the Cane Fields In 1881 'Big Jim' Durham ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour....

Million Copy Bestselling Author A stunningly compelling novel, where compassion meets bigotry, hatred meets love, and ultimately despair meets hope on an isolated island off Western Australia. Lost at Sea On a barren island off the coast of Western Australia, a rickety wooden dinghy runs aground. Aboard are nine people who have no idea where they are. Strangers before the...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A breathtaking story of disaster, courage, passion, and that Top End spirit that never says die. JOURNEY TO AUSTRALIA When Henrietta Southern trades war-torn England for Australia's Northern Territory, with its crocodile-infested rivers and red wilderness, she embarks on a new life on her husband, Spitfire pilot Terence Galloway's cattle station, six months after the bombing...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST On a blistering hot day in 1850, George and Richard Ross take their first steps on Australian soil after three long months at sea. All they have is each other, and a quarterly remittance from their irate father who has...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline, and its heart. BOUND FOR DESTINY In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naive nineteen-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....

Million Copy Bestselling Author A captivating saga of four lifelong friends navigating the waves of change in Western Australia's transformative decades, from the idyllic 1950s to the dynamic 90s. Perth's Golden Era The prosperous 1950s when childhood is idyllic in the small city of Perth... The turbulent 60s of free love and war... The avaricious 70s when WA's mineral boom...

Million Copy Bestselling Author As refugees gather in the Australian highlands to redirect a river, their lives intertwine in a powerful tale of rebirth, struggle, and the forging of the Australian spirit. Freedom's New Frontier In a time when desperate people were seizing with both hands the chance for freedom, refugees from more than seventy nations gathered beneath the Southern...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR In a story as sweeping as the land itself, bestselling author Judy Nunn brings Kal magically to life. DESERT GOLD RUSH Kalgoorlie. It grew out of the red dust of the desert over the world's richest vein of gold. People were drawn there from all over the world, to start afresh or to seek their fortunes....

Million copy bestselling author Set in Queensland during World War II, this breath-taking historical novel is inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over seventy years. It seems to have happened overnight, Val thought. How extraordinary. We've become a khaki town. Khaki Transformation It's March 1942. Singapore has fallen. Darwin has been bombed. Australia...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A gripping tale of espionage and ambition, where the future of a nation is being decided in a remote SA desert during the darkest days of the cold war ... INTRIGUE IN THE OUTBACK In the desolate wilds of South Australia, British Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner, lured by the promise of rapid promotion, finds himself entangled with...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR An epic story of love, sacrifice and revenge swept along on the winds of war. HOLLYWOOD MIRRORS HISTORY Australian actress Samantha Lindsay is thrilled when she scores her first lead movie role in the Hollywood epic Torpedo Junction, playing a character based on World War II heroine 'Mamma Tack'. PAST MEETS PRESENT As filming begins in...

Million Copy Bestselling Author From the cotton mills of England to the magnificent theatres of Melbourne - a scintillating journey through the golden age of Australian showbusiness. Gold Rush Entertainers 'So, Will, are you going to come with me and my team of merry performers to the sunny climes of Australia, where the crowds are already queuing and the streets...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Experience the Ghan's historic journey across Australia's outback, where ancient Aboriginal heritage and modern ambition collide, in a tale as rich and vast as the landscape it traverses. DREAMS OF THE GHAN It is 2001 and as the world charges into the new Millennium, a century-old dream is about to be realised in the Red Centre...

Million Copy Bestselling Author A sweeping saga of three families in Tasmania, from its golden era and Federation's birth to the poignant pride and sacrifice of World War I. An Island of Extremes Van Diemen's Land, an island of stark contrasts - a harsh penal colony, an English idyll for its gentry, and an island so rich in natural resources...

Centre Stage MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A tantalising glimpse into the world of theatre and what goes on when the spotlight dims and the curtain falls. A HIDDEN DARKNESS Alex Rainford has it all. He's sexy, charismatic and adored by fans the world over. But he is not all he seems. What spectre from the past is driving him ever...

A collection of inspirational and heartwarming stories about friendship, community, and finding family in the unlikeliest of places... Families come in all shapes and sizes. In these six captivating short stories, meet some members of the Otto Bin Empire – the homeless men and women who gather down by the docks. Adam, the teenage runaway, who has just one goal:...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Step into the steamy and cut-throat world of television, where the dazzling lights of fame cast deep shadows of intrigue, ambition, and scandal. TELEVISION'S GOLDEN GIRL Edwina Dawling is the golden girl of Australian television. The former pop singer is now the country's most popular actress, an international star thanks to the hit TV soap The...

Six short stories from Australia's master storyteller Judy Nunn. Together in print for the first time - including two brand new stories - this collection is an intoxicating mix of suspense, history, romance, supernatural, and mystery! The Long Weekend - Tracy, Eve, Jet, Mel, and Danielle are looking forward - if a little nervously - to their upcoming digital detox....

Judy Nunn's new blockbuster is a sweeping historical novel about a prosperous sheep-farming family and the enigmatic young man they let into their lives... Sensational story-telling. Australian Women's Weekly One of Australia's great storytellers, excelling in merging fact with fiction... a combination of page-turning drama, relatable characters and real historical events. Weekend Australian Sweeping historical fiction at its best. Better...

A stunning tale of loyalty and survival from a master storyteller ...In this ancient, harsh place, faint hearts will not last. The Pilbara, late 1800s: Frontier country, the wild west of Australia - a lawless, violent place where treachery is a way of life.Widower Charles Burton arrives in this forbidding corner of the world with his three young children. They've...

Coming November 2025 - the stunning new novel from the No.1 bestseller The stark, beautiful landscape of the Pilbara is the backdrop for the latest novel by Anonymous and Judy Nunn. With its vast red earth and boundless horizons, the Pilbara region of Western Australia is both a place of rich opportunity and deep challenges. Pilbara weaves an intricate tapestry...

Judy Nunn's new blockbuster is a sweeping historical novel about a prosperous sheep-farming family and the enigmatic young man they let into their lives. Sensational story-telling. – Australian Women's Weekly One of Australia's great storytellers, excelling in merging fact with fiction . . . a combination of page-turning drama, relatable characters and real historical events. – Weekend Australian Sweeping historical...