Ben's Gift is a story about giving and receiving the greatest gift - the gift of life. It is also about the unravelling of a mystery and about a unique friendship forged out of tragedy.
For two decades the Halvagis family worked hard to get everything they ever wished for, four happy and healthy children and a thriving business. But in a few frenzied moments, it all came crashing down.
In 1997 a manuscript turned up at Penguin Australia in Melbourne. Penguin editor, Claire Forster expected to scan and discard it in a few minutes but she found she couldn't put it down and three hours later she was still reading it.
Former US President Jimmy Carter introduces the story of the young Australian skier, Amanda Boxtel, who's earned the admiration of the rich and famous in the glitzy resort town of Aspen, Colorado.
The Fishmonger's Son is the stranger than fiction story of a broadcaster and author Sandy McCutcheon. It is the story of one man's search for his real identity - and his eventual reunion with his long lost family.
Wayne Bennett is coach of the Rugby League Premiers, the Brisbane Broncos and is generally regarded as one of the most interesting and enigmatic figures in Australian sport.
The Long Day's Task follows the journey of Australian volunteers in Kosovo as they progress from eager and excited new recruits to haggard and exhausted veterans within the space of a few days.
Every Breath You Take is an inspiring story of an individual - Helen Hamilton - and a community winning back their public voice and public rights against what they see as a dominating and insensitive government.
How does an ex-detective from Victoria's elite Armed Robbery Squad end up in charge of Melbourne's newest big time brothel? That's the extraordinary career change Dale McMillan has chosen for himself after fourteen years with the police.
While most people might dabble in a bit of family history, Melbourne sports writer, Tony de Bolfo's interest in his family's migration from Italy, has led him on an incredible journey through the lives of hundreds of migrant families.
In the heroes and villains of professional sport, 27-year-old Julian O'Neill has been portrayed as representing everything that's wrong with rugby league.
Referred to by Opposition Leader Kim Beazely as "one of the nicest blokes" in politics Australian Story goes on the road with Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer and his family during a whirlwind final few days in office.
It's a legend that began when an elderly man with a small flute visited a primary school and inspired a dream in the heart of an eight year old baker's son. The elderly man was Vic McMahon. The boy was Don Burrows. It was 1936.
If you walk down the main street of Guyra 'at the top of the range', inland from Coffs Harbour, you are more than likely to bump into someone related to the world famous pianist, Roger Woodward.
Hayden Kenny, 63, nowadays jumps out of the Sunshine Coast rescue helicopter, rescuing sailors, surfers and road trauma victims. To date he has performed more than 1,000 rescues, some in dangerous cyclonic seas.
Dr John Crozier is a Sydney surgeon with a wife and two children and a Lieut. Colonel in the Army Reserve, and at any time of the day or night a phone call may summon him to a global crisis spot to provide urgent humanitarian aid.
The story of a community's seemingly impossible battle to save their local football club - a David and Goliath struggle of the battlers versus big business.
Janet Stumbo was once the woman who had it all. She was a successful veterinary surgeon with a thriving practice in the beautiful NSW coastal town but she lost the lot in an instant in a calamitous road accident 15 years ago.
How did a Gold Coast schoolboy with an eye for a fast buck and a deep cleavage end up pursued on two continents as one of the most notorious conmen of our times?
HMAS Perth is a dying ship. After 34 years service, the oldest and most senior ship in the RAN is being decommissioned and with it will die nearly a century of tradition.
