John Frost
Between 1793 and 1867 the British Government banished its radicals, dissenters and rebels to harsh prison colonies at the very edge of the known world, Australia. Some escaped and returned to their homeland as heroes but many stayed on in this alien new world... The life stories of these rebels are full of acts of bravery and derring-do. In their own words they tell tales that are at once stirring, heart wrenching, dark, creepy, and even funny.
Priest
Каков Мельбурн зимой? — Дождь, ветер, пабы, пиво, секс, коррупция и убийства… Джек Айриш не обращает внимания на телефонный звонок от бывшего клиента Дэнни МакКиллопа. Жизнь и так тяжела, чтобы тащить на себе ещё и чужие проблемы. Любимую футбольную команду, за которую играли его отец и дед, продали в другой город и переименовали. На последних скачках выиграть не удалось. И готовит он до сих пор на одного. Но когда Дэнни оказывается мёртв, Джек начинает расследование его туманного прошлого…
Geoff
Based on a true story, One Way Ticket is about a criminal named Webb. He has been arrested for murder and looks like he will be spending the rest of his days behind bars before he has an affair with a female guard. She helps him escape and they spend the next few days on the run. Can they make it?
Tyrone
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship.
On 1 December 1942, a US bomber called Little Eva was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. The plane hit a tropical storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in the southeast corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in Australia's far north. The events that followed were recorded both in the journal of an American survivor and in a spectacular corroboree created by the Yanyuwa people who searched for Little Eva and her crew.
