Bruce Grant: 43 books

Freddy Paxton and Jack Young fly their aeroplanes from Queensland to Billabong, where they are there to help mine the gold. A couple of casual shearers steal the gold using one of the planes for their getaway and kidnap young Bill. Bill uses all his resources to outwit them and escape, and makes friends with the lady on whose farm he has landed

It is the height of the gold rush when Dick and his sister, Betty Yorke, make their first visit to stay with the Linton family at Billabong and encounter rather more excitement than they’d bargained for. News of the gold strike has brought hopeful prospectors into the Billabong hills, among them...

This is one of the darkest of the Billabong books, as Norah and Wally’s gaily adventurous spirits come up against real pain. . . . In the aftermath of sending a brutal man to prison . . . Wally starts to suffer from “nerves”—in other words, depression. Norah takes him and their toddler...

The Billabong series, set in the Australian bush, recounts the adventures of the Linton family living on a station called "Billabong". The saga stretches from 1910 to 1942. In this book, the Billabong folk ride in wild country, droving cattle overland from the North. This is a story of good horses and dogs, their owners; and of a boy who found among them a new chance in life.

An Australian childrens' classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine. Also, like the latter story, expect some racial stereotyping of Asian and Aboriginal characters. This originally ran as a newspaper serial and it shows in the...

NORAH'S HOME The grey old dwelling, rambling and wide, With the homestead paddocks on either side, And the deep verandahs and porches tall Where the vine climbs high on the trellised wall. G. ESSEX EVANS. Billabong homestead lay calm and peaceful in the slanting rays of the sum that crept down the western...

Twins home for the holidays find themselves disappointed in their holiday plans by their mother needing to hurry away to look after their granny following a fall. Then they come up with a new plan of taking their boat, the Seahawk, to some nearby islands and camping there. What they discover there, and the adventures they fall into, make entertaining and at times thrilling reading

This book is set in New South Wales and it describes the many adventures of a boy who escapes from an orphanage.

A mystery story written for older girls. It tells the story of the vacation job of a young teacher who has had a breakdown.

A small child is left an orphan in grim circumstances. She is given a home by a solitary man and they gradually become a family. Jo's happiness is threatened by the people from whom she was rescued and the story evolves as they try to evade the past. Set in rural Victoria and Tasmania in Australia.

Hugh is nine years old and things are not going very well for him. His mother died when he was just six, and his father has not made a success of his orchard, and is broke. Then a miracle happens! A circus comes to stay over at Hugh’s farm, and he makes friends with lots of the performers...

Told by Peter is the story of a boy on a property in New South Wales, and his efforts to catch “crooks” who are trying to harm a friend of his.

This is the sequel to “Told By Peter”. It describes a fishing trip in North Queensland, and a visit to an island similar to Dunk Island. Rumours of impending war and suspicious Japanese boats are also in the plot.

“Do the beastly old map yourself, if you want it. I shan't, anyhow!” “Wilfred!” “Aw, Wil-fred!” The boy at the end of the schoolroom table, red-haired, snub-nosed and defiant, mimicked the protesting tone. “I've done it once, and I'm blessed if I do it again.” “No...