Mary Grant Bruce: 28 books

The arrival of rebellious, red-headed young Percival Blake at Billabong immediately puts the whole household on edge. How does Percival find his name changed to ‘Bill’? And how does he become drawn into perilous adventure in the rocky ranges? His escapades fill a few memorable weeks of summer,...

Hugh Stanford is a tea planter’s son from Ceylon who comes to Australia and shows how disabilities can be overcome by courage and fortitude.

Norah's home was on a big station in the north of Victoria—so large that you could almost, in her own phrase, “ride all day and never see any one you didn't want to see”; which was a great advantage in Norah's eyes. Not that Billabong Station ever seemed to the little girl a place that you needed...

This is one of a series of books set in the Australian bush that recounts the adventures of the Linton family living at a station called "Billabong".

Boarding school is over for the year. Norah is joyfully reunited with her family for the Christmas holidays at Billabong, but a fire destroys the stable and homestead at Billabong. Norah risks her life to find out why. Billabong Station, a cattle and sheep property in the Australian bush, is...

Australia is in the grip of the 1930's depression and even on a billabong station, money is hard to find. Young Bob Rainham and his sister Tommy, are very badly hit, it seems that they may lose the small sheep property they have worked so hard to establish. When Bob falls into a deep cleft between...

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.