John Byrnes

Headland veers into the gothic realm that is visited by the best Australian fiction that dares to go somewhere dark and unfathomable . . . It's a cracker. - Sydney Morning Herald The small beachside town of Gloster is on the edge of disaster. After constant rain, floodwaters are rising fast. Detective Constable Craig Watson, exiled to Gloster from Sydney,...

The brothers, the girl next door, a score to settle. In the early years of the twentieth century, Billy and Tommy Smith are growing up on the mean streets of Sydney's Millers Point. It's a hungry, hard-scrabble life, made even worse when their violent father returns home from a long stint in prison. The girl next door, Angeline Dubois, is...

This wildly entertaining epic is an absolute must-read – Iain Ryan On the unforgiving streets of 1920s Sydney, the Leach family have nothing but each other. In a tale spanning decades, three children of the broken, working-class family find adventure, heartache, and trouble as their lives drift apart. John finds faith and love at a young age. The inevitable clash...