Other Books - Adults:
Black Horse Odyssey: Search for the lost city of Rome in China. 
Wakefield Press 1991.
ISBN 1 86254 270 8, 296 pages.
Imagine waking up each day knowing you have reliable clues to the lost city of Rome in China but not going to look. Impossible. I had in my hands the life's work of the Oxford Professor of Chinese who'd identified a possible location. So I set out to search for Li-jien, built by Romans in China 1300 years before Marco Polo entered Cathay. I was alone, an amateur, I didn't know the language, and I was broke. Every step on the road to Li-jien surprised me. It led me to high officials and slums, priceless friends, bizarre adventures, a woman I married beneath a willow tree near the Yellow River, a massacre of innocents, and to ruins in the desert where the Gobi meets the ramparts of the Qilian Range. Those ruins are a Chinese National Monument and focus of international interest.
No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam.
Wakefield Press 1993.
ISBN 1 86254 310 0, 334 pages.
The biography of Patti, a notorious madam. It is an intimate, often horrifying account of an abused girl's transformation into a powerful madam, and the collapse of her empire. The cast includes an outrageous array of prostitutes, perverts, parliamentarians, petty criminals, transvestites, lawyers, drug addicts, welfare officers, media personalities, and police - straight and crooked.
Patti's story is compelling reading, a landmark in the literature of Australia's underworld, was Number 1 on the best-seller list, and runner-up in 1994 Christina Stead Award for biography.
High Tide: Australians doing Business in Asia. 
Wakefield Press 1997.
ISBN 1 86254 369 0, 165 pages.
A collection of interviews with Australian achievers in the region. They talk to me about their everyday problems, frustrations and successes. In doing so, they give a wealth of advice on living and working within other cultures.
What a Line! The story of the people who made the hoist an Australian icon.
Hills Industries 1996.
ISBN 0 17 632462 6, 206 pages, with photographs.
Available from Hills Industries, 944-956 South Road Edwardstown, SA 5039
Phone (08) 8301 3200 Fax (08) 8297 4468
Fifty years after it first appeared in a suburban back yard, the hoist is part of our culture, remembered by generations of kids who swung on it. The story is told by Hill's people: the families, factory workers, pay clerks, directors, technicians, 
secretaries. Their yarns are defiant, proud, larrikin and often hilarious. They tell the struggles of ordinary people to survive against debt, competitors, taxes, the corporate predator while their business went from the backyard shed to the world.
