George Malcolm

A story of rival sheep stations and of the strong-willed squatter’s daughter who wants to unite them.

George Reynolds, recently discharged from the army, tells his father of his plans to marry and relax. Reynolds Snr tells his son that if Australia is to avoid another postwar Depression, its citizens need to work hard towards a better future.

Alan Richards is the sole survivor of a pearling lugger which has been shipwrecked on Pakema Reef during a typhoon. He sets out to recover some pearls which went missing in the wreck, crossing through the jungle and fighting headhunters.

Two rival newspaper editors in New York send journalists to the South Pacific to dig up new material.

Two women and eight men are shipwrecked on a South Pacific island. There is a murderer amongst them. Only the murderer and the ship's captain knows his identity but the captain has lost his memory.

Seven children live with their tyrannical father, Captain McCallum, and step mother Esther. The children can never make their father happy.