John Bailey Books in Order

A young Australian teaches at a remote village school in New Guinea as independence approaches. His changing relationships with pupils, white residents, and a local assistant who leads a plantation strike expose the tensions beneath colonial administration.

In a future Australia, Peter becomes involved with Male Defiance, a secret group seeking to restore male supremacy. Its scheme draws his formidable sister Sarah toward a recreated beauty contest, entangling political ambitions with personal desires and rivalries.

An enslaved woman in nineteenth-century New Orleans is identified by German immigrants as a child lost years earlier. Bailey reconstructs the resulting struggle over her identity and freedom through the courts, exposing the workings of slavery and law.

John Bailey recounts the attempt to replace Asian pearl divers with British-trained men in Broome in 1912. The experiment’s fatal consequences reveal how racial policy, dangerous work, and commercial ambition intersected in a remote Australian town.

Bailey traces John McDouall Stuart’s expeditions through Australia’s interior and his determination to cross the continent. The account follows extraordinary endurance alongside ill health, alcoholism, and the difficult aftermath of an explorer’s celebrated achievement.