NON-FICTION
Biography
Heart Matters: Personal stories about that heart-stopping moment (ed. with Michael Wilding)
Fred Hollows: an autobiography (with Fred Hollows)
Fighting for Fraser Island: the autobiography of John Sinclair (with John Sinclair)
Ray Barrett (with Ray Barrett)
Autobiography
Sweet & Sour: A diabetic life
Sport
Best on Ground: Great writers on the great game (ed. with John Dale)
Lords of the Ring: A social history of prize fighting in Australia
The Picador Book of Golf, ed. (with Jamie Grant)
Ringside, ed. (with Barry Parish)
Pacific History
Passage, Port and Plantation : a history of Solomon Islands labour migration
The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade
The Cruise of the Helena : a labour-recruiting voyage to the Solomon Islands
The Journal of John Sweatman : a nineteenth century surveying voyage
Lightning Meets the West Wind: the Malaita Massacre - (with Roger Keesing)