Past the Headlands

Past the Headlands is a sweeping story of north-west Australia and south-east Asia at the beginning of the Pacific War in 1941.

The fall of Malaya and Singapore and the bombing of Darwin—what looked like the invasion of Australia—ebb and crash over a man’s long search to find a home and a woman’s determination to keep hers, connected by old memories and new betrayals. It is a thriller and a romance, a story of earth and water, air and metal—an unforgettable ride through the most precarious time in our region’s recent history.