Popular history/true historical crime
- An Irresistible Temptation: the true story of Jane New and a colonial scandal (Allen & Unwin, 2006)
- Breaking the Bank: An extraordinary colonial robbery (Allen & Unwin, 2008)
- Captain Thunderbolt and his Lady: the true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward & Mary Ann Bugg (Allen & Unwin, 2011)
      see also www.thunderboltbushranger.com.au

Important Articles
"Exposing an Expose: fact versus fiction in the resurrection of Captain Thunderbolt" by David Andrew Roberts & Carol Baxter in Journal of Australian Studies, March 2012, pp.1-15

"How to" books
- Writing INTERESTING Family Histories (First edition, 2009)
- Writing INTERESTING Family Histories (Second edition, 2010)

Edited publications
- Musters and Lists, New South Wales and Norfolk Island 1800-1802 (ABGR, 1988)
- Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island 1805-1806 (ABGR, 1989)
- General Musters of New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land 1811 (ABGR, 1987)
- General Muster of New South Wales 1814 (ABGR, 1987)
- General Muster and Land & Stock Muster of New South Wales 1822 (ABGR, 1989)
- General Muster List of New South Wales 1823, 1824, 1825 (ABGR, 1999)
- Convicts to New South Wales 1788-1812 (SAG, 2002 - CD-ROM)

Self-published family histories
- The Drews of Dromlohan (1996)
- Nash: First Fleeters and Founding Families (2004)