That year he also won the gold medal for Journalism from the Organisation for International Journalists. He has also won the World Peace Council Gold Medal. For The True Story of Spit Macphee (Viking, 1986) he won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Works Signed with Their Honour (Brown, Little & Co, 1942) The Sea Eagle (Michael Joseph, 1944), winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, 1945 Of Many Men (Michael Joseph, 1946) The Diplomat (Bodley Head, 1949) The Hunter (Bodley Head, 1950) Heroes of the Empty View (Bodley Head, 1954) Undersea Hunting for Inexperienced Englishmen (Allen & Unwin, 1955) I Wish He Would Not Die (Bodley Head, 1957) The Last Exile (Hamish Hamilton, 1961) A Captive in the Land (Hamish Hamilton, 1962) My Brother Tom (Hamish Hamilton, 1966) The Statesman's Game (Hamish Hamilton, 1966) The Flying 19 (Hamish Hamilton,1966) Cairo - Biography of a City (1969) Living Egypt, with Paul Strand (1969) A Sporting Proposition (Ride a Wild Pony) (Little Brown, 1973) The Untouchable Juli (Little Brown, 1974) Mockery in Arms (Little Brown, 1974) The Marvellous Mongolian (Macmillan, 1974) One Last Glimpse (Michael Joseph, 1977) Goodbye Un-America (Michael Joseph, 1979) The Broken Saddle (Julia Macrae, 1982) The True Story of Lilli Stubeck (Hyland House, 1984) The True Story of Spit Macphee (Viking, 1986), winner of the Guardian Prize and New South Wales Premier's Literary Award The True Story of Lola Mackellar (Viking, 1992) The Girl from the Sea (Penguin, 2002) The Wings of Kitty St Clair (Penguin, 2006) In cinema The Last Inch (1958), a Soviet film based on the eponymous short story by Aldridge References 20th-century Australian novelists 20th-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian novelists Australian children's writers Australian male novelists Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners Lenin Peace Prize recipients John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners People from Swan Hill War correspondents of World War II 1918 births 2015 deaths Australian war correspondents Australian emigrants to the United Kingdom