The work is in two sections. The first, titled 'The Cervantine Palimpsest in Australia', provides a critical overview of writing in Spanish in Australia. The second, titled 'Spanish Fiction Writing in Australia: A Detailed Bibliography' brings together bibliographical information on 128 writers of Hispanic heritage. Forty of these writers provided information on their works through a questionnaire sent by the author; information on other authors was compiled from published sources (including A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers by Sneja Gunew et al., 1992) and records of literary contests (e.g. those of the Spanish Club of Sydney).
