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Tears of the Moon

Tears of the Moon
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): Broome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

Broome, Australia, 1893: It’s the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets dashing pearling master Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the...

The Backpacker

The Backpacker
  • Author(s): John Harris
  • Location(s): Australia, India, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severed human finger… John’s trip to India starts badly...

The Bat (Harry Hole 1)

The Bat (Harry Hole 1)
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Harry Hole is in Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a Norwegian woman who happens to be working in Australia. Inger was young, blonde and her body was found dumped in Gap Park. She was raped and...

The Bay

The Bay
  • Author(s): Allie Reynolds
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s a darkness inside all of us and The Bay has a way of bringing it out. Everyone here has their secrets but we don’t go looking for them. Because sometimes it’s better not to know. The waves are...

The Book Thief

The Book Thief
  • Author(s): Markus Zusak
  • Location(s): Munich, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street in Molching, a fictional village just outside non-ficitonal Munich, during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during...

The Consequences of Finding Daniel Morgan

The Consequences of Finding Daniel Morgan
  • Author(s): Peter J Robinson
  • Location(s): Australia, Florida, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

International Wildlife Expert, Phillip Royle, is recalled to Florida mid-flight to help find his missing former federal enforcement colleague, Daniel Morgan, soon finding Dan’s messy remains in a tiger pen. But what the hell was Dan doing there? With...

The Corrieva Contract

The Corrieva Contract
  • Author(s): Jai Baidell
  • Location(s): Australia, Canberra, Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A country girl with city problems… Joanne was notorious for tackling problems head-on during her teenage years in Yass, but she has left her home town behind to pursue a stable marriage and career in Canberra instead. It was...

The Descent

The Descent
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Africa, Australia, Bora Bora, Madagascar, Panama Canal
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Future
  • Era(s): Late 21st century

Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to parents fleeing the devastation in search for a refuge in the Southern Ocean. Growing up in a world forever changed, his only connection to the events...

The Dinner Party

The Dinner Party
  • Author(s): Rebecca Heath
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1979

FOUR COUPLES. Summer 1979. In the idyllic suburban neighbourhood of Ridgefield, Australia, during a scorching heat wave, four couples gather for their weekly dinner party. AN ORDINARY EVENING. When Frank Callaghan checks on the sleeping children, he finds an...

The Dreaming

The Dreaming
  • Author(s): Barbara Wood
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1871

Australia, 1871-Following her mother’s sudden death, Joanna Drury sets sail from India and arrives in Melbourne to claim the property left to her by her mother-and to trace the mysteries of her family’s past. From her first steps on...

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