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Ruth

Ruth
  • Author(s): Marlene S Lewis
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s / 1960s

From the lush Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea to working-class inner Sydney… Ruth follows the story of its protagonist, the only daughter of John and Alice Madison, coffee plantation owners. Set in the fifties and sixties, Ruth...

Ruthless Billionaire, Forbidden Baby

Ruthless Billionaire, Forbidden Baby
  • Author(s): Emma Darcy
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

Innocent mistress, baby of shame When Tamalyn Haynes agrees to be a bridesmaid she doesn’t realise she will be dancing with the devil – best man and notorious tycoon Fletcher Stanton! Fletcher is relentless in pursuing his desires and...

Skylarking

Skylarking
  • Author(s): Kate Mildenhall
  • Location(s): Canberra
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Kate and Harriet are best friends, growing up together on an isolated Australian cape in the 1880s. As daughters of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything, until a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate...

Somewhere Only We Know

Somewhere Only We Know
  • Author(s): Cathy Bramley
  • Location(s): Bali, Nepal, Sydney, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

When Magnolia Jones finds her daughter’s travel journal, she can think of no better way to honour her life than setting off on the gap year trip that twenty-three-year-old Brontë had dreamed of taking. It was meant to be...

Son of Hydra

Son of Hydra
  • Author(s): Shelley Dark
  • Location(s): Malta, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1829 onwards

He had everything — power, privilege, a future. One reckless decision cost him his name, his freedom, and everything he thought defined a man. Sydney, 1829. Ghikas Voulgaris was born to command — the proud son of a powerful...

Song of the Sun God

Song of the Sun God
  • Author(s): Shankari Chandran
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s-2010

Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future. Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the...

South of Darkness

South of Darkness
  • Author(s): John Marsden
  • Location(s): London, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1700s

Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious...

Sweetness and Light

Sweetness and Light
  • Author(s): Liam Pieper
  • Location(s): Tamil Nadu, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Connor, an Australian expat with a brutal past, spends his time running low-stakes scams on tourists in a sleepy beachside town. Sasha, an American in search of spiritual guidance, heads to an isolated ashram in the hope of mending...

The Artist’s Portrait

The Artist’s Portrait
  • Author(s): Julie Keys
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 20th Century

A story about art, murder, and making your place in history. Whatever it was that drew me to Muriel, it wasn’t her charm. In 1992, morning sickness drives Jane to pre-dawn walks of her neighbourhood where she meets an...

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

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