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The Reef

The Reef
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): Great Barrier Reef
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Beneath the calm aqua waters of the Great Barrier Reef, there is an ongoing war for survival. It is a war among the creatures, the life forms and the coral that make up the reef. It is so threatened...

The Sea Sisters

The Sea Sisters
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Bali, California, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Two sisters, one life-changing journey… There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what’s beneath . . . Katie’s...

The Secret River

The Secret River
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): London, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

First book in a Trilogy about early Australia (The Lieutenant and Sarah Thornhill).It is set in the early nineteenth century, on what was then the frontier: the Hawkesbury River, fifty miles beyond Sydney. The story begins in London in...

The Songlines

The Songlines
  • Author(s): Bruce Chatwin
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and the secrets of its past. In this...

The Survivors

The Survivors
  • Author(s): Jane Harper
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called...

The Tea Chest

The Tea Chest
  • Author(s): Josephine Moon
  • Location(s): Brisbane, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A beautifully engaging novel set in the world of a boutique London tea shop. ‘I loved it – a perfect blend of sweet and spice.’ Jenny Colgan Kate Fullerton, talented tea designer and now co-owner of The Tea Chest,...

The Thorn Birds

The Thorn Birds
  • Author(s): Colleen McCullough
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s-1960s

One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough’s magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three...

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
  • Author(s): Felicity McLean
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1992 and modern

‘We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn’t the one we were trying to recall to begin with.’ Tikka Molloy was eleven...

The Weekend

The Weekend
  • Author(s): Charlotte Wood
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously for the remaining three. These women couldn’t be more different: Jude, a once-famous...

The Woolgrower’s Companion

The Woolgrower’s Companion
  • Author(s): Joy Rhoades
  • Location(s): Australia, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Australia 1945. Until now Kate Dowd has led a sheltered life on her family’s sprawling sheep station but, with her father’s health in decline, the management of the farm is increasingly falling to her. Kate is rising to the...

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