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The Painting

The Painting
  • Author(s): Alison Booth
  • Location(s): Sydney, Budapest
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1989 /1990

A young Hungarian woman confronts her family’s past in an engrossing quest for a stolen painting. When Anika Molnar flees her home country of Hungary not long before the break-up of the Soviet Union, she carries only a small...

The Penny Heart

The Penny Heart
  • Author(s): Martine Bailey
  • Location(s): Australia, Calderdale, London, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows … but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay. Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two...

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...

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