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The-Merry-go-round in the sea

The-Merry-go-round in the sea
  • Author(s): Randolph Stow
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the...

Wanting

Wanting
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Flinders Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1830s onward

It is 1839, a preacher is looking after a small group of Aborigines, who have come from Tasmania, formerly Van Diemen’s Land.the Aborigines have all been guided into taking up”Western” notions, from dress to food. He is appalled by...

What Love Sounds Like

What Love Sounds Like
  • Author(s): Alissa Callen
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Outback speech pathologist, Mia Windsor, believes her morning from hell is over. Then suited-up, city-boy Kade Reid strides into her office and announces he and his wide-eyed niece are the clients that she will be living with for the...

When We Fall

When We Fall
  • Author(s): Aoife Clifford
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the wild, coastal town of Merritt, Alex Tillerson and her mother make a shocking find on the beach. The police claim it’s an accidental death but there are whispers of murder and that it is not the first....

5 Peppermint Grove

5 Peppermint Grove
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Dublin, Perth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2011/2012

Emigration, emigration, emigration . . . Ruth Travers is leaving Ireland like so many of the Irish Diaspora who have gone before her. But, instead of a coffin ship, she’s travelling business class on a Boeing 777 and will...

Everybody Jam

Everybody Jam
  • Author(s): Ali Lewis
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Danny Dawson lives in the middle of the Australian outback. His older brother Jonny was killed in an accident last year but no-one ever talks about it. And now it’s time for the annual muster. The biggest event of...

The Red Door

The Red Door
  • Author(s): Rosa Fedele
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1983

It is 1983 and the new owner of the beautiful old Sydney mansion ‘Rosalind’ begins to believe she is being watched by the mysterious resident in Number Three, a reclusive man who happens to share his name with two...

Volcano Street

Volcano Street
  • Author(s): David Rain
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Centuy

In the tradition of great Australian literature Volcano Street is a wonderfully vivid portrayal of small-town life and the uncertainties of childhood. ‘What would Germaine do?’ This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they...

Australia: A Biography of a Nation

Australia: A Biography of a Nation
  • Author(s): R M Crawford
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Australia celebrates one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book – part history, part travelogue, part memoir – tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident...

Baggage

Baggage
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At eighteen, your closest friend commits suicide. At twenty-nine, you’re backpacking in the Australian outback when you see her. She has a husband. She has a ten-year-old son. She has a baby on the way. She claims to be...

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