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Follow the Money

Follow the Money
  • Author(s): Peter Corris
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When beautiful young women kiss you on the cheek you know you’re over the hill, but I didn’t really feel like that. As Wesley said, I still had the moves.’ Cliff Hardy may still have the moves but he’s...

Graffiti Moon

Graffiti Moon
  • Author(s): Cath Crowley
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

School is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight she’s going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. Somewhere in the glassy darkness, he’s out there, spraying colour, birds...

Here One Moment

Here One Moment
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

We’re all so busy, caught up in life’s moments, big and small . . . The flight attendant working a shift on her birthday. The mother struggling alone with two young children. The newlyweds setting off on their tropical...

Illywhacker

Illywhacker
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Lilian’s Story

Lilian’s Story
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

Lilian Una Stringer is the narrator, privileged parents in early twentieth century Australia. she fails to live up to her father’s expectations, eventually garnering his abuse and anger. Her mother meanwhile wiles away her hours with a stopwatch, timing...

Looking for Alibrandi

Looking for Alibrandi
  • Author(s): Melina Marchetta
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1990s

For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it’s just been her, her mther, and her grandmother. Now it’s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn’t be any stricter-but that doesn’t seem to stop...

Lowbridge

Lowbridge
  • Author(s): Lucy Campbell
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1987 /2018

A missing girl. Decades of silence. A secret too big to bury. 1987: It’s late summer and a time of change when a 17-year-old girl leaves the local shopping centre in the sleepy town of Lowbridge and is never...

Lucy in the Sky

Lucy in the Sky
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): London, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucy is heading back to Australia for her best friend’s wedding when she gets a text from her boyfriend’s phone from someone saying they have just slept with him. She is just about to take off, trapped for many...

Maralinga, My Love

Maralinga, My Love
  • Author(s): Dorothy Johnston
  • Location(s): Canberra, Maralinga
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s - 1960s

A novel about the British atomic bomb tests at Maralinga, South Australia, and their effect on the Australian Army recruits who set up the sites.

Mateship with Birds

Mateship with Birds
  • Author(s): Carrie Tiffany
  • Location(s): Cohuna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

It is 1953 and Harry lives a solitary life as a dairy farmer in the small town of Cohuna, with his whippet Sip and the company of Betty, his neighbour. Harry helps young Michael with his sexual awakening and...

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