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Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus
  • Author(s): Murray Bail
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

On a remote estate in New South Wales a man named Holland promises his daughter Ellen’s hand in marriage to whomever can correctly name the hundreds of species of eucalyptus tree that he has planted on his land. Ellen...

February or Forever

February or Forever
  • Author(s): Juliet Madison
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

In this heartwarming coastal romance, Escape bestselling author Juliet Madison asks, what if your favourite celebrity fell in love with you? Yoga teacher and single mother, Chrissie Burns has a plan: move into the rundown beach house left to...

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...

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