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Nights in the Asylum

Nights in the Asylum
  • Author(s): Carol Lefevre
  • Location(s): Australia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Written in spare yet sensuous prose, Nights in the Asylum is the story of three people seeking shelter: it is also a story of home, of belonging, of leaving one home and trying to make another, where-ever and how-ever...

Run Away

Run Away
  • Author(s): Alex Johnson
  • Location(s): Australia, Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Julie’s been haunted by the memories of her failed marriage for far too long. Devastated when Lisa, her teenage daughter, sets off on a Gap Year trip, Julie realises she really is on her own. She buries herself in...

Set Me Free

Set Me Free
  • Author(s): Jennifer Collin
  • Location(s): Brisbane
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Disastrous love life aside, Charlotte Evans is rather content with her life. Her quaint little art gallery is plodding along nicely, and her sister Emily’s artistic career is about to take off, thanks to her tireless promotion. She even...

The Apricot Colonel

The Apricot Colonel
  • Author(s): Marion Halligan
  • Location(s): Canberra, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A beautiful man, and all she can do is tinker with his prose For Cassandra, an editor, books are easy. It’s real life that’s the challenge: it doesn’t sit quietly and let itself be fixed. Right now Cassandra’s life...

The Beach Volcano

The Beach Volcano
  • Author(s): Nigel Featherstone
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After years of estrangement, Canning Albury, a revered and irreverent singer-songwriter, returns home to celebrate his father’s eightieth birthday. His welcome is mixed, at best. But Canning has made the trip for more than just a glass of Pol...

The Broken Shore

The Broken Shore
  • Author(s): Peter Temple
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Aussie Outback realism, this is a Sunday Times Bestseller. Joe Cashin is sent to the outback to recuperate from a botched stake out. Based in Port Munro a wealthy citizen is beaten to death in his home. Three teenage...

The Courier’s New Bicycle

The Courier’s New Bicycle
  • Author(s): Kim Westwood
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

A beautifully written story of the near future and its murky underworld … Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews. It’s a stressful...

The Engagement

The Engagement
  • Author(s): Chloe Hooper
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: Alexander Colquhoun, a handsome, well-mannered farmer, is paying for her to stay at his property in remote Australia. Liese, an English architect in flight from the financial crisis, has been working...

The Hunter

The Hunter
  • Author(s): Julia Leigh
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend. The man is in the employ of the mysterious ‘Company’,...

The Lieutenant

The Lieutenant
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

The Lieutenant is the second book in a trilogy of novels by Kate Grenville about early Australia – the others are The Secret River (1) and Sarah Thornhill (3) Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sails into Sydney Cove with the First...

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